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- Getting into the Body… You feel at home here. You feel grounded here. You can really inhabit the body. It may sound like you’re identifying with the body, and that’s exactly what’s happening. The whole purpose of concentration is not only to give you an alternative to your attachments in the world, it’s also to provide a very steady attachment here so that you …
- The Conditions for Goodwill… Hatred can be very easy to feel. Anger can be very easy to feel. Greed, aversion, jealousy: All of these things are just as natural as the good side of the mind. And the mind is something that can change very quickly. There are passages where the Buddha asks the monks, “Have you seen a moving picture show?” You look at the translation and …
- Refuge… Get sensitive to what feels really good right now, because that sense of feeling good is what’s going to help you stay. Take some interest in this breath energy that’s keeping you alive. When you’re breathing, what’s happening? Where do you sense the breathing? Breathing is actually a whole-body process, but you tend to be aware of it more …
- The Mind’s Eating Disorders… certain feelings you want and then your perception of what would be a good way to get those feelings and then all the activity that you go into in order to achieve the feelings you want. So if you find yourself addicted to something, try to divide the addiction into these things: What’s the form, what are the feelings, what are the perceptions …
- Bring the Right Attitude… Then, when there’s that sense of calm and ease and fullness, allow that to spread, so that your heart feels full, the lungs feel full, the whole body feels full, all the nerves in your body feel full. You’re not starving. You’re not lacking in anything. That’s the quality you’re trying to work on in the meditation. So we …
- Sweat the Small Stuff… The biggest abstraction is this sense of “I am”: “I am a good person; I am a bad person.” If you feel that you’re a bad person, you’ve got a lot of work to do to find the root of that badness. Most of us go swinging back and forth, feeling that we’re perfectly fine, then we run across something that …
- A Safe Home… You can focus on that and adjust the rhythm and texture of the breath, so that it feels really good right there. It feels very gratifying to breathe in, gratifying to breathe out. In this way, as the child of the mind has good things to play with, it’s not going to go wandering off so easily. It can get absorbed right here …
- Relationships… Because for so much of our lives we tend to feed on things outside for the sake of our well-being, for the sake of the sense of feeling secure, feeling fulfilled, feeling happy. We think we need to feed on things outside and as a result we find ourselves feeding on all kinds of things that are bad for us, latching on to …
- Cherish Your Friends… Is the breath coming in? Is it going out? When it comes in, how does it feel? Where do you notice it? When it goes out, how does it feel? Where do you notice it? Does it feel good? Does it not? If it doesn’t feel good, you can recommend different ways of changing it. Try a little longer, try a little shorter …
- Lessons from Stilling the Mind… Be with the breath in such a way that you feel good being with the breath, not only mentally, but also physically. That means adjusting the breath, making it long, making it short, figuring out what kind of breathing feels good for the body right now, what kind of breathing is good for the mind right now. That’s called vitakka-vicara, directed thought …
- You Can’t Clone Awakening… What kind of breathing feels really good? What kind of breathing feels full? What kind of breath energy in the body feels refreshed? And how can that refreshment be maintained to the point where it begins to get rapturous and full? You eventually find here that there is a sense of refreshment or rapture you’ve heard about, but it comes, not from trying …
- Suffering Is a Feeding Addiction… But we’ve got this other pleasure for you here that’s really quick and easy.” This is why we need right concentration to strengthen our ability to withstand those voices, because it involves working on a way of breathing that feels good. You’re exploring your body from within—your immediate sense of the body as you feel it. And how well do …
- Farming Your Body & Mind… Where in the body do you feel the sensations around breathing? And not just the air coming in and out of the nose: When the Buddha talks about the in-and-out breath, he says it’s a quality of the body, not so much of the air. So where in the body do you feel it? And how does it feel? You can …
- The Wealth of Simplicity… First there’s contact at the senses, and from the contact comes feeling, and all of a sudden, it’s not just an event of feeling anymore, what one feels, one perceives. A person has come in now. You’ve identified a sense of who you are as the feeler, and then you become the perceiver, and then what you perceive, you start thinking …
- Don’t Just Do It… He said, “After all, aren’t all feelings stressful? As the monk had said, ‘All karma leads to stress.’ Well, all karma leads to feelings, therefore all karma must lead to stress, because all feelings are stressful.” The Buddha replied that this was a worthless explanation, too. When you’re asked about karma, he said, you talk about the three kinds of feeling: pleasure …
- Working Through the Breath… bodily fabrication, which is the in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication, which is directed thought and evaluation; and then mental fabrication—feelings and perceptions. The feelings here are feeling tones, such as pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. The perceptions are the labels we apply to things. As you’re directing your thoughts to the breath and evaluating how comfortable it is, you …
- A Safe Place… a place where you feel at home, at ease. You feel confident, so that when disturbing thoughts come up in the mind you’re not shaken. Because a lot of defilements can be pretty disturbing. Sometimes your greed, your aversion, your delusion can take very strange forms; forms you wouldn’t like anyone to see. You get to the point where you don’t …
- Goodwill for Safety… Your feelings have their reasons, and your reasons are accompanied by feelings. Goodwill has to be based on heedfulness: the realization that if you have ill will for anybody, you’re going to do unskillful things, so you have to talk yourself into goodwill. After all, it doesn’t come naturally all the time. And don’t think that just talking to yourself is …
- Happy to Be Here… Which feels better? Deeper, more shallow: Which feels better? Faster, slower: Which feels better? If you’re not sure, go back and make the comparison again. An hour is a lot of time, and here you are trying to develop a friendship inside. You can’t rush friendship. It takes time to develop trust, to develop a sense of knowing one another, getting a …
- Mindreading… You can work with the breath in a way that feels good for the body, relaxing the tension in different parts of the body. It provides you with a sense of fullness and ease. The sense of calm, the sense of fullness is useful not only when the mind is feeling frazzled, but also when it’s got a lot of work to do …
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