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- Fear of Missing Out… is actually happening in the body, what way you can picture the breath to yourself so that it becomes easy to settle down throughout the whole body. Then there are feelings: feeling tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. Of course, here you’re trying to create feelings of pleasure by the way you breathe, by the way you perceive the breath …
- Countercultural Conditioning… the way you talk to yourself, choosing your topics and then making comments on them. And then mental fabrication—perceptions, which are the labels you hold in mind, and then feelings: feeling tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. These are the things we use to shape our experience. In fact, even before we have sensory experience, we’re already started shaping …
- Goodwill Plus… If you can bring that attitude to it, then you’ve got the right mental feeling tone that’ll carry you through.
- A Good Mood to Meditate… the labels you put on things, and the actual feeling-tones themselves—pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. All these things get mixed together and fabricated into emotions. So it’s important to realize that an emotion is a fabricated thing. It’s not primal. It may deal a lot in the lizard part of our brain, but it’s still fabricated. It’s …
- An Exercise in Sensitivity… When you look at the different descriptions of the levels of jhāna, you’ll notice that they all center around a feeling tone—pleasure or equanimity—and the pleasure gets more and more refined as you go through the different levels. Even equanimity is said to be a very subtle form of pleasure. Of course, subtlety comes from doing something again and again, and …
- Heart & Mind… Feelings here are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. Here again, learning how to breathe skillfully in the midst of difficult situations can give you a foundation of well-being inside, so that you don’t feel so oppressed, so hemmed in by events. You realize that regardless of what’s happening outside, you can still inhabit the full space …
- The Heightened Mind… You’re trying to develop this feeling tone, because after all, feeling is one of the mental fabrications, the things that determine the state of your mind. So you want to soothe the mind with a sense of well-being that comes from just being with the body, being with the breath as you feel it from within. In that way, you’re not …
- Analyzing Anger… Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. It’s all very simple. But he wants you to see these things because, as he points out elsewhere, when we engage in these activities in ignorance, that sets the whole process of dependent co-arising into play. That’s what ultimately leads to suffering. When you breathe in ignorance and talk to …
- Happily on the Path… The stages of right concentration are defined by their feeling tone. The first one is pleasure and rapture born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought and evaluation. The pleasure gets more intense in the second and third jhanas. Then finally, when you’ve had enough of that pleasure, that’s when you develop equanimity in the fourth jhana. That equanimity comes when there’s …
- Staying on Track… perceptions, the images you hold in mind, or individual words to identify things; and then feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. It’s through these three kinds of fabrication that we shape our experience. When things go wrong in the mind, it’s because we’re fabricating things in ignorance. So, we want to bring some knowledge to these processes. When …
- Four Bases of Success… And feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain. These things all respond to your intentions, and they have an impact on how you experience the body, how you experience the mind. This is why they’re essential to all four types of concentration. So if the mind is wandering off, you first focus on bodily fabrication. Ask yourself, “How …
- The Power of Perception… You begin to see in action what the Buddha was talking about, which is that if you’re going to have an actual perception, an actual feeling of the form of the body, or the feeling tones of pleasure or pain, you have to fabricate them from the raw material coming from your past. These things exist in a potential form, coming in from …
- The Radiant Mind… the images we hold in mind and the feeling tones we focus on and encourage. Those are shaped by our intentions, too. Usually, we’re awfully ignorant of how we encourage these things. Yet, as the Buddha said, we shape both the present moment and our future lifetimes through these types of fabrication. If we’re ignorant of them, that’s pretty scary. Fortunately …
- How to Change… the labels you put on things, the feeling tones you have. These are the building blocks for all mental kamma. So as the Buddha’s teaching you, he’s noticing that the way you talk to yourself, the way you breathe, the way you hold different feelings and perceptions in the mind is causing you to suffer, and he wants you to change. He …
- The Dhamma Mirror… Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the labels you put on things, the images you hold in mind, that tell you what something is and what it means. Thought fabrications are intentions and your inner conversation. Then consciousness is aware of all these things. You can learn the words, but where do these things happen? Actually, they …
- Because the Mind Is Purposeful… Verbal fabrication—the way you talk to yourself; in technical terms it’s directed thought and evaluation. And then mental fabrication—perceptions, the labels you put on things, and then feelings: feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. As you’re working with the breath, getting the mind to settle down, you’re getting hands-on experience with all three of these …
- The Noble Truths of the Breath… The feelings are not emotions; they’re feeling tones—a sense of pleasure, a sense of pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. These feelings have a huge impact on the mind. They, together with the perceptions you use to communicate with yourself—the images you hold in mind, or the words by which you identify that this is this and that is that. When …
- Getting the Most Out of Now… Feelings here are feeling-tones: the quality of pleasure or pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain that you feel and that you’re already dealing with as you deal with the breath and talk about the breath to yourself. Then there are perceptions. These are the images you hold in mind. And one main image is an image of what the breath is doing …
- Sensitive to the Mind… the perceptions that hold you with the breath, and then the feeling-tones that you give rise to by the way you breathe. These are all very explicit in the instructions. And of course, when you’re with the breath you’re guaranteed that you’re in the present moment. But there are times when the mind is not willing to settle down with …
- Defabricating Anger… bodily fabrication, the in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and then mental fabrication, the perceptions you hold in mind — the images or labels you place on things giving them meaning — along with feelings, feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. That’s what we’re doing right now. We’re trying to bring some knowledge to …
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