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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. Well-armed Efforts
     … There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, which is directed thought and evaluation, in other words, the way you talk to yourself; and there’s mental fabrication, which are perceptions, the labels you have for things, and then feelings—feelings of pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Every mental state is composed of these three things. So when something unskillful comes … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. Don’t Be Afraid of Jhana
    As you sit here trying to find a comfortable way to breathe, don’t be afraid of enjoying the pleasure that comes when you’ve found something that feels really good. After all, one of the factors of right concentration in the first jhana, the second jhana, and the third jhana is pleasure. The first two jhanas have a sense of rapture. In all … 
  17. Merit: Actively Happy
     … He said, “Give where you feel inspired, or you feel the gift would be well used.” In fact, that’s a rule for the monks up to this day. If someone comes and asks, “Where should we give a gift?” you say, “Give where you feel inspired, where you feel your gift would be well used or well taken care of.” That throws the … 
  18. See Yourself as Active Verbs
     … The aggregates are form, feeling, perception, mental fabrications, and consciousness—all of which the Buddha defines with verbs. Form, he says, deforms. In other words, in the form of your body there’s nothing static. Feelings feel: pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions perceive. Thought fabrications fabricate, and consciousness cognizes. These are all verbs, and we cling to them. The act of clinging … 
  19. Four Determinations in One
     … The question now is, what does this consciousness cognize? Well, it knows feelings: pleasant feelings, painful feelings, neutral feelings. You see how they arise, you see how they come from contact, and you see how they end when the contact ends. So you let go of those feelings. The consciousness then is totally equanimous. You realize you could take that equanimity and apply it … 
  20. The Forerunner of All Things
     … And finally there’s mental fabrication, which is composed of feelings and perceptions. Feelings are feelings of pleasure, pain, or neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Perceptions are the images or labels that you apply to things—the messages from your lizard brain, which has images that get you breathing in a certain way, which will create a certain feeling. If it’s a threatening image … 
  21. Staying True
     … Notice where you feel the breath in the body. Any spot where the sensation is very clear that now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out: Focus on that spot. It doesn’t have to be at the nose. It might be in the chest. You can feel the rising of the chest as you breathe in, you can feel … 
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