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  2. Staying in Position
     … Try to notice where you feel the breathing process. It can be anywhere in the body. Choose a spot where the sensations tell you clearly that now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out. Allow the breath in that spot to feel comfortable. That’s getting into position. Both sides of the process are easy. The hard part is staying … 
  3. The Four-in-One Establishing of Mindfulness
     … When it comes to feelings, he says that careful attention to the breath counts as a feeling. That’s strange. Attention is not a feeling. But you have to remember that feelings, as the Buddha said, are fabricated. As you pay careful attention to the breath, that’s how you fabricate a sense of ease. You try to make your attention continuous all the … 
  4. Inner Wealth
     … See if you can find a way of breathing that feels really good for the parts of the body that are tired, that have been tense. You’ll find that this ability to stay with the body in the present, with a sense of well-being in the body, can be really nourishing. When the breath feels good, think of that comfortable sensation permeating … 
  5. Unskillful Voices
     … Having your spot inside the body where you feel at ease, where the breath feels gratifying, feels good coming in, feels good going out, is an important ally in the practice. After all, when you sit down and look at your mind, you’ll often see things you don’t like. Sometimes they’re memories of the past, things you did in the past … 
  6. Fighting off Ignorance
     … How does the breath feel? Do you like the way it feels? How about if you breathed in a different way? Ajaan Lee recommends starting out with some good, long, deep in-and-out breaths. In other words, very consciously make the breath long, then see how it feels. If it feels good, keep it up. If it doesn’t feel good, you can … 
  7. Cutting Edge Perceptions
     … Then if you feel that it’s not manageable, look into it further. For example, with pain: When you’ve got this moment of pain, is it coming at you or is it going away? Almost always we have a subconscious sense that the pain is coming at us and we feel like we’re being blasted with pain. We’re on the receiving … 
  8. Concentration & Insight
    When you’re focused on the breath, you’re focusing on what’s called “form.” The breath is one of the elements that make up your sense of the form of the body as you feel it from within. In other words, you’re not concerned with how the body looks on the outside. You’re concerned more with how you feel it from … 
  9. The Path Is and Isn’t the Goal
     … How does the breath feel? Where do you feel it? If it doesn’t feel comfortable, what can you do to make it feel more comfortable? What way of experimenting with the breath is too heavy-handed, and what way is just right? These are things you have to find out by paying full attention, being very, very sensitive. Ajaan Fuang’s most frequent … 
  10. Feeding on Feeding
     … And the feeling of hunger: That’s the feeling aggregate. We go looking around: That’s fabrication. We find something, it looks good: again, the feeling aggregate. We remember we’ve seen things in the past that look good, so we have to run this against the other things we’ve eaten in the past, to see what it lines up with. This is … 
  11. Around in Circles
     … So how do you develop that awareness? Just by sticking with the breath, experimenting with the breath, seeing what kind of rhythm of breathing feels good, what texture of breathing feels good right now, what the body needs right now. Do you know? Look into it. Try different ways of breathing and see what feels right. And learn how to experiment. What kind of … 
  12. Pure Action
     … what it feels like as you’re breathing in, what it feels like as you’re breathing out. Notice how the body would like to feel as you breathe and how it would like to feel as you breathe out. Be on good terms with it. And as you open up to it, it’ll open up to you and tell you all kinds … 
  13. The Limits of Old Kamma
    Focus your attention on the breath and see how it feels. Where do you notice it in the body first? Where does it seem most prominent? You might notice the passage of the air through the nostrils, the rise and fall of the chest, the expansion of the rib cage: There are lots of different places in the body where you can sense the … 
  14. Directly & Indirectly to the Breath
     … When monks are asked, “Where should I give this?” they’re supposed to answer, “Give wherever you feel inspired, you feel it would be well-used or people would take good care of it.” That’s it. Even the issue of social action comes under the area of generosity. That, too, is a free gift. You can decide whether you feel inspired or not … 
  15. Question & Probe
     … If you feel you have something you can use to defend yourself from the pain, or even better, if you feel you can take a more active or proactive approach toward it so that you’re not simply on the receiving end—that you’re actually shaping the experience—you can handle things a lot more easily. You feel less oppressed or threatened by … 
  16. Taking a Stance
     … a home for the mind, a place where you feel safe, where you feel solidly protected, not only from things outside but also from all the issues that come bubbling up from inside as well. Because the biggest problems in life are not the events from outside, but in how you react to them. Even before events come at you from outside, things come … 
  17. From Grief to Compassion
     … And the theory comes down to the idea that onstage emotions are being portrayed and the audience tastes the emotion, rather than feeling the emotion directly. Different emotions, when they’re portrayed, provoke different tastes in the audience. When grief is being portrayed, the taste is compassion. You feel sorry for the person who’s suffering, and there’s an enjoyment in that feeling … 
  18. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. He says that we suffer because we cling to these things. Form is any physical form. It can be the form of your own body or the form of things you’re attached to, items that you like, people you like. Feeling is just registering the sensation of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. These feelings can … 
  19. Directed Thoughts, Random Thoughts
     … How is the breath? When it comes in, where do you feel it? Does it feel good? If it feels good, keep it up. If it doesn’t feel good, you can change. Try longer breathing, shorter breathing, faster, slower, heavier, lighter. You’re trying to develop a sensation in the body that feels good to stay with, particularly in an area of the … 
  20. Respect for Concentration
     … We can work ourselves up into all kinds of problems about feelings of pain, physical or mental; or remembering feelings of pleasure** **we had in the past that are long gone, which gives rise to more suffering. But instead, we learn to take feeling and make it part of the path. We learn how to breathe in a way that feels really good, feels … 
  21. Breathing through Daily Life
     … What kind of energy feels good for the body? Sometimes when you’re tired you want good long in-breaths to energize the body. When you’re feeling tense, you might try long out-breaths, to let the tension dissolve away. You may find that certain parts of the body that haven’t been involved in the breathing process really would like to get … 
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