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  2. The Desire to End All Desires
     … Ask yourself, within the context of that whole-body awareness, what kind of breathing feels good? When the breathing feels good, can you make that breath or that sense of feeling good spread through the body so that you feel like you’re being bathed in breath energy? Change the image of your relationship to the breath. You’re not in one part of … 
  3. Inconstancy
     … In the beginning, you have to talk to yourself, evaluate the breath to make sure that the breath feels good for the body, feels nourishing, that all the different breath energies are working together, and that they’re just right for the mind. The breath is not laborious, but at the same time not so subtle that you can’t follow it. When it … 
  4. Seeing the Stillness
     … What was your breath like then? What was the visceral feel of that mood? You can try to tune back into that feeling; it’s there. Tune back in to the way the breath felt at that point and allow it to have that same sense of ease. Then notice where the other areas of ease are, here and there in the body, that … 
  5. Appropriate Attention Plus Admirable Friendship
     … When it responds, which way feels best? What can you stay with for a while, with a sense of feeling at home? If you don’t feel at home with the breath, you’re like an animal that’s jumped onto something wobbly and is going to get ready to jump as soon as there’s danger. In other words, the animal can’t … 
  6. Generating Energy
     … Is that healthy breath energy or not? If it were healthy, what would it feel like? Because sometimes you hold in mind the perception that a sensation is solid, and you put up with all kinds of stuff from solidity that you wouldn’t put up with if you thought this was breath. Then conversely, there are times when you feel a need for … 
  7. An Ennobling Pleasure
     … What it requires is a lot of your own plain powers of observation, noticing how the breath feels as you breathe in, how it feels as you breathe out. What are the varieties in the way that it feels? When you decide to change the way you breathe, do you make things worse? If so, how can you make things better? This requires that … 
  8. Protecting Your Space
     … Try to get a rhythm of breath that feels really good. You can experiment with longer breathing. In fact, it’s good to start out with a couple of good, long, deep, in-and-out breaths. If that feels good, you keep it up. If not, you can change. Shorter, deeper, shallower, heavier, lighter, faster, slower: There are lots of different ways of breathing … 
  9. The Mind Set Tall
     … a nasty little kid inside that gets its gratification from being angry, from the feeling of conceit, superiority, the way we treasure the sense of having been wronged, for fear that if we didn’t have that sense of being wronged, we wouldn’t exist, we wouldn’t have any worth. A lot of that is what fuels our anger. Until you see that … 
  10. Brahmaviharas at the Breath
     … You’re sitting here learning how to breathe in a way that feels really good. Have some goodwill for the breath, goodwill for yourself. Be happy when the breath is comfortable. When it’s not comfortable, show some compassion. Try to figure out why it’s not comfortable. Are you putting too much pressure on it? Are you focusing in the right place or … 
  11. The Truth of Desires
     … The mind is already primed to look at things in a certain way—based on the way you think, based on the way you perceive things, based on your desires, based on the feelings you have in the body. Scientists have been starting to show how much your intestinal system actually runs your brain. If the intestinal system feels bad, then you’re going … 
  12. Right Mindfulness
     … Try to keep the body in mind all the time and be alert to how the breath energy feels. As for anything else that may come up—whether it’s a thought, a feeling, or an interaction—try to see how it relates to the body. This is how you strengthen your frame of reference and turn it into an object of concentration. When … 
  13. Confident, Steadfast, Resolute
     … Where do you feel the breath in the body? You may be uncertain about that because in the West we don’t talk much about breath sensations in the body. So you wonder, “I’m feeling something in my arm, I’m feeling something in my leg. Is that breath, is it not?” Well, just assume that it’s breath. Every sensation in the … 
  14. A Path of Skills
     … You can experiment to see what kind of breathing feels good. When you find a rhythm that feels good, stay with it until it doesn’t feel so good anymore—then you can change. Keep being aware of what you’re doing and the results you’re getting. We do this so that we can understand the mind. In the Buddha’s first sermon … 
  15. Borrowed Goods
     … Then there’s feeling: There may be pains here and there in the body, but you’re trying to create a feeling of ease, a feeling of well-being, which can sometimes get so intense that it qualifies as rapture. You’re holding a perception in mind. When the breath comes in, *how *does it come in? What are the routes in the body … 
  16. Metta Can Hurt
     … And a lot of people like the brahma-vihāras.* *It feels good to be sitting here thinking, “May all beings be happy” or to think of anyone who’s suffering and send compassion: “May that person be free from suffering.” You see people who are happy or doing things that are good, you’re happy for them. Those are pleasant things to think about … 
  17. Vitakka & Vicara
     … People who eat sugar every day are pretty used to what it feels like to eat sugar every day and they take it as normal. To realize that it’s not normal, that the body doesn’t need to feel that way, you need to wean yourself off of the sugar. That requires some thinking in the long-term. What are the long-term … 
  18. Friends Inside
     … Ask yourself, “What kind of breathing would feel really good right now?” Take a couple of good, long deep in-and-out breaths, and see how the body responds. Does it feel good? If it does, keep it up. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to feel good all the time. After a while, the body will have had enough of that … 
  19. Potentials Past & Present
     … So start with long breathing, deep breathing, and if that feels good, keep it up until it doesn’t feel good anymore. Then you can try other ways of breathing: shorter, more shallow, heavier, lighter, faster, slower. See what feels good for the body right now and what kind of breathing you can follow. Sometimes what feels good for the body is a little … 
  20. Is the Buddha’s Wisdom Selfish?
     … There’s feeling, which is the pain of hunger and then the feeling of well-being you’re trying to gain by feeding. There’s perception when you try to identify what kind of hunger you have and how you’re going to find the food that’s right for that hunger. There’s fabrication when you get food and try to figure out … 
  21. The Buddha’s Letter
     … The body’s one thing, the feeling is something else. Your awareness is something else. They can occupy the same place right here, but when you can see that they’re separate right here, that’s your protection. You tune into the right aspect, into the right frame of reference. After all, the body is not the feeling. The feeling is pleasure or pain … 
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