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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. Don’t Sell the Buddha Short
     … perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the labels you put on things that tell you what they are, what they mean. Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain. These fabrications are all right here. You’re dealing with them all the time. They’re the means by which we put together the present moment, whether we’re meditating or not … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. Your Desire to Practice
     … When there’s a feeling of pleasure, you learn how to feel it not only in one or two spots but let it spread throughout the body. If there are feelings of pain, you learn how to cut through any lines of connection, so that you’re not spreading pain through the body—which, all too often, we unconsciously do. And then you’re … 
  16. When You Practice on Your Own
     … You see that feelings are not just givens. There’s a lot of intentional activity going into how you focus on a feeling and what you do with it. As you learn how to deal skillfully with feelings, you gain more and more insights into the mind as the mind is settling down. At the same time, you’re making sure that the mind … 
  17. Right Resolve in Real Life
     … Try to be on top of how your breathing feels and learn how to breathe in a way that feels good, even when things are falling apart around you, because that way your head will be a lot clearer in spite of the situation, and you can think of the most skillful thing to do. When you’re not stabbing yourself with events around … 
  18. Reflect
     … You start thinking about the unskillful things you ordinarily might do and feel perfectly justified. Sometimes you feel that killing animals is justified. Sometimes you feel that lying is justified. There are even times when people can take something without its being given, and can justify that. But the Buddha’s saying, “No, you’ve got to reflect on your actions.” The impulse to … 
  19. Pleasure on the Middle Way
     … Then try to find a rhythm that feels good. If you’re not sure about what feels good, ask yourself: Where are your most sensitive spots in the body? For some people, they’re in the area around the heart. Or they might be the stomach. For some people, it’s deep inside the brain. Think of the energy going into those spots. Ask … 
  20. Working from the Inside
     … Mental fabrications are the feelings and perceptions. The perception here would be the mental image you hold of the breath. You can try playing with that. And you give rise to feelings of well-being. If you don’t, you have feelings of dis-ease. Try to turn those areas of dis-ease into ease: That’s what the ardency and the evaluation are … 
  21. Surprise Yourself
     … In the same way, there are days when long breathing feels good, and other days when it’s not so interesting anymore. So you have to change. Vary your offerings. That’s when you get a reward. When the breath feels good, what do you do with it? There’s another sutta where the Buddha says that you take whatever sense of ease or … 
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