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The Buddha’s teachings list five ‘classic’ hindrances that encompass most of the negative states that prevent us from realizing our innate clarity, radiance, and luminosity of mind. It is imperative that we become familiar and proficient with the use of the antidotes to be able to progress on the path to freedom.
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All of us want to be happy, and yet something holds us back from realizing the highest, most lasting form of happiness. Being dependent on the six senses for happiness obscures our awareness of this greater sense of joy and delight and ultimately gives rise to our deluded perception of who and what we are. Mindfulness is the path to this higher happiness.
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Identification with views and ideas is one of the main sources of our suffering. Once we begin to see the arising and passing away of perceptions and views in the mind, we get a taste of things as they truly are; then the path becomes clearer and we naturally relinquish the attachments and clinging that cause us so much suffering.
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Bringing our attention to the present moment without trying to change anything – while simultaneously having the intention to cultivate wholesome states of mind – might seem like an apparent contradiction. However, as the Buddhist author and teacher Joseph Goldstein states: ‘The critical balance we need to discover in our meditation practice as well as in daily life is this equipoise between the effort we need to apply and the surrender’.
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