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  2. Right Exertion at Play
     … You also get more sensitive to mental fabrications—the feelings that arise with the breath—and what you can do with them. You realize that feelings are fabrications. You’re not just stuck with a pleasant feeling or an unpleasant feeling, willy-nilly. You can play a role in shaping the feelings that dominate your awareness in the present moment by the way you … 
  3. Question Your Actions
     … What are you doing? Right now you’re trying to focus on the breath, trying to maintain the mind with the breath, trying to breathe in a way that feels good. And you’re talking to yourself about this: “How’s this breath? How’s the next breath? Where does it feel good in the body? Where does the breath feel clear in the … 
  4. Insight from Jhana
     … Then there are feelings. On the one hand, there’s the painful feeling of hunger when you’re lacking something. This applies not only to the body but also to the mind, as when you’re hungry for companionship or hungry for praise. On the other hand, there’s the pleasant feeling of fullness and satisfaction that comes when that hunger has been assuaged … 
  5. An Auspicious Day
     … Take those lists of feelings in the Satipatthana Sutta. There are feelings of pleasure, feelings of pain, feelings of neither pleasure nor pain. There are pleasures of the flesh and pleasures not of the flesh; pains of the flesh, pains not of the flesh; feelings of neither pleasure nor pain of the flesh and not of the flesh. If you look at the list … 
  6. Part II : Common Problems
     … You see this with feelings of rapture. Rapture is something that affects both the body and the mind. Sometimes the sensations in the body get extremely full, so full that you feel like you’re drowning. Then, when the perception comes in that you’re drowning, the rapture becomes unpleasant, something you want to run away from. But if you give the sensation some … 
  7. Oneness is a Water Snake
     … Does that feel like a good breath? It felt like an okay bone or an okay organ of one kind, but does it feel like a good breath? If not, work with it. That gives you something to do. As you go through the body like this, you get to the point where you can perceive all the sensations in the body as having … 
  8. Choosing & Watching Your Choices
     … Now notice how you feel the breathing. Try to focus your attention on any spot where it’s most obvious and where it feels easiest to stay focused. If you wander off, just keep coming back. This is called establishing mindfulness. In other words, you keep reminding yourself that this is where you want to stay. And alertness: You want to watch what you … 
  9. Wise about Pain
     … So what kind of breathing feels good for the whole body? That’s something you can explore. You can spend the whole hour doing just that one exploration. But if you find something that you can stay with and it feels good, stay with that breathing. Try to maintain it as long as it feels good. If it reaches a point where it doesn … 
  10. Guardian Meditations
     … This is for times when you’re feeling discouraged, when you’re feeling that you’re not quite up to this path, or you start having doubts about the path itself. You reflect on the Buddha: What kind of person was he? He was someone who was totally honest and totally harmless. He wanted a happiness that was blameless, which meant a happiness that … 
  11. Remembering Ajaan Lee
     … You have to evaluate for yourself what feels best right now. If you’re not really sure, well, you take a stab. Just stick with one way of breathing for a while. After a while, you begin to realize, “This feels really good,” or else, “This doesn’t feel right at all.” If that’s the case, you can change. Ask yourself, “If it … 
  12. Seclusion
     … When you breathe in, how does it feel in your head? How does it feel in your torso? How does it feel in your arms and legs? Could it feel better? What kind of breathing would feel really satisfying right now? You don’t have to tell yourself you’re meditating, because sometimes that sounds too serious. Tell yourself, “I’m going to be … 
  13. When Things Seem Dark
     … They want us to want this and want that, to have negative feelings about this, and positive feelings about that. And if you have a neutral feeling, you’re not playing along with the game. So, being raised in a culture like this, we have to unlearn a lot of the habits that were inculcated in us. In the Buddha’s time and in … 
  14. Feeding on Open Wounds
     … You sit here just breathing, totally immersed in the body, your sense of the body as you feel it from within. You breathe in, breathe out. Think of the breath in ways that minimize any tension that would develop when you breathe in, breathe out. If you find yourself tense in the shoulders, it usually comes from the fact that you feel you have … 
  15. Shaping the Present
    Bring your attention to the breath and notice where you feel it as you breathe in and breathe out. Do you like the way it feels? If you do, keep on breathing that way. If you don’t, you can change. This is one of the most important principles in the practice, one that gets overlooked or ignored or even denied: that you have … 
  16. A Post for the Mind
     … So try to find a way to breathe that makes you feel really full, even as you breathe out. Get a sense of the breath energy. Where does it feel depleted? Where does it feel lacking? Can you tell? Are you sensitive to this? Try to sensitize yourself to this area of your awareness, because it’s where there’s a lot of hunger … 
  17. Start by Relaxing Your Hands
     … You want something that not only feels good but also engages the mind. It’s interesting to notice how the breathing energy can affect your mood, how it can affect your general sense of the body. Even when you’re feeling a little bit sick, if you breathe in the right way, the body can feel a lot stronger, a lot healthier. So the … 
  18. Dependent Co-arising Right Now
     … directed thought and evaluation, and there are perceptions that hold identify the breath, and then the feelings that come as you stay with the breath or don’t stay with the breath: feelings of pleasure or feelings of dis-ease. But you can convert them to more feelings of pleasure if you use the right perceptions. So here’s an immediate way of dealing … 
  19. No Running Away
     … If things feel too heavy, too dense, that’s the earth element. The earth element is balanced out by the wind or breath element. If things get too hot, you’ve got the water element to cool things off. If you feel dizzy and light-headed, the earth element can help get you grounded. You want to learn how to get in touch with … 
  20. Breath Energies
     … Even before you can directly feel it, you can allow yourself to imagine it. Tell yourself, “If there were a cocoon of energy around the body, does this feel like a good cocoon?” Notice whatever you can feel. Think of energy coming in the chakras around the chest, the neck, the middle of the forehead. How does that feel? Just hold that perception in … 
  21. Pain & Distraction
     … by putting the mind in a position where it doesn’t have to feel hunger, where it doesn’t feel a lack. It’s got its own sense of center. It’s got its own home. It feels secure and safe and well-nourished here. Once you develop that, then whatever you face, whether it’s in meditation, in your daily life, or as … 
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