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  2. Adjust the Flame
     … Other times when your energy level is too high, you have to breathe in a calming way. And you may not want to work quite yet at spreading the breath through the body. Just stay at one point. Tell yourself: Any thought that leaves this point, you’re going to kill. You’re going to wipe it out. In that way, your energy gets … 
  3. Page search result icon Moods Are Not-self
     … He came back, found the middle way. Okay, you can find the middle way too. He’s shown that it’s possible. And the confidence that there is a way out: That’s what kept him going, even when things looked pretty bleak. It can keep you going, too. That can be the mood you hang on to: the confident mood. And you can … 
  4. Death is the Context
     … The mind has these potentials of greed, aversion, and delusion, all kinds of unskillful ways of feeding on this and feeding on that. If we don’t take care of that now while we have the opportunity to practice, when will we take care of it? And if we die with those habits still ingrained in the mind, we’re just going to go … 
  5. Moods Are Not-Self
     … He came back and found the middle way. Okay, you can find the middle way too. He’s shown that it’s possible. And the confidence that there is a way out: That’s what kept him going, even when things looked pretty bleak. It can keep you going, too. That can be the mood you hang on to: the confident mood. And you … 
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  6. Respect Your Center
     … top of the head, middle of the forehead, right at your palate, in your neck, in the middle of the chest, right above the navel. Those are the main ones, but you might find that you have a spot of your own. In addition to identifying it, you want to learn how to work with the energy there. The reason Ajaan Lee focuses on … 
  7. Still Right Here
     … As he said, this training is a middle way between two extremes: the extreme of self-torture and the extreme of sensual indulgence. For most of us, those are the only alternatives. If we see there’s pain, we run to sensual pleasures. If we can’t find sensual pleasures, we spend our time thinking about sensual pleasures. That’s our escape. But it … 
  8. Practicing in Solitude
     … Ajaan Singh, one of his students, liked to go to bed early in the evening, wake up in the middle of the night and meditate through the middle of the night, then have a short nap before dawn. That’s the kind of thing you can do when you’re meditating on your own. Each of us has a different metabolism. So when you … 
  9. Book search result icon Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Glossary
     … One of the five major collections of suttas in the Pāli Canon, containing suttas of middle (majjhima) length. Mettā: Goodwill; benevolence. One of the four brahmavihāras. Nibbāna: Literally, the “unbinding” of the mind from passion, aversion, and delusion, and from the entire round of death and rebirth. As this term also denotes the extinguishing of a fire, it carries connotations of stilling, cooling, and … 
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  10. Circumspection
     … After all, this is the middle way we’re practicing. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of balancing between extremes, but it’s also learning how to combine different qualities that seem to conflict. After all, the mind is a complex thing. The needs of the mind in training are complex. And this is not a onefold path. Even with the practice of exercising … 
  11. Proactive Mindfulness
     … One way to work toward it is to move your focus around deliberately, stay with, say, the center of the chest for a while and then move down to the abdomen or start at the abdomen and move up the centerline in front of the body: stomach, middle of the chest, the base of the throat, middle of the head, and then down on … 
  12. Look in the Mirror
     … If there was no mistake, no harm, then take joy in the practice—joy in the fact that you’ve acted in a harmless way, you’re learning, you’re progressing in the path—and continue trying to progress. Now, obviously this applies to outside actions, but it also applies to your meditation. As you settle down with the breath, this is what directed … 
  13. Book search result icon With Each & Every Breath Basic Instructions
     … Think of a lit candle in the middle of an otherwise dark room. The flame of the candle is in one spot, but its light fills the entire room. You want your awareness to be centered but broad in just the same way. Your sense of awareness may have a tendency to shrink—especially as you breathe out—so remind yourself with every breath … 
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  14. Making a Resolution
     … Try to stay with the breath all the way in, all the way out. Allow it to be comfortable. Think of the whole body breathing: your eyes, your brain, your neck, your lungs, your stomach, your legs, your arms. Every part is letting the energy flow and is nourished by the energy. If your mind wanders off, just bring it right back. This is … 
  15. Guided Meditation
     … The way you keep the breath in mind, that’s mindfulness. Then you’re alert to how the breath is going, knowing when it comes in, knowing when it goes out, sticking with it all away as it comes in, sticking with it all the way as it goes out, making sure you stay with it as consistently as possible. That’s the quality … 
  16. Choiceful Awareness
     … Choose to breathe in a way or choose to focus in a way that gives rise to a sense of well-being. Choose to maintain that well-being. Keep your thoughts thinking in the terms of right mindfulness: body, feelings, mind, and mental qualities. As for the stories that would pull you away, learn to use the Buddha’s teachings on time. When he … 
  17. Open Are the Doors to the Deathless
     … What kind of mind states are skillful, devoid of passion, aversion, delusion? How are you going to find them? Well, through this middle way. The other role for pain, of course, is that it’s part of the first noble truth of pain in the mind. That’s the problem the Buddha’s going to solve. That’s what the four noble truths are … 
  18. Against the Grain
     … Right concentration is a skill showing that there is a way to find happiness that doesn’t require sensuality. When the Buddha talks about the Middle Way, he’s not saying it’s just a feeling halfway between pleasure and pain. It’s a different kind of devotion to pleasure. He says the devotion to sensual pleasure is one extreme and the devotion to … 
  19. Renunciation
     … This was the middle way: a sense of well-being that had no bad results at all. There was nothing blameworthy about it. It didn’t harm anybody and it didn’t make the mind intoxicated. This is the kind of pleasure the Buddha recommends. When he talks about renunciation, it usually sounds like we’re going to have to do without. But it … 
  20. Explore & Experiment
     … the middle of the forehead; the top of the head; base of the throat; just above the navel. That relieved a lot of the tiredness, as other muscles pitched in. So, there’s a lot to explore here. This is one of the ways of developing concentration: You develop it through interest. The Pali term, citta, literally means mind, but it can also mean … 
  21. Well-trained Inside
     … So you want to give the mind a place where it’s right there in the middle, not spinning around with everything else. This is what the breath provides. You watch it coming in, going out, and you have the right to decide what kind of breathing feels good. The breath is one of the bodily processes you can have some control over, so … 
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