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  2. Guardian Meditations
     … That alerts you to the fact that you should be paying more attention to the movement of energy in the body as you breathe in, as you breathe out, and how it relates to other subtle movements of energy in different parts of the body. And what feelings are you focusing on? You want to find the feelings in the body that feel relatively … 
  3. True Friends & False
     … There may be pains in different parts of the body, but for the time being you have to learn how not to get worked up about them, not to pay them any attention. Pay attention to the areas that you can make comfortable. Ajaan Lee’s image is of going into a house where you know that some of the floorboards are rotten. If … 
  4. Training Your Inner Teacher
     … The first is associating with people of integrity, the second is listening to the True Dhamma, the third is appropriate attention, and the fourth is practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. Now, assuming that you’re listening to the True Dhamma, your main duties are those last two: appropriate attention and practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. Appropriate attention means … 
  5. Relating to Results
     … how to give yourself pep talks, how to pay very careful attention to keep yourself interested, learning to look at the meditation in a way that captures your imagination. Because after all, it is your mind, and the complexities of your mind are great. The ins and outs of the committee that you’re dealing with here: if you pay careful attention, they can … 
  6. The Pleasure of Concentration
     … So pay more attention to the breath coming in and going out. Pay more attention to how the subtle breath energies flow in the body—what feels good, what doesn’t feel good right now. I’ve often found that the area around the heart, if it’s going to be open to you, can be very sensitive to breath energy, so try to … 
  7. The Carpenter’s Adze
     … So pay careful attention to what you’re doing. Pay careful attention to what the mind needs right now. If it needs entertainment, how do you entertain it with the breath? If it needs soothing, how do you soothe it with the breath? When you pay careful attention like this, the mind does become more and more your friend, because you’re listening to … 
  8. Right Now
     … They decide which messages to send on and which ones not to pay attention to, which ones to cut off. Some of that’s involuntary, but there’s a lot more that actually contains an element of choice—more than you realize. What we’re doing as we’re meditating is learning to see those choices as they’re made, and not just let … 
  9. Using the Committee of the Mind
     … You try to starve them by pulling out and looking at them with appropriate attention, asking yourself, “What is this? If you were to apply the four noble truths, or the basic distinction between skillful and unskillful, where would this mind state fall?” Would it fall into the causes of suffering? Something unskillful? In cases like that, the duty is to abandon it. Our … 
  10. The Fourth Noble Truth
    The Fourth Noble Truth November 19, 2015 As Ajaan Fuang once said, when you follow a path, even if it’s one you’ve followed many times before, you always have to pay careful attention, because today there may be new things on the path that weren’t there before. Some of them may be dangerous. Some of them can be good. If you … 
  11. A Thread into Awareness
     … But the form of the body is the first object of your attention, because when you’re with the breath, you’re with the form of the body right now; you *know *you’re in the present moment. Otherwise, if you focus on a perception, you suddenly find it drifting away and turning into something else. So you stay with the perception of the … 
  12. Training in Happiness
     … Make up your mind you’re going to pay attention to something, and you really pay attention, really observe, really watch. Don’t be a traitor to yourself. There are so many undependable things in life, and if your own mind is undependable, then you’re really in bad shape. This is why the Buddha said the difference between a wise person and a … 
  13. Breath Meditation: The Fourth Tetrad
     … You breathe in and out paying attention to inconstancy. You breathe in and out paying attention to dispassion. You breathe in and out paying attention to cessation. Then you breathe in and out paying attention to relinquishment. Now, you can interpret those steps as applying to a very advanced level of the practice, and they do. But it’s also useful to apply them … 
  14. Take Nothing for Granted
     … The things you really have to focus attention on are the causes: directed thought, evaluation, and singleness of preoccupation. Now, directed thought and evaluation are nothing mysterious or mystical. They’re things you’re doing all the time. To direct your thoughts means you choose a topic to think about. To evaluate means you make comments on it, you ask questions about it. The … 
  15. A Home & a Mobile Home
     … And as you don’t pay attention to them, they lack their food. Because this is what feeds them: when you pay attention. So even if you just pay attention to them enough to chase them away, they’ve got you. It’s worth noting that that sutta where the Buddha talks about the various techniques of dealing with distractions is named after this … 
  16. Breath Meditation – The Four Tetrads
     … perceptions you’re using for the breath, and the feelings associated with the breath that you’re creating through your act of attention right now. What effect do they have on the mind? What can stimulate the mind or gladden the mind, as the Buddha says? Does the mind need to be made more steady and concentrated? If so, which perceptions and feelings make … 
  17. Factors for Stream Entry
     … Then when you’re heard the Dhamma, the next factor is appropiate attention. This is where you have to put a lot into it. Appropiate attention means basically looking at things in terms of the four noble truths, seeing how whatever teaching you’ve learned from the Dhamma applies to the problem of suffering in your life: Where are you suffering? And what are … 
  18. Clear of Defilement
     … After all, lots of different desires are thronging for your attention, and they have their ways of attracting your attention to them. At the same time, they try to disguise the results of where they’re going to lead. Often we’re in collusion with them. That’s what you’ve got to watch out for. In fact, a lot of overcoming delusion comes … 
  19. Meaning & Purpose
     … As he focuses our attention to meditate, he wants us to focus attention on that first kind of contact, our immediate sense of the body as we feel it, unmediated. The breath is the most obvious of the different elements, so focus there. It’s the element you can most easily control. You can make it longer, shorter, faster, slower, deeper, more shallow. So … 
  20. Control
     … There is a potential for real comfort in the breathing, but you have to pay attention if you’re going to see it. This is what you want to make grow: a good foundation here for the mind to stay in the present moment, for the body and the mind to feel on good terms with each other. Think of the breathing is a … 
  21. Generating Good Energy
     … If you don’t pay attention to it, it’ll simply come in and go out, sometimes in good ways, sometimes in ways that are not so good. You want to learn how to be sensitive to when the breath is good and to when it’s not. When it’s not good, you want to figure out how you can make it better … 
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