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  2. In Alignment
     … You’ve got the mind and the body—which you’re feeling from the inside, primarily as the breath—and then a feeling of pleasure. The feeling of pleasure is what allows these things to stay together with a sense of well-being. But even that can be slippery. You learn how to breathe in a way that feels good in the different parts … 
  3. Dhammacentric
     … The same with feelings: If you’re going to look at feelings simply in and of themselves, then it’s obvious that feelings not of the flesh—i.e., feelings related to the practice—are more skillful than your ordinary, everyday pleasures and pains. Pain not of the flesh is the pain of realizing that there is a goal that can be attained, and … 
  4. Oneness
     … What kind of breathing would really feel good right now in your stomach? Let the body breathe that way. Focus on your stomach for a while and see what kind of breathing really feels good there. What kind of breathing feels good going down your backbone? What kind of breathing feels good in your legs? You may not yet be able to breathe with … 
  5. Distraction & Drowsiness
     … Notice how it feels when you breathe in, how it feels when you breathe out. Notice the flow of energy. If it feels good, keep up that rhythm. If it doesn’t feel good, you can change. This is called evaluation. You’re trying to figure out where’s the best place for the mind to settle down. The breath has lots of possibilities … 
  6. A Good Mood to Meditate
     … Then there are mental fabrications, which are feelings and perceptions: the labels you put on things, and the actual feeling-tones themselves—pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. All these things get mixed together and fabricated into emotions. So it’s important to realize that an emotion is a fabricated thing. It’s not primal. It may deal a lot in the lizard part … 
  7. Categorical Truths
     … Notice where you feel the breathing process in the body most clearly. For some people, it’s around the nose; for other people, it’s in the chest or the abdomen. But think of breathing as a whole-body process. It engages the entire nervous system, all the way out to the pores. If long breathing feels good, keep it up. If not, you … 
  8. Strategic Friends
     … It’s not just a matter feeling that you want to do this, or feeling you want to do that. You have your reasons for feeling those things, but often because the reasons are so bad, they hide behind the feeling. Yet if you’re more mindful and alert, you can begin to ferret them out. You can stand in the way of your … 
  9. The River Gauge
     … It’s going to require feeling. You have to develop feelings that they call feelings not-of-the-flesh, pleasure not-of-the-flesh. Part of the motivation though, might also be a pain not-of-the-flesh, which is the reflection that, okay, this is a path you’re on. It’s got a goal that other people have reached but you’re … 
  10. Directed Feeling
  11. The Buddha’s Protection
     … While you’re here with the breath, try to be ultra-sensitive to how it feels—how it feels coming in, how it feels going out, where you can make it feel really satisfying. What are the most sensitive parts of the body that respond most quickly to a comfortable or an uncomfortable breath? Focus there, and provide them with what feels really good … 
  12. The Pleasure of the Middle Way
     … It’s often good to begin with some long, deep in-and-out breaths just to emphasize the feeling of breathing in the body. And as long as long breathing feels good, you keep it up. If it starts feeling excessive, you can shorten it, make it more shallow. Adjust it until you find something that feels just right and then hold onto that … 
  13. Samvega First
     … It can meld back into the body because it feels good. The breath can feel good throughout the body. You’ve got the breath, which is body; feeling filling the body; the mind filling the body. That’s what we’re aiming for, putting all these things together. We do that by looking at body, feelings, and mind just in and of themselves. Then … 
  14. Goodwill, Gratitude, No Guilt
    When you focus on the breath, try to breathe in a way that feels really refreshing. Think of the breath energizing your entire torso all the way down, and then even beyond the torso down through the legs, down the back. Any part of the body that seems tired or tense, in need of a little refreshment, a little bit of soothing: Let the … 
  15. Understanding Through Developing
    Try to breathe in a way that feels refreshing. Breathe in a way that feels easeful. Breathe in a way that gladdens the mind. If you’re going to get the mind to settle down, it has to settle down with something pleasant, and here you’re creating something pleasant inside by the way you breathe. You have these potentials inside—there’s the … 
  16. The Endurance of a Long-distance Runner
     … Learn that there are pleasant feelings in parts of the body. If the whole body were nothing but pain, you’d be dead. There has to be some part of the body that’s comfortable. Take that as your position of strength and then use that feeling to help deal with the painful feelings. When you use these fabrications in this way, you’re … 
  17. To Begin the Day
     … Breathe in a way that feels good, because after all, this is the force of life, so it should feel good. If it feels tight or constricted, think of things opening up. Think of the breath coming in from all directions. Think of yourself being bathed by the breath on all sides. If the mind wanders away, just drop whatever thoughts set you out … 
  18. Ānāpānasati Day
     … The second tetrad has to do with feelings. You breathe in and out training yourself to be sensitive to rapture, sensitive to pleasure, sensitive to mental fabrications, which are perceptions and feelings. And then you calm mental fabrications. Again, think about how you’re shaping your mind state by the perceptions you hold in mind. You can think about things that get you all … 
  19. NR Feeling Your Way
  20. Feelings of Grief & Joy
  21. Body, Feelings, Mind (outdoors)
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