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  2. Bursting Bubbles
     … Simply by paying attention to them, keeping them in mind, you can make them stronger. When you’re feeling lightheaded and dizzy, you can think about the earth element. That helps to ground you. When you’re feeling sluggish, you can think of the wind element. That makes the body feel lighter. You make these things more prominent and bring the body into balance … 
  3. Deconstruction
     … The Buddha said the main internal factor for gaining awakening, especially the first level of awakening, is appropriate attention. Appropriate attention makes distinctions. It’s basically seeing things in terms of the four noble truths. Suffering is to be comprehended—and not just witnessed or acknowledged. You have to understand what is it. The Buddha was very precise in defining it: clinging to the … 
  4. Specifically
     … In some cases you find out that’s because of the way you’re breathing, sometimes it’s because of the way you’re perceiving things, sometimes it’s because of the way you’re talking to yourself, what you’re paying attention to, how you’re paying attention, what your intentions are—lots of different things that can go into a specific pain … 
  5. Countercultural Conditioning
     … Breathe in a way that, one, you simply pay a lot of attention to your breath. And then, two, you learn how to breathe in ways that give rise to rapture, give rise to pleasure. Breathe in ways that gladden the mind, concentrate the mind, that are conducive to releasing the mind—things that we usually don’t think about. He says that if … 
  6. A Committed Relationship
     … You have to give your time, you have to give your energy, you have to put a lot of thought and pay a lot of attention into what you’re doing. You can’t just be taking all the time. This also means making sacrifices. You have to sacrifice the time that you could have been devoting to something else. And as you’re … 
  7. Pain
     … Fabrications also come together with the act of attention in the factor of name and form in dependent co-arising. Attention has to do with the questions you ask. Verbal fabrication has to do with the stories you tell yourself. You can also use it in the service of appropriate attention to start questioning your perceptions, questioning your stories around the pain. One of … 
  8. The Inner Saboteur
     … At the very least for this hour, let’s really get together and focus our attention on trying to do something about the mind, learning how to bring it to its object, how to keep it there, and really paying attention to what’s actually going on in the mind.” These, you might call them traitors inside you, the parts of you that sabotage … 
  9. Concentration Develops Right View
     … As for the sub-factors of name, there’s going to be attention to your topic, your intention to stay, your perception that holds you here, the feeling of pleasure that you try to maintain, or the feeling of equanimity if you get deeper into concentration, and then contact among these mental events. These sub-factors all work together. The thing is, you may … 
  10. Dhamma Intelligence
     … That means paying a lot of very careful attention right here, right now—not to the abstractions, but to the actual events and sensations going on right now. The things the mind is saying to itself right now: Those are the things you want to analyze. Those are the things you want to be sensitive to. It may seem like you’re restricting yourself … 
  11. Stay Centered
     … You give all your attention to whatever it is that it’s time to do. From his point of view, he said, “Try to make your practice timeless.” In other words, regardless of what time it is outside—what chores you have to do, what other responsibilities you have—it’s always time to meditate, it’s always time to be centered inside. Only … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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