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  2. Fabrication Theory
     … Focus your attention on the breath. Know when the breath is coming in; know when it’s going out. You can focus on the sensation of breathing in any part of the body where it’s easy to follow. It might be the tip of the nose, at the rise and fall of the chest, the expansion and contraction in the abdomen, anyplace where … 
  3. The Challenge of Right View
     … The other is appropriate attention. That’s your internal factor. But even if you get good advice from somebody else, it can’t make you skillful. You have to use your own ability to attend to things appropriately, which is basically asking the right questions, asking questions in terms of these four noble truths: What right now is the suffering or stress that you … 
  4. The Lessons of Equanimity
     … There are potentials coming up from your past actions, and you get to choose what you pay attention to, what you take an interest in. It’s like watering seeds in a field. The ones you water are the ones that’ll sprout. If you’ve got some good seeds in your field, you can get them to sprout a little earlier. If you … 
  5. Inner Wealth Management
     … You have to remember that the sense of pleasure associated with the breath comes from the fact that you’re alert to the breath, that you’re paying careful attention to the breath. Ajaan Lee’s image is of someone who’s working and gaining a wage at the same time. If you work for a while, get your wages, and then quit the … 
  6. Sort Things Out
     … As for the different voices chattering in the mind, don’t pay them any attention. They’ll say things and do things to pull you away, but you don’t want to go anywhere else. You want to get the mind really, really still so that it can see things clearly. What usually happens is that you find yourself off someplace else and you … 
  7. Teachings to Rahula
     … You don’t know the power of your intentions or the way you pay attention until you’ve tested these things. These are the things that are going to shape your experience here, so you want to have a clear sense of what leads to what. Then you can further refine your good intention to sit here and meditate. Make it an actual skillful … 
  8. Focus on One Thing
     … Keep your attention at one spot, and watch the breath as it’s coming in, as it’s going out. The one spot can be anywhere: your nose, the throat, the chest, anyplace where you have a sense, a clear sensation that tells you, “Now the breath is coming in; now the breath is going out.” And watch that sensation. Is it comfortable? If … 
  9. Strong-hearted
    When you focus your attention on the breath, you’re focusing on something that only you can know—how you feel the breathing from inside, how you feel your awareness from inside—because this is where the problem is, and this is where the solution will be found. The problem is that we act in unskillful ways. We let greed, aversion, and delusion take … 
  10. The Airplane Mechanic
     … But I’m simply not going to pay it any attention.” Doing this allows you to get in touch with the breath, and realize that even though the thought may be there, you don’t have to get sucked into it. This is a really important skill, because for most of us, as soon as a thought arises, we have to get into it … 
  11. What to Tolerate, What Not
     … So it’s a good place to focus your attention, because it’s right where the body and the mind meet, and where the mind actually has an impact on the body, something you can explore while you’re sitting here. It teaches you some important lessons. One is that what you experience is not just a given. Each present moment has lots of … 
  12. The Stages of Meditation
     … And yet because we pay so little attention to the breathing, we usually leave it to its own devices. As a result, the breath gets shaped not by our awareness, but by other emotions that come through the mind. It gets shaped by our unexamined thoughts about how breathing happens. And so the breath gets constricted, parts of the body don’t seem to … 
  13. A Good Place to Not-Self
     … He’s simply asking you to focus on what’s really worthy of your full attention and to be careful that you don’t latch onto things that could make you behave in unskillful ways. We fight so much for our survival, we fight for maintaining relationships, and often we do very unskillful things that set bad conditions into motion. So you want to … 
  14. Subduing Greed & Distress
     … It waits until your attention is turned someplace else, or your alertness lapses, and then it it’s off. You black out for a bit, and you find yourself someplace else. You want to watch out for that so that you don’t black out. You’ll come to see: These are the stages in how the mind wanders off. You learn them by … 
  15. The Five Hindrances
     … As the Buddha pointed out, the way we feed our hindrances is to apply inappropriate attention to them. In other words, we don’t look at them in terms of the four noble truths. We don’t see what suffering they’re causing. We just ride with them. The way to starve them is to develop appropriate attention. Look at these mind states simply … 
  16. Skills for Living & Dying
     … And then you can focus all your attention on what’s going on in the mind. At that point, there shouldn’t be much going on in the mind—just awareness of the stillness of the body. And you begin to sense that the body is turning into a mist of sensations, and the sense of where the surface or the boundary of the … 
  17. True to the Practice
     … So give this practice your full attention. The more fully you attend to it, the more you can see what its potentials are. The more you’re true in doing the practice, the more it’s going to take you to that truth, the truth of the happiness the Buddha talked about. So you’ve got a whole hour here, and this is all … 
  18. Inner Voice Lessons
     … If you start paying attention to what you say in the course of the day and try to make it more skillful, you begin to see that it does have an effect on how you relate to other people, how other people relate to you. The whole context of your life is strongly affected by your speech. As you work on that fact, the … 
  19. Ways to Think
     … It’s a useful strategy for focusing your attention on what really needs to be done. But at the same time, the Buddha wants you to develop transcendent right view. Look at things simply in terms of cause and effect: skillful cause leading to the end of suffering, unskillful cause leading to suffering. This way of looking at things doesn’t require a sense … 
  20. Mindfulness as Refuge
     … If they do come in, you don’t pay them any attention. Or if you pay them attention, you’ve got to let them go. You put them aside again and again and again until you can stay with the breath more continually without having to worry about wandering off. And how do you do that? You try to make the breath as interesting … 
  21. Twigs & Branches
     … There’s the feeling of pleasure you’re trying to create through the way you pay attention to the breath. There’s the perception, the image you hold in mind of how the breath flows into and through the body. There are the fabrications of directed thought and evaluation, as you direct your thinking to the breath and then evaluate how it’s going … 
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