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  1. What Focus? What Breath?
     … our ideas of what it means to focus. When we focus on something, we usually tense up around it. You focus on the head, you can give yourself headaches; you can focus on your abdomen, and you give yourself abdominal problems. The problem comes from the way you focus, tensing up. This is why Ajaan Lee says, when you get a sense of comfort … 
  2. Potentials for Good
     … You don’t focus on your bad points; you don’t focus on other people’s bad points. You try to focus on the good points. When you see somebody suffering, you focus on the potentials they have to become skillful, so that they don’t have to suffer from their bad karma. Then you learn how to look the same way at yourself … 
  3. Cutting Roads
     … If you focus them on the right spot, they can start a fire for you when you’re cold. If you focus them on the wrong spot, they can start a fire during the dry season that can sweep through the chaparral and cause all sorts of damage. So you have to be very careful about where you focus and how you focus on … 
  4. True for What Purpose?
     … You want to focus on your own mind. You want to focus on your own body as you feel it from within, to get the mind to settle down. This means you have to be selective in what you focus on, and also in what you say to yourself about it. You could be commenting on how your mind is not settling down, and … 
  5. The Power of Choice
    There are a lot of things you could focus on right now. You could focus on how hot the weather is. You could focus on pains in your body. You could focus on the people who’ve said nasty things about you. But what would you get out of that? Those things are there, they’re true, but what’s accomplished by focusing on … 
  6. Tuning-in to the Breath
     … There are so many different messages coming into your brain right now that you can’t possibly process them all, so you choose to focus on just some of them. And the mind has a tendency to focus on pain because it’s usually a warning signal. But we don’t have to focus there. In other words, there can be a slight discomfort … 
  7. The Power of Choice
     … So you choose the way you focus, the things you focus on, adjusting the things you focus on to develop greater and greater levels of stillness, serenity, tranquility in the present moment, to give the mind the nourishment it needs. At the same time, you become more and more sensitive to this quality of choice, what you’re doing in the present moment. Because … 
  8. Watch the Mind at the Breath
     … You can focus anywhere in the body that feels comfortable. Some people find it natural to focus in the head, others find it more natural to focus down in the chest. If you find that focusing in the head gives you a headache, don’t focus there. Start down at the neck and then move down. Wherever you focus, think of the breath energy … 
  9. Beyond Duality
     … That means not only focusing on the right sensations, but also knowing how to focus on them, because all too often, when you focus on a part of the body, you tense it up. You immediately ruin whatever it is you’re trying to focus on. So you have to learn how to focus in a way that keeps things relaxed, keeps things open … 
  10. Choices
     … This is one of the advantages of being able to choose your focus. You don’t have to focus on the pains, you don’t have to focus on the things that get you upset. Focus on something that has some good potential. And you’re not just sitting with a given sensation. You begin to realize that you can change the sensation. There … 
  11. The Buddha’s Map
     … But for the sake of letting them go, you don’t focus on what you like about them. You focus primarily on what their drawbacks are—and in particular, the drawbacks of getting attached to them—and that’s where you bring in the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and not-self. You do something called anupassana, where you make up your mind to focus … 
  12. Choosing Not to Suffer
     … So what are you going to do with it? You could think about tomorrow, next week, yesterday, last week, about issues at home, issues at work, but where would that get you? Even here in the present moment, you can focus on the sound of the generator, the sound of the rain. You could focus on pains in your body, or get carried away … 
  13. Proactive Mindfulness
     … You can focus right there—and try to make your focus just right. In other words, don’t clench up around that part of the body. If you do, then the breathing process starts getting uncomfortable, and the mind won’t want to stay there. It’ll want to move around, get away, think about other things, do other things. So whatever spot in … 
  14. The Second Frame of Reference
    The Second Frame of Reference September 21, 2009 As you sit here with this bundle of feelings, there are lots of different feelings you could focus on. There are pains in some parts of your body, pleasant feelings in other parts, and nondescript neutral feelings in still other parts. It’s not that you have just one feeling at any one time. It’s … 
  15. Maintaining Focus
  16. Healing Awareness
     … Getting the breath to be comfortable is often difficult for a lot of us, because as soon as we focus on something, as when we focus on the breath, we tend to tense up around it as a way of reminding ourselves to stay there. We put pressure on it, squeeze it a little bit, especially if it’s something inside the body. So … 
  17. Adjusting Your Focus
  18. Relaxed Focus, A
  19. Seeing Requires Focus
  20. Strengthen Your Focus
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