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  2. Practice in Dying Well
     … You also have to keep one eye on the mind, to make sure it doesn’t wander off and to make sure it feels at ease with the breath. The Buddha taught about how the suffering that weighs the mind down is the unnecessary suffering we add to things. How are you going to know that? By watching the mind and seeing what you … 
  3. The Analytical Mind
     … If you’re feeling lazy, you can remind yourself that death can come at any time. Wherever there’s birth—and we’ve all been born—death is going to come and we don’t know when. It could come tonight. Are you ready to go? What would you like to do on your last night? You’d like to meditate, to get your … 
  4. A Healthy Body Image
     … Maybe not so quickly that you feel an immediate sense of danger around it, but it’s quick enough. No one ever ages too slowly. It’s always a surprise, that this is what the body does as it gets old: the things you used to be able to depend on, it doesn’t do for you anymore. And the fact that the body … 
  5. Little Things
     … So pay close attention to each breath, to how the process of each breath feels in different parts of the body. As you develop your sensitivity, working through whatever tension you detect, you move from where it’s really tense to where it’s less and less tense, until things are so calm that you can detect even the slightest bit of tension. Work … 
  6. Ready for the Truth
     … If you’re feeling discouraged in your practice, remind yourself of the generosity you’ve practiced in the past, the virtue you’ve been maintaining. That can lift your spirits. If you’re concerned about issues in the world, remind yourself: Those don’t take you anywhere outside of the world. They don’t help you. The time you spend worrying about the world … 
  7. Choosing a Teacher
     … But if you feel that the teacher is compassionate, the teacher has your true well-being in mind, that’s a lot of the relationship right there. So you’re looking for someone who’s knowledgeable, truthful, and compassionate. Learn to ask the right questions, so that you can overcome some of your bewilderment and see who is actually truthful, knowledgeable, compassionate. As the … 
  8. The Flood of Views
     … Then once their opinion is challenged, it’s hard to let go because they feel they’re giving in to other people. This is why seclusion is such an important part of the practice: physical seclusion, getting away from other people; mental seclusion, getting some distance between yourself and your cravings. In other words, an idea comes up in the mind and you can … 
  9. Learn from the Ants
     … form, feeling, perception, mental fabrications, and consciousness. Once you read the definitions, you realize that these are things you do, and you’re doing them all the time. How the mind functions, how the mind works: That’s a constant. If it works certain ways, it’s going to cause suffering. If it works in other ways, it’s going to lead to the … 
  10. Karma Storms
     … Some of the members may be totally out of control, the whole meeting of the committee may be in chaos, but try to find one member of the committee that you can identify with, that you feel safe identifying with, and see what you can do with that member. The Buddha’s advice is when you try to direct your mind to the topic … 
  11. Truth in Action
     … Particularly any stress you feel in the mind: It’s a result of what you’re doing right now. So learn how to look at your actions. And learn how to notice your mistakes, admit your mistakes, and not get all flustered by them. The judgment here isn’t the kind of final judgment that some judge is going to place on you, to … 
  12. Sensitivity & Skill
     … Start out by noticing some spot in the body that’s especially sensitive to how the breathing feels. Try to protect it as you breathe in so that there’s no tensing up in that spot as you breathe in, as you breathe out, or between the breaths. You don’t have to mark the spot between the breaths by squeezing it. Just leave … 
  13. Integrity — In Memory of Luang Loong
     … This is why people feel a lot of affection for him. So you look at his life and turn around and look at your life and see in what ways you can develop more perfections. Maybe the word perfection is not a good one. The word parami can be translated in one way as coming from param, the things that take you to the … 
  14. Discernment in Concentration
     … That’s feeling. There’s the perception that holds you with the breath, the image of the breath that you have in mind that helps you stay with the breath: That’s perception. You’re thinking about the breath and adjusting the breath, evaluating how to make the breath comfortable and, once it’s comfortable, evaluating how to keep it comfortable, and then when … 
  15. Four Mountains Moving In
     … But if death comes while we’re acting in unskillful ways, thinking in unskillful ways, allowing unskillful feelings and concerns to take over, then we’ve added a lot of unnecessary pain for ourselves—and for the people around us. This is why we meditate; this is why we look inside, realizing that there are good things inside, good potentials inside, waiting for us … 
  16. How to Be Self-Centered
     … Why do you let yourself get worked up about it? What’s the problem? Why are you feeling offended by that other person? That’s what you’ve got to look into. Now, this doesn’t mean you don’t care about other people. It’s just that you’ve got to develop the brahmaviharas, all four of them, both toward other people and … 
  17. Location, Location
     … any of the six senses; any of the objects of the six senses; and then contact at the senses; consciousness at the contact; feeling born of the contact; perceptions for sights, sounds, smells, taste, tactile sensations, ideas; intentions for those things; directed thoughts; evaluation—the way you talk to yourself—around those things. Craving itself can be an object of craving. So you see … 
  18. Testing Karma
     … Find what way of breathing feels good right now, what kind of breathing the mind can really relate to in a continuous way. Try not to force the breath too much. Remember that breath energy is something that flows very freely through the body. It may get stuck here and there, but as you try to squeeze it here, squeeze it there, force it … 
  19. A Sucker for Random Memories
     … You want to see things in terms of either the body in and of itself, feelings, mind states, mental qualities, and if you go into a thought, into a memory, you’re going into a state of becoming. That’s wrong mindfulness. If you can stand out of it and watch it simply as a process, then you maintain right mindfulness—and there’s … 
  20. Bojjhanga: Discernment Fosters Concentration
     … But it gives you a sense of “I’m here where I belong and it feels good.” And there’s an energy that comes with that. After the energy has brought things into balance, then you can be calm and concentrated. So if you find that you have trouble settling the mind down, maybe you need to do a little thinking first about the … 
  21. Sucked into the Tube
     … At some point, you’ll understand why you feel compelled to sit down and watch it. When you see through that, then you’ve seen through a lot, cut through a lot of the ignorance that causes the mind’s habit of fabrication to lead to stress and suffering—because you catch these things in the act.
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