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  2. To Discern Suffering
     … saying, “This is pleasure, this is pain, this pleasure I can handle, this pleasure I can’t handle.” Thought-fabrications add even more complex layers of likes and dislikes and analysis on top of things. And then there’s consciousness, your awareness of these things. We hold on to these things. This is how we suffer. The word for clinging in Pali means basically … 
  3. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. He says that we suffer because we cling to these things. Form is any physical form. It can be the form of your own body or the form of things you’re attached to, items that you like, people you like. Feeling is just registering the sensation of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. These feelings can … 
  4. Concentration
     … You learn how to develop skillful fabrications and abandon unskillful ones. And it’s in this way that concentration leads to discernment. It both builds on discernment and creates the conditions for more discernment. After all, if you didn’t have some understanding of the mind, you wouldn’t be able to get it to settle down. Once it settles down, you can see … 
  5. The Meaning of the Body
    The Meaning of the Body October 15, 2004 Everything in life is fabricated. It’s all put together. And it doesn’t just fall together on its own. A lot of effort goes into putting things together. And because we have to put so much effort into life, we want to make sure that our effort is well directed, our energy is well spent … 
  6. Everybody Benefits
     … We see the process of fabrication and we try to calm it, so that the blatant levels of fabrication can get out of the way and we can see the subtler levels and just keep on going in, in, in like this. In that way, we get to the subtler levels of our awareness that can give us a more solid foundation, so that … 
  7. Getting Your Head Around the Goal
     … But if you exercise your mind through developing powers of concentration and mindfulness, and then turn them on understanding how it is that the mind creates suffering for itself—suffering around physical pain, suffering around mental pain—you can see a lot of the levels of fabrication going on in the mind. There’s a book someone once did of Ajaan Chah’s Dhamma … 
  8. Talking to Yourself
     … This is where another type of fabrication comes in. It’s called mental fabrication, *saññā *or perception: the words you use to label things, the images you use to present things to yourself. What kind of image is good to hold of the breath energy in the body? Do you want to be aware of the breath energy along the skin? Or do you … 
  9. Respect for Concentration
     … We’re taking the khandhas — these aggregates of body, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, and consciousness — and instead of identifying with them, we use them as tools. And as part of the process of mastering them as tools, there will have to be a sense of identification. You identify with the state of concentration, whatever sense of the body is present in the concentration, whatever … 
  10. Committed to the Breath
     … The mind fabricates its way of approaching things, its way of thinking about the breath, thinking about feelings, perceptions, thinking about thoughts. To put an end to suffering, we have to see those processes. The best place to look, from the very beginning, is at the breath. It’s near the mind, but it’s not directly at the mind. I remember, years back … 
  11. At the End of the Day
     … Then he simply says to breathe in and out sensitive to mental fabrication, and to breathe in and out calming mental fabrication. Those two steps require a lot of teasing out. Mental fabrication is perception and feeling. You want to see how those two things together have an impact on the mind. If there’s a pain in the body, it’s having an … 
  12. Escape from Inter-eating
     … You’ve seen the limits of fabrication. You realize that the processes of fabrication require feeding. You want something that doesn’t require feeding, something more peaceful, something safer and more secure. And you’re confident that there must be something of that sort. That’s why you let go. The Buddha was pretty amazing. He didn’t have that assurance. He was totally … 
  13. Don’t Practice in a Row
     … For the mind to settle down, you need to have some understanding of the processes of fabrication in your mind. You’re not going to fully see the fabrications in the mind until the mind has settled down to some extent. It sounds like you’re being put in a double bind, but that’s not the case. In the practice, you just practice … 
  14. Can Do
     … When it comes to feelings, the Buddha simply recommends learning how to breathe in a way that gives rise to a sense of rapture, gives rise to a sense of pleasure, then getting sensitive to mental fabrication, which are feelings and perceptions, and then calming those mental fabrications. That’s the outline for the Buddha’s approach to feelings, but it gives very little … 
  15. Meticulous
     … Actually it’s in the process of developing the mind in concentration that you learn a lot of things about the processes of the mind—not only seeing the processes, but seeing them as fabrication. When you see them as fabrication, you begin to realize: This is all pretty arbitrary. Then it’s easier to develop a sense of disenchantment and dispassion around these … 
  16. The Buddha’s Wisdom
     … That, too, is fabricated. And the right view that was pointing you there: That, too, is fabricated. So you apply the same five-step program to these things: You see their allure, which is that they’ve created a lot of pleasure that you wouldn’t have had before, but their drawback is that you still have to keep fabricating them. And you remember … 
  17. An End to the Stories
     … He realized that his story was just one little thread in a very complex fabric. The best thing to do was the noble thing to do—to get out of the fabric entirely. So if you’ve been the recipient of some unfair treatment, just let it stop there. Tell yourself: The fact that you have ears to hear things and have a body … 
  18. Organizing Your Inner Committee
     … All fabrications are not-self. That includes this verbal fabrication in the mind. It’s not-self. For the time being, you want to use that principle selectively. Continue to side with the skillful voices. Identify with them when they’re useful. As for anything that’s unskillful, learn how to pull out. It’s like those times when you’re in a dream … 
  19. The Thread of Mindfulness
     … It’s a fabrication, but it’s a path-fabrication, just like all the other factors of the path. It’s something you’ve got to foster, something you’ve got to develop. You’re mindful to give rise to it and you’re mindful to keep it going. When the Buddha talks about mindfulness as a governing principle in the practice, that’s … 
  20. Issues of Control
     … In the same way, as we deal with our aggregates—form, feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness—there are unskillful ways of trying to control them and there are skillful ways. You can actually turn them into the path. All five aggregates, for instance, are involved in concentration. Form, of course, would be the breath. Think of the breath going through the whole body. Feeling … 
  21. The Right Piece in the Right Puzzle
     … But the path is fabricated. If you’re going to let go of all fabrications, you’re ultimately going to have to let go of the path, too. This is where the teaching on not-self really moves into high gear. You look, say, at your concentration, and you realize that it’s made out of the aggregates. The form is the form of … 
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