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  2. Defabricating Anger
     … Ask yourself, “What kind of breathing would feel good right now?” You can experiment: long breathing, short breathing; fast, slow; heavy, light; or in long, out short; in short, out long; deep or shallow. Experiment for a bit and see what feels best. Then, when you find something that feels good, how do you maintain it? That’s another thing you can talk to … 
  3. Fabrication at the Breath
     … Where do things feel tight and out of balance? Think of the breath energy just coming in right there: lots of energy, full energy. Notice how that tense spot changes during the in-breath, how it changes during the out-breath. If it feels comfortable, stick with it. If it doesn’t feel comfortable, try changing. How do you hold the back in such … 
  4. Great Expectations
     … We tend to think that people are their feelings. And the nature of feelings is you want to express them. Another nature of feelings is that your feelings may come into conflict with those of other people, so you try to manage things in such a way that you can express your feelings without at the same time harming other people or hurting their … 
  5. Learning Through Healing
     … Notice where you feel it: Does it feel good? If it doesn’t feel good, you can try to change. Directing your attention to the breath: That’s directed thought. Judging whether it does or doesn’t feel good, and figuring out and what you can do to make it feel better: That’s the evaluation. And when the breath feels better, you think … 
  6. Feeding Instructions
     … There’s the feeling of hunger when you don’t get enough to eat, the feeling of satisfaction when you get enough, and the feeling of being stuffed when you get too much. Then there’s the perception. You go through life finding what you can feed on. Here, for the time being, we’re talking about physical food: Think about children crawling across … 
  7. Sources of Lasting Happiness
     … How does this breathing process feel in different parts of the body? How much have you ever explored this? How much have you taken advantage of it? When you’re feeling tired, you can change the way you breathe so that you can feel more energized. When you’re feeling tense, you can breathe in another way that’s more relaxing. If there’s … 
  8. A Divine Seat
     … So we’ve got bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication—the directed thought and evaluation—and then mental fabrication, perceptions and feelings. Here the feelings are feelings of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. You’re trying to emphasize the potential for pleasure here. Here again, the Buddha says, feelings can come and go willy-nilly, but you can also induce them by the way … 
  9. Training for Happiness
     … Notice what kind of breathing feels good. That’s all you have to pay attention to right now, just the breath. Any other thoughts that come into your mind, you can let them go. Try to be sensitive to how the breathing feels. When it comes in, does it feel good? It is too long? Is it too short? If it feels too long … 
  10. The Skills of Stillness
     … Then try to notice if long breathing feels good. You can experiment for a bit with shorter breathing, more shallow, faster, slower, heavier, lighter; or in long, out short; or in short, out long, until you find a rhythm and texture of breathing that feels good for you right now—energizing if you feel tired; soothing if your nerves feel frazzled; relaxing if you … 
  11. Calm
     … As for calming the mind, the Buddha says that the two things that shape the mind are feelings and perceptions. So you try to breathe in a way that gives rise to feelings of ease, feelings of pleasure, to give some energy, to help make sure that you’re glad to be here. As I said, the Buddha said one of the important requirements … 
  12. The Prison Break
     … We read in the description of mindfulness about the various feelings you can focus on. There are feelings of pleasure, feelings of pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. There are feelings that are said to be worldly feelings, feelings that are not-worldly feelings or feelings not of the flesh. And it reads just like a list. These are all the different kinds of feelings … 
  13. The Five Aggregates
     … And the same with feelings as they arise: When you’re working on concentration, your intention is to nurture the feelings of pleasure you can create from the path, but to let other feelings go, to let them pass without getting involved with them. When you’re working with insight, you want to look at feelings a little bit more deeply. But you’ve … 
  14. Rehab Work
    Rehab Work January 16, 2011 Take a couple of good long, deep in-and-out breaths and see how that feels. If it feels good, keep it up. If it feels too strenuous, try another rhythm of breathing: shorter, more shallow, heavier, or lighter. Just pose this question in the mind: “What kind of breathing would feel good now?” You’ll notice that the … 
  15. Calm & Insight into Pain
     … This is particularly important to understand when you’re dealing with feelings of pain. Nobody would want to create a feeling of pain, and there is some extent to which feelings of pain in the body are the results of past actions that you can’t change right now. But the way you stitch them together in the present—with your perceptions, the things … 
  16. An Exercise in Freedom
     … Notice where you feel the breathing. Where are the sensations that tell you: “Now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out”? And do they feel good? How does your torso feel? How does the area around your heart feel? Does it feel tightened? Can you think of it opening up? Your face, your neck, your spine: Survey all around the … 
  17. Papañca
     … Then you start looking at what’s arising in the body, what’s arising in the mind, what kind of feelings are coming. As the Buddha said, try to develop what are called unworldly feelings or feelings not of the flesh. In other words, we’re not just here watching feelings coming and going. Those are feelings of the flesh, or worldly feelings. The … 
  18. Relate Everything to the Breath
     … When feelings come along, you don’t drop the breath to grab hold of the feelings. It’s like allowing the feelings to brush against the back of your hand. You’re still with the breath. You’re aware of the feelings but the breath is your primary focus. If you’re going to do any analysis, you want to see how they’re … 
  19. Stop Weaving
     … If you’re sitting here, and the breath feels really good coming in, really good going out, all kinds of other things can happen in the world and you don’t feel affected. You feel a sense of well-being that comes from within that’s not touched by those things. As Ajaan Lee says, they can come and curse your mother, and it … 
  20. Developing the Heart
     … One is feeling emotions, and the other is willing actions. The two are very closely connected. With certain emotions, you don’t feel any energy to act at all. With others, you feel very strongly an energy to act. The question is, will your actions be skillful or not? This is why the heart needs to be trained as much as the mind: trained … 
  21. The Middle Way
     … Does it feel good over the long term? You can try long breathing, and it may feel good for a while, but then it feels excessive. Okay, if it feels excessive, you can make it shorter. Or if it feels too short, if you feel like you’re not getting your full measure of breath energy, make it longer. Make it deeper, more shallow … 
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