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2. Play AudioThe 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 … 
3. Play AudioClinging
    … 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 … 
4. Play AudioDistractive 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 … 
5. Play AudioCircumspection
    … 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 … 
6. Play AudioDuties
   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 … 
7. Play AudioPutting 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 … 
8. Play AudioLevels of Truth
    … Is it comfortable? If it feels too long, too heavy, too whatever, you can change. Adjust it a bit to see if shorter breathing might feel good, or gentler breathing might feel better, or heavier breathing, even deeper, or more shallow—there are lots of different ways you can adjust your breathing. Or you can just pose the question in the mind: “What kind … 
9. Play AudioA 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 … 
10. Play AudioOff 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 … 
11. Play AudioBreath 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 … 
12. Play AudioIn 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 … 
13. Play AudioSensitive 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 … 
14. Play AudioCoping & 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 … 
15. Play AudioIntense Stillness
     … Like the problem with feeling: Sometimes feeling is in fabrications together with directed thought and evaluation. Sometimes it’s in name and form. Sometimes it’s right after contact. Sometimes it’s there as a result of birth, aging, and death. That means that your particular feeling, your particular pleasure or pain, may be influenced by different things, so you have a range of … 
16. Play AudioThe Skill of Not Suffering
     … Breathe in really deep a couple of times to see how it feels, so that you notice where you feel the breathing process in the body. When we talk of focusing on the breath, it’s not so much the air coming in and out of lungs, it’s more the sensation of the energy that flows through the body as you breathe in … 
17. Play AudioNon-Verbal Discernment
     … You have a sense of what feels right. Well, it’s the same with settling the mind: Get a sense of what kind of breath feels right for settling the mind, where you want it focused, how broad you want your focus to be. Some people will verbalize this more than others, but the important thing is the skill. And remember, it took a … 
18. Play AudioFocus on the Doing
     … Start out with a couple of good long deep in-and-out breaths, and see how that feels. If it feels good, stick with it. If not, you can change. Make it shorter, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter. There are a lots of ways you can adjust the breath. Then notice when you get good results, and when you don’t. Try to make … 
19. Play AudioSuffering Comes from Those You Love
     … And what are they now? You meet them and either you feel nothing much at all, or there may be cases where you feel a rapport, and other cases where you feel the opposite of a rapport. A relationship that was once so close now becomes very far away. You think about this and you begin to get a sense of the meaninglessness of … 
20. Play AudioHold on for All You’re Worth
     … Some people, when they find a sense of well-being coming from the meditation, feel they don’t deserve it, feel uncomfortable with it. Often that comes from the fact that we’re jealous of other people’s happiness, which makes us feel not good about our own. So for the people who are already happy in the world, who are doing things that … 
21. Play AudioAbandoning Craving
     … But there are people who buy their BMW because of that, because it makes them feel good, better than other people. So the desire is not focused on the BMW. It’s focused on the chill: the feeling, the story you can tell yourself about how you have the money and the good taste in cars to be a BMW owner. That kind of … 
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