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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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.
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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