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- The Raft… The Buddha taught that the path is something that’s fabricated, something you have to put together. It leads to something unfabricated, something unconditioned. But you’ve got to get the fabrications right for them to take you there. So hold on to your breath for the time being, because it is your path. Luang Pu Waen used to say, “Make Buddho the path …
- Controlling… For instance, you’ve got fabrication, the very first factor after ignorance. This includes bodily fabrication, the breath; verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation; and mental fabrication, perceptions and feelings. You have some control over all those things. You can change the way you breathe. You can change the way you talk to yourself, which is what directed thought and evaluation are all about …
- An Exercise in Freedom… There are processes the Buddha calls bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. And they all hover around the breath. In fact, the breath itself is the bodily fabrication, it’s what creates our sense of the body. If the breath weren’t coming in, going out—if the breath energy weren’t flowing through the nerves—we wouldn’t even know we had …
- Damming & Diverting… You begin to see that there are these elements, these fabrications, that go into keeping the mind here. It turns out they’re the same fabrications we use to create any mental state, especially with an emotion. If the fear or lust or anger gets into your breath, it’s gone from the mind into the body. That’s all too often why we …
- Investing Your Intention… So what is there to see right here? Well, there are different kinds of fabrication. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath. There’s verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation. And there’s mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. The path consists of comprehending these things. You’ve got them all gathered together here. You’re directing your thoughts to the breath and evaluating …
- Countercultural Conditioning… The conditioning that he’s talking about when we’re trying to go beyond conditioning is the fact that any experience that’s going to make any sense has to be composed of those three kinds of fabrication that he said, when they’re based on ignorance, will lead to suffering. There’s bodily fabrication, which is your in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication …
- Deconstruct Your Emotions… Three, the breath energy is part of what’s called bodily fabrication. It’s one of the three kinds of fabrication that go into creating an emotion. Here in the West in particular we have the belief that our emotions are what we really are—what we really feel. But a lot of those “real” feelings are simply habits. A certain incident comes up …
- Equanimity… Why did the Buddha use all those terms? Well, the defilement has been something you’ve been fabricating all along. The mind has been fabricating defilement out of passion, so when you develop dispassion, you’re going to stop fabricating it, and when you stop fabricating it, it ends. That’s how it gets destroyed. That’s how all these things go together. Now …
- 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 …
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