We feed the mind with comfortable breath sensations, work those sensations through the body so that we can feel bathed in a sense of ease, realizing that nobody can take this sense of ease away from us.

"As long as the mind is starving, feeling irritated and unhappy, all it can think about is immediate results, a desire for an immediate hit. To counteract this tendency, we feed the mind with concentration, we feed the mind with comfortable breath sensations, work those sensations through the body so that we can feel bathed in a sense of ease, realizing that nobody can take this sense of ease away from us. We’re not threatened. That lets us think in the long term, not only the long term into the future, but also thinking back long-term into the past and being a little bit more mature about our attitude about the bad things that come our way in the world, or bad situations in the world."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "We’re All Learning the Ropes"

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