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- 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 …
- Is the Buddha’s Wisdom Selfish?… There’s fabrication when you get food and try to figure out what to do with it. After all, a lot of times you can’t eat food as you get it, and it doesn’t just come floating by on its own. You have to go out there and find it. All of which is fabrication. Then there’s consciousness which is aware …
- Simple & Basic… bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, mental fabrication. They’re all right here. So everything you really need to know is happening right here. It’s simply a matter of looking very carefully, and it’s easiest to look when you keep things simple. The more you clutter up your meditation with other ideas, the less you can see. We talked the other day about respect …
- Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge… He realized that you couldn’t just stop feeding off of form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. If you forced yourself to stop, parts of the mind would come sneaking out for a midnight snack. You’ve got to give the mind a good source of food inside. And when the Buddha’s talking about food in terms of the practice, concentration is the …
- The Challenge of Right View… As Buddha says, you have to apply the process of fabrication in order to undo these unskillful fabrications. The main fabrications in meditation are directed thought, evaluation, and perception. You direct your thoughts at a particular object, you evaluate it, and then you see which perception you can apply to it that’s going to be helpful. As in concentration: All the stages of …
- Mindful & Grateful for Lessons in Freedom… In fact, you’re free in all the types of fabrication you bring to the present moment. There’s bodily fabrication, the breath. There’s verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation. You’re free to direct your thoughts anywhere. Well, direct them to the breath, because it’s going to be a useful place to direct them. And evaluate the breath. What kind of …
- A Message for the Universe… The Buddha talks about calming bodily fabrication and calming mental fabrication. Calming bodily fabrication requires basically calming the way you breathe. Calming the way you breathe, you begin to realize, is going to depend on how you perceive the breath energy in the body. What are the images you use? Which images are useful? Ajaan Lee gives a series of useful perceptions in his …
- Bodywork for the Mind… With other problems in the mind, though, the Buddha says you have to exert a fabrication. The fabrication here has to do with bodily fabrication—in other words, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication—the way you talk to yourself about the issue; or mental fabrication—the feelings and perceptions you have around the issue. You’ve got to work with all of those …
- Constructing & Deconstructing… But as the Buddha said when he gave breath meditation instructions, you’re trying to look at the breath as bodily fabrication, and your feelings and perceptions around the breath as mental fabrication. When you see things in terms of fabrication, that’s insight. For the time being, we’re not watching them just arising and passing away. We’re trying to give rise …
- Always Looking Inside… always looking inside, looking at the movements of the mind—the comments, the fabrications of the mind—because they cause trouble, they cause suffering. But as part of the path, we have to use fabrications. After all, the noble eightfold path is a path that’s fabricated. It’s put together out of our intentions. Right views, right resolves, right mindfulness, and right concentration …
- Imagine Your Breath… Ajaan Lee singles this out—verbal fabrication—as the big culprit among the different kinds of fabrication. The sorts of conversations you tend to hold in the mind get carried over into your engagement with the breath. If you tend to talk to yourself in unskillful ways, you’ll be talking to yourself about the breath in unskillful ways. So try to pick up …
- Taking Apart Suffering… As you learn to see the process of fabrication, both in learning how to do it skillfully and in learning how to take apart unskillful things, that gives you a certain amount of insight into fabrication. This is how insight helps with concentration. You get the mind into a more stable mood, and it’s more willing to settle down regardless of what the …
- Things as They Function… Everything we experience in the present moment is fabricated, put together—the word is saṅkhāra: results of past fabrications and our present fabrications. We’re fabricating things for the sake of happiness. We’re not just static. The present moment is not a frozen moment in time, it’s part of a process going from right now into the future, building on the past …
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