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- Dhamma Medicine for Free… If you do all these processes— bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication—with as much knowledge as possible, that cuts through a lot of the suffering that would ordinarily develop around the breath. We don’t think of there being much suffering around the breath, but if there’s a sense of dis-ease in the body, it begins to spread into the …
- Teaching Old Selves New Tricks… It’s right next to your verbal fabrication. It’s bodily fabrication, and the fact that it’s a fabrication means that you can tell the breath to do different things: for instance, to breathe in a way that calms you down, keeps you nourished, so that you’re not so desperate to get quick results. You’ve got some goodness. You’ve got …
- Tuning-in to the Breath… It’s a fabrication, a sankhara. In one of the suttas, the Buddha says that all the different khandhas, all the different aggregates that make up experience as a whole, have to get shaped into aggregates by the process of fabrication. In other words, there’s a potential for a form, a potential for a feeling, potential for perception, fabrication, consciousness; and the act …
- Dwelling in Emptiness… In the same way, as the mind gets more and more still, the different levels of fabrication fall away: Verbal fabrication falls away as you enter the second jhana. Bodily fabrication, the in-and-out breath, falls away as you enter the fourth. You start going into the formless jhanas and the different levels of perception: The perception of space is more gross than …
- Purity Comes Through Discernment… They require that we do some fabrication. The main kinds of fabrication the Buddha talked about are directed thought and evaluation, and feeling and perception, although the breath also comes under the topic of fabrication. The way you breathe in relationship to some things actually will change your relationship to them. This is why he starts meditation with the breath, getting to know the …
- Self View & Conceit… And because you’ve gotten used to seeing how the mind fabricates states, you recognize this as something not fabricated. You know you didn’t do it. But the fabrication of the path got you to the threshold. After having that experience, you come out of it. And in coming out of it, that’s where the fetters get cut. The very first time …
- Give of Yourself… those that go away simply when you look at them with equanimity, and those that go away only with fabrications of exertion. But which is which? He wouldn’t say. You have to observe for yourself. And what does it mean to exert a fabrication? In that context, he doesn’t say. He says in other places, and it’s up to you to …
- Good Friends Inside… After all, they’re verbal fabrications. And what do fabrications come from? They usually come from ignorance. You have to learn how to look at that process so that you can do it with knowledge. That way, it won’t cause suffering. And the best way to look at it is to step out of it. But before you can step out of it …
- Timeless Dhamma… In the first two tetrads, the pattern is to sensitize yourself to a certain aspect of fabrication, either physical fabrication or mental fabrication, and then to try to calm the fabrication. That points you to the mind. That’s the theme of the next two tetrads. In each of those cases, it’s more a matter of getting sensitive to certain aspects of the …
- The Battle of Your Selves… Ajaan Lee and Ajaan Maha Boowa talk about the ways in which distractions get started in the mind, and it’s interesting that they switch roles in terms of the perception and the fabrication. Ajaan Maha Boowa would start with the fabrication, a stirring of energy in the mind, and then he says you slap a perception on top of that. In Ajaan Lee …
- The Safety of Dualities… As you get deeper into the processes of the mind, you begin to see these acts of fabrication—bodily fabrication: breath; verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation, in other words, the way you talk to yourself; and then mental fabrication: feelings of pleasure or pain, neither pleasure nor pain, and then perceptions, the labels you apply to things. All of these things are actions …
- Surprise Yourself… You breathe in and out calming bodily fabrication. The word “bodily fabrication” there means the in-and-out breath. The question, of course, is: Why did the Buddha use a technical term there? The answer seems to be that he wants you to think in terms of fabrication. He’s trying to direct your ingenuity: To what extent is the breath a fabricated process …
- Ask the Right Questions… How do you comprehend fabrications? How do you look at them? If you’ve been doing breath meditation, you’ve already got some experience in dealing with fabrications. The Buddha talks about becoming sensitive to the bodily fabrication, i.e., the in-and-out breath, allowing it to grow calm. And then there’s mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. How do these to grow …
- Guarding the Truth… The Buddha calls that verbal fabrication. You’re working with the breath. That’s bodily fabrication. You have a perception of how the breath comes in and out of the body, and you’re creating feelings of pleasure as best you can. Those are mental fabrications. You’re doing this by maintaining that intention to stay with the breath. You’re paying attention to …
- Feeding Instructions… All this comes down to the five clinging-aggregates—form as a clinging-aggregate; feelings as a clinging-aggregate; perceptions, fabrications, consciousness as clinging-aggregates. And the real problem is the clinging. The word for clinging, upādāna, can also mean “to take sustenance,” in other words, to feed. We’re feeding off of our sense of our body as we feel it from within …
- Reflect on What You’re Doing… When there’s no fabrication in the present moment, there’s no present moment. There’s no fabrication of here or there. There’s no space of going or staying. There is no time. Now, you can’t clone this ahead of time. What you can do is remember those instructions to Rahula and think of carrying them all the way through. Think of …
- Bewildered… There’s feeling in fabrication, there’s feeling in name and form, and there’s feeling that arises immediately after contact. Then there’s the pain that comes with aging, illness, and death and all the different forms of craving. So, you have to ask yourself, which is it this time? Have that range in mind, because it helps give you some idea of …
- Breathing to Awakening… And it’s because you were fabricating these things to begin with, when you’re dispassionate toward them, you see no point in fabricating them any more. They cease, and you just let go of the whole problem. That’s when you’re using this five-step method to deal with distractions. Ultimately, you turn that same five-step analysis onto your own concentration …
- You Can’t Relax Your Way to Awakening… There’s an idea that made its way into Buddhist circles that, after all, because fabrications just create more fabrications, then you can’t do anything that would lead to the goal, so you have to just go around doing nothing, not fabricating, and that’s how the unfabricated will appear. That’s based on a very simplistic notion of causality. The Buddha’s …
- When You Hit a Plateau… After all, what’s happening right now to shape your experience? There’s bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, the images you hold in mind—the perceptions—and then the feelings you focus on. You’re engaging in these activities all the time, but how conscious are you of what you’re doing …
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