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  2. Refuge
     … Breathe in a way that feels nourishing. If your heart feels heavy, breathe in a way that lightens it. If your energy level feels down, breathe in a way that gives you energy. If you’re feeling wired, breathe in a way that calms you—something very simple and very immediate. And one of the good things about this is that you can take … 
  3. To Be an Adult
     … The sad thing is that I’ve been to Dhamma centers where they feel that keeping you like a child is not enough, they want to keep you like an infant. Everything gets watered down so that you don’t feel too challenged, you don’t feel that you’re being judged, you don’t feel like anybody’s going to say anything negative … 
  4. Long-Term Welfare
     … You do that in the course of learning how to use the concentration, so that it really feels good for whatever ails you. For example, if you’re feeling tired, there are certain ways of concentrating that give you more energy. If you’re feeling stressed out, there are other ways of focusing on the breath, adjusting the breath, so that it’s more … 
  5. Grace & Dignity
     … Your feelings push you in that direction. But then there are times when you know the right thing to do but it’s hard. It goes against your feelings. And yet you’re able to convince yourself to override your feelings and do the right thing. That’s an act with dignity. So have appreciation for the opportunities when you can act with grace … 
  6. The Karma of Ideas
     … It can bring about either comfortable feelings or uncomfortable feelings. Or you can think of the breath as subatomic, and all those spaces between the atoms in your body. That’s even more open than a sponge, more refined than a sponge. Ajaan Fuang used to recommend thinking of there being a core running down from the brain down to the bottom of the … 
  7. Your Quiet Corner
     … If you know how to gain a sense of how to adjust your breathing, to breathe through whatever tension or tightness or constriction that comes up around these emotions, to breathe in a way that helps to weaken their hold, and at the same time, learning how to gain a sense of how the breath energy in the body can feel comfortable, how it … 
  8. Helping Others Is a Battle
     … Breathe in a way that feels good, nourishing for the body. Soothing when you’re feeling frazzled. Energizing when you’re feeling tired. Relaxing when you’re feeling tense. Use the breath as medicine. Realize that you do have good potentials inside. This will be an important lesson for dealing with the unskillful things that come up. When something unskillful blatantly comes into the … 
  9. Artillery All Around
     … If you’re feeling lazy, it’s good to think about death, realizing that death can come at any time. You may feel that we’re living in a safe environment here, and it is relatively safe, but it’s not absolutely. You go out at night and there are snakes. We’ve had cougars come through, and of course there’s always that … 
  10. An Issue of Control
     … Breathe in a way that feels especially refreshing to the heart and any other parts of your breath-energy body that feel especially sensitive. Allow them to have the energy they need. Explore the potentials you have right here because it’s through this kind of exploration and mastery that you come to understand what the Buddha taught about karma. It’s not just … 
  11. The Buddha’s Medicine
     … Often we’re not fully aware of them, so it’s good to make yourself conscious when you’re angry, “How does the breath feel? How do different parts of your body feel? Can you change the breathing?” The anger doesn’t come from the body, but the symptoms in the body often aggravate it. In other words, there’s a brief flash of … 
  12. A Basis in Well-being
     … First you find a part of the body where the breathing feels good, the energy in the body feels good. You settle in there first and then, working from there, you’ve got a better perspective for dealing with the tension. One, you’ve got good breath energy to send in that direction, and two, the mind has calmed down so that it’s … 
  13. When You Hit a Plateau
     … You get in touch with what kind of feelings you have in the body, and then you ask yourself, “What are the perceptions around this, the perceptions and feelings?” Those are the mental fabrications. “And to what extent are the perceptions the problem? How can I calm those perceptions? In other words, how can I find a perception that’s just as true, but … 
  14. Fabricated Path, Unfabricated Goal
     … How’s it going? Where do you feel it? Can you feel it throughout the body? If at the beginning you can’t feel it everywhere, try to focus on the areas where you can feel it. You’ll find that they may or may not correspond to where you think you should be experiencing the breath, but that’s a good lesson right … 
  15. Meditation as a Skill
     … Why not try to breathe in a way that’s comfortable, that feels right for right now? And who’s going to find “right” aside from you yourself? This way, you can bring those factors of desire and persistence and intent to bear on what you’re doing. You start with the desire to feel good with the breath. That’s okay. It’s … 
  16. Breath Energies
     … Sometimes you feel you’re the body, sometimes you feel you’re the pain. Sometimes you feel you’re the experiencer of the pain. Sometimes you identify with your thoughts, sometimes with the way you label things. There are lots of different selves that you keep making over time. When you start seeing them as processes, and can see that they’re not always … 
  17. Good Heart, Good Mind
     … Be very careful to breathe in such a way that it feels open, relaxed. And then from that spot, think of that sense of openness spreading through the different parts of the body, so that it’s more and more pleasant to stay here. You’ve got something to do here, something to engage you so that it’s not only pleasant but also … 
  18. A Master of Your Thoughts
     … You can feel it in the lungs, in the ribcage, in your back, in the shoulders. So anywhere you notice—“Now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out”—where you can feel the energy, stay focused there. And try to keep your focus just right: not so strong that it blocks things and not so weak that it drifts off … 
  19. Faith in Present Intentions
     … As the Buddha said, one of the results of concentration is “a pleasant abiding in the here and now.”* *You can breathe in ways that feel really good, deep down into the body. But that sense of pleasure can also be a source for strength. It’s food for the mind. It’s when we’re feeling frazzled, tired, that it’s hard to … 
  20. Mental Stirrings
     … When the breath is going well here and feels really, really good, why would you have to go running after those things? You feel less inclined. Sometimes we hear that the mind goes after a little bit of pleasure thinking that the pleasure’s going to be permanent. Well, we pretty much know it’s not going to be permanent. We just feel that … 
  21. Pain Is a Noble Truth
     … You need a place where you feel at least relatively secure. Once there’s that sense of ease with the pain, you’re not necessarily pulled into it. You’re not there focused on the pain and you learn to let it have part of the body. Ajaan Lee’s image is of a house with floorboards, some of which are rotten, and you … 
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