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  2. Fear & Insecurity
     … You can take your form, feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness, and turn them into a path—like you’re doing right now as you meditate. You’re focused on the breath, that’s form. You’re creating a feeling of well-being. You use perceptions to stay with the breath, and directed thought and evaluation, which are fabrications, to adjust the breath and the … 
  3. The Pleasure of Concentration
     … Pay more attention to how the subtle breath energies flow in the body—what feels good, what doesn’t feel good right now. I’ve often found that the area around the heart, if it’s going to be open to you, can be very sensitive to breath energy, so try to get it to open up and then try to provide it with … 
  4. Skills for Living & Dying
     … Is the mind staying with the breath? How is the breath going? Is it tense? Is it tight? Does it feel constricted? If it does, think of it opening up. Experiment for a while to see what kind of breathing feels good. If there’s any tension or tightness in any part of the body, think of the breath going right through, dissolving it … 
  5. Peace of Mind
     … The other way is that it gives you a place to be at peace when the breath feels comfortable coming in, feels comfortable going out. When you’re meditating, you really want to focus on this issue: What kind of breathing feels good, what kind of breathing is soothing to a tired mind, a tired body, what kind of breathing is energizing when you … 
  6. Self Esteem
     … Next down, there’s the horse has to feel the whip on his coat. Then there’s the horse who has to feel the whip cutting into his hide, and finally the horse who has to feel the whip cutting into his bone. In other words, if we’re wise we learn to look at the dangers around us and not wait for them … 
  7. The First Noble Truth
     … the “I” that feels wronged, the “I” that feels self-righteous, the “I” that feels—whatever. The “I’s” that lead you to do all kinds of unskillful things: Learn how to step away from them. And when the path has done its work, you can step away from the “I” doing the path as well. It’s in this way that you can … 
  8. Dangers Outside & In
     … You look at what he calls mental fabrication, which includes perceptions and feelings, and you try to calm those perceptions down; you calm those feelings down. He doesn’t give you much to go on, but this is an area where the ajaans have lots to say. Ajaan Lee will talk about perceiving the breath energies in the body flowing through the pain. Ajaan … 
  9. Thinking & Evaluating
     … What’s wrong? What attitudes do you have that are preventing you from settling down? Or is there something wrong with the body? Is the body uncomfortable? Do you feel antsy? Do you feel like your energy level’s too low? Too high? You want to check things out. Think about what the problem might be, and then evaluate the situation. Sometimes there are … 
  10. Metta Means Goodwill
     … It’s hard to feel happy when you know that that happiness is causing suffering for others. But developing goodwill for everybody doesn’t come naturally. It takes work because there are a lot of people out there who are doing hurtful, despicable things. It’s hard to feel friendly toward them. So we have to sit down and think about why we might … 
  11. The Buddha’s Tools
     … form, feeling, perceptions, thought constructs, consciousness. That kind of analysis has a lot less friction to it, again, a lot less drama and blame. If we have a bad ego or a poor struggling ego, that frames the issues in one way. But if we say, well, there’s a feeling, there’s a perception, and there’s a way of fabricating thoughts, it … 
  12. Breath Meditation
     … Whenever you feel a need to let the mind settle down, it’s always at hand. The important thing is the relationship you develop with the breath. To begin with, it’s good to be on friendly terms with it. All too often, people develop an adversarial relationship with their meditation object. But if you’re on bad terms with your breath, you’re … 
  13. Factors for Awakening
     … Whatever parts of the body feel calmer than others, focus there after you’ve been energized. When a sense of rapture seems to have done its job to give you energy and now is beginning to feel tiresome, you can tune in to a level of energy that’s more calm. It’s like tuning the radio in. You’ve been listening to hard … 
  14. Looking for Happiness Inside
     … You try to nurture that, you try to feed that, breathing in a way that feels good. You can ask yourself, “What feels good, what’s good about it?” You can try different ways of breathing and see what feels best. This is one of the ways in which you develop your discernment, because discernment isn’t just watching things, it’s also learning … 
  15. Responsible
     … There were times when he was lying in bed suffering, and his courtiers and his relatives were standing round thinking, “Maybe he’ll die this time, maybe he’ll die this time.” Ratthapala asks him, “Can you command them to take part of that pain, share that pain, so that you don’t have to feel the pain all alone and you can feel … 
  16. A Practice, Personal & Social
     … People could look at you from the outside and see the rhythm of your breathing and they might notice expressions flitting across your face, but how you feel the breathing, how you feel your mind, the emotions going through, thoughts going through: That’s something only you can know. It’s a very private area. And this is the area where we practice. This … 
  17. The Steps of Breath Meditation
     … In the first two steps you’re simply with long breathing and short breathing, sensitizing yourself to what long and short breathing feel like. Beginning with the third step, though, there’s an element of volition. You train yourself, and the first thing you train yourself to do is to be aware of the whole body as you breathe in, aware of the whole … 
  18. The Solvent for Sticky Narratives
     … Especially with the feeling that you’ve been wronged: Of all the ways of defining yourself, that’s the most tenacious. You feel that if you let go of that particular memory, that particular identity, you’re denying the fact that wrong was done. A very tender and sensitive part of yourself, a very wounded part of yourself, seems to be denied. But it … 
  19. Don’t Believe Everything You Think
     … Make up your mind that no matter what else comes into your mind—whatever thoughts, intentions, feelings—you’re not going to go with them. You’re going to stay with the breath. Now, this doesn’t mean the other thoughts and intentions won’t come. They don’t get scared away simply by one intention. There will be other thoughts, other feelings, other … 
  20. How to Be Happy
     … People with entitlement are never happy, because they feel they’re not getting everything they deserve, not getting enough. If you realize, though, that you’ve already been on the receiving end of a lot of goodness, you don’t feel so entitled. The fact that you know a language depends on the fact that other people taught it to you. The fact that … 
  21. Harmony Inside & Outside
     … So you have to be choosy who you give to, where you feel most inspired to give, where you feel will be put to the best use. That’s the basic principle. But in terms of forgiveness and knowledge, these are things you can give without stint. It lightens your own mind; it lightens the situation all around you. Forgiveness doesn’t necessarily mean … 
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