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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. Slowing Down to Look
     … In that way, it’s not a question of going with your feelings or having to analyze things. It’s learning how to put both of those processes together, so that you’re quick enough to sense your feeling and also alert enough to see which parts of the feeling are actually skillful and which parts of the feeling are not. That makes it … 
  11. Strategies for Generosity
     … It feels good to breathe in, it feels good to breathe out, and sometimes it feels so good you don’t have to breathe anymore. The breath energy fills the body to the point where the in-and-out breath gets more and more shallow, more and more gentle, until finally it stops. You get all the oxygen you need through the skin. Then … 
  12. A Pure Happiness
     … But look at the feeling itself: that little bit of feeling of pleasure, that little bit of feeling of pain. These things come and go, come and go, come and go very fast. The same with perceptions: the labels you give to things. You say, “Oh! There they go. There’s another label. This is this. That’s that.” Thought-constructs; moments of consciousness … 
  13. Limitations
     … The important thing is to recognize that if there’s a sense of feeling oppressed by the limitlessness of the path, the limitlessness of the goal, that’s nothing you want to identify with. You don’t have to say that “This is me, this is mine.” It’s just a voice that’s in there, or a feeling that’s in there. So … 
  14. Good Traditions
     … Notice how the breath feels as it’s coming in; notice how it feels as it’s going out. If it feels harsh or uncomfortable, you can change the way you breathe. If it feels too long or too short, you can change. Try to get sensitive to how the breathing feels inside, because it strengthens your mindfulness even more, it strengthens your alertness … 
  15. Contentment in the Practice
     … Just an inner sense of allowing it to feel just right, right here, to feel good right here, and wherever you go, you’re still with “right here.” You can identify where that good feeling is and carry it with you wherever you go. That’s the kind of concentration that grows. It’s the kind of concentration that seeps into your life and … 
  16. Suppressed Emotions
     … As you experiment with them, you find that they have an important impact on the actual feeling of pain and your attitude toward the pain. You feel less threatened by it. You begin to develop an inquisitive attitude, which as the Buddha said is how you approach the First Noble Truth. You want to comprehend it, and that requires you to be inquisitive about … 
  17. Staying on Track
     … perceptions, the images you hold in mind, or individual words to identify things; and then feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. It’s through these three kinds of fabrication that we shape our experience. When things go wrong in the mind, it’s because we’re fabricating things in ignorance. So, we want to bring some knowledge to these processes. When … 
  18. Everyday Feeding Habits
     … To what extent is it damaged, and to what extent do you have to do some repair work? Always try to start with the areas that feel pleasant or okay before you go moving into the areas where things are not okay. And when you go moving in, don’t leave your original base. If the area around the heart feels good, stay there … 
  19. Evaluation: The Voice of Heedfulness
    Take some long, deep in-and-out breaths, and get in touch with the feeling of the breath in the body. Here by “breath,” we don’t mean the air coming in and out of the lungs. We mean more the flow of energy in the body. And it’s important that you stay in contact with that direct experience. It’s the part … 
  20. Finding Extra Energy
     … Then there are the perceptions and the feelings. The way you breathe, of course, has a lot to do with how you feel in the body – the pleasure and pain you feel in the body – and that can give you a huge boost if you know how to breathe properly. Many of the people who worked on the chedi and Buddha image at Wat … 
  21. Things As They Function
     … Are there any beings out there for whom you feel hypocritical about saying that? Why? What’s the problem? In other words, if you want your goodwill to be genuine, you have to think it through. Remind yourself that very few people feel they’ve been justly punished when they’re punished for their misdeeds. So why do you wish punishment on them? Why … 
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