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  2. Perspectives & Priorities
     … You begin to see the power of your perceptions—that there are certain ways of perceiving pain as being totally separate from your awareness, in which case, it can be there, but your awareness is not affected. This is why, in meditation, the seclusion we develop is based not only on tranquility but also on insight. You begin to ask questions about the perceptions … 
  3. Timeless Dhamma
     … This makes you more sensitive to how your perceptions affect your experience of even simple physical processes like the breath. This turns your awareness more and more inward, to the way the mind moves, to the way the mind’s intentions and perceptions, i.e., the labels it puts on things, have an impact on how you experience things, in particular your experience of … 
  4. Food for Consciousness
     … There’s the perception of what kind of hunger you have, and of what food you need to satisfy the hunger. Then you look around trying to find things that fit in with that perception. Then there are all of the activities, the intentions to go after that food and make it edible—those are fabrications—and finally there’s the consciousness that feeds … 
  5. Respect for What’s Noble
     … The perception of what kind of hunger we have; the perception of what kind of foods out there will satisfy our hunger. Fabrication, trying to figure out how to find that food, and then when we’ve found it, how to fix it, how to maintain a source of food that goes on into the future. And consciousness, our awareness of all these things … 
  6. Established in Full
     … This is where you bring in your perceptions of what’s going on as you breathe. For the most part, we think of the body as being a solid lump with some liquid, and the breath is air coming in, going out of that solid lump. But what if you were to change your perception: that your most immediate perception of the body, your … 
  7. Open Are the Doors to the Deathless
     … When he talks about perception, you focus on your own perceptions. The same with thought constructs and consciousness: You look at these things as they’re happening, as he talks about them. And ask yourself, “How do I cling to these things? What’s the passion? What’s the desire I have around these things? Why is that?” Part of the mind will say … 
  8. One Thing at a Time
     … Finally, there are perceptions and feelings. You’re trying to create a feeling of ease, and you hold in mind whatever picture of the breath in the body is helpful for getting you to settle down with that sense of ease. You can think of the body as being like a big sponge: As you breathe in, the breath is coming in from all … 
  9. Death Is All Around
     … feeling, perception, thought constructs, and consciousness. You turn these things into a path. Focus on the breath, develop feelings of ease, spread them throughout the body. You use your perception of the breath to focus your concentration. You use your directed thought and evaluation, which are thought constructs, to keep your mind on the breath and to evaluate the breath. Then you’re aware … 
  10. Body & Food
     … But you’re trying to catch the mind to see how it puts certain things out of mind so that it can fashion that perception of “attractive.” The perception of attractiveness has to have a big blind spot, and it’s willed. If you can catch sight of that, see how the mind can lie to itself, that’s when it gets a lot … 
  11. Free Not to Suffer
     … Then there are perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are labels you hold in mind, images you hold in mind, or words that help you identify that this is this and that is that. Feelings are feeling-tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Those are mental fabrications. So, when something unskillful comes up in the mind and simply looking at it doesn’t make … 
  12. More than Mindfulness
     … What was the difference? He saw that there was a perception of the attractive and a desire for the perception of the attractive. It was that desire that was the problem, so he focused on that. That was when he had the experience that actually cut through things. There has to be an intensity to your quest. There has to be some ardency in … 
  13. Dignity in the Face of Hardship
     … We can fabricate the perceptions that we bring to the meditation. When we learn these skills in the meditation, we can apply them to everything else. Whatever happens in life, we can see: How are we breathing? How are we talking to ourselves about this? What perceptions, what feelings are we focusing on? It’s through those fabrications that we maintain ourselves both in … 
  14. Firmly Intent
     … So that perception doesn’t work. Try a different one. Try a different message. Think of the body as being like a big sponge, with holes all around. As you breathe in, the breath can come in through all the pores. Just hold that perception in mind. See what happens. Keep on sending that message. You get the idea. Part of it is just … 
  15. The Right to Repair Your Mind
     … When you’re sitting here, try not to bring into the concentration the perception that you’re facing forward. Your eyes may be facing forward, and we live in a world where we think that we’re facing in one direction and we tend to carry that perception into the mind, that the mind is facing in one direction, too. But as soon as … 
  16. What Should & Shouldn’t Be Done
     … We can create them out of the different perceptions we have. So what is the perception that’s holding you in those states? Look at that action and the perception and you begin to see that that action is inconstant. And so this awareness that you’re holding onto is basically inconstant, too. The inconstancy may be very subtle, but it’s there. So … 
  17. Basic Wisdom
     … He gets you sensitive to feelings of pleasure, the energy of rapture, and the perceptions that go around rapture. Sometimes rapture can be perceived as something really pleasant and positive, and sometimes the same sensation can freak people out. You’ll notice the effect that the perceptions and feelings have on your mind, and then you try to calm that effect down, just as … 
  18. Learning Through Healing
     … the perceptions you hold in mind. When you breathe in and out, what is the mental picture you have of the breath? Where does the breath start? Where does the breath come in? What does it do when it comes in? Where does it go in the body? When you breathe out, how does it go out? Does it need to be forced out … 
  19. Analysis of Dhammas
     … What did you do when it went up? What did you do when it went down? What was the perception that made it go up? When the perception dropped, did it go down? Maybe they’re connected. Check it out. There’s lots to gauge: the perception, the point where you’re focused, the quality of the breath, the range of your awareness. There … 
  20. The Raft of Concepts
     … Even when you’re in concentration, once you drop directed thought and evaluation, you still have perceptions. In fact all the states of concentration up to the dimension of nothingness are based on a perception — the label you hold in mind that keeps you in that state of stillness. Even though there’s no discursive thought, there’s still a concept there. So the … 
  21. Looking in Three Directions
     … how it clings to things, how craving can motivate different perceptions. So simply in the act of protecting your meditation—watching over what you’re doing and evaluating how things are going—you gain a lot of insights. Sometimes we’re programmed to say, “Well, it’s not really insight until you see things as inconstant, stressful, and not-self.” But there are lots … 
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