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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. The Sport of Wise People
     … If there’s a pain in one part of the body and the more you focus on it, the worse it seems to get, ask yourself, “What is my perception adding to the pain? Can I think about the pain using other perceptions?” So the evaluation here evaluates the breath and other physical aspects of the body together with what you’re doing, in … 
  11. Looking for Happiness Inside
     … You see how the mind’s perceptions, say, create a sense of where your body is right now and a sense of the shape of the body, and how those perceptions can be dropped. Then what have you got? Just a cloud of little sensation points. If you want, you can focus on the space between the points. That gets even more refined. You … 
  12. A Good Independent Self
     … And finally, feelings and perceptions: We have our old perceptions that we keep plastering on to things, but those can be changed. The Buddha gives us so many useful perceptions to apply. Think of all the different skilled craftspeople that the Buddha recommends that you imitate: a good cook, a good archer, a good soldier, even a good elephant, a good horse, a well … 
  13. How to Change
     … Finally, mental fabrications are perceptions and feelings: the labels you put on things, the feeling tones you have. These are the building blocks for all mental kamma. So as the Buddha’s teaching you, he’s noticing that the way you talk to yourself, the way you breathe, the way you hold different feelings and perceptions in the mind is causing you to suffer … 
  14. The Path of Mistakes
     … form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness. These all have to play a role in the path, which means we have to learn how to change our attitude toward the aggregates. Instead of just clinging to them as us or ours, we learn how to use them as elements in the path. The important point here is to realize that these things have to be used … 
  15. Choosing Freedom
     … So bring a new perception in. When you breathe in, it’s not just a little pair of holes here in your nose that the breath can come in. It can come in anywhere in the body. In fact, if you have the perception that it *is *coming in everywhere, see what happens. It’s not a question of whether it’s true that … 
  16. Alighting on the Dhamma
     … The three characteristics, or the three perceptions, have their place within the four noble truths as you apply them to help comprehend suffering or abandon the cause. But the underlying framework you’ve always got to always keep in mind, the framework that actually gives meaning to these perceptions, is the four noble truths. On their own, the perceptions just say: Things are inconstant … 
  17. The Dead Snake Around Your Neck
     … Talk to yourself also about what perceptions to hold in mind as you do this. The perceptions and feelings are mental fabrications. Perceptions are the labels you apply to things or the images you hold in mind. What kind of image of the breath is helpful for concentration? Think of the breath as energy flowing through the body. It can flow through the nerves … 
  18. Boxed Stories
     … You can make them real if you want to, but why would you want to? Then there are the perceptions underlying them. Particularly the one that says, “If you don’t give in to this temptation, it’s just going to build and build and build and then it’s going to explode.” Well, the perception of its building up: That, too, is a … 
  19. The Karma of Pain
     … One of the first lines of defense against physical pain as you’re sitting here is your breath, and the breath is affected by your perceptions. How is the way you’re breathing relating to the pain? Does the pain set up barriers that the breath energy can’t go through? Well, try to change your perception. Think of the pain as being permeable … 
  20. Why We Train the Mind
     … feelings and perceptions. “Feeling” here doesn’t mean emotion. It means the feeling tone that you focus on with regard to that issue—pleasant, painful, or neither. Perceptions are the mental labels or images that surround an issue—for example, the way you perceive the breath and how it relates to a particular unskillful emotion. If anger comes up, ask yourself: “How am I … 
  21. The Dualistic Path
     … The mind has its perceptions about things. So what happens when you change the perceptions? One of the most interesting ways of dealing with this issue is to focus on space. As the body gets still, the breath gets still, your sense of the boundary on the outside of the body begins to disappear. You’re sitting here in a mist of sensations, like … 
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