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2. Play AudioValues of the Noble Ones
    … We do something over and over again, and it’s causing suffering, but we feel compelled to keep on doing it: We’re feeding on things that we know are going to be bad for us, but we feel compelled to keep feeding. Part of that is because we lack the imagination to think of something else we could do. In other words, we … 
3. Play AudioWorlds
    … And you do your best, even though you may get involved a little bit, to make sure you feel no greed or distress with regard to the worlds coming through. In other words, you don’t get involved with any narratives that would pull you in even further. You don’t let these things get you upset. Sometimes this requires just standing still with … 
4. Play AudioThe Acrobat
    … establishing a frame of reference—such as the body in and of itself, or feelings, mind states, mental qualities in and of themselves—and learning to stay there, keeping those things in mind. That’s the concentration element in mindfulness practice: being ardent, alert, and mindful. Mindfulness means that you keep your frame of reference in mind, and you keep in mind the idea … 
5. Play AudioThe Equanimity of a Victor
    … you feel, you perceive. You fabricate thoughts and you’re aware. These are things you’re doing, and you cling to these actions in ignorance. That’s the suffering. It’s an active verb. Most of us don’t think of it that way. It’s because we don’t think of it that way: That’s why we’re defeated by it. Ajaan … 
6. Play AudioStaying Still
    … In other words, if you’re feeling heavy, what would lighten your sense of the body right now? What sensations in the body already there are already light? Focus on those. If you’re feeling cold, what sensations are already warm? Focus on those. See what happens. As for the lightness or heaviness of the body, there are times when you really get sensitive … 
7. Play AudioMental Seclusion
    … Notice where you feel the breathing process in the body. Let your attention settle there and then try to stay there, all the way through the in-breath, all the way through the out-. Ask yourself if the breath is comfortable. If you’re not sure, you can try different ways of breathing: longer, shorter, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter, faster, slower. Think of … 
8. Play AudioThe Ennobling Path
    … It’s so easy to break a precept, especially when you feel that you’re put at a disadvantage by the precept. We saw all that insanity after 9/11, where people were willing to throw morality out the window because they were so scared. There was even that Buddhist teacher who said, “This principle that hatred is never appeased by hatred, that it … 
9. Play AudioControl
    … Forms arise, but they have to pass away; the same for feelings, perceptions, thought constructs, consciousness. You can’t always say, “I want my body to be like this. I want my feelings to be like that,” and expect them to be that way. Simply telling them to do things doesn’t necessarily make them do it. You can tell the body not to … 
10. Play AudioLess is More
     … What kind of breathing would feel good now? And what would feel good now? Because sometimes you can breathe in a way that stays steadily the same for long periods of time, and the body feels fine. At other times, one type of breathing might feel good for a couple breaths and then not so good with the next breath, so you’ve got … 
11. Play AudioYou Are Not Powerless
     … As a result, they don’t feel powerless. And as the plot of the novel shows, when people are left feeling powerless, they either go into depression, or as I said, they plot revenge. The death of the main character in the novel comes from one of his other fellow prisoners who, after being released, tracks him down and kills him. So there’s … 
12. Play AudioVolunteer Spirit
     … The Buddha was once asked by a king, “To whom should a gift be given?” And the Buddha said, essentially, “Wherever your heart feels inspired or wherever you feel the gift would be well-used.” In other words, there’s no obligation that you have to give to this or that purpose or to this or that cause. It’s totally voluntary. The king … 
13. Play AudioNoble Happiness
     … And then be alert to how the breath feels. Notice when it’s comfortable, notice when it’s not. When it’s not comfortable, you can change it. This is a very immediate and visceral way of showing goodwill for yourself, finding that you can develop a sense of ease in the body simply by the way you breathe. It doesn’t cost any … 
14. Play AudioSelf-hatred
     … passion for form, the form of the body as you feel it from within as you’re practicing concentration; passion for formlessness, the formless states—the dimensions of infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness; restlessness, wanting to make progress; and conceit, the sense of “I am,” that “I’m responsible for doing this. I can do this. I will benefit from doing this. I can … 
15. Play AudioFeeding your Attack Dogs
     … Thinking about things that you feel righteously angry about, you are throwing some scraps to irritation and to views. And you do the same with ignorance and conceit: comparing yourself with somebody else to feel that “I’m okay as a person.” It’s amazing how in the course of the day, how often we compare ourselves to this person and that person, always … 
16. Play AudioThe True Dhamma Has Disappeared
     … One blind man feels the elephant’s trunk and says that the elephant’s like a hose. Another one feels the tail and says, ah, the elephant’s like a broom. Then they fight over whether the elephant’s like a hose or a broom. Well, in the Chinese version of this story, the blind men represent, not sectarians of other religions, but Buddhist … 
17. Play AudioMarshalling the Emotions
     … When you’ve finally figured out how to be with the breath consciously and intentionally, and yet can allow the breath energy to feel full in every little cell in the body, rapture arises. You can maintain that rapture by learning how to maintain the right amount of pressure so that you’re not squeezing the breath, pushing it or pulling it — and some … 
18. Play AudioAt Play
     … He’d simply have them note, “What were you doing? What did it feel like as a result?” Then he would let them out to play. So, as you’re sitting here meditating, think of yourself being at play—at play with the four elements of the body; at play with feelings, perceptions, thought constructs, consciousness, your awareness—on those basic, building-block terms … 
19. Play AudioDeconstructing Suffering
     … Focused on the breath—which is a bodily fabrication—you’re dealing with perceptions and feelings, which are mental fabrications. What you’re doing is taking this process of fabrication and turning it from a cause of suffering into a path to the end of suffering. How is that? To begin with, you create a state of mind that’s as clear and as … 
20. Play AudioKill Your Anger
     … the object you’re angry about, the state of anger in the mind, and then the physical manifestation—the way it feels in the body when you’re angry, and how you feel you have to get it out of your system. This is one of the reasons why we meditate so much on the breath, learning how to deal with tension in the … 
21. Play AudioTo Comprehend Suffering
     … These are the activities of form, feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. But theimportant word there is the clinging, because there are places where he says that the aggregates on their own are experienced by arahants. Arahants have form, feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness, but they don’t suffer, because they don’t have the clinging. So, the first noble truth: To comprehend dukkha … 
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