When pursuing the higher mind, from time to time, when unskillful and unwholesome thoughts connected with desire, connected with hate, and connected with delusion arise, you should give attention to five practical methods for the stilling of those distracting thoughts: train yourself to attend to an object connected with what is wholesome, examine the danger in those thoughts, let go of those thoughts and do not give attention to them, give attention to stilling the thought-formation of those thoughts, and now, with all your energy aroused, constrain all remaining unwholesome mind states by means of calm and clarity so that any potential for unskillful and unwholesome thoughts connected with desire, connected with hate, and connected with delusion is abandoned and subsides. Then your mind will become perfectly steadied internally, utterly quieted, completely brought to singleness, and rightly concentrated, and you will be master of the courses of thought. You will think whatever thought you wish to think and you will not think any thought that you do not wish to think. Then you will have severed craving, flung off the fetters, and with the complete penetration of conceit you will have made an end of suffering.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:16:53 +0000
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