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  2. Choices
     … In other words, you’re not here watching the breath, you’re here feeling the breath. You try to feel it all around you, because it is all around you. When it comes in, think of it coming in from all directions. It goes out, it goes out it goes out from all directions, and it runs around the body in all directions. Or … 
  3. Virtue & Right View
     … Then ask yourself, “What kind of breathing would feel good?” The long breathing is to air out the body, to make you sensitive to how the breathing feels, and to give you an anchor. Then, as you settle down a little bit more, you get more sensitive to what the body needs. Does it need to be energized right now? Okay, try long in … 
  4. Interdependence
     … I know a lot of people who feel a lot of anguish at this time because they don’t see any way out. They feel trapped. They’ve begun to realize that interdependence does trap you. If you don’t know the way out, it’ pretty scary. But the Buddha’s good news is that there is a way out. Still, we don’t … 
  5. Going Out of Your Way
     … The desire not to harm other people also requires that you think of their well-being, think of their feelings. But when you’re generous, it requires a more active involvement. You start thinking: What do I have that I can share? What do I have that I can do without that would please other people if I gave it to them? This doesn … 
  6. A Concentration Diet
     … When you’ve found something that feels good, stick with it. If it doesn’t feel so good anymore, you can change. Keep on top of the needs of the body. When you’re able to maintain a sense of well-being, then you can let it spread through the body. Think of the in-and-out breath connecting with the breath energies throughout … 
  7. Balanced Breathing
     … You have a sense of feeling at home as you work on following the path. So do your best to maintain this sense of being right here with the breath in the present moment, having a sense of its importance, having a sense of the importance of being more mindful and more alert, but also a sense of how important it is to feel … 
  8. The Quality of Your Awareness
     … You also try to quiet down the feelings and perceptions in the mind. In other words, figure out how you might conceive of the breath, how you might picture the breath to yourself, to allow it to become more quiet and to allow the mind to become quieter too. As things grow more quiet, then you begin to see that, at least in the … 
  9. Mindful Judgment
     … What kind of breathing feels good right now? What kind of breathing feels good over time? The longer you stay with the breath, the more you realize that there’s a lot going on in the breath. It’s not just air coming in and out through the nose, but there’s also a flow of energy that goes along with it. And the … 
  10. The Possibility of Letting Go
     … If you feel that you would be untrue to them, or disloyal to them if you decided to create a little more independence, that’s not the case at all. In fact, the less you’re feeding off a relationship, the better the relationship becomes—and the more you’re able to see it with clarity. So wherever you find that there’s something … 
  11. The End of Karma
     … Some people say, “What flow?” The fact that you have a sense of the body as you feel it from within: That’s the breath. Thinking of it as breath allows you to ask yourself, “Those places that are tense, tight, solid, blocked: Do they have to be that way?” This is why this is a useful perception, because it opens up possibilities for … 
  12. The Wisdom of Equanimity
     … Compassion is what goodwill feels when you see that people are suffering, or doing things that will lead to suffering. You want to help, if you can, overcome the suffering, or to help them stop doing the things that are going to lead to suffering. Empathetic joy is what goodwill feels when you see that people are happy or are doing things that would … 
  13. Reflections
     … You’re sitting here and you’re feeling drowsy and lazy, and you’re drifting off to sleep. You’re certainly not going to see your mind clearly. That, he says, is like looking at your reflection in a bowl of water that’s got a lot of sludge and algae in it. The fourth hindrance, restlessness and anxiety, is like looking at your … 
  14. Doing, Maintaining, Using
     … What kind of breathing really feels good for the body right now? You can focus on the body in any one spot: the tip of the nose, the middle of the chest, at the abdomen. Those are the three main spots, but there are a lot of other spots in the body where you might be able to notice that now the breath is … 
  15. Strength Training
     … Wherever you feel the breath, hang on right there. As you breathe in, as you breathe out, be sensitive to that sensation wherever you feel it in the body. The important thing is that you stick with the breath. You know that there’s no future breath you can watch, no past breath you can watch. So when you’re with the breath, you … 
  16. Cut the Currents
     … You feel that everything you’ve identified with is falling away, you feel exposed, and you feel like you’re being deprived. Then there’s an opportunity to take on another identity in another world. Again, if you’re not strong, you go flowing after that current. That’s how you take rebirth. So, you’ve got to remind yourself that every state of … 
  17. Free Sources of Energy
     … And of course, when you’re focusing on the breath, you have to have certain perceptions in mind and you’re developing certain feelings. That’s mental fabrication. In this case, what kind of breathing would feel energizing? What kind of perception of your abilities right now would be helpful? Your freedom to search for potentials that may not be obvious is something you … 
  18. Complaining Rights
     … So you focus on the breath, try to make breath as smooth as silk, so that it feels good coming in, feels good going out, and there are not a lot of bumps or distractions, so that the mind can get used to being with something smooth and continuous—and so that it can get used to being smooth and continuous itself. It’s … 
  19. Renunciation
     … When you let go, it’s easier not to feel ill will for people because you don’t have to fight them over things. You don’t have to jealous of them when they take what you wanted, so you’re not harming yourself. Then, on the transcendent level, right resolve is, essentially, the thinking and evaluating that bring the mind to jhāna: good … 
  20. Stepping Out of Truth Games
     … We’re each trying to make a world of concentration in which you’re fully aware of your body as you feel it from within. You’re trying to make that the center of your attention, and that’s the center of your desire right now: to get the mind stay here. The problem is that the mind has lots of other worlds at … 
  21. Working Ourselves Free
     … Breathing in it feels good; breathing out it feels good. Then work on the subtler breath sensations in the body, patterns of tension, say, in the chest, in the shoulders, the back, the legs, the hips, because that’s a form of breath energy as well. Think of everything relaxing all the way out to the pores. Every pore. Think of the body as … 
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