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  2. 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 … 
  3. The Breath In and Of Itself
  4. A Solid Grounding in the Breath
  5. Thinking with the Breath (med-fi)
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. Skills of Mindfulness, Skills of the Breath
  10. Respect the Breath & You Can Play Together
  11. 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 … 
  12. Not Swept Away
     … You focus on the breath as the breath comes in, the breath goes out. Whatever the breath is going to do, you be aware of it. Keep in mind that this is where you want to be. It’s not that you’re here to get the breath. You’re after the mind, and you’re going to learn a lot of interesting things … 
  13. Four Bases of Success
     … We’re here not for the sake of the breath—we’re here to use the breath for a higher purpose—but learn how to transfer your desire for that higher purpose to the causes that’ll get you there. In this case, the cause is being able to stay with the breath, wanting to stay with the breath. The more comfortable you can … 
  14. Deconstructing Anger
     … As you learn to get more and more in touch with the breath energies in the body, you can learn how to deal with them to calm the body and make it a good place to settle down. This is where you bring in verbal fabrication: Think about the breath and evaluate the breath. You notice the pleasure that comes when the breath is … 
  15. Balancing the Bases for Concentration
     … So we start out with the breath, learning how to look at the breath, learning how to ask questions about the breath, so that the process of breathing becomes more than a simple physical processes keeping you alive. It becomes something that’s really refreshing. What kind of breathing would feel refreshing right now? What kind of breathing would feel blissful? Pose the question … 
  16. The Opportunity to Be Quiet
     … You’re nourishing the body with the breath. Right effort: You’re trying to stick with the breath the as best you can. Right mindfulness: You’re with the body in and of itself, the breath as you’re directly experiencing it right now. You don’t have to think of anything beyond that—just the direct sensation of the breath. All these factors … 
  17. Shifting Your Paradigm
     … In this way, the way you play around with the breath, the way you explore the breath, leads you into concentration in one of two ways: One, after a while the mind just gets tired of playing around and really wants to rest. So it settles in and just stays with the breath. The other way is when you realize that you’ve taken … 
  18. Samvega
     … When the breath comes in, open things up for it to come in comfortably. When it goes out, allow it to go out comfortably. Whatever way you have of relating to the breath that makes it feel good just to be with the breathing coming in, going out right here in the present: Take that approach to the breath. This gives you a beachhead … 
  19. Five Precepts, Five Virtues
     … You’ve got to keep in mind your determination that each time you breathe in, you’re going to stay with the breath. Each time you breathe out, stay with the breath You also have to be alert to make sure that you actually are staying with the breath and to notice how the breath feels. One of the ways of making it easier … 
  20. More than Just Letting Go
     … How do I do that?” That’s skillful verbal fabrication around the breath. How do you make the breath comfortable when there’s a sense of comfort with the breath? How do you let it spread so that it fills the body? Once it’s filled the body, how do you maintain that sense of fullness? Those are useful ways of talking about the … 
  21. Doing the Practice
     … Tell yourself to focus on the breath, and you can immediately do it. The issue is staying with the breath, staying with each present moment as it comes. That requires practice. You need to know how to encourage yourself to stay, as well as the various techniques for staying. Encouragement comes from the chanting we did just now. As the chant on goodwill says … 
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