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- Thinking & Evaluating… just thinking about the breath, asking yourself how you perceive the breath. There’s the feeling of the breath, there’s the perception of the breath, and the thinking about the breath. How do these mental functions interact? When you perceive the breath as uncomfortable, think about it for a while: What kind of breathing would make the body more comfortable? And if thinking …
- Reexploring the Breath
- Adjusting the Breath
- Evaluating the Breath
- Exploring the Breath
- Mind Reading… Or if the mind has extra energy, use it to think about the different aspects of the breath in the body. Where’s the breath in the spaces between your fingers right now, the spaces between the toes, other parts of the body that you tend to ignore? Take a really detailed inventory of the breath energy in the different parts of the body …
- Directing & Not Directing the Mind… Just focus on the breath, focus on buddho or whatever your topic is going to be, and the mind immediately takes to it. Other people are not like that. They have to figure things out first. They have to have reasons: 1) for wanting to settle in with the breath or whatever their object may be; and 2) for letting go of outside preoccupations …
- Change Your PerceptionsWhen you’re focused on the breath, you need a perception to hold you there. The perception can be an image you hold in mind—a visual image, a word, a little sign to remind you that this is where you want to stay. If it’s a visual perception, this is where Ajaan Lee’s instructions become handy, because remember, when we talk …
- Learning from the Breath
- Insight from the Breath
- Relating to the Breath
- Sensitive to the Breath
- Levels of the Breath
- Refuge in the Breath
- Interested in the Breath
- Fluent in the Breath
- Fabricating the Breath (outside)
- Tend to the Breath
- Gather 'Round the Breath
- Playing with the Breath
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