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  2. Tend to the Breath
  3. Gather 'Round the Breath
  4. Playing with the Breath
  5. Intrigued by the Breath
  6. Training With the Breath
  7. 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 … 
  8. Change Your Perceptions
    When 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 … 
  9. Take Nothing for Granted
     … But with really the important things in meditation you can’t simply set you mind say, “Okay, I want awakening tonight” or “I want deep insights tonight.” What you can say is, “I want to focus on the breath. I want to be very sensitive to the breath. I want to make sure that all my conversation in the mind is about the breath … 
  10. Breath Meditation: The First Tetrad
     … That’s not the only good thing that comes from watching the breath. Along the way to awakening, as the Buddha points out, you can use the breath to develop many levels of concentration that provide a comfortable dwelling place for the mind in the present moment. The body also benefits if you focus on the breath in the way that he recommends. So … 
  11. Discernment All Along
     … Where are you going to find these things? By being really sensitive to how the breath comes in, how the breath goes out—giving it some space, and airing out your concepts of what’s actually happening as you breathe in, breathe out. Ajaan Lee says you can be sensitive to the breath coming in and out even through the pores of the skin … 
  12. What You’re Bringing
     … Like when we’re working with the breath: If there’s a sense of dis-ease in the breath, you do what you can to alleviate that. That’s taking the basic framework of the four noble truths and applying it directly to the breath. You see where there’s stress and you try to figure out what’s causing it. Then you attack … 
  13. Getting to Know the Breath
  14. Fullness of the Breath, The
  15. Interest in the Breath, An
  16. Lessons Learned in the Breath
  17. NR Centered on the Breath
  18. Preconceived Notions of the Breath
  19. Right Resolve of the Breath
  20. The Skill of the Breath
  21. At Home with the Breath
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