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Book: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English
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Henepola Gunaratana _ The Four Foundations of
We inhale and experience pleasure and then tension. We exhale and experience release but also anxiety. But even this pattern has much to teach us. When we experience tension, we remind ourselves not to be disappointed. When we experience pleasure, we remember not to attach to it.
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Meditation on the breath is not a breathing exercise. We are simply using the breath as a point of focus to cultivate mindfulness.
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When we focus on the breath, we become mindful of the universal nature of all beings.
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Always remember: becoming mindful of losing our mindfulness is mindfulness.
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The roots of suffering are within us. And the method for eliminating suffering is within us as well.
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Resting comfortably in awareness, we relax into things as they are right now in this very moment, without slipping away into what happened in the past or will happen in the future. Normally, because we do not understand, we tend to blame the world for our pain and suffering. But with sati, mindful remembering, we understand that the only place to find peace and freedom from suffering is this very place, right here in our own body and mind.
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