DHARMA CRAFT PRACTICES 1) Beware of bourgeoise dukkha keep things in perspectve 2) Work against Hedonic adaptation 3) Dont try

y to make samsara work adding salt and pepper to samsara doesnt really satisfy 4) Just because it feels good doesnt mean its good, just because it feels bad doesnt mean its bad think beyond hedonism when measuring spiritual progress 5) Gain contentment by changing your desires not other people or the world (which are not in your control) 6) Find emotional equivalents for intellectual understandings 7) Label and let go of pain and pleasure maintain equanimity 8) The mind can be trained, it can be difficult but with persistent practice confidence arises, the mind becomes still and cool, its a skill 9) The pleasure of letting go is better and more reliable than the pleasure of external pleasures which are really pain in disguise 10) All it really takes is endurance and letting go but you need to endure as craving will come to test you 11) Keep the precepts and care for them more than you care for your life, maintain them in a way that the noble ones would praise 12) The precepts give the basic order to your life that makes purity possible 13) Acting in line with defilements affirms the sense of self, self feels satisfied 14) Reflect on the 4 requisites of food, shelter, clothing and medicine to bring the mind to simplicity and contenetment and to support dhamma practice 15) Mindfulness and discernment are tools for reading oneself and counteracting complacency 16) We need to be brave in facing our pain, when there is no suffering we tend to get complacent. We have to learn our lessons from pain to gain freedom. 17) Compassion is the ability to work with the group mentality and encourage individuality from it. 18) Virtue is something very subtle and precise. Letting go, giving up, abstaining, cutting away, destroying are all affairs of virtue. Discernment and virtue go together.