First Things First | Metta Forest Monastery

First Things First - Essays on the Buddhist Path was distributed in 2018 by the Metta Forest Monastery and authorized under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. The articles were gathered from different sources and are the seventh accumulation of papers by the Buddhist priest Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
The papers incorporated into this book are: Honest to Goodness, Did the Buddha Teach Free Will?, In the Eyes of the Wise, First Things First, The Karma of Now, The Streams of Emotions, Worlds and Their Cessation, Wisdom over Justice, All Winners, No Losers, How Pointy is One-sharpness?, The Limits of Description, and The Names for Nirvana. From the book:
A standout amongst the most unmistakable highlights of the Dhamma is that it focuses to the wellspring of enduring inside. At the end of the day, we endure in light of our own behavior, and we'll have the option to end enduring just when we can change the manner in which we act. To be happy to take on such an instructing—as opposed to one that accuses our languishing over things or individuals outside, or that guarantees that somebody outside can end our languishing over us—we need at any rate a gleam of two characteristics of the character. We must be (1) attentive enough and (2) fair enough to concede that, indeed, we do experience the ill effects of our own behavior, and that we'll need to tidy up our own demonstration in the event that we need the enduring to stop.