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  2. The Power to Transcend Suffering
     … So when you find yourself discouraged or depressed, change the way you breathe so that you feel more energized. Or if you’re tense and irritable, change the way you breathe so that you’re more soothed and relaxed. There’s lots to play with here. This comes under the first base of success. The Buddha said there are four bases of success or … 
  3. The Dhamma Is in the Method
     … Why can’t you as practitioners?” Revenge may be too strong a word for the feelings you may have for others. But sometimes you just want to get back at somebody, with the conviction that you’re right about wanting to see them suffer. But your rightness is creating a lot of trouble. There are ways of being right and yet wrong at the … 
  4. Contemplation of the Body
     … It’s as if the human body is designed to undercut any sense of pride we might feel. Other people have to wipe you; other people have to turn you over; whatever sense of privacy you used to have about your body gets thrown out the window. You can’t control your urinating, can’t control your defecating. Everything goes out of control. And … 
  5. Thinking About Rebirth
     … You breathe in a certain way and you can give rise to comfortable feelings. You can choose which way you’re going to perceive things, to perceive things as self, perceive them as not-self. You can formulate thoughts, you can focus on being aware of all kinds of things that you want, up to a point. So while you have that power, try … 
  6. Ups & Downs
     … how to talk your mind into doing things that you know are skillful, but it doesn’t really feel like doing them. You can ask, “Who in here doesn’t like doing them?” In other words, this is a good place to not see the mind as a unified entity, just lots of little conflicting desires in there, and you’ve got to sort … 
  7. Sensitive in Seven Ways
     … But at other times, it’s just a sense of refreshment—you sit here and every part of the body feels totally satisfied. The energy is just right. That sense of fullness and just-rightness also counts as pīti, which is translated as rapture. So you have to learn how to recognize these things. After all, only when you recognize them can you know … 
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