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  2. Ingenuity
     … Try to stay with the breath and, on the one hand, be as fully aware of just the sensation of the breath as you can and then, on the other hand, evaluate things, noticing how things are going. Is the breath a comfortable place to stay? Is it an interesting place to stay? What can you do to make it more comfortable? What can … 
  3. Afraid of Inner Pleasure
     … So try not to pinch the end of the breath, and don’t breathe in any more than you have to. But by the same token, as the Thais say, breathe with your whole abdomen. Let the breath go all the way down. And see how long you can maintain that sense of comfort. While you’re protecting it, try to make sure that … 
  4. Mindfulness & Perception
     … You’re going to focus on the breath part, or the breath aspect. That comes under the aggregate of form. There are going to be feelings of pleasure and pain, so you learn how to cultivate the breath in such a way that gives rise to pleasure. Use a perception to remind yourself to stay here. Then there’s fabrication, especially in the first … 
  5. Take the One Seat
     … Mindfulness is the ability to remember you’ve got to stay with the breath. Alertness is what watches the breath. As you settle down with the breath, you notice there are a lot of other things right next to the breath: all the activities of the mind. Ajaan Chah has a nice image. He says it’s as if you have a room. There … 
  6. Equanimity as a Skill
     … There are lots of ways you can change the way you relate to the breath in the present moment, the way you understand the breath in the present moment, what you do with the breath in the present moment. Equanimity is there to judge the results, to look fairly and objectively at what’s going on so that you can be more effective in … 
  7. Protection, Inside & Out
     … He said that you make yourself your refuge by making the Dhamma your refuge, and you make the Dhamma your refuge by practicing the establishings of mindfulness, starting out, say, with the breath. You focus on the breath and you do what you can to remember to stay with the breath. Then you watch yourself: Watch the breath to see how the breath is … 
  8. Hold on for All You’re Worth
     … We do that first by focusing on the breath, taking a couple of good long deep in-and-out breaths. Notice where you feel the breathing in the body, because that’s what we’re going to be focusing on: the sensation of energy, the flow of the energy. Where is it most prominent right now? Focus your attention there. Then the next question … 
  9. Study & Practice
     … But when you’ve got them here together, as when you’re focusing on the breath, with the feelings associated with the breath, the mind-states that help you stay here, the mental qualities that are either getting in the way or helping you, then you’ve got everything you need to see all right here. If you move from one set to another … 
  10. The Triple Training
     … You need alertness to watch what you’re doing to make sure the mind stays with the breath. If it’s not with the breath, then you bring in ardency to bring it back. While you are with the breath, you’re ardent to be as sensitive as possible to the mind and the breath, because the more sensitive you are to the breathing … 
  11. Don’t Just Do It
     … When Ajaan Lee says to try the different types of breath, ask yourself, “What does he mean? What, in my experience, corresponds to what he talks about when he says: ‘the breath going through the spine,’ or ‘the breath going through the legs,’ or ‘taking the breath energy and letting it go through a pain’?” Really look into that, because there’s a lot … 
  12. Strength of Persistence
     … He works with breath going down the spine, he works with breath going up the spine, works with the breath energies going around in circles, the breath energies surrounding the body. These are areas you can explore. For instance, there’s a cocoon of energy that surrounds the body and it’s related to the way you breathe. It’s related to the breath … 
  13. The Uses of Pleasure & Pain
    The Uses of Pleasure & Pain August, 2001 Allow your awareness to settle in on the breath and get aligned with the body. It takes a little experimenting to find exactly what amount of pressure is needed, what amount of force is needed to stay with the breath and the body in a way that’s just right. If the pressure is too light, the … 
  14. Ending Suffering
     … With practice, you can get quicker at noticing when the mind is going to slip off the breath and you can bring it back to the breath in more and more skillful ways. Then you find that you can stay with the breath for longer and longer and longer periods of time. You can resist some of the waves that seem to wash over … 
  15. Passion for Dispassion
     … Put it together—like right now, meditating on the breath. The breath itself is a fabrication. There’s an intentional element in it. That’s what fabrication means. If you want to run a running commentary, comment on the breath. How does it feel? Where would it feel really good to focus on the breath? What parts of the body seem to be especially … 
  16. Mindreading
     … This is why the breath is such an important part of the meditation. The problem is that when things settle down, sometimes they settle down too much, and you start getting dull. That’s when you should start working more actively with the breath in the body. Or you can think about the parts of the body as well. One effective meditation is to … 
  17. Healthy Conceit
     … How does it start surveying around to see where else the mind might want to go? When the mind starts getting bored with the breath, when it starts getting impatient, what are the warning signs? And once you see the warning signs, what can you do to make sure you stay with the breath: Make the breath deeper, make the breath more interesting, make … 
  18. A Post for the Heart
     … With something as simple as the breath: When people ask what we meditate on here, we say the breath, and nobody asks, “What is that?” And yet, as you get to know it, you begin to realize there’s a lot going on in the breath that you may not have expected. So you’ve got to learn how to be okay with that … 
  19. For When the World Can’t Help You
     … Stay with the breath coming in, the breath going out, because that’s your anchor in the present moment. As long as you’re with the breath, you know you’re in the present moment. If you lose the breath, it’s easy to wander off to the past, wander off to the future. But there’s no future breath you could watch, no … 
  20. Practice All Day
     … If you found that just being with the knowing was not solid enough, you’d go back to the breath, to maintain a sense of the breath energy in the body and be aware of that as your foundation, as your anchor. But it basically was a matter of staying with the knowing, right here in the present moment, with the breath as anchor … 
  21. Mud Houses
     … There’s your perception of the breath, the image you have of it that allows the breath to flow through the body and can direct the flow in the different ways you want it to go. There are your thought fabrications, starting with directed thought and evaluation: adjusting the breath and figuring out how best to use the pleasure that comes when the breath … 
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