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  2. Broaden Your Range of Choices
     … The energies feel threatening, and you feel you have to get them out of your system, especially if the energy is associated with anger. You don’t like having the feeling of that energy in the body, so you let it out. Like water under pressure, it’s got to escape for the pressure to go down. That’s how most people deal with … 
  3. All Three Functions of Mindfulness
     … Similarly with feelings: The sutta talks about feelings of the flesh, which are the feelings that arise willy-nilly at the senses. But then it also mentions feelings not-of-the-flesh, which are things you have to consciously give rise to. Pain not-of-the-flesh is the realization that there’s work to be done and you haven’t reached the goal … 
  4. Putting Aside the World
     … If it doesn’t feel comfortable, think of its getting longer or shorter, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter—anything that would give a sense of greater satisfaction to the body, in terms of what the body needs in terms of breath energy right now. If you’re feeling tired, try to breathe in a way that’s more energizing. If you’re feeling tense … 
  5. Your Secret Foundation
     … There’s a passage where the Buddha says that even your experience of feeling takes a potential for feeling and fabricates it into an actual feeling. And the same goes for the other aggregates. The potential for perception, your potential for fabrication, your potential for consciousness: These are all things coming from past actions and shaped by present intentions into what you actually experience … 
  6. The Swinging Balance
     … If you’ve exhausted all the teacher’s ideas, try to think up some approaches of your own so you can feel at ease here in the present moment.” Because if the mind doesn’t feel at ease here, it’s going to wander around all over the place and never find any rest. You wander out into the world and all you see … 
  7. Strength to Be Good
    Try to be as fully aware of your body sitting right here as you can, how it feels in all the different parts. The ideal awareness of the breath has one spot as its main center, but its range should go all the way down through the body, all the way down the arms to the tips of the fingers, all the way down … 
  8. Speech for the Sake of Stillness
     … Where do you feel the breath right now? Do you know when it’s coming in? Do you know when it’s going out? Does it feel comfortable? If it’s not comfortable, this is where you start talking to yourself. What can you do to make it more comfortable? Is the breathing too long? Is it too short? Too heavy? Too light? Too … 
  9. Basic Meditation Instructions
     … how it feels coming it, how it feels going out. Use your ingenuity to see what ways of breathing would feel more comfortable, more satisfying. After all, the breath is the energy that keeps you alive. This is the breath of life. It only stands to reason that if the breath of life feels good, it’s going to good for the body, good … 
  10. Basics
     … Beings friends means, first, trying to sense as precisely as possible what it really feels like, as opposed to your preconceived notions of what it should feel like or where you should feel it. In other words, listen to the breath. And then, second, allow the breath to get more comfortable. These are basic principles in establishing any kind of friendship: Listen to the … 
  11. Reflecting on Karma
     … The Buddha said, “When you’re asked about action, you don’t say all actions result in pain.” There was a monk nearby who interjected, “Maybe he was thinking about the fact that action results in feeling, and all feelings are stressful, right?” And the Buddha said, “When you’re talking about actions, you talk about the three kinds of feelings: pleasant, painful, neither … 
  12. Against the Stream
     … You can start out with long breathing and see how that feels—and if it feels good, you keep it up. When it gets to the point where it doesn’t feel so good any more, if it feels too heavy or too long, you can shorten it. You can also experiment with fast breathing, slow breathing, deep, shallow, heavy, light, or in long … 
  13. The Gift of Meditation
     … There are some times when you don’t feel up to it, you feel a little bit lazy, but you do it anyhow. It’s like that scene at the end of *Franny and Zooey, where they *remember how their older brother kept staying, “Well, tie your shoes, look good. Do it for the fat lady.” They never found out who the fat lady … 
  14. Training Your Inner Critic
     … Mental is perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the mental labels you apply to things. Feelings are feeling-tones: pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. It’s important to see the connection between these two levels. Every intentional bodily action is going to involve the breath. If you couldn’t breathe, you couldn’t move the body. Every verbal act is going to require that … 
  15. The Uses of Right Concentration
     … So you want to be able to notice when these perceptions and feelings come, when they go, which particular perception or feeling has replaced an earlier one. Then you begin to notice other things about perceptions and feelings as well: When a particular perception is in your mind, what level of stress or disturbance accompanies it in the mind? Or in the body? When … 
  16. Intro to Breath Meditation
     … You can start out with a couple of good long, deep in-and-out breaths and see how that feels. If it feels comfortable, stick with it. If not, you can change. Make the breathing shorter, or you can learn how to relax into a longer breath. Find out which parts of the body seem to be fighting the longer breath and allow them … 
  17. Noble Priorities
     … I can’t feel your suffering; you can’t feel mine. We can see the outside signs and we can try to help, but this area inside where you’re relating to your own body, you’re relating to your own mind: That’s yours, exclusively yours, and this is where suffering is. When the Buddha established his teachings, he started with the truth … 
  18. Everything Gathers Around the Breath
     … So try to get a sense of what healthy breathing feels like. Right there, you’re going to gain some practice both in dealing with the breath and in dealing with feelings and the mind. There’s a passage in one of the texts where the Buddha talks about how you can work on the factors for awakening by dealing with any one of … 
  19. Fear of Death
     … Would longer breathing feel good? and the body will respond. It’ll breathe longer for a little while, and then you can decide, no or yes, depending on the condition. There is a part of the mind that’s already very sensitive to what feels good and what doesn’t feel good, and you can start tapping into that. This gives you a good … 
  20. The Arrows of Emotion
    The Arrows of Emotion April 21, 2010 There’s a famous discourse when the Buddha talks about pain, how the wise person experiencing pain feels it as the pain that comes from being shot by one arrow. The person whose mind is not trained turns around and shoots himself with another arrow. But it’s not really just one arrow—there are lots of … 
  21. Take an Interest
     … Notice where you feel them, and if long breathing feels comfortable, keep it up. If it doesn’t feel comfortable, you can change. You can make a game of it, figuring out what kind of breathing feels best for the body right now. What does your body need? The breath is like free medicine. For the most part, we just throw it away, don … 
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