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  2. Respect as a Sign of Intelligence
     … What do you feel is most worthy of respect inside you? The Buddha would say that it’s your desire for true happiness, with the realization that true happiness can’t harm other beings if it’s going to last. There’s a story in the Canon of a king who was up in his private apartment with his queen. And in a tender … 
  3. Not Just a Witness
     … Pure consciousness can observe feelings from the outside, seeing what’s causing a particular feeling, how that feeling comes, how it goes away. But that’s still a constructed process, a constructed pure consciousness. You have to realize that it’s something you do as well. At some point, you have to take that apart, too. As the Buddha says, when you get that … 
  4. Head & Heart
     … your feelings and your perceptions. When you practice breath meditation, you’re learning ways of dealing with perceptions, ways of dealing with feelings, to breathe in a way that gives rise to ease, fullness, rapture. Learn to perceive the breath as a whole-body process. How do you perceive the breath energy in the body in such a way that you can calm down … 
  5. Directing & Not Directing the Mind
     … You can see that by settling down here, it really does feel good. You can see the benefits coming in the body. If you find that you have a tense spot in the body or a place where things feel blocked, you can spend your time working through the blockage, which requires first that you get at least some sense of comfort in the … 
  6. A Much Better Place
     … those who can see the danger coming before it comes; and then there are those who have to be slapped in the face with a danger before they realize, “Yes, this is dangerous here!” Of course, it’s best for us to see ahead of time the danger of identifying, say, with forms, feelings, perceptions, thought-constructs, consciousness, all the things that go into … 
  7. A Home & a Mobile Home
    One of the standard terms for concentration is *vihara-dhamma, *which can be translated as “a home for the mind.” As you focus on the breath, you want to get the mind so that it feels at home here, in a home that’s solidly built and a good place to stay. Otherwise, the mind goes roaming out looking for scraps outside to give … 
  8. Timeless Practice
     … The Buddha replied, “Give where you feel inspired, where you feel it would be well used.” So he encourages voluntary giving, because there’s a goodness of the heart that comes to nourish you and also gets nourished by the voluntary act of giving. When he talks about this, he’s talking about things that people have encountered in their lives. He doesn’t … 
  9. Protest Your Virtue & Right View
     … Mental fabrication has to do with the feelings and perceptions, the images you hold in mind. He uses these technical terms like fabrication, sankhara, even when he’s talking about something simple like breath or feelings and perceptions, because he wants you to see how these go into creating the illusions in the mind. The gears and wheels behind the illusion are the things … 
  10. Be Precise
     … You begin to realize that the way you focus on the breath, the image you hold in mind of the breath, and the perception of the breath are all going to have an effect on how the breath feels—whether it’s going to be a good place to stay or not a good place to stay. But those are things you can change … 
  11. Always Willing to Learn
     … the games you feel comfortable playing, the ones you feel you can play well. Are they really good games to play? If not, how can you pull out of those games? That’s an important range of skills to develop. And again, as you’re meditating, learn which areas of the Dhamma apply to which phase of the emotional waves you go through. In … 
  12. The Brahmaviharas Are Not Enough
     … They can be very soothing when the mind is feeling exasperated. They act as good antidotes to states of mind when you’re feeling frustrated with yourself or with other people. But the results they bring are only partial. You have to combine them with the seven factors for awakening, which involve a lot of analysis, a lot of probing and questioning, trying things … 
  13. The Buddha Defines Wisdom
     … This is why the control of the mind—in other words, thinking what thoughts you want to think, and not thinking what you don’t want to think—has to go together with the ability to get the mind into a state where it does feel a sense of rapture and well-being. So you provide the mind with an alternative pleasure. The Buddha … 
  14. True Freedom of Speech
     … Harsh speech, when you speak in ways that are meant to hurt people’s feelings. And then idle chatter, when you open your mouth and don’t have any clear intention as to what’s going to come out or why it’s going to come out—speaking just to pass the day, speaking to get things off your chest, speaking to express your … 
  15. It’s All about Action
     … It could be the results of past actions coming in, and that can be anything from pains you may feel in the body to your habitual ways of thinking. If you’ve been meditating, some of the skills you’ve picked up from your past meditation should be coming in to help, too. Then there are your present intentions and the results of your … 
  16. Holding on Strategically
     … It’s a feeling tone. And when you don’t glom it together with the body, you begin to see that that feeling tone moves around a lot. In particular, it moves around in connection with your perceptions, the labels you’re putting on things: the label that says “pain” or the label that says, “The pain is here.” You begin to realize there … 
  17. The Four Noble Truths
     … All of this falls under the stress that comes from clinging to form, feeling, perceptions, thought-fabrications, and consciousness—consciousness here being the consciousness of the senses. All of this, the Buddha says to comprehend. Now, for most of us, when we run into pain, comprehending is not the first thing we have in mind. We want to push it away; we want to … 
  18. The Karma of Narratives
     … Notice how that energy flow feels. How do you sense it? Does it feel like a flow or does it feel more static? Start with what you’ve got. Don’t force it too much. In fact, the only forcing you can do is to relax. Wherever there’s tension in the body, that’s a sign that things are not flowing well, so … 
  19. A Trained Observer
     … Feeling, which is the feeling of pleasure you’re trying to develop. Perception, the image you hold in mind of how the breath moves through the body, where it starts, where it finishes. Fabrication, how you talk to yourself about the breath, evaluate it, make adjustments. And then consciousness, which is aware of all these things. As you reflect on these activities, you’re … 
  20. Thinking Seriously about Happiness
     … So Ratthapāla says, “Even though you’re king, can you ask them to share out the pain so that you feel less?” The king says, “Oh no, I have to feel it all on my own.” That’s an area in which the king is not in charge. The pain is in charge. So that’s a teaching on illness and a teaching on … 
  21. Let Go Like a Millionaire
     … Try to make yourself interested in the breath, to see what kind of breathing feels good and what kind of breathing is good for the body and mind. If you’re tired, what kind of breathing will give you more energy? If you’re wired, what kind of breathing will calm you down? As you begin to see the effect that the breath has … 
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