..续本文上一页ay according to the phenomena. It doesn”t matter what anyone says. Just keep lifting that glass. Every two minutes, okay - don”t daydream, not five minutes. As soon as two minutes are up then move it over here. Focus on that. This is the matter of action.

　　Looking at the in-breaths and out-breaths is the same. Sit with your right foot resting on your left leg, sit straight, watch the inhalation to its full extent until it completely disappears in the abdomen. When the inhalation is complete then allow the breath out until the lungs are empty. Don”t force it. It doesn”t matter how long or short or soft the breath is, let it be just right for you. Sit and watch the inhalation and the exhalation, make yourself comfortable with that. Don”t allow your mind to get lost. If it gets lost then stop, look to see where it”s got to, why it is not following the breath. Go after it and bring it back. Get it to stay with the breath, and, without doubt, one day you will see the reward. Just keep doing it. Do it as if you won”t gain anything, as if nothing will happen, as if you don”t know who”s doing it, but keep doing it anyway. Like rice in the barn. You take it out and sow it in the fields, as if you were throwing it away, sow it throughout the fields, without being interested in it, and yet it sprouts, rice plants grow up, you transplant it and you”ve got sweet green rice. That”s what it”s about.

　　This is the same. Just sit there. Sometimes you might think, ””Why am I watching the breath so intently. Even if I didn”t watch it, it would still keep going in and out.””

　　Well, you”ll always finds something to think about. That”s a view. It is an expression of the mind. Forget it. Keep trying over and over again and make the mind peaceful.

　　Once the mind is at peace, the breath will diminish, the body will become relaxed, the mind will become subtle. They will be in a state of balance until it will seem as if there is no breath, but nothing happens to you. When you reach this point, don”t panic, don”t get up and run out, because you think you”ve stopped breathing. It just means that your mind is at peace. You don”t have to do anything. Just sit there and look at whatever is present.

　　Sometimes you may wonder, ””Eh, am I breathing

　　”” This is the same mistake. It is the thinking mind. Whatever happens, allow things to take their natural course, no matter what feeling arises. Know it, look at it. But don”t be deluded by it. Keep doing it, keep doing it. Do it often. After the meal, air your robe on a line, and get straight out onto the walking meditation path. Keep thinking ”Buddho, Buddho”. Think it all the time that you”re walking. Concentrate on the word ”Buddho” as you walk. Wear the path down, wear it down until it”s a trench and it”s halfway up your calves, or up to your knees. Just keep walking.

　　It”s not just strolling along in a perfunctory way, thinking about this and that for a length of the path, and then going up into your hut and looking at your sleeping mat, ””How inviting!”” Then laying down and snoring away like a pig. If you do that you won”t get anything from the practice at all.

　　Keep doing it until you”re fed up and then see how far that laziness goes. Keep looking until you come to the end of laziness. Whatever it is you experience you have to go all the way through it before you overcome it. It”s not as if you can just repeat the word ”peace” to yourself and then as soon as you sit, you expect peace will arise like at the click of a switch, and when it doesn”t then you give up, lazy. If that”s the case you”ll never be peaceful.

　　It”s easy to talk about and hard to do. It”s like monks who are thinking of disrobing saying, ””Rice farming doesn”t seem so difficult to me. I”d be better off as a rice farmer””. They start farming wit…

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