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Renunciation

• Renunciation is a mind made up not to be reborn in samsara. Renunciation will not stay in our minds if we don’t have the habit of the Four Thoughts.
• Attachment is a sign we don’t have renunciation.
• Teacher will test you. Is renunciation stable? Will you turn back? How strongly have you made up your mind? What you really have to give up is afflictive emotions.
• If you want to go somewhere, you have to decide to leave the place you are. Renunciation is like that.
• Do analytical meditation until you renounce birth in even the three higher realms.
• Increase revulsion for samsara. There is great danger.
• What we renounce is negative emotions. This is purification.

• There is no happiness in samsara. If you understand this, renunciation will arise.

• If renunciation does not arise, contemplate. “Do we have the freedom and independence to get happiness all the time? Do we have the freedom and independence to avoid suffering all the time?”
• Renounce seeking happiness, which is temporary.
• If renunciation is stable, base from dharma practice is stable. If you cannot turn mind, you cannot practice dharma.
• Develop renunciation, not aversion.
• Emphasize forceful renunciation, if necessary.
• Cultivate the aspiration to be free. Connect this with faith and devotion to teacher.
• Difficulties, one after another. This is the blessing of the lama. Otherwise how can renunciation arise?
• Renunciation - wish to emerge from interdependence.
• To generate renunciation, examine what you are doing. What result do you get? Renounce the cause that brings the result.
• Renounce non-virtue. Turn mind to virtue.
• Samsara is like a product we bought. It is defective. Now return it.
• Cultivate the mind of dissatisfaction, tiredness, disgust – this mindset we should have to be free.
• Be tired of the world - this is renunciation. Then do something for others.
• We have habit of attachment and aversion. Begin to understand the qualities of the Three Jewels.