Doubt 1 & 2 — WISDOM'S ROAR

Doubt / wrong views /
wrong attitude (1)

• Trying to understand through thinking

• Wrong attitude towards impermanence, suffering and non-self

• Ego

• Attachment to the idea of self

• Mind still thinks there is ‘I’

• Difficult to dissociate the sense of self

• Delusional identity

• Idea of self

• Noticing the idea of self

• Understanding cause and effect

• How to recognize delusion

• No time to be aware all the time

• Why yogis cannot improve

• Lobha, dosa, moha

• How to watch the worrying mind

• Doubt whether the practice truly purifies the mind

• Various thoughts

• When meditation stops, defilements increase

• Mind weak not due to aging but delusion

Doubt / wrong views /
wrong attitude (2)

• The nature of delusion

• Wrong thinking

• Don’t think too much about an understanding

• Belief is reinforced ideas

• Exertion is wrong practice

• Wrong effort, check attitude

• Energy of defilements

• No need to force right view

• Disappointed with teacher disrobing

• Mind doesn’t go anywhere — the paying attention mind arising and passing away

• Defilements arise from wrong view

• Struggling because not skilful

• The trap of attachment

• Automatic reactions are delusional

• Defilements grow due to the idea of ‘self’

• Major trick of defilements

• Sudden disinterest to be mindful

• Wrong ideas make meditation difficult