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Open to What Is Open to what is. Let go of those add-ons we’re conditioned to pile on: Don’t be afraid of what you are feeling. Sharon Salzberg, “Forever Connected” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Compassion Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis on which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on compassion, for when you develop meditation on compassion, any cruelty will be abandoned. (MN 62) Compassion is like a mother with a son who is ill, for she just wants the illness to go away. (Vm 9.108)

Reflection While lovingkindness is a universal intention of unbounded kindness and an indiscriminate wish for well-being that can radiate in all directions, compassion is what this changes into when it encounters a person or group of people suffering or being harmed. At that point the general urge for safety is focused on the intention to alleviate that suffering. Compassion is a particular form of lovingkindness, focused by suffering. Daily Practice In order to feel compassion, you have to be willing to see the suffering of others. It can be hard to open to this, but your lovingkindness will not transform into compassion unless you do. Practice being willing to witness suffering when you encounter it, and pay attention to the texture of your inner experience as it moves through phases: resistance to the pain, opening to it, feeling the hurt of it, then maturing into true compassion. Tomorrow: Refraining from Malicious Speech One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Practice New Thoughts If you look at the facts of something and write down your thoughts, you find that those thoughts lead to certain feelings, and those feelings lead to action. If you can practice new thoughts, you can change outcomes for yourself. Catherine Burns, “How to Break Free from the Stories We Tell Ourselves” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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RIGHT VIEW Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering What is the origin of suffering? It is craving, which brings renewal of being, is accompanied by delight and lust, and delights in this and that: that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for being, and craving for non-being. (MN 9) When one does not know and see the five aggregates as they actually are, then one is attached to the five aggregates. When one is attached, one becomes infatuated, and one’s craving increases. One’s bodily and mental troubles increase, and one experiences bodily and mental suffering. (MN 149)

Reflection Previous passages have focused on each of the aggregates in turn: material form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness. Here we are invited to look at them as a whole and notice the way they can all act as the place in our experience where attachment that leads to suffering is born and develops. When we understand the aggregates as the fleeting processes they are, non-attachment is easier.  Daily Practice Use the three-part analysis of craving as a practical tool. Notice when you have a craving for sensual pleasures, for the things that you like to persist or increase. Notice too when you have a craving for being, wishing for something gratifying to happen. And notice when you have a craving for non-being: that is, when you want something to go away that you do not like or want. These are the textures of craving; practice being aware of them as they occur. Tomorrow: Cultivating Compassion One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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