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- The Radiant Mind… Part of the clarity comes from the vocabulary the Buddha gives us for analyzing what’s going on, say, in terms of fabrication, particularly the way the mind shapes its experience through its intentions. The breath is shaped through our intentions: That’s bodily fabrication. Then we talk to ourselves, with certain intentions in mind: That’s verbal fabrication. And then mental fabrication, perceptions …
- A Friend to the World, A Friend to Yourself… This is where the different kinds of fabrication come in. The most obvious one, of course, is getting the mind into concentration: directing your thoughts to the breath, working with the breath, evaluating the breath in a way that makes it really good, something you really like to breathe. It feels good; it feels nourishing. There you’ve got bodily fabrication and verbal fabrication …
- Vitakka & Vicara… This is where you have to use all three fabrications of exertion: bodily, verbal, and mental. Verbal fabrication, of course, is directed thought and evaluation. You use this in conjunction with all the other fabrications: working with the breath, which is bodily fabrication; working with your perceptions, the images and individual words that have power over the mind—which are mental fabrications; and working …
- The Breath All the Way… And in the fourth set, you focus on the mental qualities that are involved in developing dispassion for the whole process of fabrication. Because of the focus on fabrication, this is an insight practice. Because you’re using your understanding of fabrication to bring those fabrications to calm, it’s a tranquility practice. So you’re working on insight and tranquility in tandem, which …
- The Skills of Truth & Calm… Who’s sending them? Who’s receiving them? Why does there have to be a sender and a receiver? Why is the mind divided like this?” You begin to look askance at these fabrications and any potential for becoming that you might develop around them. When you drop them, and there’s nothing else being fabricated, you realize that these are the fabrications that …
- Endurance with a Purpose… The Buddha calls them fabrication, and there are three kinds. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the in-and-out breath, then verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself. In technical terms, it’s called directed thought and evaluation, as when you direct your thoughts to a topic and then talk to yourself about it, make comments about it. And then finally, mental …
- Go, Do Jhana… This way you understand that even though you may not want to identify with any fabrications, still there are the fabrications that form the path. Those are the ones you want to encourage, because they’re skillful. Ultimately, they take you beyond fabrication. This is a part of insight. The fabrications that keep the mind still and steady, that keep the mind engaged in …
- The Anatomy of the Present… For instance, when the Buddha talks about the role of fabrication, he lists three types. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, which is the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, your feelings and the mental labels you apply to things. He also says that we shape our experience of the rest of the aggregates through fabrication, and that …
- The Regularity of the Dhamma… Sometimes, prior to name and form, they list fabrication, sankhara, which is the intentional element in experience — whether physical, verbal, or mental. Physical or bodily fabrication is the breath, the intentional element in how you sense the breath, how you create the experience of the breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, which includes an intentional element. Mental fabrication is feeling and perception …
- An Inside Job… So when you see how all of this is fabricated, you begin to wonder how you can find happiness with fabricated things like this. The mind begins to get more and more inclined to want to find stillness, so it turns more and more to concentration. At first, the concentration seems very peaceful compared to everything else, to the point where you would think …
- Unraveling the Present… When you’re concentrated on the breath, all the types of fabrication the Buddha talked about are right here. Remember that the whole purpose of discernment is to see into the process of fabrication. There are three kinds. There’s bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. We go down the list. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Well, that’s right here. Verbal fabrication …
- The Treasure Hunt… The Buddha once said that insight is knowledge of sankhara, fabrication, and fabrication comes in three forms: physical fabrication — that’s the breath; verbal fabrication — the directed thought and evaluation that give rise to words; and then mental fabrication — your feelings and perceptions. When you’re focused on the breath properly, all these things are brought together. There’s the physical fabrication of the …
- The Return of Chickens from Hell… You’ve got perceptions, the labels you put on things, and you’ve got the intentions that are fabricating these things, and then you’ve got consciousness, which is aware. Those five activities—form, feeling, perception, fabrications, and consciousness—are the aggregates. And as the Buddha said, if we cling to them, we’re going to suffer. Particularly if we cling to them with …
- Fixing the Present… Our experience of the present comes because we’re shaping things with bodily fabrication, the way we breathe; with verbal fabrication, the way we talk to ourselves; and with mental fabrication, images and feelings. These are things we can change. It’s because we have these forms of fabrication—taking the raw materials and turning them into our experience of the present moment—that …
- The Power of Intention… He was concerned with causality as it relates to your intentions, starting with ignorance of the fabrications in your mind. What are fabrications? They’re intentional actions. If we do them with ignorance, they create suffering. But if we bring knowledge to them as we do them, we can come to the end of suffering. So your intentions are powerful. They make the difference …
- From Compunction to Release… As we’re meditating, we are fabricating a state of becoming. You’re doing an action and you’ve decided it’s worth it. That decision is based on an understanding of karma, fabrication, and a value judgment: that the effort that goes into sitting here looking at the breath night, after night, after night is effort well repaid. The rewards may not be …
- The Second Frame of Reference… As he says that, for the sake of having a feeling, we fabricate these feelings. We take a potential for a feeling and, through our intention to have a feeling, turn it into an actual experience of a feeling. You wouldn’t think that we would want to fabricate pain, but we’re not skillful in our fabrication, so that’s what we sometimes …
- Deconstruction… You train yourself to breathe in and out sensitive to rapture, sensitive to pleasure, sensitive to mental fabrication, calming mental fabrication. You breathe in and out gladdening the mind, concentrating the mind, releasing the mind. There’s a lot of constructive work you have to do. So you’re not just settling in and being really quiet—because that can be another wrong extreme …
- Our Variegated Minds… The Buddha’s teachings on fabrication are helpful here. He talks about three kinds of fabrication: bodily fabrication, verbal, and mental. Bodily fabrication is the in-and-out breath. Verbal is directed thought and evaluation. Mental is feeling and perception. These are the things we’re trying to train here as we concentrate on the breath. Take the breath as your object; That’s …
- Contentment… After all, the Buddha said the purpose of our practice is to learn what he called fabrication—saṅkhārā in Pāḷi—and there are three big types: bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. The interesting thing is that when the mind is concentrated on the breath, all three of those are right here. Bodily fabrication is the breath itself, because it’s the factor …
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