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  2. Training Heart & Mind
     … You’re working on qualities of heart and mind, and you start with a very simple exercise, staying with the breath. Watch the breath as it comes in; watch it as it goes out. You can focus on any part of the body where you feel the movement of the breath or the movement of the body, because the breath in the body is … 
  3. Stay
     … You tell it to stay with the breath and it’s going to squiggle and squirm around the breath. And because it’s so tense around the breath, it can’t maintain this position for long. This is why Ajaan Lee teaches working with the breath, playing with the breath. See what different kinds of breathing there are, and which ways of breathing have … 
  4. What You Bring to the Moment
     … These play a huge role in how you relate to the breath. Learn how to question your preconceived notions about what’s happening when you breathe. The breath, after all, is part of the wind element, and which of the elements are doing the breathing? The breath is what breathes. It’s the element that sets everything else in motion. All too often we … 
  5. The Fourth Noble Truth
     … something good or bad in the breath, or something good or bad in the mind—because it’s the mind together with the breath that makes the breath a path. The breath on its own is not a path. But the mind interacting with the breath: That’s the path. And it’s going to take us someplace. When the Buddha sets out the … 
  6. Your Inner Ally
     … Sometimes he talks about the breath energy coming in right at the middle of the chest and going down through your intestines, and other times it’s the breath energy that comes in at the navel and goes up the front of the body. So the breath can flow in lots of different directions, and your perception, your mental image of the breath flowing … 
  7. On the Path of the Breath
    On the Path of the Breath February 11, 2008 Once the Buddha was extolling the advantages of breath meditation, the benefits that could be derived from keeping the breath in mind, and one of the monks said, “I already do breath meditation.” So the Buddha asked him, “What kind of breath meditation do you do?” And the monk replied, “I sit breathing, putting away … 
  8. Quiet in Every Way
     … Direct your thoughts to being as sensitive as possible to the breath. This process develops to the point where you’re so immersed in the breath that you don’t even have to direct your thought to the breath anymore. It’s as if your awareness and the breath are one. Then you just maintain that focus, that sense of oneness. That allows the … 
  9. The Breath Soufflé
     … The sense of the breathing throughout the body feels coordinated. If there’s a lack of energy in one part of the body, the breath will move very quickly from another part into the part where there’s a lack, without your having to expend a lot of energy on breathing in and pulling the breath or exaggerating the breath. As long as the … 
  10. Where to Look in the Present
     … You just want to stay right here with the breath, with the sensation of the breath coming in, the breath going out. The sensation of the breath energy in different parts of the body is there all the time, regardless of whether the breath comes in or goes out. There are lots of different kinds of breath energy in the body to explore. Just … 
  11. Healing Breath
     … In this case, you focus on the breath in and of itself as a sensation. Notice where in the body you sense it, but try to keep in mind that you’re going to stay with the breath. The second quality is alertness. That’s the actual watching—watching the mind to make sure it stays with the breath, and watching the breath to … 
  12. Respect for the Breath
     … You’re not going to be really sensitive to how the breath is affecting the body, how your awareness is affecting the breath. To see these things clearly, you have to be really consistent, very steady, unwavering in your focus, so that you can be more sensitive to the breath. If you force the breath too much, it’s going have bad consequences both … 
  13. Think Your Way to Stillness
    Try to gather all your attention around the breath. Where do you feel it right now? If you’re going to talk to yourself, talk to yourself about the breath. It’s good training in how to think. We tend to think that meditation is a matter of not thinking at all. Many times we’re tired of hearing ourselves chattering away inside. But … 
  14. Intro to Breath Meditation
    For the rest of the hour, you have no responsibilities aside from staying with the breath. The breath is something that’s going to happen on its own, so even the breath is not that heavy a burden. The burden is just in keeping the mind with the breath. It’s easy to focus on the breath, but it’s not easy to stay … 
  15. Feeding on the Breath
     … If you haven’t yet found a way to make the breath interesting, work at it. After all, the breath energy in your body is going to have a big impact on your health, a big impact on your sense of well-being as you sit here. So it’s up to you to find what you can think about that would make the … 
  16. Subduing Greed & Distress
     … As you breathe out, breathe all the way out, until the breath starts coming in on its own. Take an interest in what the breath is doing in the body and how you can relate to the breath. The more interesting you find the breath, the less likely you’ll be to wander off. So you can play with the breath. Think of it … 
  17. 1. The Entertaining Breath
    Okay, here’s your opportunity to focus entirely on the breath. You have no other duties right now, no other obligations. Just put the body in a posture where you don’t have to worry about it. Sit up straight, look straight ahead, close your eyes, hands on your lap, right hand on top of the left. And there you are, the breath. Look … 
  18. Perfect Breathing Isn’t the Goal
    We focus on the breath, we work with the breath, to give the mind a good place to settle down. If you want to be here for a long time, there has to be a sense of well-being. You try to create that well-being by focusing on the breath, by adjusting the way you breathe, by adjusting your perceptions of the breath … 
  19. Dhamma Medicine for Free
     … Just stay right here with the breath. After all, those thoughts don’t destroy your experience of the breath. And the breath is your anchor to the present moment. It keeps you in the body, keeps you right here, right now. If you spend your time chasing down your thoughts, or trying to push them away, you’re not giving your full attention to … 
  20. Perceptions & Potentials
     … As you get to know the breath, you begin to notice how much your perception of the breath has an impact on how you actually feel the breathing—and also, the impact it has on opening up parts of the body that had been starved of the breath. On the other hand, if the perceptions are unskillful, they can create blockages. So, you want … 
  21. The Power of Perception
    When you’re concentrated on the breath, you’re trying to hold one perception in mind: just the label, “breath.” Think for a minute about what the breath can be. It can be the feeling of the air coming in and out through the nose; it can be the feeling of the energy coursing through your body. It’s all part of what they … 
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