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  2. Using What You’ve Got
     … We feel threatened by the them; we feel weak in the face of them. But if you can strengthen the sense of the mind’s well-being, you feel less threatened, you feel less weak, you’re more encouraged to deal with this issue: Why is there pain? Why does physical pain cause pain in the mind? That’s one of those questions that … 
  3. Befriending the Breath
     … Compassion is where you see that the breath is not comfortable, and you learn various ways of helping it along, to make it more comfortable, so that you feel more at ease breathing in and breathing out. You feel restricted. The body doesn’t feel tight. Once it starts feeling comfortable, then you appreciate it, realizing that the sense of ease inside the body … 
  4. Specifically
     … Can you look off to the side a little bit to see what’s around the pain in terms of those perceptions, in terms of the conversations you have about it? Remember, pain is classed as a kind of feeling, and when you look at dependent co-arising, feeling appears in several places: There’s the feeling that comes right after sensory contact, but … 
  5. Let Pleasure & Pain Fall Off the Plow
     … Evaluation is asking yourself, “Does this feel good? If it feels good, how do I keep it up? If it doesn’t feel good, what do I change?” That’s the kind of thinking that enables the mind to settle into this sense of the body felt from within without pushing the energies out of balance. But even here you have to be careful … 
  6. Dhamma Medicine for Free
     … As you do so, you get more and more sensitive to how the breathing energy feels. You’re more and more aware of this process. Then there’s mental fabrication, feeling and perception. Feeling would be the feelings of ease or dis-ease associated with breath. Perception includes the mental labels, the images you have in your mind about the breath. When you breathe … 
  7. Building on Certainty
     … And if you don’t know if it feels right or not, compare it with something else. Try shorter breathing for a while and then note which one feels better. And then stick with whatever rhythm, whatever texture of breathing feels best. Then you can try different ways of thinking about the breath. Instead of thinking of the body as a big bellows—with … 
  8. Knowing the Body from Within
     … Does the body feel too heavy, or do you feel too lightheaded? Can you bring things into balance? If you’re feeling too heavy, think more of lightness, the breath energy lifting you up. If you’re feeling too lightheaded, think more of earth: There are bones, there’s all this solid stuff in your body that can keep you grounded. Once you’ve … 
  9. The Power of Present Kamma
     … We do this by evaluating how the breath feels and, if it doesn’t feel good, asking ourselves how to change it. If it does feel good, how do you maintain that sense of feeling good, how do you maximize it and spread it around, and how do you keep watch over it to maintain it? That voice in the back of your mind … 
  10. Feelings of Pain
     … The third step is to breathe in and out sensitive to mental fabrication—in other words, feelings and perceptions. Feelings are feeling- tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the labels you use to identify things. Then the fourth step is to calm mental fabrication. In other words, find a way to breathe that calms the feelings and calms the … 
  11. Skillful Attachments
     … It’s much more productive to find a comfortable way of breathing, a way of breathing that feels refreshing or soothing—energizing if you feel tired, relaxing if you feel tense. Often that requires a major re-sensitizing because you’re so used to blocking out how the body feels so that you can think about other things. So you have to consciously reopen … 
  12. Savor Your Breath
     … Try to notice which parts of the body are most sensitive to how an in-breath feels or how an out-breath feels, but particularly the in-breath. If you’re not sure, hold the breath for a bit until you feel you’ve got to breathe. Then as the breath comes in, you’ll notice certain parts of the body feel greatly relieved … 
  13. Basic Breath, Basic Insight
     … See how that feels. Notice where you feel the breathing process in the body—because the breath isn’t just the air coming in and out through the nose. It’s the whole movement of energy through the body that accompanies the in-breath and accompanies the out-. Notice where you feel that—and also notice if it’s comfortable. If long breathing feels … 
  14. Breath, Tranquility, & Insight
     … When you’re with the breath, feelings and mind-states are right there. When you shift your attention to feelings, it’s very much connected with the idea that you want to breathe in a way that feels refreshing, feels full, so that you’re not squeezing the breath energy out as you breathe out, and you’re not dragging things in as you … 
  15. Training in Happiness
     … You can try long breathing for a while and see how that feels. If it feels good, then stick with it. If it doesn’t feel good, you can change. You can make it shorter, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter. There are lots of ways you can play with your breath. Think of this as a game: What kind of breathing feels good right … 
  16. Questioning Impermanence
     … That doesn’t feel good. Long breathing feels good. Short breathing feels good. Breathing down the back feels good. Breathing down the front feels good. Breathing into your brain feels good.” There are all kinds of places in the body where you can explore, to see where the breathing feels good, where it doesn’t feel good. And you can make changes. Ask, “How … 
  17. Mindfulness & Effort
    Pose the question in your mind, “What kind of breathing would feel good right now? What kind of breathing would feel nourishing?” And see how the body responds. If it doesn’t respond in any particular way, you can try adjusting the breath to see what kind of results you get. Think, “longer breathing,” and let the body breathe in a nice, long, deep … 
  18. What You Sense Directly
     … Mental fabrication is composed of feelings and perceptions. Feelings are the feeling tones you have right here: pleasant, painful, neither pleasant nor painful. Then perceptions are the images you hold in mind that help you stay with the breath—the markers of the mind, the signposts—or the way you visualize to yourself how the breath goes through the body. So the question is … 
  19. Basic Intro
     … How does the breath feel in the lungs? How does the breath feel in the stomach? How does it feel in the head? How does it feel in the shoulders? Which part of the body is most sensitive to the breath? For some people, it’s down in the chest, in the area near the heart. So ask yourself: How does that part of … 
  20. Your Higher Power
     … Ask yourself what kind of rhythm would feel good right now. And experiment for a while until you find something that does feel good. Once you’ve got something that feels good, you try to maintain it. But at the same time, you have to keep an eye out for changes in the body, because as the mind settles down, the breath-energy needs … 
  21. Generosity of Spirit
     … He doesn’t feel affected by their jostling and running into one another. When you think about the Buddha’s vision of the world, it’s a vision that has a lot of compassion, because you’re not feeling wounded by the people around you. When you’re feeling wounded, it’s hard to feel compassion. The big problem, of course, is that we … 
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