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2. Play AudioTo Delight in the Path
    … Learn how to play with your perceptions about the breath. That’s one way of making the meditation entertaining. The Buddha actually lists six ways of delighting to help you along the path. The first, of course, is to delight in the Dhamma—that there is a teaching that points out the true way. This Dhamma teaches the way to gain total freedom, total … 
3. Play AudioThe Fangs of Conceit
    … When there’s a pain in the body, at what point does the pain come into the mind? You’re holding on to a perception, so you have to get the mind still enough so that you can ferret it out. These things are all right here. They’re all happening right here. Simply learn how to see these things in these terms, as … 
4. Play AudioHeedfulness is the Path
    … When you’ve seen something that may have seemed harmless while you were doing it but it actually did cause harm over time, you consult other people on the practice to make sure your perception is correct. At the very least, get their perspective on the matter so that you’re not operating only on your own perspective. Then, when you’ve seen both … 
5. Play AudioPure Action
    … Our intentions with regard to the body in terms of the breathing, or intentions in regard to the words in terms of how we frame the issues and think about them, our intentions with regard to the mind—perceptions and feelings: These things are really close to us and they have lots of potential. Yet we abuse that potential or let it go undeveloped … 
6. Play AudioMore than a Sliver of Mindfulness
    … Alert means knowing what you’re doing while you’re doing it, either in terms of what your body is doing or in terms of what your mind is doing, creating feelings and perceptions. And it’s important to note that fact. You are doing your feelings. As the Buddha points out, there are potentials coming from the past, but you turn those potentials … 
7. Play AudioBetween Either & Or
    … What’s the mind doing around the pain? Sometimes you’ll gain this understanding with subtle pains, and sometimes it requires more extreme ones, when the mind is cornered and can’t find any other way out aside from sharpening its discernment into what your perceptions are doing to build a bridge from the pain into the mind. So instead of having you pursue … 
8. Play AudioSensitive to the Breath
    … I was holding the perception of earth someplace in my head, and that was getting imposed on the body. And thinking of the body as really solid, it seemed impossible to squeeze the breath into that lump of solidity. So you can think of the space in the atoms or between the atoms. Or you can think that your experience of the body is … 
9. Play AudioLearning from Desire
    … And so we have perceptions about the breath: Where is the breath flowing? When the breath comes in, where does it come in? How do you know a sensation of breath? Then there’s fabrication, the intention to do this and that, along with the inner conversation we engage in: what the Buddha calls directed thought and evaluation. So we’re** **thinking about the … 
10. Play AudioSkills for Dying Well
     … You focus on perceptions that lead to a sense of ease inside—the perceptions about how the breath comes in, goes out, where you are in relationship to it. So you can see these processes as they’re happening. The quieter you are, the more you’re going to see. And because the pleasure here doesn’t have to depend on sensuality, you’re … 
11. Play AudioGuardian Meditations
     … As long as you want to maintain that perception, hold that perception in mind. The Buddha compares it to a person who plays a trumpet. You blow on the trumpet, and the sound goes in all directions. You don’t say, “This sound is going to go to that person, that sound is not going to go to this person.” Everybody gets to hear … 
12. Play AudioA Leap of the Heart
     … Then there’s a perception you slap onto it. And once you’ve slapped the perception onto it, it gives you something to talk about. And then there’s your awareness of all these things. You want to see the awareness as separate from the other activities. And you want to break them down into little activities. That way, the thought is not so … 
13. Play AudioThe Need for Agency
     … Now, there is a point in the practice where you apply the perception of not-self to everything to let go of everything. Some people feel that if that’s where we’re going, we might as well start out with that. But you can’t start out with that. You’re actually suffering, no matter how much you say you aren’t. There … 
14. Play AudioNon-Reactive Judgment
     … Mental covers the perceptions you hold in mind—the labels you put on things—and the feelings you focus on. These are the elements that go into how you shape your present experience. And where are you going to learn about these things? Through the practice of concentration. You focus on the breath: bodily fabrication. You talk to yourself about the breath to make … 
15. Play AudioAn Auspicious Day
     … And then when you can see, “Oh, it’s because I’ve got this perception of the breath that it doesn’t want to come in and it’s not going to come in unless I pull it,” then change the perception. As for pleasures not of the flesh, they don’t just happen on their own. They’re the pleasures that come from … 
16. Play AudioThe Power of Truth
     … They talk about anicca as a *sañña, *a perception, or as an anupassana, something you focus on as a practice. In other words, you focus on this theme so that you can see what it does to the mind, particularly in terms of how it helps you gain dispassion for things you hold on to. The same with dukkha and anattā: Each is a … 
17. Play AudioTop Priorities
     … Here he had attained the state of neither perception or non-perception, a very high refined state of concentration, which many people in those days thought was the ultimate, but it wasn’t good enough for him. He wanted something better. When he lived in the palace, became dissatisfied with the pleasures of the palace, even though everyone said, “This is as good as … 
18. Play AudioFabricating the Present
     … We hear so often how people shape their reality, how our perceptions tend to filter the ways we see reality, and yet we don’t see it as it’s actually happening, even though it happens very directly right here. Even in your own sense of the body there are lots of different sensations coming in, through the various nerve ends. The mind has … 
19. Play AudioNoble Treasures
     … You’ll see that the power of the mind, the power of that perception, can actually change the way you breathe. So think of the body as a big sponge, something wide open with pores on all sides, so that the breath energy can come in and out from any direction. As you hold that perception in mind, see how the body responds. Then … 
20. Play AudioBefriending the Breath
     … If you find your mind wandering away, just remind yourself that those friends you’re wandering away with—your thoughts, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, all those perceptions: You’ve been friends with them long enough. You know what kind of friends they are. Sometimes they help you and sometimes they don’t. They’re not reliable. So wish them well … 
21. Play AudioA Larger Perspective
     … As you feel them from the inside, it’s your particular sensation, with your particular perceptions. We each have our little own inner worlds like this that we have to sort out. And if we don’t sort them out, what happens? We just keep coming back again and rubbing up against one another again and bumping each other again. How much longer do … 
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