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  2. The First Noble Truth
     … Are you clinging to a form or a feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness? He puts these in terms that allow you to step outside of the suffering. Because the big problem of the suffering is that you’re often in it, in what the Buddha calls becoming. You’ve taken on an identity in a particular world and it’s causing you suffering. As long … 
  3. An Island in the Flood
     … Or you take feelings in and of themselves, the mind in and of itself, dhammas—mental qualities—in and of themselves, as your frame of reference. But the important thing is you don’t just stop with the frame of reference. You also engage in those other activities: being ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. This … 
  4. Keep Things Simple
     … And even though you may not feel all that settled or secure, it’s better than getting upset and saying, ”Well, gee, this isn’t amounting to anything; this is horrible,” and then spinning out of control. Take things one step at a time, whatever the step that’s required. If it requires you to step up high, okay, you step up high. If … 
  5. Karma & Gratitude
     … So they in particular deserve a feeling of gratitude. Now, the Buddha said the best way to repay that debt is that, if they are stingy, you try to teach them how to be generous. If they’re not virtuous, you try to teach them to be virtuous. In other words, whatever goodness they are lacking, you try to influence them in that direction … 
  6. The Stakes Are High
     … The feeling of pleasure seems to be one with the breath. Let it be that way for a while. As these things come together, they then gradually separate out. Ajaan Lee’s image is of different metals in a hunk of rock. You can’t take a pick axe and separate the metals out, but you can apply heat to the rock. As the … 
  7. Hypocrisy
     … This is one of the reasons why we get the mind into a good state of concentration, so that it feels secure enough to look into its issues without sweeping them under the rug. When there’s the sense of stability, the sense of well-being that comes from concentration, you can start looking at the issues of your life without feeling threatened by … 
  8. In the Eyes of the Wise
     … to have the strength to stick with our convictions, to have a sense of well-being inside, because all too often the reason we go after other people’s opinions is that there’s a kind of well-being that comes from other people’s approval, or what we feel is other people’s understanding, and that our happiness really depends on them. But … 
  9. Honoring the Noble Ones
     … You learn how to breathe in a way that feels really comfortable. Breathe aware of the whole body, so that the whole body feels nourished by the breath, refreshed by the breath. The mindfulness then turns into concentration. Now, there are people who are afraid of concentration. I don’t know how many books on meditation start their discussion of concentration with a warning … 
  10. Eight Principles
     … It has an impact on feelings and, of course, feelings have an impact on the mind. And as you think about the breath and evaluate the breath, you learn about perceptions. All these fabrications—bodily, verbal, and mental—are intimately connected. And when you’re doing concentration, they’re all right here. You can see ways of dealing with the breath that have to … 
  11. Training the Committee
     … You’re sitting down and you say, “Okay, exactly why? What would you gain from that person’s suffering?” As we all know, most people do evil because they’re feeling threatened, they’re feeling miserable. They say, “As long as I’m miserable, let everybody else be miserable, too.” That’s what they think. So what would be gained by that person’s … 
  12. The World Offers No Shelter
     … Even though he’s king, when he gets sick, he can’t command that his courtiers take a portion of his pain so that he doesn’t have to feel all of it. No matter how much treasure he gets, he’s going to have to leave it behind. But then Ratthapala asks him, “If you were told that there was a kingdom to … 
  13. A Multilingual Mind
    A Multilingual Mind April 2, 2005 One of the things you notice in meditation as you start looking at your thoughts, looking at your feelings, looking at sensory input, is that the solidity of your world starts dissolving away — both your sense of the world outside and your sense of yourself inside. And in some cases, just that much feels liberating — free from the … 
  14. Harmless & Clearheaded
     … You’re not trying to put yourself into a trance, you’re simply here to follow the way the breath feels, all the way in, all the way out. You can focus on any part of the body where the sensation is clear that now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out. And explore to see what rhythm of breathing … 
  15. Constructing & Deconstructing
     … But as the Buddha said when he gave breath meditation instructions, you’re trying to look at the breath as bodily fabrication, and your feelings and perceptions around the breath as mental fabrication. When you see things in terms of fabrication, that’s insight. For the time being, we’re not watching them just arising and passing away. We’re trying to give rise … 
  16. The Advantages of Many Selves
     … Bring it out, especially when you’re feeling discouraged in the practice. Realize that if you don’t do something to train yourself, you’re going to be a weight on other people, and that’s going to make you feel bad about yourself. So try to find the altruistic you in there. There’s the you in there that knows how to say … 
  17. Breath Teaches the Bramaviharas
     … Take a couple of good long deep in-and-out breaths first, to highlight your sense of the body as you feel it from within. And if long breathing feels good, keep it up. If it doesn’t, you’re free to change. Try shorter breathing, or in short, out long; in long, out short; fast, slow; heavy, light; deep, shallow. Try to get … 
  18. Mature Strategies
     … Find the breath sensations in the body that feel comfortable and stick with them. Allow them to stay there, undisturbed. As that sense of comfort begins to grow, be careful not to get sucked into it too much. Try to maintain your mindfulness and your alertness so that the mind doesn’t start drifting off. That’s one of our problems: We get a … 
  19. Concentration & Renunciation
     … When the breath feels good, you know the breath feels good and you work with the pleasure, but you don’t leave the breath. If you leave the breath and just soak in the pleasure, the basic cause for the pleasure is going to dissipate. As the Buddha said, it’s active attention to the breath, consistent attention to the breath, that allows the … 
  20. Respect for the Training
     … There are a lot of people who don’t like rules, who feel that rules make you a very small-minded person: that they make you think that by abiding by the rules and trying to get a good mark on your rules, you’ll get by. And that’s a very immature attitude towards the rules. Both of those attitudes are immature, i … 
  21. A Full Life
     … The third level was the meaningful life, where you feel that your life is serving a larger purpose. And the fourth was the full life, where you were able to enjoy all three. He mentions Buddhism in the course of the book, putting it on the first level—just a life of pleasure. The only Buddhism he knew about was the mindfulness of savoring … 
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