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  2. Give Yourself to the Breath
  3. The Language of the Breath
  4. Right Here at the Breath
  5. At Home with the Breath
  6. Ins & Outs of the Breath
  7. Friends with the Breath (outdoors)
  8. A Fever in the Breath
  9. Bad Friends Inside
     … Notice where you feel the breath in the body. It might be the air flowing in and out through the nose, the rise and fall of the chest, the rise and fall of the abdomen. Focus your attention wherever it seems easiest to keep track of the fact that now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out. As for anything … 
  10. Skills for Dying Well
     … And so you focus it on the breath as a means of maintaining that intention. There will come a point, though, where it’s difficult to stay with the breath as the breath gets more labored and more difficult. This is why, as you’re working with your meditation here, you eventually want to get to the point where the breath is still and … 
  11. Practical Wisdom
     … Here’s where it’s good to have the breath capture your imagination. What are the ways you conceive of the body, conceive of the breath? What is your relationship to the mind and the body? Where are you in the body when you’re breathing? Where is the breath? How does the breath come in? Or when the air comes in, does the … 
  12. The Joy of Growing
     … He talks about the breath energy in the body and ways you can manipulate the breath: in long, out long; in short, out short; in long, out short; in short, out long; heavy, light; fast, slow; deep or shallow; broad or narrow. There’s a lot to play with here. And as you play with the breath, that makes it more interesting—because simply … 
  13. The Breath In and Of Itself
  14. A Solid Grounding in the Breath
  15. Thinking with the Breath (med-fi)
  16. For the Survival of True Happiness
     … As you focus on the breath, you’ll see yourself using perceptions to stay with the breath. Directed thought and evaluation to stay with the breath. This sensitizes you to these processes in the mind. There are a lot of Tibetan teachers who say, “Why focus on the breath? At death the breath is going to leave you. And at the moment where you … 
  17. Tranquility & Insight
     … You think about the breath—in case you’re taking the breath as your object. You think about the breath and then you evaluate: “How good is the breath? How does it feel?” If you’re focusing on the breath sensations in your head, make a thorough survey of your head: every little muscle that you can think of in your face, in your … 
  18. A Master of Your Thoughts
     … The “doing it” is a simple matter of bringing the mind to the breath—or if you want, to buddho, to the parts of the body, or to any of the recollections. If you choose the breath, try to bring the mind to the breath and then evaluate it. Is this a good place to stay? Then you make adjustments. If the breath doesn … 
  19. Skills of Mindfulness, Skills of the Breath
  20. Respect the Breath & You Can Play Together
  21. Patience & Sensitivity
     … And how’s the breath in the body? We do have this tendency, as soon as we focus on the breath, to try to fit it into a mold. That’s something you’ve got to learn how to avoid doing because once it gets fit into a mold, it’s not going to feel very comfortable. I mean, how would you feel, fit … 
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