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  2. Delight
     … And some days you just don’t feel up to that effort. So it’s good to stop and think about what’s good about what you’re doing here, why you want to be here sitting here with your eyes closed. The reasons are going to be different for different people, but they basically come down to the fact that the mind is … 
  3. Three Parts of Right View
     … There are the feelings of hunger, and the feelings of fullness that come after we’ve eaten. There’s the perception of what kind of hunger we’re suffering from. Is it the kind of hunger that needs something liquid? Does it need something solid? Does it need something salty or sweet? And then there’s the perception of what out there would satisfy … 
  4. Choices
    The Buddha’s teachings are all about making choices between the things you feel like doing and the things that would be for your long-term welfare and happiness. It starts with generosity. You have something. You could either keep it and use it yourself, or you could give it away. Your immediate impulse is to keep it. But when you try giving it … 
  5. What Are You Taking into the Future?
     … It’s a strange expression, it’s hard to say why the Buddha says it’s for the sake of “formness” or “feelingness” or “perceptionhood.” The Commentary tries to explain this way of phrasing the issue away, saying simply that we fabricate form as form, feelings as feelings, perceptions as perceptions, and so on. But that misses something which is very clear in the … 
  6. In Alignment
     … Experiment a bit to see what feels just right. Just like a balance trying to find its point of an even keel, it’ll lean a little bit to the left, a little bit to the right, but just enough so that you eventually know what’s straight up and down. Then try to keep it there. This is our point of normalcy: the … 
  7. Comprehending Clinging
     … In the meantime, you’ve got to learn to look carefully at the different senses of what you want, the way you feel the world works, and how you feel you should act in the world, and this “you” who’s invested in all these things. It’s the investment that makes us cling. That’s why the Buddha said, of all the forms … 
  8. Learning from Determination
     … It’s simply that the breath energy feels so full in the body. You’ve learned how to breathe in and breathe out without squeezing the breath out, without squeezing it between the in-breath and the out-breath to make a little marker. The in-breath flows into the out-breath, the out-breath flows into the in-breath, and you breathe out … 
  9. The Walls of Ignorance
     … Sometimes you may notice that you’re putting too little or too much pressure on it. “Too little” means that the mind keeps slipping off. “Too much” means that the breath feels confined. It’s constricted, placed in a box, and can’t get out. Ajaan Lee once compared alertness to a rope over a pulley that you can pull in two directions. You … 
  10. Counter-cultural Values
     … perception and feeling, which are the raw materials from which you might talk about things—feelings of pleasure pain, neither pleasure nor pain, and the images that the mind creates to communicate with itself. When a really strong emotion comes into the mind, it’s made of these three same things. But while you’re meditating, you’re learning to gain some control over … 
  11. Training Heart & Mind
     … This is why you develop a good sense of who you are and what you’re capable of, so that you feel worthy of a happiness that doesn’t change, a happiness that’s better than ordinary because you’re not harming anyone. This sense of self-worth comes from looking at yourself as you practice acts of generosity, *as *you practice acts of … 
  12. A Mind Like Earth
     … You learn how to breathe in a way that feels refreshing, feels nourishing—energizing when you need energy, relaxing when you need to be relaxed, soothing when you’re feeling wounded. This practice is meant to be done in a world that’s not perfect. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to adjust things and improve things when it’s possible, but … 
  13. Inner Poise
     … It’s nourishing for you, and when you’re feeling nourished inside, you don’t have to go running outside to feed off other people, to get support from this person, to get encouragement from that person—just running around for scraps from other people because inside you’re feeling malnourished. When you nourish the body and mind with the breath, you don’t … 
  14. Adjusting the Flame
     … Ajaan Suwat would often talk about giving rise to a sense of conviction, a sense of feeling inspired that this is something you really want to do, this is a good use of your time, and it’s a privilege to be able to meditate. Then, with that motivation in mind, you look at what’s going on in the mind. Thoughts will come … 
  15. Dealing with Confusion
     … If your mind feels scattered, think of everything coming together: a sense of unity right here. What you’re trying to do is to create a place where the mind can settle down and just watch what’s going on in as balanced and impartial a way as possible. This is how you train it, because the untrained mind is generally confused. We live … 
  16. Life Well Lived
     … For this reason, when the sensation of breathing gets comfortable enough, start thinking of the comfortable sensation going out and filling your whole body, so that the whole body feels easy as you breathe in, feels easy as you breathe out. You can trace the energy flow in your body. Notice where it’s blocked, and if you find pieces of the body are … 
  17. To Stay the Course
     … And three, there are going to be things that you have to do that you don’t like to do, but you don’t let your emotions, you don’t let your feelings come in and take over and pull you away, because they sap you of your strength. At the same time, when other things outside happen, you don’t let your feelings … 
  18. Practical Wisdom
     … If you can learn how to breathe through the feelings, the physical manifestations in the body—relaxing your hands, relaxing the feet—you can start occupying the body instead of having that particular feeling occupying the body. Then you’re in a better position to be able to sidestep it, to figure out where its weak point are, so that you can focus on … 
  19. Questioning Your Conviction
     … May feelings be thus. May they not be thus’?” The same with perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness: In each case, the five brethren said No. **So which is it? Can you do things, or can you not do things with these aggregates? Well, you can do some things. And it’s the **some things **that are important. It’s in that area of **some things … 
  20. The World Does Not Endure
     … You’re wracked with pain, and that’s all they can think of. “Maybe he’ll die this time.” Then the young monk asked the king, “Can you tell your courtiers and relatives to take some of your pain and share it so that you don’t have to feel so much?” “Well, no.” The king admitted that he would have to feel all … 
  21. Oppressed by Old Kamma
     … When a thought comes up, is it associated with a pattern of tension in your neck, in your back, in your arms, in your hands? What’s the quality, the feeling-tone that goes along with it? Can you change that feeling-tone, at will, using the breath? Sometimes you change the way you breathe, and the thought will go away. And just seeing … 
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