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- Calm & at Ease… The Buddha teaches how to induce it through fabrication in his instructions on breath meditation. You work with bodily fabrication—in other words, the way you breathe. You try to breathe in a way that’s refreshing, that gives you energy. Then you allow it to calm down. The Buddha also speaks of mental fabrication: your perceptions and feelings. You try to develop intense …
- The Particulars of Your Suffering… You’ve got hands-on experience with all these fabrications. In fact, one of the most important insights in all of this is to see how all of these different aggregates are fabricated. There’s an intentional element in each, even in your experience of the form of the body. For instance, you have hands all the time but you’re conscious of them …
- Pain… He talks about perceptions, which, of course, are mental fabrications. But mental fabrications come together with verbal fabrications—in other words, the way you talk to yourself. Fabrications also come together with the act of attention in the factor of name and form in dependent co-arising. Attention has to do with the questions you ask. Verbal fabrication has to do with the stories …
- Two Eyes, Not Just One… They talk about seeing your breath as a bodily fabrication. Well, that’s an insight aspect right there, seeing how you’re fabricating things. You look at your feelings and perceptions as mental fabrications to see what influence they’re having on the mind. And then in both cases, you try to calm the effect. Try to fabricate more tranquil states in the body …
- All Four Tetrads at Once… The next step is to be sensitive to mental fabrications, which are feelings and perceptions. The step after that is to calm mental fabrications. This is where perceptions play a big role. You want to find perceptions that will create calmer feelings, because you’re going to go from rapture down to pleasure and then ultimately to equanimity. What kind of perceptions help with …
- A Good Mood to Meditate… Deeper than that are what fabrications in the mind. Directed thought and evaluation are called verbal fabrication. They’re things the mind says to itself. Then there are mental fabrications, which are feelings and perceptions: the labels you put on things, and the actual feeling-tones themselves—pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. All these things get mixed together and fabricated into emotions. So …
- Where Perceptions Can Take You… The perceptions that lead to penetration, of course, are the perceptions having to do with seeing all things as fabricated and unworthy of attachment. You see that there’s an intentional element that goes into everything you’ve experienced. You also realize that everything fabricated through that intentional element is going to end. To induce dispassion toward fabrications, the Buddha sometimes talks in terms …
- Boxed Stories… That, too, is a fabrication. Learn how to question it. So this ability to see these boxes as fabricated, and the realization that you can create a more skillful box to encompass a less skillful box, or get you out of the unskillful box: That’s an important ability in the practice. In addition to mindfulness, it’s useful to have a sense of …
- Dependable Friends… Of course, the breath is a fabrication, and ultimately the time will come when you can let go of all fabrications. But to get there, you need fabrication. After all, the noble eightfold path, as the Buddha said, is the ultimate fabrication, in other words, the most useful one. But it is something you put together, something you have to look after, even though …
- Insight from Jhana… Then there’s fabrication. In the beginning, it’s verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation. These activities allow you to settle down as they massage the breath into something you can find pleasure in, something you can feed on. Then the fabrication gets more and more refined. In the later stages of concentration, this kind of fabrication gets used again as you pull yourself …
- Toward Release… In steps seven and eight, he tells you to breathe sensitive to mental fabrication—feelings and perceptions—and then to calm mental fabrication. Now, seeing things in terms of fabrication is one of the basic principles of insight and discernment: getting sensitive to how the actions of the breath fabricate your sense of the body, and how the actions of feelings and perceptions fabricate …
- No Who or Where… This is why the Buddha talks in terms of fabrication, because fabrication comes before becoming. You’re engaged in fabrication right here. You’ve got the breath coming in, going out—bodily fabrication; the way you talk to yourself—verbal fabrication; perceptions and feelings—mental fabrications. And just leave them there. The question of who’s doing them and where they’re being done …
- Exploring the Basics… The Buddha classes it as a type of fabrication, bodily fabrication—the in-and-out breath. You want to be sensitive to how you breathe. Bring some awareness to the process of breathing so that it causes less suffering, less stress, less tension, less blockage in the body. You can bring that sense of ease to bear the other forms of fabrication. The way …
- Remembering Ajaan Lee… It, too, is fabricated, and eventually you’re going to have to get rid of those fabrications. So you’re using fabrications to work against fabrications. There are a lot of paradoxical elements in the path. If you read a basic textbook on early Buddhism, it all seems very straightforward and a little bit too simplistic. A lot of people, when they’re looking …
- Do Jhana… Insight comes from looking at things in terms of fabrication, how they’re put together. The first type of fabrication you want to look at is bodily fabrication, how the breath has an impact on the body. When you breathe in, where do you feel it?—especially when you try to make yourself aware of the whole body. It’s not just at the …
- More than Just Letting Go… They include getting sensitive to bodily fabrication, getting sensitive to mental fabrication, and learning how to calm both. And in the course of dealing with the different steps, you’re talking to yourself, which is verbal fabrication. All the three kinds of fabrication that he says we do in ignorance get brought up to the surface and become the center of our attention as …
- The Hall of Mirrors… After all, the noble eightfold path is something fabricated. You take all the various fabrications of the mind and you try to turn them into a path. Then you can observe them to see how even when the mind gets shaped into something really good, there’s still an element of stress, there’s still an element of inconstancy. It’s still not totally …
- The Kamma of Meditation… There are the three kinds of fabrication: The way you breathe—bodily fabrication. The way you talk to yourself, what the Buddha calls directed thought and evaluation—verbal fabrication. And perceptions and feelings—mental fabrication. Those are your choices in the present moment. You can choose to breathe in different ways. You can choose to talk to yourself in different ways. You can choose …
- Meditate Because You Have To… As the Buddha said, we’re here to learn about sankhara, the process of fabrication, and what fabrications do you need to know? Well, there’s bodily fabrication, which is the in-and-out breath. That’s right here. Verbal fabrication, directed thoughts and evaluation: That’s right here as well. You’re directing your thoughts to the breath and you’re evaluating the …
- The Right Place to Look… When the Buddha gives instructions on how to deal with the breath, he talks not only about bodily fabrication, which is the breath, but also about verbal fabrication, i.e., the way you talk to yourself: When you tell yourself to breathe in this way; breathe in that way. “Try this. Try that. Breathe in a way that gives rise to a sense of …
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