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- 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 …
- Safety… There’s bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, mental fabrication, all the activities of what’s called name—in other words, perceptions, intentions, acts of attention, feelings, contact: This is contact inside the mind, inside the body. All of that comes prior to what you’re experiencing at the senses. That’s what’s shaping things, and that’s what primes you to suffer. We do …
- A Recipe for Jhana… Then, when you start looking at how the breath has an effect on the body, you’re learning to think in terms of fabrication, which is the topic of insight. As you calm the fabrications down, that brings about more tranquility. The insight and tranquility go together, without your having to think about the words “tranquility” or “insight.” Without getting involved in all the …
- Getting the Most Out of Now… The next type of fabrication is what the Buddha calls verbal fabrication, which is the way you talk to yourself. This, too, has a huge impact on the mind, so you want to learn how to talk to yourself in a skillful way. Like right now when you’re staying with the breath: Part of the mind may be making comments on how skillful …
- Two Roads to the Grand Canyon… You do have to be fired by a certain desire and a certain passion because, after all, the path is fabricated. As the Buddha said, it’s the highest of all fabricated phenomena, but it is a fabrication. All fabrications require desire, and they all involve effort. The discernment comes in figuring out how much effort is just right. This is one of the …
- Passion for Dispassion… Given that the mind likes fabricating things, fabricate the path. Put it together—like right now, meditating on the breath. The breath itself is a fabrication. There’s an intentional element in it. That’s what fabrication means. If you want to run a running commentary, comment on the breath. How does it feel? Where would it feel really good to focus on the …
- Correcting, Fostering, Cutting Away… Then there’s the image of the person standing saying, “I could be more relaxed sitting down,” or the person sitting saying, “I could be more relaxed lying down.” That’s what the Buddha calls the relaxation of thought fabrication. In other words, every thought that would distract you has to be fabricated. It requires some effort. Where is that effort being expended right …
- A Simple Path Through a Complex Map… Feeling appears first in fabrications, which come right after ignorance, as part of mental fabrication, along with perception. It appears again in name and form. There it has different company. It’s accompanied by perception again, but also by intention, attention, contact. It appears again right after contact at the senses, and then again right after becoming, in the suffering of aging, illness, and …
- Cut, Cut, Cut… There’s some bodily fabrication, which is the breath itself; there’s a little bit of internal discussion, which is verbal fabrication; and there are some mental fabrications, which are the feelings and the perceptions—the labels you put on things. Those are all here. But they’re all here around something really simple. It’s when you keep things simple that you see …
- Fear of Mistakes… He says there’s a potential coming in from the past, and then, with the process of fabrication, we fabricate those potentials into an actual experience of aggregates. What are the processes of fabrication? One: the way you breathe. Two: the way you talk to yourself—what the Buddha calls “directed thought and evaluation.” And finally, three: perceptions and feelings. You’re doing all …
- Don’t Be Afraid of Jhana… At the same time, as you’re working on concentration, you’re dealing with the processes of fabrication. You’re getting hands-on practice with how you can use the rhythm and texture of breathing to have an influence on how you sense the body; how to use the power of verbal fabrication—in other words, directing your thoughts to the breath and evaluating …
- Possessiveness… But how can you make use of that knowledge? We read about the three kinds of fabrication that, under the influence of ignorance, can lead to suffering: bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, perceptions and feelings. Now, the wise response to that analysis is not just to hold to the view that that …
- The Brightness of Life… They’re formed through fabrication. You can look at fabrication in terms of the five aggregates. You can look at it in terms of the three kinds of fabrication that are listed in dependent co-arising. This kind of knowledge helps get you out of that state. You see the state of becoming not in terms of narratives about who you are in the …
- In the Elephant’s Footprint… You begin to see the extent to which you have been shaping your experience through bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. Before, you were doing it in ignorance. When you adopt right view, you start assuming that this is an important aspect of your awareness to know. But with stream entry, you see that it really is. You see how much the fact …
- The Energy to Be Generous… We do it with the three fabrications. Bodily fabrication: working with the breath so that it feels comfortable and nourishing, energizing. Verbal fabrication: how to think about things in a way that’s more energizing. In other words, when things are difficult, think of it as an opportunity. Here’s your opportunity to show your stuff, that you can be skillful in spite of …
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