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  2. Not-self, Not No Self
     … the thoughts that you’re going to act on, the thoughts that you’re going to focus on, how you focus on them, with what purpose. You’re being responsible because you realize that your actions will have an important impact now and on into the future. You want to make sure that the impact is good so that you’ll experience happiness now … 
  3. In the Light of Karma
     … When you have that attitude, then, as you focus on the breath, you focus on the breath with a light mind, with a sense of having come to a place that does offer safety. Concentration may be something fabricated but it takes you to a good place. You can start engaging in your verbal fabrications—all the thoughts and conversations of the mind—in … 
  4. Calming the Breath
     … You focus on solid sensations, and the earth element or the sense of solidity gets stronger. You can focus on the warmth in the body, and you can actually make the body feel warmer if you intend to make it warmer. Start with wherever you can sense a warmth here and there in the body. Focus on those spots and think of all them … 
  5. Starting from Within
     … We tend to focus outside, thinking that troubles come from outside or the potential help for our troubles is going to come from outside. And to some extent that’s true. But the deeper causes, both for the trouble and for the help, ultimately come from within. So this is where we focus. Right here at the breath is where the body and the … 
  6. Karma & the Sublime Attitudes
     … He had to develop equanimity toward those he couldn’t train so that he could focus his energies on those he could. This is why we say equanimity is the reality check. Our desire for the happiness for all living beings can be infinite, but the actual happiness that’s going to be coming about as a result of our actions will be finite … 
  7. For the Cessation of Dukkha
     … He also found that strategically it would be important to focus not so much on the physical pain, but on the mental component: both the mental pain and the mental cause of suffering from the pain. This is where the strategy of the Dhamma as a whole begins. It’s why the practice begins with the four noble truths, not with the three characteristics … 
  8. The Path of Giving
     … You use your perceptions to help you focus on the breath throughout the day. Or when things get more refined, focus on space throughout the day: space all around you, in between the atoms of your body. You can make that your perception. And on up through the levels of concentration. Thought constructs: You have feelings and perceptions, you have directed thought and evaluation … 
  9. Get Out of the Way
     … But she later said that she was exhausted at the end of the treatment because she had been using her powers of concentration just to focus, focus, focus, and not allow herself to have any reaction to the pain. Afterwards, Ajaan Fuang went to visit her and asked her how it went. She explained, and he told her, “You can’t use just your … 
  10. Injustice
     … It’s a balance for the other three qualities, so that your goodwill doesn’t burn out and you can focus your goodwill on areas where you really can be of help. In other words, if you see there are areas where you can’t bring about a change for the better, then you just have to let those areas go, realizing the limitations … 
  11. The Dhamma Wheel
     … Focus on the right points; focus on the right issues. It’s work to be done. And that’s the message of this wheel the Buddha taught. There are basically four different duties and he teaches four noble truths because as we start out on the path, there are four different things we have to do: some things we have to comprehend, some things … 
  12. Solidly Here
     … So focus in right here. The breath is a good place to focus because it’s a guarantee that you’re in the present moment. It’s also right where the mind and the body meet. If the mind is going to have an impact on the body, it does it through the breath energy. And it’s through the breath energy that we … 
  13. Creating a World of Concentration
     … One is just to give the mind something to focus on that it likes, and it’ll settle down on its own. But if it doesn’t settle down on its own, you’ve got to figure out what it’s attached to. In other words, you have to use some insight to get the mind to settle down. If you see that your … 
  14. Respect
     … How does it feel from the head down to the toes? Are there any patterns of tension? Any pains? Don’t focus on the pains right now. Try to breathe calmly. Then gradually relax the patterns of tension. You might start with your fingers, go up your arms. When you get to the shoulders, then start down at the toes. From the toes go … 
  15. The Path of Questions
     … how heavily to focus on the breath. Other questions you can put aside, because most of the other questions you would be focusing on now would simply foster doubt. The questions dealing with the mind and the breath in the present moment: Those are the ones that are relevant because you can answer them by looking right here, right now. The point of our … 
  16. The Uses of the Breath
    The Buddha taught lots of different meditation techniques, lots of different objects that you can focus on. But, as Ajaan Lee points out, the breath is the home base. In his terms, the other objects are places where you go foraging when you need special kinds of food for the mind. Otherwise, you come back home. This is because the breath has all kinds … 
  17. Self View & Conceit
     … So focus on the causes, and the results will take care of themselves. The path is something fabricated. It leads to something unfabricated. It doesn’t cause the unfabricated, but it leads you there. Without the path, you can’t get there at all. So focus on what you’re doing right now. Be really sensitive to what you’re doing right now because … 
  18. Putting Out the Fires
     … This is why, with the contemplation, we focus on the unattractive side of the body. The Buddha’s not saying the body is a bad thing. After all, if we didn’t have bodies, we wouldn’t have anything with which to function in human life. But usually we focus on the wrong things, and that provokes the lust in the mind. So first … 
  19. Controlling
     … So if you want to control things in a skillful way, this is where you focus. Develop some skill here. This will affect your sense of who you are, because your sense of who you are and what belongs to you is very closely connected to control. If there’s something you can’t control at all, you realize right away, “This is not … 
  20. Precept Meditation
    Precept Meditation October 22, 2006 Years back, when Ajaan Suwat was teaching a meditation retreat at IMS, someone asked him a question in a Q&A session toward the end of the retreat: “How do we bring meditation into daily life?” His answer was to focus on the five and the eight precepts—but a lot of people misunderstood his answer. They interpreted it … 
  21. Deconstruction
     … When people brought up controversies of the day, especially in areas of the Dhamma, he’d tell them, “Close your eyes, meditate, focus on your breath.” But there were a couple of issues that he would bring up himself. One was the idea that the path is all about letting go, letting go. He’d say, “That’s not the case. You have to … 
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