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  1. Book search result icon Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi Method 1
     … From here, let it move to the Third Base, the middle of the top of the head, and let it settle there for a moment. Keep your awareness broad. Inhale the breath at that spot, let it spread throughout the head for a moment, and then return the mind to the middle of the forehead. Move the mind back and forth between the forehead … 
  2. Book search result icon Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi Introduction
     … But if the middle pilings—a centered mind—aren’t firmly in place, how will you ever be able to bridge the flood of suffering? There is only one way we can properly reach the qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, and that’s through the practice of mental development (bhāvanā). When we develop the mind to be centered and still, discernment can … 
  3. Book search result icon Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi Appendix
     … the middle of the chest to the large intestine, the rectum, and out into the air. Once you’ve completed these five turns inside the body, let the breath flow along the outside of the body: As you take an in-and-out breath, think of inhaling the breath at the base of the skull and letting it go all the way down the … 
  4. Book search result icon Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi Method 2
     … Let the breath at the base of the throat spread down the central nerve at the front of the body, past the lungs and liver, all the way down to the bladder and colon. Inhale the breath right at the middle of the chest and let it go all the way down to your intestines. Let all these breath sensations spread so that they … 
  5. Book search result icon Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi At the Tip of Your Nose
     … Fine results are of high quality and are useful in all sorts of ways—like atomic radiation, which is so fine that it can penetrate even mountains. Crude things are of low quality and hard to use. Sometimes you can soak them in water all day long and they still don’t soften up. But as for fine things, all they need is a … 
  6. Book search result icon Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi The Art of Letting Go
     … You’ve strayed from the Middle Way, which is a mistake. Or you may see yourself as something you wouldn’t care to be: a pig or a dog, a bird or a rat, crippled or deformed. If you let yourself get upset or depressed, that’s indulgence in self-affliction—and again, you’ve strayed from the path and have fallen out of … 
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