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- 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 …
- Safety in an Uncertain World… As the Buddha says, insight gets developed when you ask the right questions about fabrications: what fabrications are, how they should be regarded, how they should be seen with insight. Learn how to look at your emotions as you go through the day. From that perspective, how are they fabricated? The Buddha gives you a list of three types: bodily, verbal, mental. Bodily is …
- Make the Most of What You’ve Got… But if you do it with knowledge, you can actually turn those fabrications into the path. After all, the path itself is a kind of fabrication—the ultimate fabricated dhamma, the Buddha said. It can take you to something unfabricated, which means it doesn’t create the goal, but it takes you there. Just like the road to the ocean doesn’t create the …
- The Energy in the Body… The different forms of fabrication are all right here. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the in-and-out breathing. Verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation, in which you’re directing your thoughts to the breath, and evaluating the breath as it comes in and out. And mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions—feelings of comfort or discomfort, and your perception of how those relate …
- Bases for Success… There’s the base of success which is concentration founded on desire and the fabrications of exertion. There’s the base of success which is concentration founded on persistence and the fabrications of exertion. The fabrication of exertion is there in each case; it basically means right effort. The other two bases are concentration founded on intent and concentration founded on circumspection. That makes …
- Analyzing Suffering… So fabrication is involved in all of the aggregates. This is important because fabrication is essentially intention. This means that there’s an intentional element in all of our suffering. We might not like the idea that we are responsible for our suffering, but the fact that we have a hand in our suffering means that we can change it. The fact that there …
- Learning How to Talk to Yourself… Even just the way you breathe—it’s called bodily fabrication. Then there’s the way you talk to yourself, verbal fabrication, which the Buddha divides into two activities: One is directed thought, where you direct your thoughts to a particular topic. You’re going to think about the breath right now. Then there’s evaluation: Whatever you’re thinking about, you make comments …
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