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For instance, when attention needs to be focused on comprehending suffering, the role of appropriate attention is to view the aggregates — the components of our sense of self — in such a way as to induce dispassion for them. | For instance, when attention needs to be focused on comprehending suffering, the role of appropriate attention is to view the aggregates — the components of our sense of self — in such a way as to induce dispassion for them. | ||
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"A virtuous monk should attend in an appropriate way to the five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, | "A virtuous monk should attend in an appropriate way to the five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, | ||
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In its most sophisticated expression, though, the Buddha' | In its most sophisticated expression, though, the Buddha' | ||
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-- Sensual desire is fed by inappropriate attention to the theme of beauty and starved by appropriate attention to the theme of unattractiveness. In other words, to starve sensual desire you turn your attention from the beautiful aspects of the desired object and focus instead on its unattractive side. | -- Sensual desire is fed by inappropriate attention to the theme of beauty and starved by appropriate attention to the theme of unattractiveness. In other words, to starve sensual desire you turn your attention from the beautiful aspects of the desired object and focus instead on its unattractive side. | ||
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-- Uncertainty is fed by inappropriate attention to topics that are abstract and conjectural, | -- Uncertainty is fed by inappropriate attention to topics that are abstract and conjectural, | ||
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However, with the factors for Awakening — mindfulness, | However, with the factors for Awakening — mindfulness, | ||
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On the surface, these instructions might seem to be describing bare attention, but a closer look shows that something more is going on. To begin with, the instructions come in two parts: advice on how to train attention, and a promise of the results that will come from training attention in that way. In other words, the training is still operating on the conditioned level of cause and effect. It's something to be done. This means it's shaped by an intention, which in turn is shaped by a view. The intention and view are informed by the " | On the surface, these instructions might seem to be describing bare attention, but a closer look shows that something more is going on. To begin with, the instructions come in two parts: advice on how to train attention, and a promise of the results that will come from training attention in that way. In other words, the training is still operating on the conditioned level of cause and effect. It's something to be done. This means it's shaped by an intention, which in turn is shaped by a view. The intention and view are informed by the " | ||
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