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  2. Many I’s, Many Eyes
     … As you breathe in, the whole body feels at ease breathing in; as you breathe out, the whole body feels at ease breathing out. Try not to squeeze the breath energy out as you breathe out. Allow things to feel full as you’re breathing in, and even to maintain that sense of fullness as you breathe out, so that the breath energy and … 
  3. Noble Right Concentration
     … form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. Where are you going to see those aggregates? You see them in the concentration. The breath is part of form. The feeling of pleasure that arises as you stay focused: That’s feeling. The mental image you have of the breath: That’s perception. Directed thought and evaluation as you try to adjust the breath, play with the breath … 
  4. Wearing the Breath
     … Just be with how the breath feels, and notice where you feel it. Be right there at the sensation. Don’t be up in your head looking down at the sensation. Be in the sensation. Then try to maintain that. Whatever issues come up, they’re not important right now. The real issue is about getting to be right here, directly with the sensation … 
  5. Doing, Maintaining, Using
     … It’s through learning to apply it to all kinds of different situations so that you get a really good feel for it. As you gain that feel for it, then the various elements of form, feeling, perception, thought constructs, and consciousness begin to separate out. You can watch them for what they are. Then when you let them go, it’s not that … 
  6. Concentration Food
     … We’re trying to use the breath to make the body a good place to be here in the present moment, which means you want to think about the breath in ways that are more soothing when the mind is feeling frazzled, more energizing when you’re feeling tired, more relaxing when you’re feeling tense. So, first make a survey of how things … 
  7. The Regularity of the Dhamma
     … For example, you’re sitting here right now with the form of the body, your sense of the body, how it feels from within. That sense of form is made up of solidity, warmth, liquid sensations, and energy: the four elements or four properties. As for name, it includes feeling, perception, attention, intention, and contact. Consciousness, he says, lands on these factors of name … 
  8. The Primacy of the Mind (2)
     … We’re working here not with feelings willy-nilly. We’re working with what the Buddha calls feelings not-of-the-flesh: niramisa vedana. Those are feelings that are consciously, deliberately created. So again, we’re working from the mind into the breath. Then you’re sensitive to how that sense of pleasure has an impact on the mind: You breathe in and out … 
  9. Feeding Off of Others
     … Can anybody else feel the breath the way you feel it? The person sitting next to you may hear you breathing, but that’s about it. Of course, if it’s really loud, you should tone it down. But your sense of the breath is yours. Your sense of the body as you feel it from within is yours. Your sense of how you … 
  10. Deconstructing Anger
     … You suddenly feel free to do what you want to do, and your sense of shame and compunction goes by the board. Your concerns about the results, the long term results, of what you’re doing goes by the board. You feel free not to care. So you want to see why you’re willing to throw those things away. The same happens if … 
  11. Knowing & Acting
     … If the breath doesn’t feel comfortable at that spot, very gently adjust it until it does. When you finally get a feeling tone that feels good right there, notice what other spots in the body have the same feeling tone. Think of them connecting. It’s as if you’re starting a fire in a wind. At the very beginning, you have to … 
  12. Appreciating Merit
     … It’s not just the feeling you get from them that’s happiness, it’s the actual action that’s a kind of happiness. We don’t think of happiness as an action. We think of it more as a feeling we get from doing things. But here you exercise an activity that feels good, that feels right. And in that—in the action … 
  13. A Load Off the Mind
     … Experiment to see what feels best right now. What does your body need? Does it need long breathing or short breathing? Does it need to be energized? If that’s the case, breathe in a way that gives it more energy. Does it need to be relaxed? Breathe in a way that’s more relaxing. Try to have a sense of what would be … 
  14. Anumodana
     … It’s because basically you feel bad about enjoying things, but if you feel bad about enjoying things yourself, then how are you going to feel good about other people enjoying things? How are you going to want to make other people have joy? The mind just shrivels up, the heart shrivels up, with an attitude like that. So to nourish the heart, it … 
  15. The Bright Tunnel
     … If there’s guilt there may be a feeling that, “Maybe I deserve to suffer.” If there’s denial, then there’s the feeling, “This suffering is unjust, it shouldn’t be happening.” Or you just cover it up, pretending that it isn’t happening. Either way you don’t really get to the root of the problem. You don’t understand it. If … 
  16. A Small, Steady Flame
     … Actually it can be anywhere in the body where you feel that the sensation of in-breathing feels good and the sensation of out-breathing feels good. Then you train yourself to stay with that sensation. In the beginning the sensation may not be all that impressive — just a simple, comfortable feeling, sometimes a neutral feeling — but you find that if you stick with … 
  17. Gladdening the Mind
     … And the path is asking you to do only good things, things you can be proud of, things that feel noble, honourable. You’re not being asked to compromise your ideals when you practice the Dhamma. In fact, you’re being asked to raise your ideals to a higher standard. Then there’s recollection of the Sangha. When your mind feels full of defilement … 
  18. Why Now
     … Does long breathing feel good? If it doesn’t feel good, you can change. You can try shorter breathing, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter, faster, slower. Experiment to see what kind of breathing feels best right now. You can either try specific kinds of breathing, or you can simply pose the question in the mind, “What kind of breathing would feel good now?” And … 
  19. Breathing Skillfully
     … Notice where you feel the breathing in the body. When we talk about breath, it’s not so much the air coming in and out through the nose. It’s the feeling of energy that flows in the body, that allows the air to come in, allows the air to go out. Where do you feel that? Focus your attention there. Then ask yourself … 
  20. Afraid of Inner Pleasure
     … Here again, you find sometimes you may be scared to feel a sense of well-being as you go into the world. You feel exposed. After all, your pores are all open. It’s like going out into the cold after a really hot bath. You may feel exposed to other people. Well, remember that the breath energy has a kind of force field … 
  21. The Fabrication of Pain
    There’s a peculiar passage in the Canon where the Buddha says that we fabricate feelings for the sake of having a feeling. This applies both to pleasures and to pains as well as to feelings that are neutral, neither pleasant nor painful. You might think it would be strange that we would fabricate pains, but all of our feelings are fabricated. You have … 
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