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  2. Centered
     … That gives a feeling of being connected to the breath energy fields, that everything is in harmony throughout the body. This is an ideal state of mind for observing what’s going on in the mind. Thoughts can arise and pass away, you see them arising and passing away, but you’re not shaken by them. And you’re not arising and passing away … 
  3. Compassion for People on Fire
     … There was no one who could take his pain and share it out, so that he could feel less pain. And yet in the last reflection, when he was asked, “If you were offered the chance of conquering another kingdom, would you take it?” He said, “Yes, of course,” even one on the other side of the ocean. Here he was, eighty years old … 
  4. When You Care
     … When people get into a depression, it’s because they feel they’re powerless, and they just end up not caring. But the Buddha is telling you that you have power and you can take advantage of it. So the wise thing to do is to care about this. The compassionate thing to do is to care about the results of your actions. That … 
  5. Refuge in the Dhamma
     … There’s a feeling going into it, a way of breathing that goes into it, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. Seeing things in those terms helps pull you out. So there’s the alertness to see what you’re doing, and the mindfulness to remind yourself, “Okay, this is a mind state.” That puts it in a framework. Then, recognizing what mind state it is, you … 
  6. Even Common Animals Can Be Trained
     … And so they feel very guilty. Even though their powers of self-reflection and self-observation are pretty impaired compared to ours, still they have some ability to observe themselves and to know that they’re making choices. So think about that when you decide, “Well, I just have my way of doing things, this is just the way I am, and this is … 
  7. Rightly Directed
     … And if in the meantime you’ve developed good qualities of the mind—you’ve made your mind more expansive, you’ve developed virtue, discernment, you’ve trained the mind so it’s not easily overcome by pleasure or pain—then when the results of that past bad action come, you’re hardly going to feel them. So the important thing is that you … 
  8. Looking in the Dhamma Mirror
     … She looks at herself in the mirror with this new body, and she says, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself to go around like this?” You can imagine how he feels. We’re used to looking at our face and seeing it every day, every day, and it becomes perfectly okay, perfectly normal. But there are people who would be ashamed to go around … 
  9. Your Game Leg
     … Sariputta’s verses, was that if he could feel that within five mouthfuls he was going to be full, he would stop and then fill himself up with water. That would be it. Which means that he had to become very sensitive to the body’s messages. But most of us are not like that. We’re full and then we top it off … 
  10. Keep It Simple
     … When the breath feels comfortable coming in, going out, think of spreading that sense of comfort throughout the body. When you can maintain that sense of full-body awareness as you breathe in, as you breathe out, there’ll come a point where you don’t have to evaluate things anymore. You can’t improve the breath and you see that evaluation is actually … 
  11. On Top of Your Actions
     … When you speak harshly, it’s basically to hurt other people’s feelings. It’s all a matter of intention. When you engage in idle chatter, you just let your mind and mouth run without any clear intention—which usually ends up in getting involved in some unskillful intentions. It’s all coming out of the heart, all coming out of the mind. The … 
  12. Teaching Old Selves New Tricks
     … In that situation, no.” Admittedly, this is forcing you to feel your way, but this is the kind of thing you want to get sensitive to, so that you can tell when the particulars of a situation require extra vigilance and other cases where things are not so demanding. Then, finally, lots of goodwill. When the Buddha talks about development in those three bases … 
  13. A Quiet Spot
     … It feels like the background from which everything else comes and to which everything returns. But you don’t come out or return along with anything. You’re right there at the stillness, the sense of expansive awareness. So even though in the beginning of the meditation it may seem that there’s a little fence around the mind, there are restrictions on the … 
  14. Deep Time
     … But from the Buddha’s point of view, a lot of those ideas and feelings come from the fact that we don’t see the whole story. Think about it. He says there hasn’t been just one universe. There’ve been many universes, one after another. Scientists tell us how many billions of years the stars in our universe have been around, and … 
  15. The Real World Isn’t for Real
     … They’re running away, running away, running away from what they feel is chasing them. It’s only when they turn around and face whatever it is that seems to be such a big danger in their lives that they can actually live without fear. They can overcome it. Being outside and not practicing is running away. Practicing is taking a stance. So even … 
  16. Inner Worlds
     … Notice the feelings you’re focusing on and the perceptions you’re holding in mind. Try to bring these things together in a good way: Breathe in a way that’s nourishing. Talk to yourself in a way that’s nourishing. If the chatter in the mind weighs you down, pulls you down, blames everything on things outside, you’ve got to counteract it … 
  17. Dwelling in Emptiness
     … And you want to make it a place where you really do feel comfortable dwelling. So approach it step by step like this. Ajaan Lee’s image is of throwing a rock in a smelter: As you raise the temperature, the different metals separate out. First the tin separates out, then the lead, then the silver, then the gold. In the same way, as … 
  18. Patience Is a Skill
     … Remind yourself that there are a lot of things you can’t figure out ahead of time, so you’re going to learn as you feel your way. As you get a better intuitive sense of what’s going on, then you can know where to push, where not to push. Again, like the farmer: The farmer knows not to pull the plant up … 
  19. The Courage to Set Yourself Free
     … That means viewing it from a position where you don’t feel threatened by it. This is why we work with the breath to make it comfortable. Then we can look at the pain simply as a phenomenon to be studied. Taking that attitude immediately changes the relationship. You’re not running away from it. You’re stopping and you’re looking at it … 
  20. Learning by Doing
     … You’re trying to create a feeling of well-being—that comes under both name and mental fabrication, too. Underlying this, there’s the fact that you’re simply paying attention to the breath, and you have the intention to stay here, all of which come under name. This is how you learn about these thing—not by trying to watch them passively, because … 
  21. In Your Power
     … right at the body in and of itself, at feelings in and of themselves, the mind in and of itself, mental qualities in and of themselves—ardent, alert and mindful putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world, taking these things simply as events in and of themselves. Then you watch to see what skillful and unskillful mental states come up around … 
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