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2. Play AudioThe Fires of Sensuality
    … It doesn’t have to come from anyplace else, just within the cell, and it feels good. Then each little cell joins in, joins in, joins in with the others, till the whole body feels good, so that you’re breathing in such way that none of the cells feel squeezed, none of the cells feels that their energy is being depleted in any … 
3. Play AudioNot Getting What You Want
    … Just say, “longer breathing,” and see what longer breathing feels like. “Shorter.” And then compare the two. Deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter, faster, slower.… Make an inventory of how the different ways of breathing feel for the body right now. Then decide which one feels best or which combination feels best. Stick with that as long as it feels good. When it starts not … 
4. Play AudiosBeyond Acceptance
    … So, what would feel good? What perception of that flow would help it feel good? Then you talk to yourself as you stay with the breath. One, you have the intention to stay, and then two, you have the intention to adjust it so that it feels good. When it feels good, try to maintain it. When you can maintain it, try to let … 
5. Play AudioOn the Path of the Breath
    … Because the Buddha doesn’t say where in the body you have to focus, you can ask yourself, when you breathe in, where you actually feel it. Put aside your preconceived notions of where you should be feeling it: Where do you actually feel the breath? Where is it comfortable; where is it uncomfortable? From those steps in learning how to sensitize yourself to … 
6. Play AudioChopping Off Thoughts
    … It feels just right for the body. If you’re feeling tired, try to breathe in a way that gives you more energy. If you’re feeling tense, breathe in a way that’s more relaxed. Work with the breath just enough so that it feels good to be with the breath coming in, feels good to be with the breath going out. You … 
7. Play AudioPath & Goal
    … But it’s all a matter of settling in right here and asking yourself: “What feels really good? Which feels better?” You’re learning to become a connoisseur of your concentration, a connoisseur of your breath, a connoisseur of the potentials in the present moment. Then, as with any connoisseur, you can indulge your sense of what feels really good. There’s no objective … 
8. Play AudioDealing with Pain
    … learning how to develop the breath in a way that’s comfortable, and then learning how to use that sense of comfort for your own purposes, i.e., settling down, getting the mind in a position where it feels at ease, where it feels confident, and where it doesn’t feel threatened by the pain. This is important because if you’re going to … 
9. Play AudioThe Skill of Stillness
    … So ask yourself, “What kind of breathing would feel really good?” Try to find a spot in the body that’s sensitive to the breath—it might be down in the chest, around the heart, in the throat—that when you breathe harshly it feels hurtful there, but when you breathe smoothly it feels good. Sometimes there will be parts of the body that … 
10. Play AudioDwellings
     … As the Buddha said, perceptions and feelings shape the mind. So what are the feelings right now that are shaping your mind? What are the perceptions? Can you change them? When he talks about being mindful of feelings, he talks about feelings “not of the flesh” and “feelings of the flesh.” Feelings of the flesh are simple sensory sensations that are pleasant, painful, or … 
11. Play AudioA Thread into Awareness
     … And so we work with the breath to notice what way of breathing feels good, what way of breathing doesn’t feel so good right now. And sometimes it’s not a matter of feeling good right now, but what kind of breathing is going to be good for you? Back when I had migraines, I found that a really effective way of breathing … 
12. Play AudioThe Dhamma Mirror
     … Does the breath feel good? Yes. If it feels good, how do you maintain that? And as you maintain that, how do you get it to spread around the body so that it feels thoroughly saturated with this good breath energy? And then consciousness is aware of all these things. This is how you learn about these aggregates—by doing the path—because you … 
13. Play AudioCalm & at Ease
     … your perceptions and feelings. You try to develop intense feelings of pleasure along with intense feelings of rapture or refreshment. Then, when the mind has been energized and refreshed, you allow it to calm down. In other words, you find feelings and perceptions that are more refined and calming, just as you found a way of breathing that was more refined. Take the perception … 
14. Play AudioThe Balance of Power
     … At the very least try to get at least one part of the body that feels good. Try to find the part that feels central, that you are on really intimate terms with. At least make this part good. So it feels comfortable as you breathe in, you are not squeezing or pushing it or pulling it, and then allow it to maintain that … 
15. Play AudioTrue to the Breath
     … the feelings and perceptions of the mind. Try to see them simply as a process. A feeling comes, and you decide immediately whether you like it or dislike it and then you get involved in it. It becomes your feeling. Then you feel happy, you feel pleasant, or you feel pained. It’s no longer just a process. It’s your feeling, and that … 
16. Play AudioHigh Level Metta
     … So you ask yourself, “What kind of breathing feels good right now? Does this breathing feel good or does that breathing feel good?” That’s directed thought and evaluation. And when the breathing feels good, what do you do with it? If you think of it spreading through the body, you can also expand your range of awareness so that it spreads through the … 
17. Play AudioAnapanasati Day
     … If you’re holding on to the breath, you notice how feelings are related to the breath, what the feelings do to the breathing, what the breathing does to the feelings, what the mind does to the breathing, what the feelings do to the mind, how subtle intentions are related to the breathing. Even when you get the breathing really, really still, the intention … 
18. Play AudioThe Four Frames of Reference
     … You sit down for a few minutes, and all of a sudden you feel you’ve committed to the next half hour, even though you know that nothing earthshaking, nothing really worthwhile, is going to happen in the show. Usually the ending is pretty predictable, but for some reason you feel committed anyhow. It’s the same with thought patterns in the mind. A … 
19. Play AudioAll for the Sake of Freedom
    When you start meditating, make a survey of the body as you feel it from within. You can start with the tips of the fingers and the tips of the toes, and work on up to the head, or start with the head and go down the body. This is the territory you’re going to try to inhabit right now—the body as … 
20. Play AudioSafe Haven
     … If that feels good, keep it up, until it doesn’t feel good anymore. Then you can change. Just pose that thought in the mind: What kind of breathing would feel good now? And give everything over to the breath. If you need a meditation word to help you stay with the breath, you can use the word buddho, which means awake. Think bud … 
21. Play AudioStrategic Thinking
     … You’ve got form, which is the form of the body, the breath; and you’ve got feeling—feelings of pleasure and pain in the body, which you’re trying through the breath to turn into more feelings of pleasure. There’s also the perception of the breath, there are fabrications, in other words, directed thought and evaluation—verbal fabrication—and finally there’s … 
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