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- Mind in & of Itself… The breath is okay, the feelings in the body are okay, they might not be perfect everywhere but at least you can find something that feels good. But the mind is carrying lots of attitudes, lots of problems from the day, and you’ve got to work on it. In other words, what you’re doing is surveying the first three of the frames …
- Allowing the Breath to Spread… Because of the craving, you have your perceptions of your feelings that are based on craving, you have thought-constructs about your feelings that are based on a craving, even the ways you breathe are based on craving. Those are going to make the pain even worse. So remind yourself that the pain is not necessarily totally a given. Some of the pain you …
- At the End of the Day… In the Buddha’s analysis of feelings in the steps of breath meditation, he starts out by saying that you try to develop a way to breathe that gives rise to feelings of rapture. So ask yourself, “What kind of breathing right now would allow the body to feel really full of breath energy inside?” Then you breathe in a way to give rise …
- Keep the Mind from Wandering… Then the mind can calm down more easily, feel more refreshed, more energized. Once you know those spots, then you can go there anytime, so that you can tap into that sense of ease, the sense of fullness that comes when the breath energy potentials are all activated throughout the body, in a way that feels refreshing, in a way that feels really absorbing …
- Breath Meditation: The Fourth Tetrad… Take the tetrads dealing with the body, with feelings, and with mind states: It’s not the case that you first work with the body and then, when that’s all taken care of, you work with feelings, and then, when they’re taken care of, you work with mind states. You’ve got to deal with all three simultaneously from the very beginning …
- 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 …
- Cooking the Present Moment… Then mental fabrications are perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the mental labels you apply to things, telling you what they are, what they mean, how important they are. Like with a red light: You know that red is red. You know what it means. It means stop. And you know in this case it’s important. You’d better stop. Feelings are feeling tones …
- 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 …
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