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- Medicine – Timely & Timeless… When you see breath energy in a constant way, it’s a lot easier to adjust the breath in a way that feels right, feels healthy, feels nourishing. You can gain a sense of fullness without feeling stuffed. When you breathe out, you can begin to sense the point where you’ve breathed out too much: You’re squeezing the breath energy, depleting yourself …
- Mindful & Grateful for Lessons in Freedom… Then there’s mental fabrication, your perceptions and your feelings. You have more room for creating feelings in the body and in the mind than you might have thought. The present moment is not just a given. The way you breathe and the way you perceive the breath will have an effect on how you feel it. So what kind of perceptions can you …
- Habits & Practices… the form clinging-aggregate, the feeling clinging-aggregate, perception, fabrications, consciousness clinging-aggregate. That’s because we’re not familiar with our clinging on this level. It’s easier to relate to the different clingings that the Buddha says get applied to these five aggregates. In fact, that’s what the whole issue of comprehension is. First, to get familiar with how you experience …
- Explore & Experiment… So, explore this sense of the body as you feel it from within. At the same time, you’re beginning to explore the acts of the mind as they relate to how you feel the body from within. So you get both *nāma *and rūpa, both name and form. It’s through exploring these things that the Dhamma becomes yours. We’re not here …
- Seclusion… You can’t go out and help everybody for whom you feel compassion. You can’t provide for the happiness of everyone for whom you feel goodwill. Which is where equanimity comes in: a realization of what our limitations are and of the need to establish priorities. Ajaan Fuang once said that you need the equanimity of jhana so that the attitudes of goodwill …
- Preparing to Die Well… You can also calm down the feeling side of mental fabrication as well. Sometimes there are strong feelings of rapture or thrill going up and down the spine. You get goose bumps, intense feelings of fullness as if you’re going to drown. Sometimes it’s very pleasant and other times very unpleasant, as if you’re losing control. You start to pulsate or …
- Four Roles to Play… Where do you feel it? Then you focus your attention to where it’s clearest. The next question is: How does it feel? Does it feel good? You can try experimenting. Tell yourself to try long breathing for a while, then to try short breathing. Fast or slow, heavy or light. Deep, shallow. Broad, narrow. This is where you bring in another aspect of …
- Cleansing the Mind… Empathetic joy’s not to make you feel lazy. You see other people doing the good things leading to happiness, and that should be an inspiration for you to do the same things as well. You’re happy for them, for their good deeds, their good merit. And you realize if you’re going to have anything good in life, it’s going to …
- Fires of the Mind… And either there’ll be an sense of light in the body or just a glowingly pleasant feeling that feels steady throughout all the little parts of the body you can feel. This is how you take the mind’s tendency to burn and put it to good use. Once you have that steadiness, then, as I said, you can see things a lot …
- Dependable Friends… Notice how it feels as it comes in, as it goes out. Where do you feel the breath? And here we’re not talking just about the passage of air through the nose. It’s more the movement of energy in the body that brings the air into the lungs and then lets it go out. That energy is breath as well. So how …
- Protect Your Energy… You pick up what they’re feeling, often unconsciously, and then you wonder why you’re miserable. The fact that you’re not looking after your own energy also means that the energy that you’re broadcasting to other people is not good either. So mindfulness is not just for your own protection, it’s for the protection of others, making a positive contribution …
- A Safe Haven Through Alertness… You feel invaded; you don’t feel quite safe. And if you’re not safe in your own body, there’s really no place where you can be safe. So you’ve got to learn how to settle in and how to have a sense of being centered in one spot in the body but have your range of awareness fill the whole body …
- The Skillful Heart… When he was asked where a gift should be given, he said, “Give where you feel inspired, where you feel it would be well-used.” That’s your choice. And the culture of generosity that gets developed around that tries to protect that choice. There’s a rule for the monks that when someone asks them, “Where should I give this gift?” the response …
- Stillness & Clear Seeing… And if long breathing feels good, keep it up. If it doesn’t feel good, you can change. Find a level of breathing—fast, slow, heavy, light, deep, shallow—that’s just right. The breath is the most responsive of all the elements in the body. It’s the one that colors our experience of the body as a whole, and it will color …
- Outside the Box… The Buddha basically says, when you’re asked about action, that’s not the time to be talking about inconstancy of all feelings, the stresses of all feelings. It’s the time to talk about how some feelings are pleasurable, some are neutral, and some are painful. The purpose of the teaching at that point, when you’re talking about kamma, is to try …
- Part I : Basic Instructions… If you’re feeling a little lazy, think of what’s motivating you to meditate, and how you can give a little more oomph to that motivation. What thoughts will help? This is one of the reasons that we chant the recollection of the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha every evening before we meditate. We bow down to the Buddha because the Buddha …
- Compassion Without Clinging… He’s not imposing shoulds to make us feel guilty. After all, who is he to be telling us what to do? He’s not our creator. He’s not our father. But he is an expert in knowing how not to suffer. There are people who don’t want to suffer. His advice is for them. As in the case with ordinary everyday …
- Asking the Right Questions… The feelings of pleasure and the perceptions you hold in mind about the breath: Those are mental fabrications. The questions about discernment concern how to view fabrications in a way that gives rise to dispassion. Of course, this doesn’t mean just trying to drop them immediately as soon as you close your eyes. First you’ve got to get the mind into concentration …
- AlertThe purpose of getting the mind into concentration is so that it can see itself, both in the sense that it’s quiet enough that it’s not creating disturbances, so anything subtle that shows up in the mind will be very clear, and also in the sense that there should be a feeling of well-being so that it’s willing to observe …
- Caring Without Clinging… So it’s not that the Buddha asks us not to have feelings, but he tells us to learn how to be free in the midst of these emotions. Learn how to observe them, step back from them, and don’t get deluded by them. It’s easy to get swayed by something when we’re happy. We pick up all sorts of deluded …
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