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  2. Three Levels of Evaluation
     … It didn’t feel comfortable at first but after a while I began to notice that it really was having a good effect on the body. So I stuck with it until it had done its work, and then I let things relax. So sometimes you can’t tell right away what’s going to work and what’s not. But this is one … 
  3. The Seven Factors for Awakening
     … But if you feel that there’s a lack of energy in your practice, these are the ones you want to focus on, to help you see, when you’re feeling lazy or just tired: What potentials for skillfulness are there in the mind? What can you focus on that’ll give rise to energy? Sometimes this means moving your focus around. If you … 
  4. The Wisdom of Restraint
     … So we’re not here to be true to our feelings. We’re here to be true to our desire for true happiness. That means turning around and looking at our feelings to see: Do they fit in with that desire? Anyplace where they don’t, you’ve got to put them aside, put them aside. Any thoughts, any words that don’t fit … 
  5. All of a Piece
     … Keep focusing the mind on the breath whether you feel like it or not. At the same time, stay away from distractions whether you want to follow them or not. You have to develop the attitude that your wants and your likes are not reliable, especially when you see that they lead in the wrong direction. You’ve got to learn strategies for saying … 
  6. Potentials for Energy
     … Sometimes we don’t feel that way, but they’ve done studies to show that you expend more calories in a day than you take in through your food. There’s something in there that’s creating energy. As the Buddha would say, it’s the mind. So when you’re feeling tired, when you’re feeling depleted, look into your mind. There are … 
  7. Perceptions as Targets
     … If you’re feeling weak or your back feels sore, you might think of energy as coming up the back to give you support. There are lots of different pictures or kinetic images of what’s going on in the body that you can hold in mind. What are the mechanics of the breathing here? This issue of perception is very important. The Thais … 
  8. Judging Your Meditation
     … Does the breath feel good? Does it not feel good? What would feel better? When you choose a point to focus on, which spot is going to be most congenial? You’ve got to learn how to judge these things. So it’s good to keep in mind some important principles about judging as it applies to the meditation. The first one is that … 
  9. Desire for Happiness
     … Can you detect any part in the body where things feel depleted, as if they’re lacking in energy? Are there any cells that would like a good deep breath to reach all the way down to them? Well, you can breathe that way. No one’s stopping you. No one’s preventing you. Just remind yourself of the possibility to open up. And … 
  10. Just One Person
     … You’re doing your feelings. You’re doing your perceptions, your thought fabrications, your consciousness. You’ve even been doing your sense of the body. This is why the Buddha said that all of the aggregates depend on the fourth one—fabrications. That’s what takes the potentials coming from your past actions and turns them into your present experiences. So you’re playing … 
  11. Harmony, Right & Wrong
     … So try to breathe in a way that makes it feel good to be here, feel good to stay here for a good long time. Whatever’s needed for the sake of harmony, you do it. Don’t see it as a luxury. This is one of the problems with our society, our culture. It feeds on strife. We fall into strife very easily … 
  12. Glad to Be Here
     … The mind does need a good place to stay, a place where it feels at ease, where it feels confident. So even though we have to be heedful, wary of the dangers in our minds, it doesn’t mean we have to be grim—because grimness can also be a defilement, in that it wears you down. We’re in here for the long … 
  13. Cutting Through the Hype
     … The actual feeling of pleasure, the actual feeling of pain: How long does it last? What is like when you don’t embroider these things? What can stand up to the test that’s good even it’s not embroidered? This required patience. It requires mindfulness, concentration, and the ability to stay focused on just this: “What am I doing? What’s effect? How … 
  14. A Load of Straw
     … If you see people who are suffering, you feel compassion for them, you’d like to see them gain release from that suffering. As for those who are already happy, you wish them to continue in that happiness. It’s funny that this last attitude, appreciation or sympathetic joy, is the harder of the two. Sometimes compassion is easy because we can view ourselves … 
  15. The Fortress
     … Notice where you feel the breathing in the body. Remember the “breath” here is not so much the air coming in and out through the nose, but it’s the breath energy in the body that exists on many different levels. The most blatant level, as you’re sitting here, is the in-and-out breath. Ask yourself: Where do you feel it most … 
  16. The Missing Fabrication
     … The mind feels refreshed. The mind feels steady. Then you can stop the talking. But you don’t simply calm verbal fabrication for the sake of calming it. You use it first to whatever extent it’s needed. Then you can let it go. Even more so in the steps that have to do with insight in the fourth tetrad. The Buddha talks about … 
  17. The Awful Truth
     … The feeling that the young prince felt at that point, is called pasada: a sense of confidence: “Yes, if there’s a way out this must be it.” And so, the story goes, he left his family and went out into the wilderness. And discovered that through his own efforts, yes, he could discover the deathless. That’s why we have that fifth contemplation … 
  18. Ajaan Suwat’s Gift
     … The pain you feel, nobody else can feel for you. They can see the signs that you have pain and they can sympathize with you, but they can’t really feel your pain. So when the Buddha says to focus on the issue of why you’re suffering, he’s saying to focus on this area of your awareness, the area that you don … 
  19. Treasure Island
     … If you’re feeling oppressed by the heat, try to gladden your mind. What things would make you glad right now, things in line with the Dhamma? Could you get fascinated by the breath? You could tell yourself, “It doesn’t matter what the temperature is outside. I’ve got something really interesting to play with right here.” You’re alone on your Arctic … 
  20. The Karma of Meditation
     … Because the person has a lot of wealth, he hardly feels it at all. The other type of person is someone who’s very narrow-minded, narrow-hearted. Doesn’t care about genuine well-being for himself or other people or herself and other people. Has very little compassion, very little empathetic joy. Can’t remain equanimous over things that arise in life. That … 
  21. The Mirror Inside
     … So, right now as you’re working with the breath, how’s it going? Does it feel comfortable? If it doesn’t feel comfortable, what changes would be better? Would it be better to be longer or shorter? Faster, slower? Heavier, lighter? Deeper, more shallow? This is an area where you can experiment. It’s one of the nice things about concentration practice: The … 
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