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  2. Allowing the Breath to Spread
     … Or, if you want, you can stay focused there, with the thought that if any sense of ease can come out of it and seep through the body, you’ll be open to the idea that it can happen. Don’t chase it around, don’t push it here, don’t push it there. Just think: Okay, there’s a sense of ease, and … 
  3. Adjusting the Flame
     … The mind starts focusing on the pleasure instead of the breath, and things get blurry. This is when delusion concentration sets in. This is when drowsiness sets in. To counteract that, you’ve got to give the mind work to do. Try some very detailed work through the bones of the body, the breath around the bones. How does the breath around your spinal … 
  4. Reflect on Your Actions
     … You’re sitting, focused on the breath. Is it going well? Are you actually with the breath? If not, what can you change? You can change either the breath or the way you’re focused. In other words, the changes can be either in the body or in the mind. What are your range of options? Some of these you’ve learned from the … 
  5. The Wisdom of Ardency
     … Like right now, you’re focused on the breath. You’re alert to what the breath is doing, and you’re also alert to what the mind is doing as it tries to stay focused on the breath. The ardency here is to keep at this. If you find yourself wandering off, you come right back to the breath. Mindful means keeping something in … 
  6. Timeless Practice
     … That’s why we establish mindfulness, focusing on the breath, focusing on the body, focusing on the 32 parts of the body, the breath. There are lots of topics we can focus on. But you want to stay with the body in and of itself or feelings in and of themselves, mind states, mental qualities in and of themselves. Right now we’re choosing … 
  7. A Path for a Noble Desire
     … And you have to be concentrated on what you’re doing, focused on what you’re doing. So that’s the pattern of any path that leads to something you genuinely desire. Say, if you wanted to be wealthy, you have to have a view that wealth is important. You have to have a view about how it can be found. And you have … 
  8. Thinking About Rebirth
     … when he focused on the present moment, saw things in terms of the four noble truths, completed the duties for those truths, and gained full awakening. But the Buddha didn’t get to the present moment without having gone through his knowledges about rebirth and the role of karma in rebirth. The way he went from knowledge of his own rebirths to the role … 
  9. Perceptions of Earth & Space
     … You’re focused on earth. Focus on space instead.” And as soon as he said “space,” the solidity and the stiffness and everything just disappeared. As you think about space, you can think about how space extends not only around objects but also through objects. Every atom, when you look at it very carefully, is more space than it is matter. In the walls … 
  10. The Brightness of Life
     … As we’re focusing on the breath, it’s body. But as you’re focusing right here on the body, you can’t help but be aware of feelings, because they’re right there. So try to breathe in a way that gives rise to pleasant feelings. That makes it easier to stay here. And the mind’s got to be right there, too … 
  11. A New Framework
     … The author was saying that when you see a great doctor in action, you see how focused he is, how aggressive he is in getting the patient to cooperate. Look for the difference between being in the 99.05 percentile, and the 99.5 percentile. You push for that extra little bit of difference, and it makes all the difference in the world when … 
  12. Good Traditions
     … Then the discernment that comes from a centered and focused mind can help you see where the mind still has unskillful habits and also how to figure out ways to overcome those unskillful habits. This is how you find happiness inside. So even though it may seem like a small thing, sitting here focusing on your breath, you develop a lot of good qualities … 
  13. Training Wheels
     … focused on the breath, focused on feelings and the awareness. As I said, these are training wheels, things that ultimately you’re going to have to go past. But you can’t go past them until you’ve mastered them. And you can’t master them until you’ve spent a lot of time with them, a lot of time bringing them together. So … 
  14. Limitless Thoughts
     … That puts you in the right frame of mind for meditation, focusing on the breath. After all, why are you here just watching your breath coming in and going out, when you could be doing so many other things? It’s because you want true happiness. You’ve seen the happiness of other things that the world has to offer, and it’s not … 
  15. It’s All about Action
     … So right now, what are you doing? You should be focusing on your breath or any other of the meditation topics that keep you right here in the present moment. If you’re with the breath, the breath itself is a kind of activity. Even though the body would breathe on its own, say, as when you’re asleep, the fact that you’re … 
  16. Meaning Through Perfections
     … You do that by focusing on the body as you sense it from within—the body in and of itself, as the Buddha says: focusing on the breath as you feel it; breathing in a way that gives rise to a sense of well-being. This is a pleasure that’s not sensual. It’s the pleasure of form. And it doesn’t have … 
  17. Admirable Intentions
     … There are two activities there that you’re focused on. The first is keeping track of the body in & of itself. In this case, it’s the breath. You stay with the breath coming in, the breath going out. You don’t think of the body in terms of the world, whether it’s strong enough to do the work of the world, whether … 
  18. Good for What Purpose?
     … This may be one of the reasons why he focuses on the issue of suffering, stress, pain, because those are the facts that make you sometimes wonder: This view that you have of things, is it really good enough? Or is it actually part of the problem? When you can start asking questions like that, you can pull yourself out of your old habits … 
  19. The Karma that Ends Karma
     … You’re focusing on the breath, everything seems fine and then suddenly you’re someplace else, half a world away. It’s as if someone snuck up behind you, threw a sack over your head, dragged you off, and then dumped you on another continent. You don’t know what happened in the meantime. You don’t catch sight of the fact that an … 
  20. Honesty
     … This is why so much of our training focuses on the mind, because your actions come out of your mind. Your intentions shape what you do and determine the results of your actions. A lot of the practice is a question of skill in how to act in such a way that avoids suffering, and then finally cuts through the causes of suffering. That … 
  21. Free Not to Suffer
    You’re free to spend the rest of the hour focusing on the breath, focusing on your mind, bringing the two together. Why would you want to do that? The Buddha explains an awful lot about why. Sometimes I’ve encountered people who just want to do the technique. They don’t want to hear the theory behind it, but the question is: What … 
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