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  2. Goodwill Is Respect
     … by the way you breathe, by the way you talk to yourself, by the perceptions you hold in mind, and the feelings you focus on. Be careful as you focus on the feelings, because if you generate a feeling of ease and then leave the breath and just focus on the ease, that’s going to last for a little while and then start … 
  3. New Feeding Habits for the Mind
     … When you see a cruel action, it’s usually coming from the person’s feeling weak, feeling threatened, at his wits’ end. Acts of kindness and compassion come from a feeling of well-being in the mind. So when we look for true well-being, true happiness, it’s not a selfish desire. But still, we’re stuck with this problem: the body is … 
  4. Why We Meditate
     … Then after a while, think “deeper,” see how that feels. “More shallow,” see how that feels. In other words, take some time to experiment with the sensation of breathing to see how it feels until you get a rhythm that feels just right. Then stick with that rhythm as long as it feels good. If you find that after a while it starts getting … 
  5. Samsara
     … Then focus on the feeling of the body as it feels from within, how it feels as the energy flows, how it feels where the energy doesn’t flow. And try to hang on right there. That’s what you want to be aware of. What you’re doing is that you’re taking the five aggregates, which you normally use to burn yourself … 
  6. Nuts & Bolts
     … Notice where you feel the breathing in the body. It may be in an unexpected place, but wherever you feel it, focus your attention there. The breath is potentially a whole-body process. In the beginning, you want to focus on the parts that are obvious. If long breathing feels good, keep it up. If it doesn’t feel good, you can change. Make … 
  7. Samvega & Pasada
     … Where do you feel it? What different ways do you feel it? Where does it feel good in the body? Where does it feel harsh? What ways of breathing build up tension, say, in the neck, in the back, in the shoulders? What ways of breathing can release that tension? In other words, regard the breath as something to explore. You’ve got this … 
  8. Skillful Effort
     … Well, can you create a sense of pleasure in the body right now? When lust is filling the body, where do you feel tension? Some people feel it in the back of their hands, and then spreading from the back of the hands up the arms, throughout the body. So how about relaxing the back of the hands? Breathe in a way that feels … 
  9. Lifting the Mind
     … Sometimes the mind feels more burdened with its object, and sometimes it feels less. Sometimes it feels more burdened with all the thinking and evaluating going around the object, and sometimes that thinking and evaluating calms down, and the mind feels lighter. When you see things like that, you can let go of whatever is causing the disturbance. Ajaan Fuang used to call this … 
  10. Elemental Energy
     … As the physical side of the anger begins to calm down, you can look at the mental side directly and not feel so overwhelmed by it, not feel that you’ve got to get it out of your system. Most of that sense of having to get it out of your system has to do with a disturbance in the breathing. The breathing feels … 
  11. Focus on What You’re Doing
     … So if you pose the question of what would feel really good right now and the body doesn’t seem to be feeling especially good, then you’ve consciously got to work at it. Try shorter breathing, longer breathing, deeper, more shallow. In this way, you work with all the different elements of what the Buddha calls fabrication: the breath, your directed thought and … 
  12. Control
     … So focus on how the breathing feels. What kind of breathing feels good right now? If could be long breathing or short, or long in and short out, or short in and long out, or deep or shallow, heavy, light, or someplace in between all these things. There is a potential for real comfort in the breathing, but you have to pay attention if … 
  13. Adolescent Practice
     … You can start seeing how the breath affects your feelings, exactly which experience is a breath experience, and which experience is a feeling experience — feeling pleasure or pain. As you really look into these things, you begin to see that you’ve often drawn the lines in your body and mind in the wrong places. For instance, the aggregates of form and feeling: the … 
  14. Comprehending Pain
     … You’ve got to find some part in the body that feels pleasurable and then learn how to maintain that feeling of pleasure all way through the in-breath, all the way through the out-. Then allow it to spread. As you get better and better at this, you gain more and more confidence in staying in the present moment without feeling threatened by … 
  15. Your Tranquility & Your Insight
     … But given the images he provides of the state of mind you’re trying to attain—a state of good strong concentration—being aware of the long breaths and short breaths seems to involve trying to find a way of breathing that feels good, feels comfortable, gives a sense of refreshment, a sense of ease, pleasure, because that’s the feeling tone you’re … 
  16. Take the Buddha Seriously
     … What is the breath doing right now? Where is it going in the body? Then there are the feelings that arise from your directed thought and evaluation, and your perceptions. You begin to realize that the feelings are there, not just willy-nilly, and they’re not totally the result of past karma. They’re based on what you’re doing right now. So … 
  17. Solo Practice
     … what feels right coming in, what feels right going out, what feels right for this condition of your body right now. You have to look and you have to look again. Because sometimes you find that you have cartoon ideas about the breath: how the breath has to come in, how it has to go out, what sensations you need for the breath to … 
  18. Cheating the System
     … Find a way of breathing that feels good there, then let that sense of comfortable breathing spread through other parts of the body, so that you feel surrounded by a good feeling. And then you can look into the pain. Ask yourself what kind of perceptions you have around it. Is it a big monolithic block? Is it the same thing as the spot … 
  19. See Your Thoughts as Strange
    See Your Thoughts as Strange August 17, 2018 Try and settle into the body—the body as you feel it from within, what the texts call “form”—and try to find a sense of pleasure here. Explore the breath to see how it feels, and adjust it so that it feels just right: not too long, not too short, too deep, too shallow, too … 
  20. Food, Shelter & Work
     … As you breathe in, take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths, and notice where you feel the breathing in the body. Think of the breath not so much as the air coming in and out through the nose, but as the movement of energy in the body. Where do you feel that energy most prominently? Focus your attention there and … 
  21. The Path of Giving
     … There are feelings of pleasure, feelings of pain, so learn how to use them. Learn to use whatever pleasure you can muster to developing concentration, as nourishment for the mind. Use feelings of pain as things to analyze, to understand, because you begin to see the mind in action right around the pain. You see the perceptions that you place on pain, saying, “This … 
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