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- Skills Needed at Death… So you have to ask yourself, “Where are you going to find the ignorance?” And the Buddha says, look at the fabrications in the mind: the way you fabricate the in-and-out breath, the way you fabricate your thoughts, the way you fabricate your perceptions and feelings. Try to be as really clear as possible around these things. In particular, the perceptions: One …
- You’re Doing Something Wrong… In fact, you’re reading all three kinds of fabrication. This is where the concentration practice begins to shade into insight practice. You’re looking at the breath, which is bodily fabrication. The directed thought and evaluation itself are verbal fabrication, and then your perceptions and your feelings are mental fabrications. These are the things that, if you do them in ignorance, you’re …
- Lighter & Stronger… We have this tendency to keep fabricating states. Even with the concentration, you realize it’s a fabricated state. There’s that attitude, “It’s the best I’ve got, so I might as well hold on; I might as well keep on doing this.” This is why we’re lucky we have the Buddha to remind us, “No, there’s something better.” If …
- Steering the Raft… There are similar contemplations for feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. There’s a lot about these things that you simply can’t control. They come and they go. You can see them coming, and you can see them going. If they were really you, you wouldn’t be in a position to observe their coming and going. Things like this, if they’re based …
- Observe Your Concentration… Is there any up and down? That’s how the ajaans have noted that if an experience has to be maintained—if there’s any stress coming up, stress going down, even if it’s subtle—the fact that you have to maintain it means that it’s fabricated. If it’s fabrication, it’s not the goal. A question came up recently, “When …
- Fear & Insecurity… You can take your form, feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness, and turn them into a path—like you’re doing right now as you meditate. You’re focused on the breath, that’s form. You’re creating a feeling of well-being. You use perceptions to stay with the breath, and directed thought and evaluation, which are fabrications, to adjust the breath and the …
- Right View Tells You What to Do… And he points out to all of them that all those views are fabricated, and because something’s fabricated it’s going to be stressful, so as they hold on to those views they’re holding on to stress. So then they ask his view. He says, “Whatever is fabricated is stressful, whatever is stressful is not me, not mine, not myself.” They say …
- Equanimity & More… You’ve got those three kinds of fabrication. You got the breath coming in and going out. You can change the breathing so that it’s comfortable. That’s bodily fabrication. As for verbal fabrication, you can direct your thoughts to the breath and evaluate the breath to make it more comfortable. Then, once it’s comfortable, you can use that sense of comfort …
- Admit Your Stupidity… The Buddha talks in terms of fabrication: the way you put your experience together in the present moment. So you ask, how should the fabrications be regarded? How should they be seen with insight? You regard them either in terms of the five aggregates or in terms of the three fabrications: bodily, verbal, and mental. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Verbal fabrication is the …
- Breath Meditation: The Third Tetrad… Our problem is that we’re not fully aware of how we fabricate things. But with time, you get more and more sensitive. It’s a matter of trial and error, and then learning how to pose questions and to ask yourself, “Okay, what is it that I’m missing?” or “What went into this mind state?” “In terms of bodily fabrication, mental fabrication …
- No Arrows, Nothing… to see that we’re actually fabricating even the way we breathe in a way that can cause suffering. When the Buddha talked about what sound like very abstract concepts—for example, that ignorance is a condition for fabrication—he’s actually talking about something very immediate and intimate. We have to put our experience together to make sense out of it, but we …
- To Disturb Your Complacency… There are the three kinds of fabrication: bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; mental fabrication—perceptions and feelings. You’re engaging in these things all the time. In fact, your sense of “who you are” usually has a lot to do with these things. You want to learn how to learn how to question that, take …
- Head & Heart… This is the kind of breathing that leads to suffering, it’s one of the forms of fabrication—bodily fabrication—and it’s one of the basic building blocks of all your emotions. There’s bodily fabrication; verbal fabrication, which is directed thought and evaluation, the conversations you have inside; and then there are mental fabrications, your feelings and perceptions. Those are the building …
- Creativity & Play… right in this ability to fabricate and in your sensitivity to how much your fabrication is leading to happiness. The path is something you fabricate, so learn how to play well with the path, within the strictures, the rules, formed by the laws of causality. As with any game, you’ve got to stay within the rules, but within the rules you find that …
- Take Nothing for Granted… As the Buddha said, we fabricate our experience for the sake of having form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness, and then we use those things for the sake of happiness. So we have to remember why we’re here. Keep that in the background, and then set your mind on doing what needs to be done to reach to that goal of happiness, of real …
- Twigs & Branches… So you have to fabricate the thinking. Fabricate those value judgments that will help you make distinctions and decide: “Is this heading in the right direction, or is it heading in the wrong direction? Am I holding on to twigs and branches that are going to weigh me down and get burned, or am I holding on to twigs and branches that are going …
- Feelings Not of the Flesh… If you don’t admit what you’re doing, how can you gain any insight? After all, insight, as the Buddha said, is insight into the process of fabrication. Fabrication is the way we shape our experience, and if you deny that you’re fabricating anything, then you’re not going to see anything. So take this as a test case: To what extent …
- Endurance… Such a large part of the problem has to do those two types of fabrication: verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. And, of course, if you can learn to breathe in a way that feels refreshing to the body, that takes a lot of the edge off right there, because when situations come that we find hard to endure, a lot of it has to …
- Something New… An awful lot of things fall under fabrication. So you want to look into it. How are you fabricating the present moment?—because the intentional element in the fabrication is your potential for freedom. If you just keep on fabricating the same old garbage over and over and over again, you’re not taking advantage of the fact that the Buddha has been born …
- A Trained Observer… There’s another way that corresponds to another sutta—I’ve forgotten the number and name of the sutta—in which the insight arises as you go from one level of concentration to another, and you see the different fabrications fall away. Verbal fabrication falls away as you move from the first to the second jhāna. Bodily fabrication falls away as you move from …
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