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  2. Right Now
     … feels good coming in, feels good going out. You’re pretty well established in it. The act of evaluating the breath then becomes a burden. You see that that’s inconstant, stressful, relatively stressful, too. And you don’t have to hold onto it. You let it go. This allows the mind to get firmly planted in its object, firmly planted in the breath … 
  3. Appropriate Attention
     … It could be about your body, it could be about your feelings, the images you have in mind, the thoughts with which you talk to yourself, or even just your consciousness. As you cling to these things, that’s suffering. The clinging can be divided into the act of passion and desire, which is craving itself, and the fact that it’s latched on … 
  4. Right View Tells You What to Do
     … Where do you feel that movement, and does it feel comfortable? If it doesn’t feel comfortable, you can change. You can experiment with different kinds of breathing: longer, shorter, or in long out short, in short out long, deep, shallow, heavy, light—lots of ways you can explore. Then there’s mindfulness, which basically is keeping something in mind. In this case you … 
  5. Becoming Capable of Happiness
     … This is why, when the Buddha is asked, “Where should a gift be given?” he says, “Give where you feel inspired, or you feel it would be well used.” In other words, he doesn’t place any shoulds on the act of giving. However, if you want to turn generosity into a skill, then you have to start thinking about what you’re going … 
  6. Learning from What You Do
     … It’s not that they’ll come when you’re ready for them and feel up to fighting them. Sometimes they come when you’re most worn out, feel least like doing battle, yet you’ve got to do it. If you don’t handle them then, they’re just going to take over. So it’s good to have other people to point … 
  7. The Choice Not to Suffer
     … Because right where there’s feeling there’s also attention and intention, perception—particularly intention. And when these issues are solved, everything important gets solved as well. One of the big issues that really stares you in the face when you think about the Buddha’s teaching on intention and causality—on how your intentions shape the world—is his insistence that events from … 
  8. Meditator, Mediator
     … When you feel physically at ease, it’s a lot easier to be in a good mood and not feel so desperate, not be so impatient, because it’s our desperation or impatience that makes it difficult for us to talk. It makes it easiest for us to make snap judgments, throw our weight around. What happens, of course, when we throw our weight … 
  9. The Four Biases
     … As we peel away all the different layers of our involvement in our thoughts, our involvement in things outside, we finally come to this part of the mind and often we’re afraid of it, because we feel that it makes us antisocial or unsocial or unfeeling. But that’s not the case. It puts us in a place of security, a place of … 
  10. When the Mind Is Still
     … Even if it’s a thought about something you don’t like, something you’re worried about, there’s part of the mind that feels, “I have to think about this, so I might as well think about it now.” Whatever the appeal, it pulls you in. Then you’re a person in that thought world. And when that happens, as the Buddha said … 
  11. Delight & Beyond Delight
     … But the fact that the way you focus on it will change it, the perceptions you have about it will change how you feel it, and there are different ways of breathing that can get help alleviate different diseases, different pains in the body—that is fascinating. It gives you a sense that the Buddha was right when he said, “All things have the … 
  12. Goodwill First & Last
     … exploring how the breath in the body feels right here in this world of the body right here, without reference to the world outside. Just this world of energy. The more you can get into it, the more you can get yourself immersed in it, the more you begin to notice the subtleties of the energy, the better. The body feels better. The mind … 
  13. Patience & Consistency
     … What kind of breathing would feel good? Or: How would long breathing feel? See how the body responds. How would it respond to shorter breathing? See how the body responds. You don’t have to do the mechanics. The body will take care of that for you. Just pose that question in the mind. If the body refuses to respond, you can test it … 
  14. The Buddha’s Relationship Advice
     … In that way, they become part of us, so when there’s a loss, we feel that a good part of us has been lost as well. Think of all the unskillful things we do out of the concern to maintain a relationship, fear that we’re going to lose someone who’s dear to us. There are cases where people will kill and … 
  15. Equanimity
     … In other words, you use the way you breathe, you use the way you think about things, evaluate things, you use your perceptions and feelings to deal with those problems: to figure out where they’re coming from and what you can do to undercut them so that eventually they don’t come back. So you need to use your discernment together with your … 
  16. The Reality of Your Thoughts
     … through physical fabrication, i.e., the breath; verbal fabrication, the thoughts and evaluations we make of a particular situation; and then mental fabrications, which are feelings and perceptions. The feelings here are feeling-tones: pleasure, pain, and neither-pleasure-nor-pain. As for perceptions, those are the labels we apply to things, the labels we apply to people; and it’s these labels that … 
  17. What You Can’t Change, What You Can
     … You don’t feel that you’re in competition with them. When you do something skillful, you can enjoy it. The Buddha says that that’s an important part of the practice. Sometimes we feel embarrassed about looking at our own goodness. But if you’re embarrassed about your goodness, you’re not likely to do any. We’re not doing it to gloat … 
  18. Overcoming Delusion
     … Then there’s the horse that has to feel the whip in its skin. Then there’s the horse that has to feel the whip digging into its flesh a little bit. And then there’s the horse that won’t do what you want until you dig the whip into the bone. In other words, as they say in AA, some people really … 
  19. Recollection of Hell
    Recollection of Hell February 9, 2010 We’re sitting here fabricating, putting together a sense of the body, putting together feelings, perceptions, more fabrications, even putting together our consciousness of these things. It’s something we do all the time. And the things we put together are not totally mind-made. The raw materials come from our past actions. Sometimes those materials are good … 
  20. Adjusting the Flame
     … How does the breath around your spinal column feel right now? How does the breath around your ribs feel right now? What about the different bones in your skull? When you give the mind work to do like this, even though it may not be quite as quiet as you’d like to be, still you’ve dropped outside concerns. And that’s what … 
  21. The Tools of the Path
     … You see what kinds of feelings lie behind the thoughts, especially if there’s a strong emotion. You look at the way you breathe to see if you can get out of the cycle when the breathing aggravates the thoughts, and the thoughts aggravate the breathing. Of course, there are perceptions and thought constructs, consciousness of these things—it’s all there. You have … 
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