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  2. How to Talk to Yourself
     … If long breathing feels good, keep it up. If not, you can change. Make it shorter, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter, faster, slower. Or you can try in-long and out-short, or in-short and out-long. See what kind of breathing feels good. If you find something that feels good, stick with it for a while until it doesn’t feel so … 
  3. Locate Your Craving
     … With a lot of addicts, there’s just a strange feeling in the body and their immediate reaction is, “I need a hit” of whatever the addiction is. Just a little feeling of dis-ease in the body and they immediately run to whatever their addiction is. They can cause themselves a lot of trouble, without realizing that it was just a little word … 
  4. Training Your Minds
     … Experiment for a while to see how different kinds of breathing feel for the body. You may notice that the body’s needs will change over time, so that what feels good right now may not feel good in another five minutes. So try to keep on top of how the breathing feels. If you have trouble sticking with the breath, use a meditation … 
  5. Where to Look in the Present
     … Notice where you feel the breath. Notice the quality of that feeling. You can feel it anywhere in the body, in the same way that they can measure your brainwaves in any part of the body. The breath has an effect on the whole nervous system. So, try to see what way of breathing feels best for your nervous system. Settle down right here … 
  6. A Concentration Checklist
     … In the case of doubt, you’re sitting with the breath and all of a sudden you wonder, “Is this really breath? These sensations I’m feeling in the body: Do they really correspond to the breath?” Once that question comes up, you lose your concentration. You can remind yourself that the fact that you feel the body at all has to pass through … 
  7. Calm
     … There are some people who have trouble with feelings of rapture because they’ve had near-drowning experiences. They say that when you almost drown, there’s a point where there’s a strong sense of fullness in the body—and feelings of rapture can seem very much like that. So when you’re meditating and you feel oppressed by the rapture, you can … 
  8. Terror & Revulsion
     … And wherever you focus, allow the sensation to be comfortable so that it feels good breathing in, feels good breathing out. If it feels good, it’s a lot easier to stay with the breath. This may require adjusting the rhythm and the texture of the breathing: deep breathing or shallow breathing; heavy or light; fast or slow. You can change the speed and … 
  9. The Five Strengths
     … You have to be constantly alert for how things feel with each breath. Then ask yourself what kind of sensation of breathing would you like right now? What would feel really gratifying, what would satisfy the body? Does it feel like it needs more breath energy? Okay, give it deeper breathing. If you’re feeling tired, you might try long in-breaths, short out … 
  10. One Hand Clapping
     … body, feelings, mind. Those are the three things you’re keeping track of in the hopes that you can bring them into one. In other words, the breath is here. It feels good. You have a sense of the breath filling the body, a feeling of ease filling the body, and your awareness filling the body. That’s when they become one. But up … 
  11. The Six Properties
     … You’re sensitive to bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; you’re sensitive to mental fabrication, your perceptions and your feelings; and in both cases you calm them down. Seeing things in terms of fabrication is a matter of insight; calming fabrications is a matter of tranquility. With the breath, you can get it so calm that it actually feels like it’s stopping … 
  12. Balancing the Bases for Concentration
     … If it starts feeling uncomfortable, you can switch to something else: shorter breathing, more shallow breathing, faster, slower. Just think to yourself: What kind of the breath would feel good right now? See how the body responds. Don’t try to force the breath in any way, but be very sensitive to how it feels. Once the spot you’re watching begins to feel … 
  13. Equanimity & Power
     … We feel compassion for all those who are suffering. We feel happy for all those who are happy. But then we have to admit, there are cases where we want people to be happy, but they’re not going to be creating the causes for happiness anytime soon, and we have no power over them. Even in our own lives, there are certain things … 
  14. Looking after Yourself with Ease
     … Then finally there’s mental fabrication, which consists of perceptions and feelings. Feelings here are feeling tones of pleasure and pain; neither pleasure nor pain. And perceptions are the images or words you use to identify things. You see the flame of a candle and you think “candle flame.” You see the Buddha image and something inside you says “Buddha image.” Those are perceptions … 
  15. Take Care of Your Tools
     … Try to find a way of relating to the energy that feels good, feels refreshing, feels nourishing. And don’t be afraid of getting attached to the concentration. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, you have to be crazy about the meditation in order to do it well: looking for every chance to get in touch with the breath, looking for every chance to … 
  16. Food Insecurity
     … In breath meditation, he says to develop feelings of pleasure, feelings of rapture. This is one of the big ironies about the way mindfulness is taught these days, where they say that the Buddha taught, “Just be with whatever feeling comes up, whatever mind state comes up.” He never says that. Consciously try to cultivate feelings of rapture and pleasure: That’s what he … 
  17. Isolating the Aggregates
     … The same with feelings. We talk about giving rise to a feeling of pleasure with the breath, pleasure with the concentration. Where does it come from? You can’t push pleasure into the body. You have to realize that there are lots of little centers in the body, little sensation centers, and all you have to do is give them a little bit of … 
  18. Death Without Drama
     … The Buddha talks about feelings invading the mind and remaining. What he means is that the feelings overwhelm you. He trained himself so that he was not invaded by the feelings and he was not overwhelmed. They didn’t remain. A feeling would come and it would just slip away, like water off a duck’s back. How do you do that? By developing … 
  19. Lessons from Jhana
     … It feels okay. As for people who have had an experience of almost drowning, sometimes this sensation of fullness in the body feels threatening because it reminds them of the time they almost died. In that case, they have to hold in mind the perception that they’re surrounded by air, surrounded by space. There’s no water pressing in on them. The fullness … 
  20. Talking to Yourself
     … When the body feels at ease, the mind feels a lot more comfortable in the present moment. When the mind feels comfortable, its thinking is going to be clearer. So this is a good place to stay. This way, when you’re keeping the mind here, it’s not just a matter of forcing it. Sometimes you have to cajole it and then you … 
  21. Jhāna & Discernment
    Take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths, and ask yourself, “Where do you feel the breathing in the body?” We know the air comes in and out through the nose into the lungs. But when the Buddha’s talking about the breath, he doesn’t talk about the air, he talks about the energy in the body itself. You have … 
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