I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor. From Dictionary.com.
The lack of it infers instability and flightiness. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Salmansohn: Want to Convince People to Do and Believe in Whatever You Want?] Reference
Thus there is danger of coarse flightiness of mind as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Six] Reference
It can be divided into gross and subtle flightiness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [4 Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind] Reference
Mental wandering is less compelling than flightiness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Six] Reference
If you are too tense, you will experience flightiness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra] Reference
To overcome mental flightiness or mental dullness, we need to apply. From Wordnik.com. [Achieving Shamatha] Reference
That was well enough for her in her days of flightiness and frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Serenity or equilibrium is a mental state free from flightiness or dullness. From Wordnik.com. [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 15 Unblocking Our Feelings] Reference
For her detractors it is proof of self-promotion, shamelessness and flightiness. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Maloney Is All Over the Place] Reference
We can summarize these five obstacles in flightiness of mind and mental dullness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 3 Meditation Practice] Reference
They are the primary causes of flightiness of mind (rgod-pa) to desirable objects. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana] Reference
The new Lehman material is a brutal reminder of the flightiness of short-term debt. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons of Lehman's Flighty Funding] Reference
If our mind is too tight and tense, it becomes itchy with subtle flightiness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Six] Reference
Consequently, we experience the subtle flightiness of itchiness to leave the object of focus. From Wordnik.com. [Achieving Shamatha] Reference
With flightiness of mind, our attention flies off to appealing objects or to compelling thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 15 Unblocking Our Feelings] Reference
The nature of the settled, totally absorbed mind is free from all faults of dullness or flightiness. From Wordnik.com. [4 Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind] Reference
With subtle flightiness of mind, we maintain mental abiding, but still with a fault in the mental hold. From Wordnik.com. [Concentration Terminology] Reference
It is stilled of all flightiness of mind and mental dullness, and settled single-pointedly on an object. From Wordnik.com. [What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future] Reference
To be properly sensitive, we need to rid ourselves of these two major hindrances, flightiness and dullness. From Wordnik.com. [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 15 Unblocking Our Feelings] Reference
To gain a concentrated state of shamata, it is necessary to stop the mind from all flightiness and dullness. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Six] Reference
In general, there are two types of interruptions to concentration -- flightiness of mind and mental dullness. From Wordnik.com. [4 Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind] Reference
The show doesn't reap big laughs, but – productively combining flightiness and substance – Conaty may soon do so. From Wordnik.com. [Roisin Conaty] Reference
In order to do so, we must be able to recognize correctly mental wandering, flightiness, dullness and foggymindedness. From Wordnik.com. [4 Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind] Reference
Therefore we need to station mental alertness single-pointedly to become aware of any degree of dullness or flightiness. From Wordnik.com. [4 Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind] Reference
If mental dullness or flightiness of mind occurs, earnestly practice the methods to eliminate them in progressive stages. From Wordnik.com. [Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Two: A Stilled and Settled State of Shamatha] Reference
Restlessness (rgod-pa, Skt. auddhatya, Pali: uddhacca) is the same technical term that Mahayana defines as flightiness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana] Reference
Focusing on such objects as ugly is particularly effective for minimizing flightiness of mind (rgod-pa) in shamatha meditation. From Wordnik.com. [Objects of Focus for Developing Shamatha and Vipashyana] Reference
For that, we need to clearly identify the coarse and subtle levels of mental dullness and flightiness of mind, mental agitation. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Six: Deepest Bodhichitta, Continued] Reference
Here, we no longer experience gross flightiness, the subtle flightiness of an undercurrent of thought, or gross or middling dullness. From Wordnik.com. [Achieving Shamatha] Reference
Settling like the sun unobscured by clouds, your mind is cleared of all obstacles such as mental wandering, dullness, and flightiness. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra] Reference
Thus, when we no longer experience the faults of dullness or flightiness in our meditation, we remain in a relaxed state of equanimity. From Wordnik.com. [4 Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind] Reference
In other words, it is totally free of flightiness of mind (rgod-pa) and mental dullness (bying-ba), and cannot be distracted by anything. From Wordnik.com. [General Presentation of Shamatha and Vipashyana] Reference
With gross flightiness of mind, we completely lose mental abiding on the object because our mental hold on it is so weak that it is lost. From Wordnik.com. [Concentration Terminology] Reference
Here, although the danger of subtle flightiness or dullness is minimal, we still need to exert effort to rid ourselves of them completely. From Wordnik.com. [Achieving Shamatha] Reference
With gross flightiness of mind, we completely lose mental placement on the object because our mental hold on it is so weak that it is lost. From Wordnik.com. [Achieving Shamatha] Reference
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