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  2. Book search result icon Still, Flowing Water A Gift of Dhamma
     … When you breathe out, the beginning of the breath is at the navel, the middle of the breath is at the heart, the end of the breath is at the tip of the nose. Feel it in this way. The beginning of the breath, one—nose; two—heart; three—navel. Then one—navel; two—heart; three—nose. Focus on these three stages and let … 
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  3. To Understand the Path
     … In this way, all the factors of the path come together. It’s not a lopsided path, it’s not a path straying off to the left or to the right. It’s a middle path: balanced, appropriate for whatever is the situation. When we talk about right effort, it’s not so much a middling effort, it’s the effort appropriate for what … 
  4. Book search result icon The Divine Mantra (Ajaan Fuang Version) Part III: Meditation
     … Let the breath at the base of the throat spread down the central nerve at the front of the body, past the lungs & liver, all the way down to the bladder & colon. Inhale the breath right at the middle of the chest and let it go all the way down to your intestines. Let all these breath sensations spread so that they connect & flow … 
  5. Book search result icon The Divine Mantra Part III: Meditation
     … Let the breath at the base of the throat spread down the central nerve at the front of the body, past the lungs & liver, all the way down to the bladder & colon. Inhale the breath right at the middle of the chest and let it go all the way down to your intestines. Let all these breath sensations spread so that they connect & flow … 
  6. Discernment Is in the Details
     … What’s just right for you? This is why the “middleness” of the middle way is primarily a function of your discernment. You start out by evaluating what works for you and what doesn’t work, when something’s too much, when something’s too little. Sometimes we hear about the middle way being halfway between pleasure and pain, but that’s not the … 
  7. Page search result icon Contents
     … A Framework for the Frame Readings The First Teaching The Last Teaching On the Word, “Path” On the Word, “Noble” On the Word, “Right” On the Middle Way II. The Arising of the Path Readings The Discovery of the Path Supplementary Factors The Path-factors & their Relationships III. Right View Mundane Right View Transcendent Right View Final Right View This/That Conditionality Readings Mundane … 
  8. Centered
     … There are other ways, though, of thinking of concentration: that you’re not focused on a spot outside of your center of who you think you are. The center’s supposed to be right inside where you think you are—like a lens whose focal point is zero, inside the lens itself. It’s a different kind of concentration. Just think of it as … 
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  9. Centered on Concentration
     … It’s the ones that are right in the middle of the river: Those are the ones that are hard to establish, but they’re the ones that are really necessary. The concentration is the middle of the three trainings. That’s the one that corresponds to the foundations in the middle of the river. It takes time and effort to get those established … 
  10. Sensitive in Seven Ways
     … But there’s also the voice that says, “Well, you know the middle way says not to push things too hard.” Watch out for that one, too. Because as Ajaan Maha Boowa says, our defilements have their middle way as well. It’s right in the middle of the pillow. The Buddha’s middle way means that you approach pain and pleasure in the … 
  11. Perceptions & Potentials
     … the tip of the nose; the middle of the forehead; the middle of the head—when he says middle of the head, think of drawing a line from left to right, front to back, and right there, where the lines intersect, that’s the middle of the head; the palette; the base of the throat; the tip of the breastbone, or a point just … 
  12. Your Own News
     … That’s what I’ve got to focus on.” There was a time when King Pasenadi came to see the Buddha in the middle of the day. The Buddha asked him, “Where are you coming from, great king, in the middle of the day like this?” And the king said, “I’ve been dealing with the sorts of things that people in power, obsessed … 
  13. Page search result icon Themed collections - dhammatalks.org
     … 8, 2005) The Web of Pain Friends With Pain Pain & Distraction Digging Out of Despair Mistakes Mindstorms Everybody Suffers Social Anxiety Self Esteem People Suffer from Their Thinking Body as Path This Fathom Long Body Body as Path Seeing with the Body The Middle Way Getting into the Body The Energy in the Body Breaking Old Habits A Seeker’s Habits Breaking Old Habits … 
  14. Book search result icon The Five Faculties Letting Go & Holding On
     … These teachings explain the middle way, don’t they? A: Basically, what’s middle about the middle way is not that you’re halfway between pleasure and pain. It’s a matter of learning how to approach pleasure and pain not as ends, but as means. You use pleasure and use pain for a higher purpose. For example, we’re using the pleasure of … 
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  15. A Pervasive Well-being
     … Once the mind is in this state of awareness and supported by all the other elements in the path—right view, right resolve, right action, right speech, right effort, right mindfulness—it can do amazing things to your understanding of yourself, your understanding of the way the mind acts, the way it creates suffering for itself, the way it doesn’t have to create … 
  16. Book search result icon The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo Coming Ashore
     … Or think of it in another way: The mind is cool and refreshed like a lotus blooming in the middle of a pond. It’s surrounded by nourishing water, cool and with an appealing scent. If you’re sitting here in the meditation hall without any hindrances in the mind, it’s like a lotus in the middle of a pond. This is also … 
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  17. Stepping Out of the Waves
    The forest tradition has its own way of interpreting two important concepts: indulgence in sensuality and indulgence in self-torment. You may remember that these are the two extremes that the right path avoids. In the forest interpretation, indulgence in sensuality is indulging in pleasant moods, indulging in self-torment is indulging in moods of anger and dislike. In other words, you go for … 
  18. Pulling Out of the Narratives
     … After a while, you forget that there were decisions made to make the movie this way. It could have come out in many different ways. It didn’t have to be the way it was. But you watch it many times and it acquires an inevitability. So remind yourself that these things are not inevitable. Take the pattern of the mind being still for … 
  19. Focal Points
     … So one way of maintaining breath awareness throughout the day is finding the first spot that tends to get seized up. Where do you habitually react first, say, when something negative happens, when there’s fear, anger or whatever? Again, it might be in the middle of the chest, the throat, wherever. When you’re engaged in an activity that doesn’t allow you … 
  20. For Your Good the Good of Others
     … When the Buddha says the middle way avoids the two extremes of self-torment and sensual pleasure, he’s not saying it’s a middling feeling of neutral okay. It can actually be a very strong sense of well-being as you get the concentration going. It’s middle in the sense that it doesn’t lie on the continuum between torture and sensual … 
  21. The Goldsmith
     … When the Buddha calls the path a middle way, it’s not only middle, but it’s also just right. That requires a lot of discernment, along with a lot of commitment and reflection. So just as becoming a goldsmith is a skill that takes some time and strong powers of observation, becoming a good meditator requires the same qualities. We’re not just … 
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