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  2. How & Why We Meditate
     … Or if it’s too short and you feel like you’re not really getting the full energy of the breath, allow it to stretch out a bit. In other words, experiment with the breathing to see what feels best. If you find something that feels good, stick with it. It may feel good for a long time, or it may feel good for … 
  3. Minding Your Own Business
     … So what have you got here in terms of the breath? Where does it feel that the energy of the body is moving? Where does it feel like it’s standing still? Where does it feel comfortable and open? Where does it feel constricted and tight? You can make a survey of the body, going through the different sections. You can start at the … 
  4. An Exercise in Sensitivity
     … You have to learn about feelings, and what better way of learning about feelings than to create feelings that are skillful and pleasant? There’s the phrase says, Vivicc’eva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi, secluding yourself from sensual thoughts, secluding yourself from unskillful mental qualities, you settle down. You try to find a sense of well-being with the breath. This is why Ajaan … 
  5. Anchored in the Present
     … The act of attention to the breath, the Buddha says, counts as a kind of feeling, which is kind of a strange statement, but apparently it relates to the fact that every feeling has an element of fabrication. In this case, the attention is the fabrication. As you’re staying with the breath, you’ll notice certain feelings that come up around the breath … 
  6. Lessons in Happiness
     … The next tetrad is working with feeling. Now that you’ve got the breath feeling comfortable, you sensitize yourself to that feeling of comfort, but you don’t focus directly on the comfort. You stay with the breath as your primary focus. You’re training yourself with the breath, but you sensitize yourself to which ways of breathing feel easeful, pleasurable, which ones give … 
  7. Driving Lessons
     … Experiment to see what kind of breathing feels best for the body right now. When you find something that feels good, stick with it until it doesn’t feel so good anymore. Then you can change. Now, when it starts feeling good, try to expand your awareness so that it fills the whole body. You can either think of the whole body all at … 
  8. Five Precepts, Five Virtues
     … Each time you breathe out, stay with the breath You also have to be alert to make sure that you actually are staying with the breath and to notice how the breath feels. One of the ways of making it easier to stay with the breath is if you feel comfortable with the way you breathe: It feels good coming in, feels good going … 
  9. The Middle Way
     … Learn how to breathe in such way that it feels good. Learn how to breathe in such way that gives rise to a sense of fullness and refreshment. This is an important part of the path. Just this morning I was reading a piece on feelings, saying that you should simply allow feelings to come and go on their own. You shouldn’t try … 
  10. The Breath All the Way
     … One way to approach this is to practice going through the body section by section, noticing how the sensation of breathing feels in different parts of the body. How does it feel in your abdomen? How does it feel in your chest? How does it feel in your head? How does it feel in your back, in your shoulders, your arms, your legs? Remember … 
  11. Mindfulness, Discernment, & Peace of Mind
     … Can you feel that? Where do you feel that? You might feel it more clearly in some parts of the body than others. Well, focus first on those. Then ask yourself, “Do you like how it feels? Does it feel tight? When you breathe in, does the energy go up? Does it go down? Does it feel good going up or would it feel … 
  12. Listening to the Body
     … How does that feel when you breathe in? Is that the best it could feel? Would it feel better if you breathed in another way? Well, look at it. Give it a chance to tell you. And as far as where all this is going to lead, you don’t have to worry. It leads more and more and more into the present moment … 
  13. Respect for Happiness
     … See how they feel, and if they feel good, keep on breathing in that way. If they don’t feel good, you can change. Try shorter breathing, longer, deeper, more shallow, heavier or lighter. There are lots of ways you can experiment with the breath. Try to find a way of breathing that feels good for the body right now. When you’re feeling … 
  14. Metta Meditation
     … The breath feels good, the mind feels good, and that gives you a basis for settling down, being on good terms with the breath, showing some goodwill for the breath. And even though we can’t say the breath will show goodwill back to you, at least it’ll show some pleasant feelings that you can settle down in. Try to be sensitive to … 
  15. Established in Full
     … There’s also warmth, coolness, feelings of solidity, but you want to emphasize right now the feelings of energy. You can perceive the body as one big bundle of energy, so that when the breath comes in, it’s energy mingling with energy. And even when it goes out, there’s still energy in the body. That allows a feeling of fullness to develop … 
  16. A Home for the Mind
     … How does it feel? Where do you feel it? Take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths, and see how that feels. If it feels comfortable, keep it up. If not, you can change. But notice where you feel the sensation of breathing, and notice the point where the breath gets too long: either too long coming in or too long … 
  17. Cooking Skills
     … Does it feel good? If it doesn’t feel good, what would feel better: longer, shorter, faster, slower, deeper, more shallow, heavier, or lighter? When you find a rhythm that feels good, maintain it as long as it feels good. Then when you can maintain it, you can think of it spreading through the different parts of the body, because you’re trying to … 
  18. Grounded in the Breath
     … If you want to understand feelings, you’ll notice that you can actually create feelings by the way you’re alert to the breath. You can create feelings of pleasure as you’re more consistently aware of the breath. You get more demanding about what a good breath is going to be. If you’ve got other things preoccupying you, it’s okay for … 
  19. The Uses of Pleasure & Pain
     … Things are settling in, and there’s a snugness to how things feel. It feels good, it feels secure, being right here. Look at what the Buddha has to say about the tasks with regard to each of the noble truths. The task with regard to stress and suffering is to comprehend it. The task with regard to the path is to develop it … 
  20. Tranquility, Insight, & Concentration
    Take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths, and notice where you feel the breathing process in the body. It might be at the nose, the base of the throat, the chest, the abdomen. Wherever it’s clearest—that now the breath is going in, now the breath is going out—focus your attention there. Then ask yourself if long breathing … 
  21. Delight in the Breath
     … So breathe in a way that feels refreshing. Think of the different parts of the body that could be tense or tired, and breathe right into them. Give them whatever they need, so that the whole body feels satisfied. And of course, the mind will then feel satisfied, breathing in, breathing out. Most of the pleasure of the breath comes with the in-breath … 
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