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  2. Shaping Your Breath, Shaping Your Life
     … Ajaan Lee recommends some ways of imagining the breath energy moving through the body. This doesn’t mean moving the air though the body; you’re moving the energy. Think of the energy coming in the back of the neck right at the base of the skull, going down the spine; coming in at the middle of the chest, going down through the heart … 
  3. Keeping Your Affairs Separate
     … That way you keep your views straight, you keep your opinions straight, and things don’t get skewed by the spinning of the world. Have a clear sense of what’s up and down, and north and south, and don’t get your directions all mixed up. So try to have a sense of this solid, stable point in the middle of all the … 
  4. Book search result icon The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II Alms Bowls & Other Accessories | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
     … Leather footwear A bhikkhu in the middle Ganges Valley may wear new leather sandals only if the soles are made from a single layer of leather. He may wear multi-layer sandals if they are cast-off, which according to the Commentary means that they have been worn (presumably, by someone else) at least once. Outside of the middle Ganges Valley, one may wear … 
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  5. Four Mountains Moving In
    There was a time when King Pasenadi came to see the Buddha in the middle of the day, and the Buddha asked him, “Where are you coming from? What have you been doing?” The king said, in a burst of real frankness, “Oh the typical things of a king who’s obsessed with power and wants to maintain his rule over the country.” The … 
  6. A Special Time
     … your nerves, all the way out to every pore of your skin. That’s breath as well. So you’re dealing with your whole experience the body as you breathe here. Now, there are different nodes of this energy system in the body, such as the middle of the head, the palate, the base of the throat, the middle of the chest, or the … 
  7. A Strong Sense of Self
     … So why act in ways that lead to suffering? You’re convinced in your power to make a difference by the way you think, by the way you speak, and by the way you act. That’s a strength, because people who don’t have that belief are weak and evasive. If you’re weak in that way, all kinds of pressures—pressures from … 
  8. High-level Metta
     … As things begin to get lax—say, in the middle of the afternoon, when the afternoon seems awfully long—remind yourself that you don’t know how much longer the afternoon’s going to last, you do know you have this moment right now. What’s the best thing you can do with this moment? To train your mind. That’s a way of … 
  9. The Bridge to Concentration
     … The middle level is when you start gaining some control over your sense doors. You have to be careful about how you look at things, how you listen and relate to all your other sensory input. You begin to see certain ways that you relate to sounds and sights, etc., that give rise to greed, anger, and delusion in the mind. So you’ve … 
  10. Potentials
     … the solar plexus, the middle of the chest, base of the throat, middle of the head. Then start at the base of the skull at the back of the neck. Think of the breath energy entering there, from behind, and then going down through the shoulders, the arms, to the tips of the fingers. And then going from the back of the neck down … 
  11. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Mindfulness of Feelings & Mind States
     … This is the meaning of the middle way in dealing with pleasure and pain. The term “middle way” doesn’t mean that we go for middling pleasures or middling pains. Instead, we regard only one pleasure—the pleasure of nibbāna or unbinding— as the true goal, and we try to perceive or attend to other pleasures and pains in terms of whether they lead … 
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  12. Book search result icon A Burden off the Mind The Questions
     … Seeing this benefit our teacher teaches the subduing of passion & desire for consciousness.’” — SN 22:2 § 4. “And what is the middle way realized by the Tathāgata that—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding? Precisely this noble eightfold path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration … 
  13. No One Size Fits All
     … What’s required in the middle way is that you figure out what’s just right for you right now, what’s appropriate for you right now—just as in the middle way, sometimes intense effort is right and sometimes very gentle effort is right, depending on what’s needed. In seeing that, in ferreting out that point of “just right,” you develop your … 
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  14. Heedfulness
     … Nothing but strengths? You’d be way up higher. So here you are, with a middling batch of strengths and weaknesses. So try to figure them out. Where are you strong in terms of conviction? Or weak? Are you strong or weak in terms of your virtue? Strong or weak in terms of your ability to improvise? There are lots of things you could … 
  15. Nimble with Your Questions
     … We want to know it all the way in, all the way out, and to see the different things the breath can do until we get familiar with all its potentials, and then skilled in using those potentials in different situations. Even though this is the same place, the state of the body is going the change. The state of your mind is going … 
  16. Take Care of Your Big Sister
     … And try different ways of breathing to see what kind of breathing feels best for the body right now. You can try long breathing, short breathing, fast, slow, heavy, light, deep, or shallow. Get to know the breath. It’s been with you all this time, but for the most part you haven’t paid much attention to it. So. Pay some attention. Ajaan … 
  17. To Disturb Your Complacency
     … There’s something very wrong about the way we engage with our world. But we don’t have to engage in that way. What is it? He lays it out. There are the three kinds of fabrication: bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; mental fabrication—perceptions and feelings. You’re engaging in these things all the … 
  18. Adjusting the Flame
     … It may happen that the way you’re breathing is getting a little bit too calm, in which case it’s good to think of breathing in long out short. That’ll give yourself more energy. You can try deep breathing; you can try moving the spot of your focus around. Three breaths, say, in the middle of the chest, three breaths down by … 
  19. Keeping Your Head
    There’s a passage in the Canon where King Pasanedi comes to see the Buddha in the middle of the day. The Buddha asks him, “Where are you coming from in the middle of the day? What have you been doing?” And the king, in a remarkable display of frankness, says, “Oh, the typical things that obsess someone who’s obsessed with power, gaining … 
  20. Sending Out Rays
     … all the way in, all the way out. Try to be very quiet with the breath. The less commentary you have on the world outside, the better. Because the more the mind can be quiet, the more it can see. Otherwise, it’s sending out rays of greed and anger, and that’s what we see: the greed and anger bounced back at us … 
  21. Specifics
     … Ajaan Fuang once talked about thinking of there being a line going down the middle of the body, and the breath comes in and out of that line. Thinking of the breath in that way: What does it do? What problem is it good for? This is one of the reasons why the instructions Ajaan Lee gives are general principles, but the insight comes … 
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