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  2. Useful Thinking
     … As long as you stay aware of your hands, your feet, your head, every part of the body, and it all feels good, it all feels connected, you won’t want to shrink. If the breath doesn’t feel connected, ask yourself, where is that sense of conflict in the breathing energy? Can you dissolve that sense of conflict so it feels like all … 
  3. Do You Want to Stop Suffering?
     … So if you feel that things are a little bit gross inside, try to make your attention more subtle and think about subtle energies in the body, wherever you may feel them—anything that you may find refreshing, soothing. You’re the one who gets to choose what feels good right now. So you’re learning an important lesson about kamma, that kamma is … 
  4. Insight in Concentration
     … Once you feel less and less inclined to follow through with that original obsessive thinking, then you can turn around and stay with the breath. This way, you use your thought processes for the sake of stillness. Then you continue with the breath, exploring how the breath feels in the different parts of the body: how different rhythms of breathing feel, how much pressure … 
  5. How the Breath Helps You to Die Well
     … There are other places in the Canon where the Buddha says that the mind doesn’t really calm down until it’s had some rapture, a sense of energy, and feels full, refreshed, nourished. Then it can calm down. At the same time, because you’re dealing with the breath, to make it feel peaceful, comfortable, and at ease, you’re dealing with four … 
  6. Recollecting the Buddha
     … getting you familiar with these things, so that you’re not overcome by feelings, and so that your perceptions don’t pull you away to places that, if you had any sense at that point, you’d really not want to go. The problem is that when you get forced out of the body, you don’t feel you have much choice. You just … 
  7. Indulge in the Pleasure of Jhana
     … When the breath is heavy, there are some kinds of heavy breathing that can feel really nourishing and very satisfying. Other times, they feel gross. So what does your body need right now? When you find something that feels really good, stick with it until it doesn’t feel good anymore. That may be a long time. You may be afraid, “Are you going … 
  8. Taking Your Own Medicine
     … What would longer breathing feel like? Allow it to be a little bit longer for a while and see how that feels. Or how about shorter breathing, deeper breathing, more shallow breathing, heavier breathing? Sometimes if the breathing is too light, the mind begins to drift. So experiment to get a sense of what feels best for the body right now, because it’s … 
  9. Insight into Pain
     … We don’t share our pain—I don’t feel your pain, you don’t feel mine. When a politician says, “I feel your pain,” you wonder what he’s feeling. But each of us knows what pain is like, and each of us wants a solution to it. The Buddha says that the primary reaction to pain is twofold. One is bewilderment, not … 
  10. At Ease with the Breath
    For the mind to be steady, it has to feel at its ease. This is why the Buddha taught so many different topics of meditation. The commentaries list forty in all. Ten recollections, ten contemplations of corpses—some people find that a congenial topic, it’s easy for the mind to settle down there, it’s really riveting. Then there are the four sublime … 
  11. Owners of Our Actions
     … Kamma leads to feelings. Therefore all kamma leads to all stress and pain.” And the Buddha said, “That’s not how you answer that. When you talk about kamma, you have to talk about the three kinds of feelings.” After all, you have the choice of acting. You want to know which kind of feeling you’re going to be producing. After all, pleasure … 
  12. Happy to Be Here
     … See what feels best right now. Usually, in the beginning, it’s good to breathe long for a while as a way of energizing the body and emphasizing the sensations of the breathing. But then when long breathing starts to feel tiresome, you can shorten it, make it softer, more shallow. Not quite so long, not quite so deep. But experiment. Sometimes if you … 
  13. Nobility Through Inner Strength
     … Notice where you feel the sensation of the breathing. If long breathing feels good, keep it up. If not, you can change the rhythm: short in-breaths and long out-breaths, or long in and short out; short in, short out; deep or shallow, heavy or light, fast or slow. Try to get a sense of what breathing feels good for the body right … 
  14. Preparing for Death
     … Try to get so that you can see the body as one thing, feeling as something else, your awareness as something else. That way, when feelings of pain come with death, you can go to that sense of being separate. The awareness will realize, as the body falls away, that it hasn’t lost anything. As the feelings fall away, it hasn’t lost … 
  15. Balancing Tranquility & Insight
     … And because you are feeling dispassionate for them, you are no longer involved in their creation, so they stop. It’s important to understand that relationship between dispassion and cessation. Dispassion means being dispassionate toward the activities that you’re doing, the things that you’re creating. Once you feel dispassion, you don’t feel the need to create them anymore and they stop … 
  16. Toward Release
     … When the breath feels comfortable and gives rise to a sense of well-being, even a sense of rapture, what do you do with it? Well, you spread it around. You expand your awareness and try to be aware of the whole body as you breathe in and breathe out. You let the feeling of well-being and rapture spread to fill both the … 
  17. Stop Squirming
     … I have to feel it all by myself.” There’s only so much other people can do when they see you’re in pain. And then they just stand around and feel miserable and helpless because they can’t help you any further. But if you learn how to be with your pain and not feel threatened by it, seeing the distinction between your … 
  18. True Friends
     … So you want to experiment to see what kind of breathing feels good right now: long, short; fast, slow; heavy, light. Or you can try in long and out short, or in short and out long, deep or shallow. Find a rhythm of breathing that feels good right now, refreshing to the body: energizing if you’re feeling tired, calming if you’re feeling … 
  19. May I Look After Myself with Ease
     … How are you feeling this energy in the other parts of your body? Start making a survey, say, down around the navel. Watch that part of the body for a while and see how it feels as you breathe in, how it feels as you breathe out. If you notice any tension or tightness there, allow it to relax. If there’s any sense … 
  20. Beyond Gratitude
     … Some people say that a feeling of gratitude makes them feel warm and content, thinking about the kindnesses other people have done them. It makes them feel valued. But it’s like playing roulette. Sometimes you find yourself indebted to people who are really difficult; other times, you feel a natural inclination to want to help the people who have helped you. It’s … 
  21. A Refuge Inside
     … Then notice how the breathing sensation feels. Does it feel comfortable? Does it feel comfortable all the way through the in-breath, all the way through the out-? Does it feel too long, or does it feel too short? You can adjust it. Try to find some place in the body where the breathing process feels good, feels nourishing coming in and relaxing going … 
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