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- 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 …
- Push Yourself… That requires exerting bodily fabrication—in other words, looking at the way you’re breathing—as well as verbal fabrication, the way you think about a particular issue. Say that anger comes up. How are you thinking about it? How are you directing your thoughts to the anger? How are you evaluating the anger, evaluating the situation? Are you doing it a way that …
- Values… Now, fabrication here can mean your bodily fabrication, in other words, the way you breathe. Say, anxiety arises, and you find yourself breathing in a certain uncomfortable way. Well, learn how to breathe in another way that’s not so aggravating to the anxiety. Then there’s verbal fabrication: How are you talking to yourself about the issue? What are you saying? Suppose you …
- Why We Train the Mind… You have to work with what are called different kinds of fabrications. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation, in other words, how you narrate and analyze the problem to yourself. Then there’s mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. “Feeling” here doesn’t mean emotion. It means the feeling tone that you focus on with regard to …
- It’s up to You… Then you stop your fabrication of the present moment. And as you stop that fabrication, something opens up inside: total freedom, totally unrestricted by space or time. That’s the direction we’re heading to, the direction of less and less disturbance, based on the realization that the disturbances that are bothering your mind are actually coming from your mind itself. And if you …
- Dimensions of Right Effort… This is called exerting a fabrication. And this requires that you understand the different elements that go into this process of how the mind fabricates something. On the one hand, there’s the breath, which is bodily fabrication. This is one of the reasons why we focus on the breath. The breath is an intentional process, and we look at the breath so that …
- Fighting off Ignorance… Then, conditioned by ignorance, we fabricate our experience. Some of that fabrication comes in from the past, but a lot of it comes in the choices we’re making right now. For instance, you can choose to ignore the breath or you can choose to pay attention to the breath. You can choose to breathe in different ways. You can actually breathe in ways …
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