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  2. Comprehending Pain
     … The perception, the mental image you have of the pain, that’s something else. Your perception of yourself in relationship to pain, your perception of the form in relation to the pain, your perception of just simple awareness with relationship to the pain: You might want to test to see exactly what these perceptions are. That’s how you perform the duties with regard … 
  3. Possessed by Emotions
     … Then look for the perceptions that lie behind all this. Many of these perceptions come from your lizard-brain, especially the perceptions related to strong emotions. They flash in the mind and then go back and hide. So you have to watch for them carefully. If you don’t see what underlying perception is controlling this conversation, you can try creating other perceptions. Try … 
  4. Nurturing Your Inner Adult
     … So when an emotion comes up, ask yourself, what’s fabricating here? In particular, what kinds of perceptions are making it difficult to see the situation clearly? Often these fabrications and perceptions come from way back in your past. Some of the childish members on your committee have held onto these perceptions for a very long time. And one of the reasons they’re … 
  5. Changing Your Default Settings
     … And then you hold to a perception of the breath: a mental image. It can be either a picture in the mind, or just a word or whatever, of how you conceive the breath, and how you hold the concept of breath in mind. You hold on to that: both to the sensation of the breathing itself and to the perception. And then you … 
  6. Present Kamma
     … That’s where you use the other two things that you want to focus on, which the Buddha calls perception and attention. Perceptions are the images you hold in mind. They can either be words or pictures. For instance, your perception right now is the perception of the breath. When you breathe in and out, when you think about it, what’s the picture … 
  7. The Lightness of the Concentrated Mind
     … Hold that perception in mind and see what other perceptions that you ordinarily carry around that you’re going to be running up against. This ability to question your perceptions is an important part of concentration because you’re unburdening the mind. You begin to see how many preconceived notions you carry around with you. You start first with your notions about the body … 
  8. Perceptions & Obsessions
  9. Perception & Intention
  10. Pains & Perceptions
  11. Intentions & Perceptions
  12. Explore & Experiment
     … As for perception, you can play with the perceptions to see how different perceptions will have an effect on your concentration. Ignorance is not so much ignorance of things as they are, it’s more about how things work. And this is one way of learning about how perception works—by experimenting with it. It’s like learning about any kind of food. You … 
  13. Using the Perceptions
  14. Perceptions, Not Characteristics
  15. Determination
     … See if that perception helps. In other words, the problem is not the pain; the problem is the perception. And the real problem is our ignorance around the perceptions. We apply these perceptions partly as a way of warning the future as we go from moment to moment to moment. “Okay, there’s a pain here. Watch out, there’s a pain here.” That … 
  16. Not Just a Witness
     … On top of that, we regulate our perceptions by acting, doing something, to check our perceptions to see how helpful they actually are. Perceptions that don’t work, we throw away. Perceptions that do work, we keep. As I’ve been reading the book, I keep thinking, “The Buddha saw all this 2,600 years ago. This is all nothing new.” What may be … 
  17. No Resistance
     … Just try to maintain that perception that you’re with the breath, and whatever comes up, whatever is right here, it has to be breath for you to focus on it. Once you can stick with that perception, your concentration gets a lot stronger. And the ability to stick with a single perception like that will help you get into the more and more … 
  18. The Power of Perception
  19. Some Space Around Your Perceptions
  20. The Perception of Wilderness (outside)
  21. Meaning & Purpose
     … And notice what kind of perceptions help you with that purpose. First there’s the perception that this is a good thing to do. It’s going to take you to a good place. Then there’s the perception of what the breath is doing in the body. Ajaan Lee talks about the different breath channels in the body, starting, say, with the back … 
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