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  2. Solo Practice
     … One of the terms for this process is called de-perception: questioning your perception of what’s going on in the body and then trying other perceptions to see how they affect the breath. Sometimes you find one perception that seems really comfortable and there’s the tendency to tell yourself, “Ah, this must be it! This is the way to breathe.” But then … 
  3. The Battle of Your Selves
     … Ajaan Lee and Ajaan Maha Boowa talk about the ways in which distractions get started in the mind, and it’s interesting that they switch roles in terms of the perception and the fabrication. Ajaan Maha Boowa would start with the fabrication, a stirring of energy in the mind, and then he says you slap a perception on top of that. In Ajaan Lee … 
  4. The Safety of Dualities
     … So, your perceptions can change your range of what you can do, which means that some perceptions are skillful and some are not. This is why we have to develop right view, to get a sense of which perceptions will be skillful, which ways of perceiving ourselves, which ways of perceiving the problem of suffering will actually be conducive to putting an end to … 
  5. A Post-goodness World?
     … So why lay claim to it as what you want as your happiness? So you’ve got the foundation for the three perceptions right there in that question. If something is inconstant, stressful, it’s not worth holding onto as you or yours, so it’s not worth pursuing. That’s something that’s often forgotten when we think about the three perceptions: the … 
  6. Shoot Your Pains with Wisdom
     … For example, you can try holding in mind the perception that your body is like a big sponge, and the breath is coming in and out every pore of the skin. Think of the breath as an energy field that fills the body, and see what that does to the way you actually breathe. This way you begin to see how your perceptions shape … 
  7. Surprise Yourself
     … What does that do? In other words, you play with your perceptions. That’s how ingenuity works. First, you’ve got to alert yourself to what your perceptions are, then you challenge them and think of alternatives. One of the easiest ways to think of alternatives, of course, is to ask yourself the opposite. If the in-breath seems to be going in one … 
  8. The Four Noble Truths from Within
     … Then we have perceptions and feelings. Those are the factors that fabricate the mind. What kind of perceptions are we going to bring to this process of being right here so that we can create feelings of well-being that can sustain us? These are all things you can experience right here from within. It’s simply a matter of wanting to sensitize yourself … 
  9. A Mental Fortress
     … And then your perceptions: What perceptions are helpful in keeping the mind calm, and which perceptions stir it up? Remember in the Buddha’s lessons about dealing with pain, there are ways of looking at the pain that get you get you all worked up. Other ways of looking at the pain can help you see the pain as something separate from your awareness … 
  10. Breathe Easy
     … A lot of this skill has to do with perception. We perceive certain parts of the body as being unresponsive to the breath, parts that the breath can’t penetrate. Actually, the breath can penetrate everything. It’s an energy, a very refined energy. So that’s the first perception to hold in mind, that the breath is an energy that can penetrate anything … 
  11. Large Perspective, Small Focus
     … physical fabrication, i.e., the breath; verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation; mental fabrication, which are perceptions and feelings—perceptions are the labels or images you apply to things, and feelings are feelings of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. You realize, when you’re getting the mind into concentration, that you’re working directly with these forms of fabrication, getting hands-on … 
  12. An End to Suffering
     … How are your perceptions shaping the way you do things? How do your perceptions of the results turn around and shape the way you do things the next time around? Look into that. This combination of perception and intention is what you’ve really got to learn to understand. And there’s the element of attention: what you pay attention to, what you decide … 
  13. Pleasure & Pain
     … There are also perceptions, and there’s your awareness. The perceptions are the labels you put on things. Then there’s your basic consciousness. You’re learning how to untangle these things: the actual physical sensation of the pain, the labels you place on it, and the awareness that’s in the midst of these things. All these things tend to get glued together … 
  14. Inner Baggage
     … What you’re doing is that you’re playing with your perceptions and seeing how the way you label things, the concepts you apply to things, has a big impact on how much you’re causing yourself to suffer. You can change your concepts, and that changes the way you experience your reality. Some of the important lessons relating to feeling and perception have … 
  15. The Evening News
     … Then you see how those things together with the perceptions that go with them—the perception of the breath, the perception of the feelings, the perception of the body—have an impact on the mind. They fabricate the mind. Then you allow that impact to calm down. With the mind, you want to get sensitive to what state of mind you’ve got here … 
  16. How to Think about Death
     … He said it was giving him all kinds of weird perceptions. But he had developed the skills of mind to recognize that these were weird perception. He didn’t say that, but that was one of my things I noticed. After saying that his mind was giving him weird perceptions, he stopped for a second, and then he said, “But that thing I got … 
  17. What’s Real
     … Then there are the perceptions of the breath. How do you perceive the breath? Is it just a little bit of air coming in and out of the nose? How about thinking of the body as a big sponge with the breath coming in and out of the pores from all directions? What does that perception do to the way you feel the breath … 
  18. Training Your Intentions
     … With fabrication, we fabricate form for the sake of form-ness; we fabricate feeling for the sake of feeling-ness; perceptions for the sake of perception-hood, I guess you’d say; consciousness for the sake of consciousness-ness. It’s a weird grammatical construction in Pali, which is why it sounds strange in English, too. But the basic message is that we have … 
  19. Equanimity & More
     … And then mental fabrication, perceptions and feelings: Try to develop some perceptions, one, that help the mind to settle down. And then, two, think about the perceptions that help you look at things that you’ve been holding on to, causing you to suffer, and show you how to let them go, not simply out of acceptance, but out of understanding. Why is it … 
  20. A Clear Agenda
     … So change the perception. Try to think of the in-and-out breath just simply filling up the sensations of the body that are there, without having to run through them. Or think of it slipping through the spaces between the other sensations without pressing on them. It simply suffuses through the body, with a minimum amount of friction, a minimum amount of pushing … 
  21. The Buddha’s Tools
     … form, feeling, perceptions, thought constructs, consciousness. That kind of analysis has a lot less friction to it, again, a lot less drama and blame. If we have a bad ego or a poor struggling ego, that frames the issues in one way. But if we say, well, there’s a feeling, there’s a perception, and there’s a way of fabricating thoughts, it … 
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