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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. Responsible Happiness
     … Does it feel good? Does it feel nourishing? If the in-breath is too short, you feel like you’re not getting your full ration of breathing energy. If it’s too long, it becomes tight towards the end. The same when you’re breathing out. If your out-breath is too short, you feel there’s more that needs to get out of … 
  13. Choosing Your Allies
     … When you breathe in, exactly how does it feel? When you breathe out, exactly how does it feel? We have some cartoon ideas in our head about what happens as the air comes in and out of the lungs through the nose, through the mouth. But when you actually sit down and sense the breath from inside—in other words, feel your body from … 
  14. What Is One
     … That means, for instance, when you’re working with the breath, trying to breathe in a way that feels really, really satisfying. It’s not just in, out, in, out. Ask yourself, “Where are the most sensitive parts in the body right now? Can you breathe for their sake? And what kind of breathing would feel good for them?” You may have a personal … 
  15. Appreciating Dispassion
     … We know how to breathe, we know how to talk to ourselves, we know how to develop perceptions and feelings to adjust the world we live in, to adjust our experience of the world we live in. These are all fabrications, and basically we feel pretty comfortable with them because they’re so familiar. We feel at home with things that respond to our … 
  16. Mistakes
     … Looking after the breath means noticing where you feel it, how it feels when it comes in, how it feels when it goes out, and checking to see if you can figure out what kind of breathing feels good, what kind of breathing is best for the body right now. You can experiment: longer breathing, shorter breathing, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter. Or you … 
  17. Count Your Blessings
     … If you start focusing on the parts of the body that hurt, that are sore, that feel tired, it gets harder and harder and harder to walk. But if you focus on the areas that are comfortable, that are not feeling tired, the parts that are feeling energetic, then you can walk for longer periods of time. So this is one of the important … 
  18. The Four Bases of Success
     … And when you bring that attitude to the meditation, it’s a lot easier to put in the extra effort, to put in the extra hours, to sit through pain, to sit longer than you might otherwise, to sit when you don’t feel like sitting. This is important. If you sit only when you feel like sitting, then that’s all you know … 
  19. In Training
     … How does long breathing feel? Does it feel right for you right now? How about short breathing? Or you can try in long, out short; in short, out long. Fast, slow, heavy, light, deep, shallow. Trying to discern where you feel the breathing in the body. What kind of breathing is comfortable? Then from there you train. You train to be sensitive to the … 
  20. Your Intentions Come First
     … You can breathe in any kind of way, so how about breathing in a way that feels really, really good?—a way that feels nourishing for the body, soothing for the mind, energizing when you’re feeling tired, grounding when you’re feeling scattered. There’s lots to explore right here. So make that your intention. You want to explore what the breath can … 
  21. Toxic Environments
     … If you feel like you’re alone in your goodness, remind yourself that you have the Buddha and the noble ones on your side. Hold that perception in mind. A lot of the reason why we feel so influenced by toxic places is because we’re hoping to take in something from them. We’re hoping for approval, something to give us some emotional … 
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