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  2. The Power of Intention
     … How’s it going right now? Does it feel comfortable? Do you have a sense of the breath in different parts of the body and how those breaths can all be connected? When there’s a sense of comfort, how do you maintain it? How do you let it spread? And once it’s spread, how do you keep it enlarged? You find, as … 
  3. Brahmaviharas on the Path
     … It’s easy to feel goodwill for some people but not for others, and so on down the line. It takes some work to try to make our attitudes limitless. As the Buddha pointed out, in his previous lifetimes prior to becoming the Buddha, he actually developed these brahmaviharas. They would take him to the brahma realms but then the karma of that practice … 
  4. The Right Touch
     … If we squeeze the breath in pushing it around, it’s not going to feel full. Or, if you squeeze the breath between the in-breath and the out-breath to mark, “Well, now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out,” that doesn’t allow a sense of fullness to develop, either. The Buddha left it as kind of a … 
  5. Skills to Make You Free
     … Sometimes this analysis will actually make the pain go away; other times it won’t, but because there’s a sense that things are separate, you don’t have to feel oppressed by the pain. This is one of the skills with which you can deal with the results of past bad actions and not feel overcome by them because you’re not overcome … 
  6. Noble Wealth
     … Then he goes on to talking about breathing in a way to give rise to rapture, breathing in a way that gives rise to pleasure, breathing in and out sensitive to mental fabrication—feelings and perceptions—and then calming them. There again, you’re working with potentials you have, and you’re learning how to put them together in the right way so that … 
  7. Meticulous
     … He told them he was feeling a lot healthier, both mentally and physically, as a result. So of course, the journalist writes an article about how, yes, perhaps the news cycles are invading our minds a little bit too much, but if you don’t keep up on world affairs, you’re a narrow person, she said. So she ended up justifying the fact … 
  8. Totally Secure
     … If the breathing doesn’t feel comfortable, you can adjust it. Make it longer or shorter, deeper or more shallow—whatever feels really good for the body right now. As for everything else, you can let it pass. Basically it’s not your issue, unless you make it your issue. It’s not your karma, unless you make it your karma. You have the … 
  9. Restlessness & Anxiety
     … This is where you can use the breath to calm things down, to soothe things in the body, so that you don’t feel like you’re sitting on ants. Anxiety, however, involves more than just having too much energy. It can go in two directions: anxiety about the future, worry about what’s going to happen to you or to your loved ones … 
  10. Responsibilities
     … So, what does it mean to have your daily life fit into your practice? The image I think of is that you have a visual field—the world outside—and you also have the field of your sense of your body as you feel it from within. You want to maintain that sense of your body as you feel it from within regardless of … 
  11. Taking the Long View
     … the form of the body as you feel it from within; the feeling of pleasure as the breath gets more comfortable and you can spread that comfortable breath throughout the body; the perceptions—the mental images you have of how the breath flows in the body, your mental images of where you are in the body; fabrication—talking to yourself about adjusting the breath … 
  12. To Sustain Your Practice
     … Viscerally, it feels good. You may be in difficult situations, but you can learn how to breathe in a way that doesn’t add to the difficulty and that keeps reminding you, okay, where did you learn this technique? Well, you learned it from the Buddha. Okay, remember the other things the Buddha taught, and use those lessons to talk to yourself, to address … 
  13. The World of the Body
     … Many times we feel that we have a special relationship with our body, that if we take good care of it, it’s going to take good care of us. Then we feel betrayed when it doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain. But you have to remember, though, that it didn’t agree to the bargain at all. We were the … 
  14. Unattractiveness
     … It’s hard to feel lust for someone’s liver or for their intestines. But you notice that in the contemplation of the body, it doesn’t start with the other person’s body. It starts with your own. Now, partly this is because, as the Buddha says, the reason we’re able to lust for other people’s bodies is because we have … 
  15. Consciousness, Awakened & Not
     … In the same way, feeling comes from contact and ends when the contact ends. You’re conscious of that contact. You’re conscious of the feeling. But the consciousness is separate from them. As I said, this is “the knower,” the phuu-ruu that the Thai ajaans talk about. But they, like the Buddha, are very clear in the fact that this knower, this … 
  16. Right View Comes First
     … It’s not a sensual object, it’s a pleasure of form—the body as you feel it from within. It doesn’t have most of the drawbacks of sensuality. It doesn’t require that you take anything much from anyone else. The breath is yours. The way you feel the body from inside, that’s your territory. Now, in giving this talk, when … 
  17. A Post-goodness World?
     … When he was asked where a gift should be given, he said, “Where you feel inspired.” In other words, he was encouraging the goodness of the heart, looking for happiness in ways that are not only harmless, but also beneficial to others. When you can find happiness in doing those things, you’ve learned some important lessons. There are gradations of happiness. And you … 
  18. Wisdom for Dummies
     … When you read the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness out of context, it’s possible to interpret them as saying that when you’re being mindful, say, of feelings, you just watch whatever feeling comes up and don’t make any changes. Don’t meddle with it. Just be non-reactive, allowing whatever’s happening to happen. What this attitude does, though, is to … 
  19. Protection
     … But the monk was complaining that he didn’t feel right. His back ached, his legs ached, his arms ached, so Ajaan Fuang’s student gave him a massage. He immediately started having visions of unfriendly spirits attacking him. It scared him so much that he went out and threw up. He could feel the negative energy coming in from the body of the … 
  20. The Lightning Bolt
    The lightning bolt that struck here today was so close you could feel it in your skin; you could hear it sizzling and crackling in the air. We could have died. That would have been very sudden. A sense of disorientation: “Why is there this weird sense in the air? What’s happening?” And it could have struck us. That would have been it … 
  21. Meditation as Play
     … You want to be able to approach it with an attitude that allows the mind to be in a good mood, so that it doesn’t feel overwhelmed. Simply realize: Okay, here’s a challenge, but we’ve had challenges in games before. We’ve overcome the challenges by playing around. If you can approach the challenges with an attitude of goodwill, a good … 
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