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  2. Mental Movements
     … clinging to your body or forms of any kind; clinging to feelings, perceptions, thought-constructs, consciousness. There’s clinging only when there’s craving. So, these are the issues we have to watch out for. He says suffering is something you have to learn how to comprehend: understand why it’s happening, how it’s happening. To do that, you have to get the … 
  3. Factors for Stream Entry
     … The name of the list may sound a little exalted, and you might not feel quite ready for stream entry yet, but the four factors in the list are really important for every meditator, regardless of where you are on the path and how close you are to awakening. These factors give you an idea of who and what to listen to, how to … 
  4. A Wealthy Memory
     … In other words, you don’t necessarily suffer because there are painful feelings in the present. Sometimes you can suffer from pleasant feelings in the present, and vice versa: There can be a great deal of pain and difficulty in the present moment, but you don’t have to suffer. It all depends on what you bring with you to the experience of the … 
  5. Defilements with Their Bambi Eyes
     … We feel affection for them. That’s the problem. So we really do have to think about their drawbacks. But we take on them one at a time. The word for “defilements” is a plural. There are lots of them, which means that you don’t have to battle defilement as an abstraction. But you have to learn how to see your old friends … 
  6. Hold onto the Breath
     … Those pep-talks are meant to help you cling to what’s skillful so that when you let go of what’s unskillful, you don’t feel threatened. You don’t feel like your world is going to be taken apart. One of the reasons we cling is because we feel we have to cling. Even when we cling in an unskillful way, we … 
  7. Abusing Pleasure & Pain
     … You find that conceiving of the breath energy in different ways helps to modulate the breathing so that it feels good: just right for what you need right now. When it feels good in one spot, you think of it spreading out in whichever way is the most comfortable to fill the whole body, so that you’re surrounded with breath energy—behind you … 
  8. You Contain Multitudes
     … You look at the motivational videos telling you that visualizing yourself doing something skillful, going through all the specific motions, helps to get over a lot of the difficulties the actual situation in which you’ll be doing those things and how good you’ll feel afterwards. You can tune into whichever self you have that was involved in developing a skill, doing something … 
  9. Friends Inside & Out
     … How do you find a way to talk about it in such a way that they lower their resistance? How rested are they? Do they feel well-fed? Do they feel secure in their trust of you? Who else is going to be around when you’re talking? You really have to look at these things so that you words will be more effective … 
  10. Reflect on Your Actions
     … good feelings, good contact of the breath with the various elements of the body, the feelings of ease and well-being and rapture that come as a result, and the intentions that keep you here. These are all healthy forms of food for the mind. As you get more and more used to health food for the mind, then when you see the mind … 
  11. There’s Work to Be Done
     … What kind of breathing feels good? It’s good to start with some energizing breaths, long and deep. As long and deep breathing feels good, you keep it up. Then after a while, you let it calm down until things feel just right. Then you let that sense of “just right” spread through the body. This is work you have to do. Ajaan Lee … 
  12. Strong Through Commitment
     … Just ask yourself, “Are you here? Does it feel good? Do you feel centered? Can you maintain this sensation you have here for a while?” If it’s easy to maintain, then fine, stick with it. If it’s not, you might want to make some adjustments. You’re giving yourself something to talk about right here. And you’re holding in mind the … 
  13. To Be Sure
     … We have this strange set of values under which, when something unskillful comes in, we fall under its power and feel that we’re committed to it, that we have to see it all the way through. Whereas with the path, we don’t feel quite so committed. You have to ask yourself what’s wrong with your mind that it feels committed to … 
  14. True Happiness Starts with Giving
     … And it can be found by training the mind to higher and higher levels of standards for what counts as genuine well-being; what counts as something worth doing because deep down inside it feels right. It starts with generosity. It feels right to be generous. It’s a higher level of pleasure, a higher level of happiness than simply consuming pleasurable sensations. What … 
  15. To Discern Suffering
     … the body in and of itself, feelings in and of themselves, mind states, mental qualities in and of themselves. We tend not to see them in and of themselves. We tend to see them in terms of a larger story. If there’s a feeling, it’s a feeling about something. If there’s a mind state, it’s directed at something. We don … 
  16. Perspectives & Priorities
     … This is why some of the questions sound strange. “Is the pain the same thing as the part of the body in which you feel it?” Normally, you would say, “No.” But if you actually look at how you approach pain, you realize that that’s how you see it and use it. So you remind yourself: Your sense of the body is what … 
  17. On Not Being a Victim
     … You feel trapped by a particular pain and then you breathe in reaction to that sense of feeling trapped, and then it makes the pain worse. You feel even more trapped and everything just spirals down. But you could think in other ways. You see that even though there may be pain sensations in that part of the body, is that all there is … 
  18. No Foolproofing
     … How do you feel it? Where do you feel it? Sometimes you notice there are a few stray sensations in the body that you very quickly label as signs that you’re tired. But do you have to believe that label? Maybe there’s another part of your awareness that’s not really tired at all. Try to depend on that to figure out … 
  19. Limitless Thoughts
     … If you identify with your feelings, perceptions, thought constructs, consciousness, you’re limited by those things as well. So as we’re meditating, we’re trying to strip away the limitations we place on ourselves, for those limitations are much more confining than the ones that other people place on us. We counteract these limits with limitless thoughts, starting with thoughts of good will … 
  20. Take Down Your Sails
     … Are you carrying in a mood from the day? What can you do to shred the mood? How about the breath? How does the breath feel right now? Are you breathing in a way that really feels good? Or are you just going through the motions? Is it mechanical? If the breath is mechanical, the body won’t like it. It’ll breathe that … 
  21. Indecision
     … King Pasenadi once came to the Buddha and asked him, “Where should a gift be given?” The Buddha replied, “Wherever you feel inspired or you feel it would be well-used.” Then the king asked, “A gift given where gives great fruit?” And the Buddha said, “That’s a different question. If you give to people who are devoid of passion, aversion, and delusion … 
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