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  2. More than Just Letting Go
     … Feelings are feeling-tones of pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Perceptions are the images you have in your mind, either individual words or visual images, that the mind uses to communicate to itself with. These are the processes that usually get shaped in ignorance, but now we’re bringing some knowledge to them. We’re trying to be aware of our breathing, aware … 
  3. Fighting off Ignorance
     … We tend to think of feelings—i.e., the feeling tone of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain—pretty much as a given. But if you look at the way you react to certain sensations in your body, you begin to see that you have an element of choice. Sometimes a sensation is perfectly neutral, but you decide you don’t like it … 
  4. Learning How to Talk to Yourself
     … And then feelings—feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. These are things you’re doing right now. And you want to get sensitive to that, because in doing these things in ignorance, in the darkness, we cause ourselves a lot of suffering. And often we don’t realize that that’s what we’re doing. So we meditate to bring some … 
  5. How & Why We Meditate
     … mind and what’s going on in the body. Then there’s what the Buddha calls mental fabrication, which are the perceptions, the labels we apply to things, along with feelings: feeling-tones of pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain. And again, as you’re working with the breath, you get hands-on experience in how you can shape these things and use … 
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