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  2. How to Save the World
     … So, one really direct and visceral way of showing kindness to yourself is by watching the breath, getting to know the breath, learning how to make the most use of the breath in giving rise to a sense of well-being right here—starting at one spot in the body, wherever it’s easiest to focus on the breath, and then moving around to … 
  3. Slings and Arrows of Ordinary Fortunes
     … The first step in meditation is to get settled in with the breath, settled in with the body. The more consistently you can stay with the breath, stay with the body, the more the mind will settle down. Mindfulness leads naturally into concentration this way. The concentration gives you a sense of well-being. And if you find yourself getting worked up about how … 
  4. Independent Values
     … Watch over the breath to see how it feels, and watch over your mind to make sure it’s here. If it wanders off, bring it right back. While you’re with the breath, try to be sensitive to how your breath feels. Doing this requires a third quality: ardency. This is how you establish a foundation for yourself in the present moment. The … 
  5. Living Forward, Understanding Backward
     … This is also a process that you learn how to master through the meditation as you perceive the breath, say, in the different parts of the body, perceive how it can be spread around, perceive how the breath can be a whole-body process, perceive various ways of visualizing the breath, visualizing the way you relate to the breath. If you learn how to … 
  6. Respect
     … When the breath energy comes flowing in the body, where does it come from? You can think of the breath coming in and out every pore. What does that do to the way the breathing feels? What does that do to the way the body feels as a whole? There’s a lot to experiment with. And it’s through experimentation that we learn … 
  7. Discernment Performs
     … When you focus on the breath, at first you try to develop a sense of oneness between your awareness and the breath. You try to cultivate that so you really can be solidly with it. But after a while, things begin to separate out, in the same way that when you put oil and vinegar into a bottle and just leave it there, they … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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