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WHAT IS THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR MEDITATION? (By U Tejaniya – Shwe Oo Min) The most important thing when you are meditating is to have the right attitude. 1. When meditating: Don’t focus too hard Don’t control Don’t try to create something Don’t force or restrict yourself 2. Don’t try to create anything But don’t reject what is happening But as things happen or stop happening, don’t forget Be aware of them 3. Trying to create something is lobha (greed) Rejecting what is happening is dosa (aversion) Not knowing if something is happening or has stopped happening is moha (delusion) 4. Only when the observing mind has no lobha, dosa, nor soka (worry/anxiety) inside it, then the meditating mind will arise 5. You have to double check to see what attitude you are meditating with 6. You have to accept and watch both good and bad experiences 7. You only want good experiences You don’t want even the tiniest unpleasant experience Is this fair? Is this the way of the Dhamma? 8. Don’t have any expect...

Purity of Heart , Essays on the Buddhist Path by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/PurityOfHeart.pdf Purity of Heart During my first weeks with my teacher, Ajaan Fuang, I began to realize that he had psychic powers. He never made a show of them, but I gradually sensed that he could read my mind and anticipate future events. I became intrigued: What else did he know? How did he know it? He must have detected where my thoughts were going, for one evening he gently headed me off: “You know,” he said, “the whole aim of our practice is purity of heart . Everything else is just games.” That one phrase—purity of heart—more than intrigued me. It reverberated deep down inside. Although I was extremely disillusioned with Christianity, I still valued Kierkegaard’s dictum: Purity of heart is to will one thing. I didn’t agree with Kierkegaard as to what that “one thing” was, but I did agree that purity of heart is the most important treasure of l...