(Recognizing that a hindrance is present already informs and transforms the view.) Then, as sensitively and precisely as you are able, begin to inquire:

One of the ways that mindfulness dissolves a certain amount of dukkha is by fabricating less, in general, than the mind usually might.

approached in certain ways, we can in fact use the logic of the conceptual mind to transcend the conceptual mind.

the Buddha pointed out that all this dukkha has craving and clinging as a cause.1 This, we could say, is the short version of the Second Noble Truth.

Even to intuitively and with immediacy feel a sensation in the body as ‘mine’, for instance, even without consciously thinking “mine”, is a view, a way of looking

Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I can’t emphasize this enough. Usually that’s how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.

There are many ways we may discover to bring about some sense of energetic openness and well-being in the subtle body. And as it is accessed more and more, this altered body feeling is one that eventually we can ‘remember’ and learn to deliberately recall – to summon by a gentle intention. We can then move, usually gradually, into the focused stead

Noticing their arising, however, the mindfulness – supported by the intention of staying at contact

our view of the past is dependent on the state of the citta in the present.