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  2. The World of the Body
     … Many times we feel that we have a special relationship with our body, that if we take good care of it, it’s going to take good care of us. Then we feel betrayed when it doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain. But you have to remember, though, that it didn’t agree to the bargain at all. We were the … 
  3. Unattractiveness
     … It’s hard to feel lust for someone’s liver or for their intestines. But you notice that in the contemplation of the body, it doesn’t start with the other person’s body. It starts with your own. Now, partly this is because, as the Buddha says, the reason we’re able to lust for other people’s bodies is because we have … 
  4. Consciousness, Awakened & Not
     … In the same way, feeling comes from contact and ends when the contact ends. You’re conscious of that contact. You’re conscious of the feeling. But the consciousness is separate from them. As I said, this is “the knower,” the phuu-ruu that the Thai ajaans talk about. But they, like the Buddha, are very clear in the fact that this knower, this … 
  5. Right View Comes First
     … It’s not a sensual object, it’s a pleasure of form—the body as you feel it from within. It doesn’t have most of the drawbacks of sensuality. It doesn’t require that you take anything much from anyone else. The breath is yours. The way you feel the body from inside, that’s your territory. Now, in giving this talk, when … 
  6. A Post-goodness World?
     … When he was asked where a gift should be given, he said, “Where you feel inspired.” In other words, he was encouraging the goodness of the heart, looking for happiness in ways that are not only harmless, but also beneficial to others. When you can find happiness in doing those things, you’ve learned some important lessons. There are gradations of happiness. And you … 
  7. Wisdom for Dummies
     … When you read the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness out of context, it’s possible to interpret them as saying that when you’re being mindful, say, of feelings, you just watch whatever feeling comes up and don’t make any changes. Don’t meddle with it. Just be non-reactive, allowing whatever’s happening to happen. What this attitude does, though, is to … 
  8. Protection
     … But the monk was complaining that he didn’t feel right. His back ached, his legs ached, his arms ached, so Ajaan Fuang’s student gave him a massage. He immediately started having visions of unfriendly spirits attacking him. It scared him so much that he went out and threw up. He could feel the negative energy coming in from the body of the … 
  9. The Lightning Bolt
    The lightning bolt that struck here today was so close you could feel it in your skin; you could hear it sizzling and crackling in the air. We could have died. That would have been very sudden. A sense of disorientation: “Why is there this weird sense in the air? What’s happening?” And it could have struck us. That would have been it … 
  10. Meditation as Play
     … You want to be able to approach it with an attitude that allows the mind to be in a good mood, so that it doesn’t feel overwhelmed. Simply realize: Okay, here’s a challenge, but we’ve had challenges in games before. We’ve overcome the challenges by playing around. If you can approach the challenges with an attitude of goodwill, a good … 
  11. In Accordance with the Dhamma
     … You feel close to him. You feel close to all the people who’ve practiced it over all that time. You’re part of a long lineage of people who are close. When we first came here, there was a lot of pressure from our visitors for us to change things: “So now that you’re in America, you have to do things the … 
  12. The Buddha’s Basic Therapy
     … Sometimes we feel that our parents don’t deserve our gratitude. If we’re grateful, we may feel we’re giving them something they don’t deserve. But that’s not the case at all. As we develop gratitude, we develop something that works to our advantage: a sense of appreciation. If nothing else, they gave us this body. Our mothers went through pregnancy … 
  13. Responsible Conviction
     … They just fall back on what they feel right doing—or they want to do. Whereas the Buddhist teachings stretch you. Some people think the teaching on rebirth is childish, that it’s comforting that death is not the end. But it’s really scary that you could be reborn as almost anything, because you don’t know what kind of actions you’ve … 
  14. Monastery Standard Time
     … So it’s important that you develop this sense of the observer that can watch whatever’s happening in the mind, and not feel that it has to get sucked in, not feel that it has to side with anybody. As part of the practice you do want to side with the skillful tendencies in the mind, but when everything seems confusing, and you … 
  15. Lighter & Stronger
     … A lot of people feel a little bit disoriented when they stop that internal commentary. Some people think that it’s a great insight into the fact that there’s no ego or no self there. Actually, there’s still a sense of self, but it’s very much attenuated. I was talking to somebody today who had one experience of no commentary in … 
  16. Determined on Awakening
     … the perceptions you hold in mind, the images, the words with which you assign identities to things and give meanings to things; and then your feelings—feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. When you do those things in ignorance, you’re going to suffer. The Buddha’s teachings can be seen as recommendations on how to do those things with knowledge … 
  17. Don’t Leak Out Your Ears & Eyes
     … Or as Ajaan Lee says, don’t let it leak out of your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, thoughts of the past, or thoughts of the future because if you do, you feel depleted inside. You feel a sense of lack, a sense of hunger. And that makes you want to get more things out of your eyes and ears, nose, tongue, body, sights, sounds … 
  18. Mundane Right View
     … Having a mind that feels generous, having a mind that feels gratitude: Those are spacious mind states here and now. They’re good mind states to be in, good to build on, good sources of energy. So make sure you don’t neglect the foundation, because everything else depends on that.
  19. The Right Piece in the Right Puzzle
     … The feeling is the feeling of pleasure. Perception is the mental image that holds you with the breath. Fabrication consists of your directed thought and evaluation as you adjust the breath to fit with the mind, adjust the mind to fit with the breath, and then keep them there together. Then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. You have to … 
  20. Karma-ism
     … If you’re attached to certain feelings, you’re defined by your feelings. In other words, self-definition is an activity, it’s something you do. And it’s all bound up in suffering. So no matter how you answer the question of who or what you are, you’re going to get tied up in suffering. Even if you can find fluid answers … 
  21. Beginner’s Mind
     … Often we feel that we’ve been committed to a particular way of acting and it seems like a major overhaul to change it. Don’t think in those terms. Think in terms of trying something on, experimenting. When Ajaan Fuang used to say to play with the breath, this is what he was talking about: Experiment. Get some enjoyment out it. If you … 
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