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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Unsentimental Goodwill… From there you keep spreading that thought of goodwill out, out, out, spreading it out, until you’ve got a sense of at least a certain group of people for whom you feel goodwill. Then ask yourself, “Is there anybody out there that you really do have trouble feeling goodwill for?” And some faces will probably pop into your mind. Then ask yourself, “What …
- Solidly Here… When you’re breathing in, does it feel tense? Does it feel constricted? When you breathe out, are you pushing things out? Try to have a smooth breath coming in and a smooth breath going out. See how that feels. If the breath seems to be still for a minute between the in-breath and the out-breath or between the out-breath and …
- The Power of Intention… Take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths and notice where you feel that sensation of breathing in the body. You may feel the air coming in through the nose, but you can also feel the rise and fall of the chest, the rise and fall of the shoulders, the energy flow in different parts of the body. Focus on whichever …
- Mud Houses… You can let go of the directed thought and evaluation, and the mind feels less burdened. You can let go of the feeling of pleasure, and you’re left with a feeling of equanimity, which is even lighter. You get the breath energy to fill the body to the extent that you don’t have to breathe in and breathe out. Your sense of …
- The Buddha’s Vipassana… You start with those questions, but then you get more sensitive to see exactly what they mean in terms of your mind, your body, your feelings. The sensitivity is what becomes your insight. After all, vipassana is a quality of the mind that’s clear seeing. And you want to see more sensitively your body as you feel it from within, your feelings of …
- Perceptions & Potentials… Sometimes it would feel one way as you were settling in, and then as the mind got really still, and you didn’t have to do so much thinking and adjusting, the breath would feel different. You’d feel more encompassed by the breath. When you’re starting out, it’s as if you’re in one part of the body watching the breath …
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