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- Brahmaviharas & the Breath… Universal goodwill is something that’s fabricated. You have to put it together. And how do you fabricate attitudes? There are three kinds of fabrication and they all have to work together. There’s mental fabrication where you think about things through your perceptions. You hold certain perceptions in mind, like the perception of goodwill, or that you would want to spread goodwill to …
- Feeling & Intention… When you practice with the breath, you’re practicing with these different kinds of fabrication so you can gain a sense of confidence that you can change them if you want. You practice with good fabrications so that when unskillful fabrications come into the mind you realize that you don’t have to take them as your real feelings or your real thoughts on …
- A Connoisseur of Happiness… This is when you can let go of the jhana and, through insight into the process of fabrication, allow the fabrication to stop. You no longer try to fabricate anything out of what you’ve got in the present moment. That’s when the mind opens up in an unexpected way to something that’s not fabricated. And the realization hits: that when the …
- All Fabrications Are Stressful… What the Buddha said is that “Everything that’s fabricated is dukkha.” What does fabrication mean? It’s the process that we use to experience the world, to experience ourselves. That gives you the answer right there. If you realize that everything that comes through the six senses has to go through your process of fabrication, then you can legitimately see how all things …
- Noble Right Concentration… After all, it is a fabricated thing. We’re trying to put the path together. So we tweak that sentence that all things are subject to change and make it: All fabrications are subject to change. Remember—where do fabrications come from? They come from intentions. Intentions come from where? They come from the mind. So you’re not interested in things in general …
- The Primacy of the Mind (2)… The fourth step is to calm bodily fabrication. Bodily fabrication is basically the in-and-out breath. You may want to know: Why does the Buddha bring in a technical term here? It’s because he wants you to see the extent to which the mind’s intentions play a role in how you breathe. We learn from other places that when you get …
- Nurturing Your Inner Adult… There’s the breath, which is bodily fabrication; directed thought and evaluation—in other words, the way you talk to yourself about an issue—are verbal fabrications; and then there are perceptions and feelings, which are mental fabrications. Feelings here are not so much emotions. They’re more feeling tones: pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Perceptions are the images that underlie the thoughts …
- No One Size Fits All… The breath is bodily fabrication, in that it creates your sense of the body right now. Then there’s mental fabrication: perceptions and feelings. In both cases, the Buddha says, once you see that process of fabrication, you learn how to calm it. In that way, you’re doing both insight and tranquility at the same time. Then there’s verbal fabrication in the …
- A Diffuse Light… You’re calming bodily fabrication by calming mental fabrication. It’s in this way that you can begin to see how all four tetrads—the tetrad related to the body, the tetrad related to feelings, the tetrad related to the mind, and the tetrad related to dhammas—help one another along. As you get more sensitive to the process of fabrication, energize it in …
- Goodness Comes from Heedfulness… You can start developing the bodily fabrications, the verbal fabrications, and the mental fabrications that lead to greater compassion, that lead to greater happiness, that enable you to feel unlimited goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity, when these things are appropriate. These are just a few of the ways in which heedfulness helps you develop the right attitudes, not only in the meditation, but …
- Non-Reactive Judgment… bodily fabrication. You talk to yourself about the breath to make it comfortable: verbal fabrication. You hold perceptions in mind that allow the breath to give rise to a feeling of ease: mental fabrication. It’s by getting hands-on experience with these processes that you can do them well, and only when you do them well can you understand them well enough to …
- Anxiety… There are three kinds of fabrication going on here right now. We’re directing our thoughts and we’re evaluating the breath. The breath in and of itself is called bodily fabrication because it influences the other functions of the body and your experience of the body. Directed thought and evaluation are called verbal fabrication: you intentionally direct your thoughts to a topic and …
- Breathing Skillfully… We do it through three activities that the Buddha calls saṅkhāra, or fabrication. One of them is bodily fabrication, which is the way you breathe. There’s an intentional element in the way you breathe. So learn how to intend to breathe well. Then there’s verbal fabrication. That’s the way you talk to yourself: the topics you choose to talk about and …
- Feeding on Feeding… The Thai translation for fabrication fits in right here: prung taeng—this is what you do with food. You prung taeng it: You fix it up. That’s what fabrication is all about: how you put things together, the activities that you engage in in order to make something edible. Consciousness, of course, underlies all these things. You’re aware of the form or …
- The Body Doesn’t Care… Then you see how your perceptions and feelings around the breath, as the Buddha says, fabricate the mind. And the way you talk to yourself as you remind yourself of these instructions is going to fabricate the way you experience both body and mind. So these processes of fabrication are what you’re getting to know. And when you see the processes of fabrication …
- Fear of Death… Your precision and skill lead you to detect even more and more subtle levels of fabrication going on in the mind. When you see the stress that comes with even the subtlest fabrication, and see that you also have the choice not to fabricate — that whatever gratification you got from the fabrication just can’t compare with the sense of ease that comes from …
- The Six Properties… You’re sensitive to bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; you’re sensitive to mental fabrication, your perceptions and your feelings; and in both cases you calm them down. Seeing things in terms of fabrication is a matter of insight; calming fabrications is a matter of tranquility. With the breath, you can get it so calm that it actually feels like it’s stopping …
- Tranquility & Insight… If you ask how to understand the way you’re fabricating things, and how to look at the fabrications in a way that helps develop dispassion so as to lead to greater tranquility, that’s what develops insight. The Buddha doesn’t talk about tranquility and insight as techniques. They’re qualities of mind developed by these different questions. But the process is all …
- Know the Dhamma by Its Results… And in every case, you learn how to be sensitive to the extent to which you’re fabricating things and learn how to do it more subtly, with more refinement. You still the fabrications. You calm the fabrications down. And as you do that, you get more and more sensitive to ways in which you fabricate your experience that you don’t recognize, until …
- Mindfulness of Death… Then there’s verbal fabrication. The Buddha doesn’t mention verbal fabrication in his sixteen steps, but the examples he gives of telling yourself to breathe in and out focused on pleasure, focused on rapture, focused on mental fabrication, “I will breathe this way. I will breathe that way”: Those are examples of verbal fabrication, examples of how you should be thinking. Like breathing …
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