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　　The breath that gives rise to a sense of coolness and light.

　　The really refined breath, so refined that it”s like atoms. It can penetrate the entire world. Its power is very fast and strong.

　　There are two kinds of breath evaluation: the first is to evaluate the in-and-out breath. The second is to evaluate the inner breath sensations in the body until the practitioner can spread them out through all the properties of the body to the point where the practitioner forget all distractions. If both the body and mind are full, there”s a sense of rapture and ease that results from the directed thought and evaluation. This is Right Action in the mind.

　　Breath Training and Eight Noble Paths

　　The in-breath stress is the stress of arising and the out-breath stress is the stress of passing away. When a practitioner concentration has strength through the breath training, the ability to discern stress, its cause, its disbanding, and the path to its disbanding will rise within the breath. When all of these aspects of the Noble Path -- virtue, concentration, and discernment -- are brought together fully mature within the heart, the practitioner gain insight into all aspects of the breath. This includes the knowledge of the relation between the breathing method and good/bad mental states. The breath that fashion the body, the factors that fashion speech, the factors that fashion the mind, whether good or bad, letting them be as they truly are, in line with their own inherent nature. As the practice itself, it can be concluded in the Buddha”s Eight Noble Paths:

　　Right View - Knowing when the breath is coming in, knowing when it”s going out, knowing its characteristics clearly -- i.e., keeping the views in line with the truth of the breath.

　　Right Consideration - Knowing which ways of breathing are uncomfortable, knowing how to vary the breath.

　　Right Speech - The mental factors that think about and properly evaluate all aspects of the breath.

　　Right Action - Knowing various ways of improving the breath; breathing, for example, in long and out long, in short and out short, in short and out long, in long and out short, until the breath becomes most comfortable.

　　Right Livelihood - Knowing how to use the breath to purify the blood, how to let this purified blood nourish the heart muscles, how to adjust the breath so that it eases the body and soothes the mind, how to breathe to feel full and refreshed in body and mind.

　　Right Effort - Trying to adjust the breath so that it comforts the body and mind, and to keep trying as long as possible.

　　Right Mindfulness - Being mindful of the in-and-out breath at all times, knowing the various aspects of the breath -- the up-flowing breath, the down-flowing breath, the breath in the stomach, the breath in the intestines, the breath flowing along the muscles and out to every pore -- keeping track of these things with every in-and-out breath.

　　Right Concentration - A mind intent only on matters of the breath, not pulling any other objects in to interfere, until the breath is refined, giving rise to fixed absorption and then liberating insight.

　　Meditation paths

　　With respect to the meditation on physical events that qualifies as the great frame of reference (mahasatipatthana), when the practitioner”s mind has fully developed the four paths to success (listed as bellow), complete with mindfulness and alertness, the results in terms of the body are the stilling of pain. In terms of the mind, they can lead all the way to the transcendent: the stages of stream-entry, once-returning, non-returning, and arahantship. The four paths to success are:

　　Chanda (desire): Have a friendly interest in the breath, keeping track of it to see when breath is in and what breathe in with it.

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