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Henepola Gunaratana
Clergyman
Born:
Dec 7
,
1927
Experience
Mind
Others
Whatever
You
Your
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The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
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Transformation
Meditation
Purpose
Personal
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
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You
Behavior
Mind
Calm
Own
Detached
Insight
Gain
Manner
Your
Watch
Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.
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Will
Whatever
Others
Ourselves
Toward
Attitudes
Use
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
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Become
Frame
Mindfulness
Our
Distorting
Responses
Habitual
Freeze
Reactions
Without
Conditioned
Sensations
Experiences
Us
Helps
Aware
Socially
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.
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Future
Memories
Mind
Past
Sense
Every
Changing
Others
Some
Through
Pictures
Come
Like
Passing
Existence
Impressions
Often
Experiences
Fantasies
Notice
Moment
Series
Fast
Present
Present Moment
Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.
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Good
Yourself
Whatever
Too
Bad
Fine
Mental
Arise
Come
Look
Equal
Make
Comfortable
Accommodate
Happens
Images
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