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  2. Hedgehog Knowledge
     … Just focus on in. Zero on in on the breath and this full sense of breath throughout the body. As you stay with it, you’ll begin to get more and more sensitive, and as you get more sensitive, you’ll begin to realize that certain ways of focusing are more comfortable than others. So you focus in on the more refined sense of … 
  3. Putting Aside the World
     … And let your focus be just right. You don’t want to focus so heavily that you clamp down on these things to the point where they start getting too tight or too tense. At the same time, you don’t want to be so casual or light in your focus that you drift off. You want to stay with the breath consistently: all … 
  4. Unfabricated Happiness
     … things you tell yourself, such as, “I’m going to breathe this way, I’m going to breathe that way, I’m going to focus on this, focus on that as I breathe in and out.” The Buddha wants you to calm that fabrication, too. This helps you gain a sense of how the way you normally fabricate things causes a lot of unnecessary … 
  5. Bring the Right Attitude
     … Try to find the right amount of focus. You can focus on any part of the body where you have a sensation of the in-breath and a sensation of the out-breath. Think of the breath as something that’s supremely nourishing for that particular part of the body and nourishing for the mind as well. You’re drinking in the nourishment the … 
  6. Step by Step
     … You’re not going to focus on the whole hour all at once. You focus on the hour one breath at a time. Try to do each breath as well as you can. In other words, make it as comfortable as possible for the body and make sure that your mind is as fully alert as possible to what’s going on—what you … 
  7. A Safe Home
     … In other words, you don’t focus simply on the sensation of the breath coming in and out of the nose, but on any part of the body where there’s any sense of movement, any sense of energy flow. You can focus on that and adjust the rhythm and texture of the breath, so that it feels really good right there. It feels … 
  8. Full Attention
     … In other words, learn to focus on the positive side of the experience and you make it enjoyable. You realize, of course, that there are both negative sides and positive sides, but why focus on the negative? There’s so much negativity in the world as it is. Learn to focus on the positive. What’s already getting satisfied, say with the breath, as … 
  9. Mindfulness & Perception
    Okay, focus in on your breath—and remind yourself to stay here. The reminding is mindfulness. This is a point that’s often misunderstood. Mindfulness is paired with alertness. Alertness is what watches, sees what’s going on, and particularly, what you’re doing right now and the results you’re getting from what you’re doing. Mindfulness is what keeps your task in … 
  10. What Makes Concentration Right
    As you focus on the breath, remember that there’s right concentration and wrong concentration. There’s a passage where the Buddha defines right concentration as “any singleness of mind, endowed with right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness”—in other words, the first seven factors of the path. It sounds like an awful lot. In the … 
  11. Concentration & Insight
     … The Buddha’s use of the word dukkha covers both suffering and stress, because there is stress even in the states of concentration, and that is what you’ll have to focus on to get past the concentration. But first you want to focus on the grosser forms of suffering. This is how insight develops: You start working at things that are really obvious … 
  12. The Focus on Suffering
     … Just learning to focus there: That’s the first factor of what they call appropriate attention—seeing exactly where there’s the suffering you’re causing yourself through your craving and clinging. It’s there, it’s there all the time, simply that you’re not looking there. You’re looking someplace else. By learning to look there and see that as important: That … 
  13. Dhamma Medicine
     … One is the focus, and then the other is the putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That second activity is basically clearing away anything that’s going to interfere with your focus. Then there are three qualities of mind that help both with the focus and with the clearing away. You’re ardent, alert, mindful. Ardent—you want to do … 
  14. Stop Shooting Yourself
     … You learn to develop the discernment that allows you to make these distinctions, and in the meantime, you find other things to focus on. You learn how to focus on your strengths. You learn how to focus on things that are going well. Think of Punna, the monk who was going to go to a rough, uncivilized part of India, and first went to … 
  15. Dependable Friends
     … When there’s a sense of ease in any one spot, focus there. And learn how to focus on ease in a way that doesn’t destroy it. In other words, be friends with the ease. There’s another analogy from the Canon: If you hold on too tight, it’s like holding a baby chick in your hand, holding it so tightly that … 
  16. Energy
     … Well, you focus on the left hip. If the pain is in your stomach, focus on your back. If the pain is in your back, focus on your stomach or your chest. In other words, use the pain as an opportunity to develop your ingenuity. After all, pain is a noble truth. We learn and we gain progress in the path by comprehending it … 
  17. Limitless is the Buddha
    Limitless is the Buddha August 10, 2013 One of the themes that Ajaan Mun would often focus on in his Dhamma talks would be practicing the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma. This phrase means many things. One is that you don’t try to change the Dhamma to suit your preferences. Instead, you try to bring your preferences in line with the Dhamma … 
  18. Keep Things Simple
     … So leave the talk alone and focus as much as you can on the breath going in and going out. And put out of your mind all thoughts about how the last meditation went or yesterday’s meditation went or how it was last week. Just focus on what you’ve got right here, right now. This is an important element in the practice … 
  19. Control
     … So, he says, focus your attention on the area where you do have control and make the most of it. You can choose to cause suffering. You can choose to cause temporary happiness. You can choose to cause lasting happiness. You could choose to find the end of suffering. These are choices you can make. So don’t spend your time getting upset about … 
  20. Encouragement
     … You can’t do much about what’s coming in from the past, but you can focus on different potentials coming in from the past. Some potentials are skillful to focus on; others are not. In fact, as the Buddha points out, what you’re doing right now is what’s going to determine whether you’re going to suffer from, say, bad past … 
  21. Where You Set Your Heart
     … When we practice mindfulness in the way the Buddha described it, being very careful about where we do focus the mind and where we don’t focus the mind, of course it’s going to lead the mind to right concentration. The instructions for right mindfulness are just that: instructions on how to get the mind into right concentration. In fact, the Thai translation … 
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