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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- The Easy Way Out… Then you ask, “To what extent are you fabricating this element of your experience?” Then you try to notice, when you’re fabricating that aspect—such as with the breath or with feelings or with your mind-states—which ways of fabricating are more stressful and which ones are less? Which ones add a burden to the mind and which ones take a burden …
- Fabricated Path, Unfabricated Goal… The breath is what the Buddha calls bodily fabrication. When you direct your thoughts to something and you evaluate it, that’s called verbal fabrication; you’re basically talking to yourself about it. So you can talk to yourself about the breath, the proviso being that you want to talk about it skillfully. Ask questions that actually help you to settle down: What kind …
- A Better Place to Feed… The fabrications he points to are: One, the breath—bodily fabrication. Two, verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself, which he calls directed thought and evaluation: when you choose a topic and then you make comments on it, ask questions about it, decide what you think about it. And then three, mental fabrication, your perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the words and images …
- A Cure for the Sluggish Mind… Where are you feeding right now? Analyze the mind’s feeding habits in terms of fabrication. Remember there’s verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation: how you talk to yourself. The Buddha’s analysis of how you talk to yourself, dividing it into directed thought and evaluation, is really useful. What topics are you choosing? Where do you …
- A Passion for the Path… Why is that? Because they’re fabricated and you’re holding on to something fabricated. But there’s also suffering in the fact that it’s not worth holding on. In fact, if you cling to anything, the clinging is, in and of itself, suffering. That’s what you have to see. It’s a value judgment that you’re going to have to …
- Inquisitive… The work is right here in this process of fabrication that goes into the breathing, bodily fabrication. How does bodily fabrication relate to verbal fabrication? And how does that relate to mental fabrication? It’s all happening right here, and you learn the answers to those questions not in the abstract but being right here, too: noticing connections right here, asking questions right here …
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