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  2. Purity Comes Through Discernment
     … This brings in perception and feeling as well. You learn how to identify certain comfortable feelings in the body and work with them, solidify them, consolidate them, steady them, so that you can use them as your allies. And you learn to keep the perception of breath in mind. When the breath gets so still that you can’t follow it any more, you … 
  3. The Right Time at the Right Place
     … Notice where you feel the breathing in the body, settle your awareness there, and watch it to see if it’s comfortable. If long breathing feels good, keep it up; if not, you can change—make it shorter; or in short, out long; in long, out short; fast, slow; heavy, light; deep, shallow. Ask yourself, “What kind of breathing would feel good now?” You … 
  4. Sensitivity & Strength
     … In some cases, it feels immediately comfortable with the object. In other cases, you have to learn how to work with the object to make it more comfortable. You can work with the breath this way. Breathe in a way that’s comfortable, feels good inside. What kind of breathing would feel good right now? That’s a good question to start with, because … 
  5. Chewed Up by Your Food
     … We still feed off of them, but we try to feed off of nourishing forms, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. We focus on the breath: That’s form. We focus on the sensations of the body: That’s form. We try to work the breath through the body so it gives rise to pleasant feelings: That’s feeling. We have to hold the perception … 
  6. Be Bigger Than Your Pains
     … The breath feels calm. If you’re relaxed, it feels calming. If you’re feeling tense, it’s relaxing. If you’re feeling low, then the breath can give you more energy. Learn to explore these variations so that you can take advantage of them. You’re trying to give the mind a good foundation, and it’s going to need various ways of … 
  7. Respect for Suffering
     … How does it feel? How does it feel in different parts of the body? There are lots of parts of the body that we tend to block out of our awareness. We try to open up those different parts of the body because that will open up our awareness. How does the breathing feel in your head? How does the breathing feel in your … 
  8. Attachment to the Body
     … where you feel it as it comes in, where you feel it as it goes out. Place your attention there. And allow it to be comfortable. Don’t force the breath too much. Just ask yourself, what kind of breathing would feel good right now? Longer? Shorter? Deeper? More shallow? You can just pose that question in the mind and see how the body … 
  9. The Four Noble Truths from Within
     … You feel your pain, and nobody else can feel it. It’s something you experience, all on your own, from within. When a politician says he feels your pain, you wonder what he’s feeling, but he’s certainly not feeling your pain. He may be sympathizing. We do sympathize with one another when we see the signs that someone else is in pain … 
  10. Three Levels of Effort
     … Each time you come back, ask yourself what kind of breathing would feel really good right now as a reward for coming back. Then if something feels good, stick with it. If it doesn’t, you can change. You can experiment—longer breathing, shorter breathing, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter, faster, slower—until you find a rhythm that feels really good. Then stick with … 
  11. Strength of Concentration
     … So what kind of breathing does feel good? What kind of breathing will give a sense of fullness? Focus where the breath feels most prominent. Try to choose a spot in the body that’s sensitive to the breath energy and ask yourself what kind of breathing with satisfy that spot. Allow it to develop a sense of fullness. Don’t squeeze it out … 
  12. Mindfulness: The Whole Formula
     … In some cases, it sounds like you’re simply aware of what happens, and you make a note: “There’s this kind of feeling, there’s that kind of feeling, there’s this kind of mind state, there’s that kind of mind state.” And you stop there. But in other places where the Buddha explains what it means to be alert and what … 
  13. Bad Friends Inside
     … We enjoy not so much the object as the enjoyment of the feeling of lust. The same with anger: Some people say that anger allows them to feel that they’re alive. The blood gets racing. Their thoughts get spinning. And they enjoy the feeling. What do they enjoy? Actually, they enjoy the release that comes after the tension. But that’s like going … 
  14. Alternative Conceptions
     … Form, of course, is the form of the body, how it feels from inside as we’re sitting right here: the sense of warmth, which is the fire element; the solidity, which is the earth element; the liquidity, the water element; and the flow of energy, which is the wind or the breath element. That’s form. As for name, you’ve got feelings … 
  15. Watch the Mind at the Breath
    Take a couple of good long deep in-and-out breaths, both to refresh the body and to make it easy for the mind to stay with the breath, so that you notice where you feel the process of the breathing. Keep that up as long as deep breathing feels good. When it feels like it’s too much, then you can adjust it … 
  16. Distinctions That Make a Difference
     … Together with the breath there will either be pleasant feelings or unpleasant feelings. You’re trying to focus on the pleasant feelings and nurture them—give rise to them and keep them there. Then the perceptions—the images you hold in mind of the breath: When the breath comes into the body, where does it come in? How far does it go? You’ll … 
  17. Peace on Earth
     … After you’ve played with the breath like this for a while, ask yourself what feels right, what feels balanced in the body, in terms of the breath. Are things too light? Too heavy? Too warm? Too cold? See if you can use the breath to bring them into balance. In doing this, you create a sense of ease in body and mind, a … 
  18. Living Forward, Understanding Backward
     … They feel threatened; they feel attacked; they feel they’re in a weak position and so they strike out. So no matter how much you may dislike a particular person, there’s really no good reason to wish ill for that person. The wise attitude is to wish that that person find true happiness. If he or she could find true happiness within, the … 
  19. Different Minds, Different Bodies
     … The way you work with the breath will have to depend on where you are, what you need in order to, say, give yourself a sense of relaxation when you feel tense in different parts the body, or to energize yourself when you’re feeling tired, or to work with a pain that may be caused by poor blood flow in some part of … 
  20. It’s Good to Talk to Yourself
     … What are you saying to yourself about the breath right now? You can ask yourself if the breath feels good. Where do you feel the breath? What concept of breath are you using? There’s the breath of the air coming in and out through the nose. There’s also the breath of the energy movements in the body. Some of those movements are … 
  21. Practicing from Gratitude
     … How are you breathing right now? What kind of breathing would feel really good? Try a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths to see if that feels nourishing or energizing. If it does, keep it up as long as it feels good. If it starts feeling like it’s too much, then you can calm down, make the breath shorter, more … 
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