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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. The Energy in the Body
     … feelings and perceptions—feelings of comfort or discomfort, and your perception of how those relate to the breath. These are all the raw materials for insight. So you’re right here where they’re all present. It’s simply a matter of learning how to read what’s happening. The instructions that Ajaan Lee gives are suggestions for exploration. You try them out. Experiment … 
  10. Clinging
     … But regardless of the form, you can feel it physically, as a tightening in the breath energy in the body. Now, the physical feeling is not the clinging itself. It’s a byproduct, but it aggravates it. You could also take it as a sign: When something moves in the mind and there’s a tightening up in the body, the mind is holding … 
  11. Distractive Thoughts
     … In other words, have your center someplace in the body, maintain a spot in the body where it feels relaxed, the breath energy feels good right there, and you try to keep it feeling good all the way in with the in-breath, all the way out with the out-. When the mind slips off, you don’t have to ask many questions or … 
  12. Circumspection
     … how it feels when you breathe in; how it feels when you breathe out; what ways of breathing feel better than others; what ways of focusing your mind allow you to stay longer with the breath. If you stay focused on one spot, it’s very easy for the mind to lose its focus when the breath gets very subtle. You start drifting off … 
  13. Duties
    Take some good long deep in-and-out breaths and notice where you feel the process of breathing. Allow your attention to settle there. You can change the rhythm of the breath if you like. Try to find a rhythm that feels good. But always try to stay with that sensation of where you feel the breathing. Because when we talk about doing breath … 
  14. Levels of Truth
    Levels of Truth October 7, 2010 Close your eyes, focus on the breath, notice where you feel the breathing. You might start off with a couple of good, long, deep, in-and-out breaths to emphasize where in the body you sense the breathing process. Then ask yourself: Is it comfortable? If it feels too long, too heavy, too whatever, you can change. Adjust … 
  15. Putting Out the Fires
     … You can desire this practice of concentration so that the path is not just a dry intellectual exercise, but it really does feel both mentally fulfilling and physically fulfilling. There’s a sense of fullness in the body. It feels good just sitting here with the breath, with the different parts the body undisturbed. Simply allow them to be still right where they are … 
  16. A Cocoon of Energy
     … What does the space around your body feel like? If you find that this exercise is too disorienting, go back to the sensation of the body. Think of the breath, think of the warmth, think of the coolness, think of the solidity, and you’ll be fully back in your body. As you get back into the body, you get a little bit more … 
  17. Off to a Good Start
     … Notice how the breathing feels and nourishes that sense of the core of your body. Or it might be right in the middle of the head in the area just above the eyes. Whichever part of the body seems most sensitive to the energy flow, focus there. Try to maintain a rhythm of breathing that feels really good right there so that it feels … 
  18. Breath Meditation, Step by Step
     … Watch how the breath really feels. Try to be as sensitive as you can, and as honest as possible about what feels good and what doesn’t feel good. This quality of honesty is very important in the practice. The Buddha once said the main prerequisite he had for taking on a student was that the student be honest. Give me an honest person … 
  19. In Your Right Mind at Death
     … So she focused on the space element and she didn’t feel threatened by the fire in the house at all. Then, when she later came back to the body, everything had settled back down to normal. And she learned an important lesson: If you can access space in your meditation, you don’t feel so threatened when the body pushes you out, and … 
  20. Sensitive to Stress
     … Actually, when you’re looking simply at perceptions and fabrications and feelings without any you in there, you could call that a type of depersonalization. And psychologists say that depersonalization is bad. But what they mean by that is when someone gets stuck in a state of mind where they’re totally numb to their real emotions. They feel alienated from their emotions, and … 
  21. Coping & Beyond Coping
     … We create that place by giving the mind something good to focus on, something nearby—the breath, the way you feel the body from inside. When we talk about the breath, it’s not the air coming in and out through the nose. It’s more the feeling of energy that flows through the body as you breathe in, as you breathe out. It … 
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