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- 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 …
- 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 …
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