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- Calm… Think of the Buddha’s analysis of how we fabricate the present moment by the way we talk to ourselves, by the way we breathe, and by our feelings and perceptions. Or to put them in another order: bodily fabrication: the breath; verbal fabrication: how you talk to yourself; mental fabrication: perceptions and feelings. So if, when analyzing your state of mind, you find …
- Good for What Purpose?… The facts of our awareness, the facts of our consciousness, are all fabricated. And what is fabrication? Fabrication is putting things together for the sake of something. In other words, there’s an intentional element, there’s an aim, there’s a desire underlying everything. This is why the Buddha said, “All things are rooted in desire.” So you have to ask yourself which …
- Questioning Impermanence… The breath is what they call bodily fabrication. Thinking about the breath and evaluating the breath: Those are called verbal fabrication. And the feelings and perceptions that go around the breath, those are called mental fabrications. As the Buddha said, these are all the fabrications you need to know, right here. When you direct your thought to the breath and you evaluate the breath …
- Streams of Anger… One of the reasons we practice concentration is to get to know how the mind fabricates its experiences. We all know what the three fabrications are: The in-and-out breath is *bodily fabrication; *directed thought and evaluation, the way you talk to yourself, are verbal fabrications; the perceptions you hold in mind and the feelings that you focus on are mental fabrications. We …
- Learning Through Healing… This tendency of the mind to flow out and create situations is called fabrication. And of all the things you want to learn about the mind, this is the most important. It’s because we fabricate based on ignorance that we suffer. So in the course of treating the mind, we’re going to learn a lot about fabrication. We’ll learn a lot …
- Consciousness, Awakened & Not… It’s only then that you get to see something that lies beyond what you’ve fabricated. You see it because you’ve been focusing on the fabrications and clearing them out of the way, clearing them out of the way. It’s only then that you’re going to see the difference between the consciousness that’s here in concentration — which is also …
- Right View Comes First… In each case, he says, “This view you have is fabricated, dependently co-arisen. Whatever is fabricated, dependently co-arisen is suffering and stressful. So if you adhere to that view, you’re adhering to stress.” So they ask him what his view is. He says, “Whatever is fabricated is stressful. Whatever is dependently co-arisen is stressful, not me, not mine.” They say …
- Determined on Awakening… We suffer because we fabricate our experience in ignorance. We get the raw material from our past actions, and we don’t experience it directly without processing it. Our processing in the present moment is bodily fabrication (the way you breathe), verbal fabrication (the way you talk to yourself), and mental fabrication: the perceptions you hold in mind, the images, the words with which …
- An Island of Certainty… It’s in the creation of these fabrications, the elaboration, the embroidering of the fabrications, that we begin to lie to ourselves. So you drop those. As soon as you recognize them, you drop them. You’re trying to look at things from the point of view of there being simply name and form—in other words physical phenomena and mental phenomena in the …
- Urgency & Contentment… All the information you have to learn and understand, all the fabrications you want to master, are right here at the breath. When you’re focused on the breath, thinking about the breath, and evaluating the breath, the thinking and evaluation are called verbal fabrication. The breath itself is bodily fabrication. The perceptions and feelings that you develop working with the breath: Those are …
- Getting Familiar with Concentration… After all, the Buddha said that insight is insight into the process of fabrication, and all of fabrications you need to know are right here when you’re focused on the breath. The breath itself is the bodily fabrication. It’s the factor that keeps the body going together. Then there’s verbal fabrication, the mind’s inner chatter, where it directs its thoughts …
- Weathering Karma Storms… This is where we’re dealing with the three kinds of fabrication: bodily fabrication—the breath; verbal fabrication—the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication—the perceptions you hold in mind together with the feelings you focus on. These are the things that provide you with a safe shelter right now. So, first try to work with your breath. No matter what …
- Worldly Equanimity & Its Uses… You were actually going to figure out what kind of breathing would lead to rapture, what kind of breathing would lead to pleasure, how to breathe in a way that you’re conscious of the whole body, how you can calm bodily fabrication, how you can breathe in a way that calms mental fabrication, and how to breathe in a way that gladdens the …
- The Big Picture… You can see this in the Buddha’s definition of what he calls the three kinds of fabrication: bodily, verbal, and mental. Right now, as you’re sitting here meditating, bodily fabrication is the way you breathe. Pay a lot of attention to that. Verbal fabrication is the way you talk to yourself, what the Buddha calls directed thought and evaluation. You choose a …
- The Making Of… It goes back further and further, through name and form, consciousness, fabrications. When you learn how to see these things in these terms, it allows you to step out. We get practice in these terms as we try to get the mind into concentration—as with fabrication. There’s bodily fabrication—which is your breath. Verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation. And mental fabrication …
- Getting Untangled from Thorns… As the Buddha said, it’s fabricated. You want to see these fabrications in action because that’s where ignorance lies—the big root that we’re trying to dig out here. If you wonder where the ignorance is right now, look for where your mind is fabricating something. And perception’s a very useful fabrication to focus on. After all, concentration itself is …
- Lessons in Happiness… You sensitize yourself to the fabrication that’s going on, and then you find ways of finding happiness within that sensitivity by fabricating with skill. You expand your awareness rather than curling up and trying to hide. You let go, not out of aversion, but out of a full understanding, having learned the lessons of happiness, learned the lessons of pleasure that you can …
- Borrowed Goods… the verbal fabrication of directed thought and evaluation, and just the underlying intention even in the higher levels of concentration—the intention to stay here, to stick with one object. And then there’s consciousness: the awareness of all these things. In this way, you’re using all five aggregates to make them into a path, to turn them into concentration. You use them …
- Food Insecurity… With concentration you’ve got bodily fabrication (the breath), verbal fabrication (directed thought and evaluation), and then mental fabrication (perceptions and feelings). You put them all together in the right way, and you’ve got good food inside. That’s what provides the nourishment on the path. Give rise to feelings of pleasure, feelings of rapture—what Ajaan Fuang calls the lubricant of the …
- You Can’t Clone Awakening… Remember, those pictures are fabricated out of ignorance. And no matter how much you read the texts, or how careful you are about finding passages where the Buddha describes a little bit of what it’s like to be awakened, you can’t clone awakening. Because all you’re doing is just indulging in your imagination, indulging in perceptions and fabrications. There is this …
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