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  2. Letting Go
     … When you breathe in, where do you feel it? Is it in just one spot? Or do you feel it in lots of different spots in the body? Try to be aware of the whole body as you breathe in, aware of the whole body as you breathe out. Then try to get a sense of what kind of breathing feels good for the … 
  3. May All Beings Be Heedful
     … They feel that they deserve to be happy. Of course, both attitudes are extremes. The first attitude seems to come from a Judeo-Christian background, where suffering is regarded as a virtue. At the very least, it keeps you alert. You learn from your mistakes. And if you don’t keep on suffering, then you’ll forget that indulgence is bad. That attitude, of … 
  4. Acceptance & Equanimity
     … Something happens and you don’t feel one way or another about it, or you make yourself not feel one way or another about it. But, as he says, that equanimity goes no further than that particular object. What you want is a more all-embracing equanimity, one that can deal with anything that comes up. To develop that, the Buddha doesn’t say … 
  5. Listening to the Practice
     … You’re perfectly free to breathe in whatever way feels good. It’s a very immediate, very visceral way of showing goodwill for yourself. Instead of forcing the breath, pushing it, or keeping it restricted, you listen to it. See what kind of breathing feels good for the body. What kind of breathing would your body like? What kind of breathing would your legs … 
  6. Defilements as Not-self
     … We come from a guilt culture in which we’re taught to feel bad for ourselves, to feel that we don’t deserve happiness. This is a vein that lies deep in our culture. It’s one of the things that Ajaan Suwat had the most trouble understanding: Where did it come from? He saw people behaving in very self-indulgent ways and he … 
  7. A Tale of Two Kings
     … As Ratthapala points out, there’s no way the king can ask them to share out some of his pains so that he feels less pain. He has to feel all the pain all on his own. Even though he’s king, he can’t order his courtiers to do that. As for the third summary, it’s about death. Even though the king … 
  8. Goodwill as Wealth
     … The way you perceive the breath is going to have an effect on how you feel it in the body. The breath is something that we can intentionally do. It’s one of the few bodily processes that can go on either unintentionally and subconsciously, or intentionally and more consciously. The problem is that when we start getting conscious of it, we start screwing … 
  9. Proactive Mindfulness
     … Where do you feel the breath right now? It might be at the tip of the nose where you feel the air coming in and going out, or it can be in any part of the body that moves as you breathe in, moves as you breathe out: the rising in the chest, the rising in the abdomen, any place where the movement of … 
  10. Look in the Mirror
     … As you focus on the breath, you’ll notice that if you’re putting too much pressure on the breath, the breath feels uncomfortable. You want to give the breath as much freedom as possible to flow throughout the body—and that requires a light touch. Even though he talks about working with the breath energies in the body, spreading them here, spreading them … 
  11. The Languages of Right View
     … They have the concept of the guilt of someone who’s guilty of a crime, but for the neurotic feelings of guilt that many Westerners carry around, there’s no word for that in Thai. Think about what it would be like to have your mind speaking to itself in a language that didn’t have that word. The words you use, the perceptions … 
  12. A Victory that Matters
     … We each suffer; however, we can’t feel another person’s suffering. We can sometimes sense that they’re suffering, although we can’t actually feel their pain. We only can feel ours. It’s the subjective experience. The Buddha points out that the suffering that really weighs down on the mind is not the suffering that comes from other people. It’s the … 
  13. Fire Escapes
     … Find a spot in the body where it feels good, where the breath energy feels nourishing: calming when you need to be calmed, energizing when you need to be energized. Get a sense that the energy is as still as possible, your mind is as still as possible, and that’s when you can read things clearly inside. In particular, you start reading the … 
  14. Merit: Goodness of the Heart
     … the form of your body as you feel it from within; your feelings; your perceptions; your fabrications, the way you put thoughts together; and your consciousness. All of these things are activities. Even the way you keep reaffirming to yourself where your body is right now: That’s an activity, your sense of form, i.e., how you feel the body from within. The … 
  15. Weathering Karma Storms
     … If you’re able to sit here without too much of an invasion from past actions, you can give all your attention to what you’re doing right now—focusing on the breath, talking to yourself about the breath, holding in mind a perception of the breath that makes it easy for feelings of well-being to spread through the body. There are other … 
  16. Your Gyroscope
     … Think about the breath and then notice where you feel the breath—not just the air coming in and out of the lungs, through the nose, but any place in the body where there’s a sensation that corresponds to the breathing: the rise and fall of the abdomen, the rise and fall of the chest, the more subtle feelings you may feel in … 
  17. What You Bring to the Moment
     … You can sit for longer periods of time because it feels better. On the other hand, there’s a certain amount of insight that arises as well, as you begin to see, “Oh, simply sitting here breathing, there are already other conditions.” The mind shapes the breath, shapes your experience of the breath. The perceptions you bring, the feelings you bring to it, can … 
  18. Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana
     … But ordinarily we don’t get so upset about replacing it because then the new pleasure provides more fodder for our sensual obsessions, and as long as we can keep on obsessing, we feel we’re okay. So our craving for sensuality, this tendency of the mind to keep obsessing about, planning about, how it’s going to experience different sensual pleasures: That’s … 
  19. De-domesticated
     … I can’t feel your suffering. You can’t feel my suffering. No matter what the politicians may say, they can’t feel your pain. This is something we each experience in a part of our awareness that’s exclusively ours. It’s like that old question you probably asked at some point when you were a child. When you look at blue, do … 
  20. The Making Of
     … Then there are perceptions and feelings. Of course, there’s the feeling of pleasure. The perception is whatever perception allows you to be with the breath, with a sense of ease, with a sense of belonging, allowing the breath energies to fill the whole body, so that the ease and rapture have a medium which allows them to spread them throughout. While you’re … 
  21. WYSIWYG
     … How does the breath feel refreshing? And when it feels refreshing, then the next step is: How do you let that sense of refreshment spread throughout the body? How do you maintain that? The Buddha doesn’t say, which means that you have to find out on your own. So you bring questions to the breath. You bring questions to your meditation. And that … 
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