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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Food for Endurance… And then in terms of *mental fabrication—*the perceptions and feeling we focus on—we’re totally free to perceive a situation in lots of different ways, all of which are true. Then we can ask ourselves: “Which of these ways is the most conducive to keeping the mind happy, keeping the mind acting in skillful ways?” Choose that perception; choose those feelings. Then …
- Awakening Is in the Details… It feels good being here. It feels right being here. Everything is in its right place. Your body’s not distorted. Sometimes in the beginning, as you’re settling down, there’ll be some distortions in the body. The body will feel very large or very small. One time, I was with Ajaan Fuang in Bangkok, sitting with a group of people, and I …
- Inner Strength, Inner Wealth… There’s feeling: the feeling of hunger that drives you to look for food, and the feeling of fullness that comes when you’ve had enough. That’s a huge motivation right there. Then there’s perception, perceiving the nature of your hunger: Is this thirst? Is this hunger for something salty? Something sweet? You’ve got to learn how to read your own …
- Concentration Teamwork… But the mind is settled down in the sense that you’re with one object, and it feels good. The problem is that when it starts feeling good, we start letting go of the work that gave rise to it. This is why it’s important to have that sense of cause and effect. If you abandon the cause, the results are going to …
- Dharma Warriors… You don’t feel like meditating, you meditate. You feel like meditating, you meditate. You learn how to put your preferences aside. Of course, the wise way of doing that is learning how to put yourself in the right mood, even when you don’t come to the meditation with the right mood. When you sit down, get yourself in the right mood to …
- Equanimity After Victory… After all, the equanimity that comes with concentration comes after you’ve satisfied the mind with feelings of rapture, after you’ve satisfied the mind with feelings of pleasure. It’s not just telling itself to be equanimous. There’s a natural equanimity that comes when you’ve completed the work of getting the mind to settle down. The same with those lists of …
- Wise About Mistakes… One, the unhealthy type, is the opposite of pride, where you feel really bad about yourself and have no self-esteem. The other, the healthy type, is the opposite of shamelessness, not caring what other people think, not caring about what’s right or wrong. The shame he’s recommending is the second one, the opposite of shamelessness. Think about the Buddha’s instructions …
- Start Out Small… Try to sensitize yourself to how the breathing feels. Without this level of sensitivity, the meditation becomes mechanical. When it’s mechanical, it becomes a chore. And when it’s a chore, the mind will rebel. So ask yourself: What really feels good when you’re breathing right now? If you can’t figure out what really feels good, hold your breath for a …
- The Flow of Time… The part of the mind that pushes for greed, aversion, and delusion knows how to squeeze the breath and to make you feel that you’ve got to give in. So you’ve got to learn how to undo the squeeze. Work on breathing in a way that feels spacious, that feels soothing to the body, strengthening to the body, calming you when you …
- At Home in Your Own Skin… Breathe in a way that feels gratifying. Then learn how to share that gratifying feeling with all the different parts of your body. Learn how to fully inhabit this world that you can create around the breath. And keep monitoring it so that it remains a comfortable place to stay, a good place to stay, a solid place to stay. Now, you’ll find …
- All-around Knowing… When you work with the breath, he says you try to find what kind of rhythm feels good right now. There’s not just short or long. There’s also in-short and out-long, or in-long and out-short, fast, slow, heavy, light, deep, shallow. And he recommends that you play with those possibilities, experiment. When you gain a sense of ease …
- Eeeels… Think of them up all opening up, so that the current of breathing energy can go all the way through the nervous system, going down if that feels right, coming up if that feels better. Then learn how to maintain that whole-body awareness. Because it does take a certain amount of effort, more than just the amount of effort that’s enough to …
- Fire… Any parts of the body missing? Any places you feel a sense of space where there should be a sense of the body? Well, see if you can connect things together. Say that your shoulder feels like it’s missing. Okay, trace things down from the neck through the shoulder to the arm. Or notice where you feel the neck and where you feel …
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