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  2. Over the Pass
     … Right after ignorance comes fabrication, and after fabrication comes consciousness, and then name and form. These are just events. Form is your sense of the body as you feel it from within. Name is a whole collection of mental events: feelings, perceptions, acts of attention, acts of intention, contact among these things, without any reference to whose they are. When they first arise, that … 
  3. What Are You Taking into the Future?
     … The Buddha talks about how the mind fabricates form for the sake of formness, feeling for the sake of feelingness, and so on down the line. It’s a strange expression, it’s hard to say why the Buddha says it’s for the sake of “formness” or “feelingness” or “perceptionhood.” The Commentary tries to explain this way of phrasing the issue away, saying … 
  4. Comprehending Clinging
     … But to adopt these right forms of clinging—notice that views, habits and practices, and a sense of the self are there, but nothing about sensuality on the path—you also have to clear away your other forms of attachment. Sensuality, of course, is the big one. It’s going to pull you off if you’re not careful. This is why you have … 
  5. Savor Your Breath
     … With a guitar, what sounds good to you? What harmonies hit a soft spot in your body or mind? With the breath, what feels good to you as you breathe in? You want to get sensitive to this, because you’re going to be getting sensitive to what the Buddha calls name and form. “Name” covers all the different activities of the mind. “Form … 
  6. Issues
     … This means looking at views, not so much in terms of their content, but in terms of how they’re formed, and how they’re clung to—and how you can develop dispassion for the process by which they’re formed or clung to. Regardless of the extremes, the process by with they’re formed and clung to is the same on either side … 
  7. Deconstructing Suffering
     … In other words, when you move to space, it’s free of the disturbances of form. You learn to appreciate that, and you learn to realize the reason you had those disturbances of form is because of the perception of form, and the perception was a choice. You can choose the way you perceive, as to the field of awareness you have here, the … 
  8. Scramble the Image
     … And you begin to notice that as thoughts form, they form right at the spot where the mind and the body seem to meet. In fact, it’s hard to say whether the original stirring is a mental stirring or a physical stirring. It’s an as-yet-uncommitted stirring right there in your awareness: a little knot, a little swiggle. If you slap … 
  9. Inner Voice Lessons
     … When a thought forms, how does it form? Beneficial thoughts are a lot easier to take apart in this way. Thoughts filled with self-recrimination and regret are very hard to take apart because it’s so easy to get caught up in their stories. The more skillful the thinking, the easier it is to take apart. You can simply watch the thought calmly … 
  10. Let Pleasure & Pain Fall Off the Plow
     … It’s called the pleasure of form. Sensual pleasures come from sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations. The pleasure of form is more the pleasure that comes when the body, as felt from within, feels good regardless of what it’s touching outside. The various elements and various functions in the body seem to be working in harmony. When we get the mind … 
  11. Respect for What’s Noble
     … The form is the form of the body, the form of the food we eat. Feeling, in the feeling of hunger that drives us to eat, and in our desire for the feeling of pleasure that comes when we’re full. The perception of what kind of hunger we have; the perception of what kind of foods out there will satisfy our hunger. Fabrication … 
  12. Meaning Through Perfections
     … The Buddha saw that the escape from sensuality doesn’t lie in submitting yourself to pain, it lies in finding another source of pleasure—this pleasure of form, because this pleasure of form acts as nourishment for the mind and has none of the drawbacks of sensual pleasure. It doesn’t make you intoxicated, and it certainly doesn’t involve your having to take … 
  13. Disenchantment
     … There’s a passage in the Canon where he describes the highest form of oneness, which is the oneness or non-duality of consciousness, in which you have a sense of consciousness as a totality, containing everything. Yet even that, he says, is inconstant, stressful, and not-self. What these two ideas about happiness have in common is that the way things are out … 
  14. Training Your Intentions
     … With fabrication, we fabricate form for the sake of form-ness; we fabricate feeling for the sake of feeling-ness; perceptions for the sake of perception-hood, I guess you’d say; consciousness for the sake of consciousness-ness. It’s a weird grammatical construction in Pali, which is why it sounds strange in English, too. But the basic message is that we have … 
  15. Clinging-Aggregates in Context
     … There’s the form of the body that needs to be fed, and there’s the form of the food that we’re looking for to feed it. There’s the feeling of hunger that drives us to look for food, and the feeling of satisfaction that comes after we’ve eaten. Perceptions: You have to have perceptions about which kind of things are … 
  16. Unlearning Helplessness
     … This conviction is not only a strength, the Buddha also lists it as an internal treasure—a form of wealth. And when he compares the practice to a fortress, where all the different elements of the practice are forms of protection, conviction comes right at the beginning. It’s the foundation post for the fortress. So, think about that, the implications of the fact … 
  17. Pull Yourself Up by Your Fetters
     … We know that it’s the cause of suffering and that someday we’re going to have to abandon all forms of craving. But, as he points out, if you don’t have any desire—and the words craving and desire basically cover the same thing in Pali—if you don’t have the desire, you don’t have the craving to practice, the … 
  18. Antidotes for Clinging
     … Sometimes you hear that the deepest, most underlying form of clinging is the sense of self identity that you build around things. If you learn how not to have any sense of self identity, there you are: You’ve taken care of all the other forms of clinging. Sometimes you hear that clinging to views is the basic form of clinging. If you can … 
  19. Clinging & Its Cure
     … We have to understand these forms of clinging because we have to use some of them, their skillful forms, on the path. We also have to learn how to let go of the unskillful forms. The one form of clinging for which there’s no role in the path is clinging to sensuality. Sensuality here means your fascination with thinking about sensual pleasures, planning … 
  20. Gifts of Noble Wealth
     … When you have the virtue that comes from training in the precepts, it’s a form of wealth. You’re refraining from doing the kinds of things you’d like to do just because you feel like doing them. You start thinking about the consequences, which helps you to avoid bad consequences—and that’s an important form of wealth. Virtue here is supplemented … 
  21. Right Resolve, Right Concentration
    Every time you make up your mind you’re going to meditate, it’s a form of right resolve. You’re looking for a happiness that’s not dependent on sensuality, not dependent on ill will. There are forms of happiness dependent on ill will, when you like to think about all the exquisite pain your enemy is going to go through. But here … 
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