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  2. To Comprehend Suffering
     … In the beginning, it takes a little bit of adjustment, but ultimately when you feel just perfectly balanced with the body, the way you focus on the body feels just right. You don’t have to do anything. Just stay right there. If the body needs to breathe, it’ll breathe. If it doesn’t, it won’t. That degree of stillness allows the … 
  3. The Humane Quality of the Path
     … You feel confined. You feel alienated. So learning how to develop this comfortable sensation in the body and learning how to spread it throughout the body, and learning to be aware throughout the body, puts the mind in a much more comfortable position, one that’s much less confined. Then you work to develop that. Other issues may come up in the mind, but … 
  4. Three More Recollections
     … He said, “Give where you feel inspired, where you feel it will be well-used.” We have a rule—it comes under Nissaggiya Pācittiya 30—that when a monk is asked “Where should this gift be given?” you don’t tell the donor where to give it. You just say, again, “Give where you feel inspired to give, where you feel it will be … 
  5. Get Out of Yourself
     … You’re supposed to sit next to someone else and hear them breathe? How are you going to feel their feelings or be aware of their mind-states? But when you remember that mindfulness is a faculty of the memory, something you keep in mind, then you can see what the Buddha’s getting at. You focus on issues in your own feelings, issues … 
  6. The Knife of Discernment
     … After watching it for a while, you’ll find that certain ways of breathing give rise to a feeling tone that feels good, feels healing. Try to maintain that feeling tone. This may require adjusting the breath now and then, because the needs of the body, as the mind begins to settle down, begin to change. The breath can grow more and more still … 
  7. Make the Most of What You’ve Got
     … What kind of breathing feels good for the body right now? Does your body need long breathing or short breathing, heavy or light, fast or slow, deep or shallow? Experiment for a while to get in touch with what the body needs, and then provide it with what it needs. As long as that kind of breathing feels good, keep it up. If it … 
  8. A Pleasure Without Stories
     … How you feel your breath, nobody else can know. How much you suffer over your stories, you can tell other people, but they don’t actually feel it directly. And the relief you feel when you’ve been able to pull yourself out is something you know, but it’s not a story you can really tell to anybody. So we’re looking for … 
  9. Samvega Transformed
     … It was the feeling he had felt when he was young and realized that he, too, was subject to aging, illness, and death. He’d probably known it, but it didn’t really hit home until one point when he realized that all the happiness he would search for, if it was subject to aging, illness, and death, would leave him with nothing. He … 
  10. The Breath Soufflé
     … Notice what that does to your sense of what’s a comfortable way of breathing, because sometimes a way of breathing that feels comfortable when you’re focused on one spot doesn’t feel so comfortable when you’re aware of the body as a whole. Think of the breathing as a whole-body process. There are lots of different ways of approaching this … 
  11. The Cool Fire of Jhana
     … Ultimately there’s a sense that it really does feel good to be with the breath. It really does feel good just to sit here breathing in, breathing out, and you’re able to create a sense of fullness, making sure that you don’t squeeze the breath out or force it too much in. That way, the body feels balanced. There’s no … 
  12. Discernment Performs
     … He said that the ascetic was asking about kamma, and so the right answer was to speak of the three kinds of kamma, corresponding to the three kinds of feeling produced by kamma: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and feeling that’s neither pleasant nor painful. When you’re concerned about the results of your actions, those are the kinds of feelings you focus on … 
  13. Learning How to Learn
     … Notice how it’s coming in, notice how it’s going out, where you feel the breath. Does it feel comfortable? Would it feel more comfortable if it were longer or shorter? You can try and experiment with it. For instance, if the end of the in-breath or the end of the out-breath seems squeezed, that’s a sign it’s too … 
  14. Goodwill for Bad People
     … When you encounter someone who’s suffering, you feel compassion. When you encounter someone who’s already happy, you feel empathetic joy. You don’t allow yourself to resent their happiness or their good fortune. And then there are the people who, regardless of how much you wish for them to be happy, are just determined not to understand, not to look for true … 
  15. Hunker Down
     … Why do you hang around with them? Choose the parts the body that feel good—places where the breath energy feels good coming in, feels good going out. Hang out with them as much as you can. Just as with the world outside, you can’t wait until all the fools are wiped out before you can enjoy your wise friends. You have to … 
  16. Ardency
    Notice where you feel the breath, and stay focused on those sensations, the sensations that tell you now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out. Stick with them. Keep watching them. The Pali term for this anupassana, which literally means “following and looking.” In other words, you keep track of the breath to see what’s going to happen. The … 
  17. Tranquility & Insight
     … And notice where you feel the breathing process in the body. Let that be your anchor. If deep breathing feels good, keep it up; if not, you can change. You can try shallower breathing, faster, slower, shorter, longer. Ajaan Lee recommends sometimes trying in short, out long, or in long, out short: whatever way of breathing seems to bring you a sense of balance … 
  18. Respect Opens Possibilities
     … Feeling—feelings of pleasure, pain, feelings of neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions—the labels you apply to things, the meanings you give to them, how you identify them. Thought fabrications—the way you put ideas together, the way you talk to yourself. And finally, consciousness—your awareness of whatever is coming in at the senses, of whatever is happening in the mind. We cling … 
  19. The Pursuit of True Happiness
     … Try breathing deep and long for a while and if you notice any parts of the body that are feeling tense with a long breath, try to relax them. Or you can change the rhythm of your breathing. Experiment to see what feels good right now. So often we allow ourselves to breathe in ways that are uncomfortable, and yet nobody’s forcing us … 
  20. The Search for Something of Substance
     … And when you’re going to observe the movements of the mind to figure out what’s skillful and what’s not, you want to feel at home in the present and not get easily knocked off. So work with the breath in a way that allows you to feel that you really like being here. That means you get to choose whichever way … 
  21. Adult Dhamma
     … This is supposed to open you up to being more creative in your expression of your spiritual feelings and not being bound by things that you or anyone else has expressed in the past. Religious truths, for them, were simply works of art, expressive art, expressing your feelings on the subject of infinity. And, as when you’re making any new work of art … 
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