Polak's Reexamining Jhanas

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How to practice Sense Restraint? (guarding the sense doors)

I use the eightfold path for each individual item that I need addressing in the lists I produced for desires, aversions and delusions. So I take one item, say “anger with my wife when blah, blah”, and pass it through the moulinette of the eightfold path. what are all the aspects (pleasants, un pleasants, skillful, unskillful, etc.) around this situation. i.e. right view establish my resolve: intention watch my internal and external speech around this issue action: again speech livelihood: wha…