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  2. Making Yourself Worthy of Trust
     … For the time being, though, the main question is, “What way feels really good?” Once you’ve got a breath rhythm that feels good, how do you maintain it? “Maintaining it” means, on the one hand, as long as this rhythm feels good, you maintain it. When it doesn’t feel good anymore, you can change—because the needs of the body will change … 
  3. The Problem of Suffering
     … Nobody’s forcing you to breathe in any particular way, so you might as well breathe in a way that feels good. If you want the mind to settle down and to train it in the direction the Buddha points you to, there’s a sense of ease and refreshment. So you can start right away by making the breath easy, refreshing. It feels … 
  4. The Boundaries of Mindfulness
     … What kind of breath feels good? What kind of breath does the mind like? What kind of breath feels energizing? What kind of breath feels calming? What does the body need right now? Does it need energizing breath, or does it need calming breath? And how do you think about the breath in a way that allows it to spread around the body? Think … 
  5. The Lessons of Equanimity
     … Are you staying well with the breath? Does the breath feel good? How might it feel better? This way you bring the body and the mind together with the glue of a comfortable feeling inside. Once there is a comfortable feeling, you can think of it spreading to the different parts of the body, because after all, your awareness is not just in one … 
  6. Dimensions of Right Effort
     … Then, when we learn how to modulate them and adjust them so that we can breathe in way that feels really good, that feels refreshing to the body, that’s the right use of desire. You want the body to feel good inside: to strengthen it when it feels weak; to relax it when it feels tense; to wake it up when you feel … 
  7. Questioning Your Way to Certainty
     … What way of breathing feels good? What way of breathing doesn’t feel good? Pose that question in your mind and then experiment with different kinds of breathing. You’ll start noticing that certain rhythms of breathing or certain ways of conceiving the breath feel better than others. Then you ask yourself, “How can I maintain those ways of breathing? And how I you … 
  8. Into the Light of Consciousness
     … Mental is perceptions and feelings, perceptions are the labels you apply to things that give them meaning, identify what they are. Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. We encounter these forms of these fabrications very directly as we meditate. But the three fabrications are also interpreted in another way in some passages in the Canon, where bodily fabrication is … 
  9. Concentration Develops Right View
     … very precise, seeing the different factors in the mind that go into getting the mind focused on a certain perception, on a certain feeling, and then in trying to maintain that perception, to repeat it again and again and again, and to repeat that feeling again and again. A lot of the factors around that process are the factors of “name” in name-and … 
  10. Teachings to Rahula
     … Does the mind fit with the breath? Do they feel good together? Does the breath feel good with the body? How do you know? Well, stick with one kind of breathing for a while and see what impact it has on your sense of the body—by working on things as you feel them from within. This is an area of our awareness that … 
  11. Empathetic Joy
     … That generosity of spirit is a good aid to the meditation, so that when you stay with the breath and it feels comfortable, you don’t feel guilty about the fact that it’s comfortable. You don’t feel ill at ease around the comfort. Some people feel they don’t deserve happiness. Well, the issue of deserving and not deserving happiness never comes … 
  12. Right Resolve
     … So focus on the breath in a way that feels comfortable. Focusing on the breath is called directed thought. Learning how to make it comfortable is called evaluation. These are the two factors that help build concentration. The third factor is singleness: that you really focus on the breath and try to stay with the breath and nothing else. These are the three things … 
  13. Equanimity on the Path
     … As far as feeling tones, the Buddha’s not concerned about what’s a true feeling tone. He wants you to cultivate the ones that are skillful. In other words, here the issue is simply a matter of beneficial and timely. Is this feeling tone going to be beneficial? Is this the right time and place for what’s pleasant? Is this the right … 
  14. Endurance with a Purpose
     … perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the labels you put on things, to identify this as this, and that as that. The feelings, of course, are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. What you want to do is to use these fabrications to find the potentials in the present moment for creating a pleasurable place for the mind to stay. So … 
  15. Calm & Insight
     … the form of the body as you feel it from within. Feelings, which are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions—the labels you put on things, either as individual words or as images. Thought fabrications, where you put things together and think in full sentences. Then, consciousness which is aware of all these things. These are said to be fabricated … 
  16. Unattractive
     … And then feelings—feelings of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Those are all easiest to see as you’re focused on the breath. You’re bringing knowledge to an area where usually there’s a lot of ignorance. And it’s an area that’s very important: It’s how we shape our experience. There are a lot of reasons why, in Ajaan … 
  17. Strength for Your Goodness
     … You want to feel your breath, wear your breath. Think of the breath as surrounding you—because when we talk about the breath, it’s not so much the air coming in and out of the lungs. It’s the feeling of energy flow in the body, and you can feel that anywhere in the body. So notice where it’s most prominent: the … 
  18. Shame & Compunction
     … So when the Buddha is teaching the Kālāmas, he’s not simply saying, “Do your calculations of right and wrong in an unfeeling way.” Feel a sense of shame and compunction around your actions. When you see that the wise people criticize certain behavior, feel a sense of shame at the thought of behaving in that way, so that you don’t behave in … 
  19. How Right Mindfulness Leads to Right Concentration
     … When the mind is feeling antsy, how do you calm it down? When it’s feeling sluggish, how do you wake it up? What have you done in the past? Try to bring that memory to bear if the problem arises again in the present moment. And then you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any other topic that would … 
  20. True Friends & False
    Take a few deep, long in-and-out breaths, and notice where you feel the breathing. You may feel it in the chest, down in your abdomen, anywhere you feel the motion of the body that brings the air into the lungs. Allow your attention to settle there. It’s easy to get there, but not necessarily easy to stay. It’s the staying … 
  21. One Point, Two Points, Many Points
     … Notice how the breath feels in the toes, how it feels in the fingers, how it feels in the arms and the back, how your posture effects the breath, how your breath effects the posture. In other words, use the meditation as an opportunity to explore. This is one of the good things about the breath as a focal point for meditation. You can … 
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