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  2. Intense 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 … 
  3. Non-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 … 
  4. The 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 … 
  5. Focus 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 … 
  6. Suffering 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 … 
  7. Hold 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 … 
  8. Abandoning 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 … 
  9. Right Here, Right Now
     … Feelings are the feelings of pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain that you feel both in body and in mind. Well, those are right here as well. So what else do you need? You’ve got all the raw materials. It’s just that the mental qualities you need to bring to them are not up to speed yet. That’s what you’ve … 
  10. Karma in the Present
     … The other is feeling: You’re creating feelings of ease with the breath, and it’s all done by holding in mind a perception of the breath, preferably the breath as a full-body process. The whole nervous system is involved. In this way, there’s a greater sense of ease that courses through the body as you breathe in, breathe out. Everything feels … 
  11. Clinging-Aggregates in Context
     … We cling to the aggregate of form, which is the body; and to the aggregate of feeling, which covers feeling tones of pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain. We cling to perceptions: the labels we put on things. We cling to fabrications, the way the mind puts thoughts together intentionally, and we cling to consciousness. And in clinging to these things, we make … 
  12. Feeding on Right Resolve
     … You can try experimenting with different types of breathing for a while to see what feels good right now. And think of the breath going deep into the body. For most of us, it’s something we sense at the nose, or maybe around the upper chest, and that’s about it. Let it go deep down inside. Think of it spreading down the … 
  13. The Battle of Your Selves
     … You’ve got the form sitting here, the form of your body as you feel it from within. The breath, in particular, as you feel it as it goes through the body. That’s form, the first aggregate. The second aggregate is feeling. There may be feelings of irritation here, pain there, pleasure here, there. You want to focus on the pleasure. And in … 
  14. Friends & Enemies
     … You get a sense of how other people are feeling, and that becomes one of your own virtues. As you get more sensitive to their feelings, you get more sensitive to your own feelings. This is going to be an important part of the meditation: being really sensitive to what’s going on in the mind, not just brushing off your feelings as being … 
  15. Separate
     … As people’s clinging gets more and more extensive, they feel more and more threatened. Sometimes we’re told that, living in an interconnected world, we should feel safe and secure that the interconnected net is supporting us. But look at interconnected systems: It’s not the case that they work for the good of everything or everybody involved in the system. Sometimes we … 
  16. A Strong Post
     … Try to explore how the breathing feels in the present moment. The breath energy in your body can be your refuge as you go through the day. So you want to get familiar with it, firmly established inside. The Buddha compares our senses to six different animals. We have snakes, we have crocodiles, monkeys, dogs, jackals, birds. It’s as if you have six … 
  17. Body as Path
     … That sense of ease comes when you finally have identified what ways of breathing feel good, feel nourishing for the body, and then you can think of the breath spreading throughout the whole nervous system, all along the blood vessels, all along everything in the body out to the pores. That’s one way of getting good use out of the body. It gives … 
  18. The Alternative of Concentration
     … When pain comes, they feel resistance, they try to push it away and they go running to sensual pleasure because they think that’s the only alternative to pain. So they feel what’s called a passion-obsession, raganusaya, for pleasure. As far as they can see, sensual pleasures are the only alternative to having to suffer pain. But then the pleasures show their … 
  19. A Diffuse Light
     … This is probably the best perception you can have to get the mind into strong states of concentration where the breath is minimal and yet you don’t feel starved of breath. You actually feel full. It may take a while to work up to this. You start out with a sense that you’re going to spotlight some parts of the body rather … 
  20. The Strength of Conviction
     … But if you believe there’s a way out, then you feel, well, there must be a way around the rock, around the tree, over the stream. You put more energy into finding a way, more ingenuity and persistence, because if you haven’t found the way out yet, it’s simply a matter of not having found the right path or not having … 
  21. There is This
     … You like to impose it on the ones where things are pleasurable, but once you set up the mold of the “I am” and stick in a nice pleasurable feeling, that pleasurable feeling can change and be replaced by an unpleasant feeling. So there you are. You’ve still got that sentence “I am this,” but suddenly the “this” is something unpleasant. You’ve … 
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