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thoughts or memories.
d. Smile at or complement the person or object of your
unwholesome emotions and thoughts; resolve conflicts through
gentle conversation and being kind; or buy a gift for the person
you feel negative toward, including yourself.
These techniques are definitely not intended to help you
suppress, repress, or deny aversive feelings or anger. On the
contrary, they are intended to help you become even more
mindful of unwholesome, negative and angry thoughts, and the
suffering they cause you and others, then to acknowledge
responsibility for them, and intentionally engage in a activity that
will weaken them.
THE FOURTH FOUNDATION:
MINDFULNESS OF DHARMAS OR MIND OBJECTS
In the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, dharmas refer to the
objects or content of consciousness. The body, feelings, and
mind states focused on in the first three foundations of
mindfulness become mind objects when contemplated in this
Fourth Foundation. Such objects include all physical, material,
and tangible internal and external objects, as well as all mental
experiences. This Foundation emphasizes contemplating and
understanding five specific major teachings of Buddha in a way
that facilitates insight into the unsatisfactory, impermanent, and
impersonal, insubstantial, selfless, and interdependent nature of
all experience, of mind objects, of the content of consciousness.
1. The Five Hindrances: (l) desire, (2) ill will, (3) dullness and
drowsiness, (4) restlessness, remorse, and worry, and (5) doubt
and uncertainty. Each hindrance is contemplated as follows:
When a desire (or other hindrance) is present, a person knows
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