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- Great Expectations… Whereas the Buddha said you’re not your feelings. “Feelings” here, in terms of emotions, come under sankharas, fabrications, in the five aggregates. He very clearly saw that there’s a greater happiness to be found by letting go of these fabrications. It’s possible to get beyond your feelings. So when he says to kill your anger, he’s not telling you to …
- Against the Grain… Then there are all the fabrications, mental fabrications and intentions that go into trying to find food and figuring out how to fix it. And then there’s the awareness of all these things. Those are the aggregates. And then we cling to them. And clinging, of course, is another word for sustenance. We take sustenance off this double level of feeding: the actual …
- Question Your Actions… Then, of course, there’s fabrication: What do you say to yourself, how do you talk to yourself about these things? Can you talk about them in a new way? So you take things apart like this. This is the Buddha’s reason for talking about the aggregates—form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness—because they help you take your suffering apart. You’re just …
- Samvega Transformed… He was able to fabricate a path of practice, the noble eightfold path, that led to the threshold of the unfabricated deathless. And then, abandoning the path, he was able to enter into the deathless. He realized that that sense of the world closing in—with every opportunity for happiness already being laid claim to, the terror that he felt, the dismay—was something …
- Oneness is a Water Snake… But it’s fabricated. We’re not doing this to get you there and just leave you there. We’re getting the mind ready to do something else, which is to let things fall apart in a natural way. Part of the falling away simply comes from the fact that, as you’re working with the mind in getting it to settle down, you …
- Keep Your Options Open… As you get more sensitive to what the mind is doing to create this state of concentration, you begin to see that it really is fabricated, it really is put together. Then there will come a point where you’re ready to see the drawbacks of the fact that it is fabricated. And the mind will develop naturally at that point. It develops because …
- To Make Suffering Crumble… All of that counts as fabrication. Then there’s awareness or consciousness of these things. If you find that you have trouble settling down, you might ask yourself, “Which of those five things is the problem? Is the problem with the breath? Is it with the feelings in the body around the breath? How about my perceptions? Can I change my mental image of …
- The Reasonable Path… He tells you to follow this line of action, which is something fabricated, but it can take you to something unfabricated. Logically, it may seem strange, that something fabricated can lead to something unfabricated, but the Buddha said causality works that way. And it turns out that modern studies in complex causality, chaos theory, chemical states that are far from equilibrium, work in this …
- Honest & Observant… As you do that, you begin to see some of the forms of fabrication the Buddha talks about. You need to talk to yourself to be generous. You need to have a perception that it’s something worthwhile. The same with virtue: You need to talk yourself into being virtuous. You need to see that it’s worthwhile. As you develop perceptions around your …
- The Raft of Concepts… Then you can start looking at the process of intention in a deeper way, to see exactly how intention happens, how much it shapes your present experience, how you fabricate your breath, how you fabricate thoughts, how you fabricate feelings and perceptions. You want to look into that. That’s how discernment is developed. You’re not going to maintain this kind of focus …
- Questioning Your Conviction… May they not be thus’?” The same with perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness: In each case, the five brethren said No. **So which is it? Can you do things, or can you not do things with these aggregates? Well, you can do some things. And it’s the **some things **that are important. It’s in that area of **some things that you can actually …
- The Sublime Attitudes in Context… But at the other end of the path, when you’ve fully developed these attitudes, the fact that they are constructed and fabricated is something you have to understand as well. Even equanimity, which is the most peaceful of them all, has its limitations. It’s something you do. It’s something fabricated. So in and of itself, it can’t be your true …
- Mindful of the Buddha’s Shoulds… It’s very subtle, but it comes and it goes because it’s all fabricated. You have to keep putting it together. So you have to start asking questions about these fabrications. Here again, you’re talking to yourself, but you’re asking questions. And you’re asking questions in line with the four noble truths and their duties again: Where is the clinging …
- The Conditions for Goodwill… So we work with the breath and what the Buddha calls bodily fabrication. This is the energy that fabricates our sense of the body. Try to work with it in a way that feels refreshing so that you can have a basis for your goodwill. And then learn how to think properly about goodwill. What does it mean? You’re wishing that all beings …
- In the Context of the Deathless… There’s fabrication, the way you talk to yourself about the breath. There’s consciousness, your awareness of these activities. Even though these concentration aggregates ultimately will show that they, too, are inconstant, stressful, and not-self, you’re trying to fight against those characteristics for the time being. Try to make your concentration as constant as you can. Make your mindfulness, your alertness …
- Cooking the Present Moment… There’s the pain of fabrication. There’s the pain of the fact that things change. There’s the pain of simply unpleasant sensations. And it turns out that unpleasant sensation isn’t what weighs the mind down; it’s the fabrication. That’s what gets the mind, the fact that you’re making something out of the pain. You’re using your perceptions …
- Tapping into the Breath… She was staying with an ajaan who didn’t have any background in Ajaan Lee’s method, and he told her, “Why are you adjusting the breath? It’s just a fabrication.” She told me that, and my response, although I didn’t say it to him, was, “Well, why are you washing your body? Why do you clean your body? It’s just …
- Attahi Attano Natho… Each of us fabricates his or her experience, so our understanding of what he had to say, what he had to teach, is going to be filtered by the way we fabricate things. This is why the Buddha, when he was teaching Rahula, started out by saying, “Be truthful.” So try to register correctly what you experience and what you’re doing. Then be …
- Hold on to Right View… Choose to bring the mind to a state of concentration, realize how things are fabricated, and then calm the processes of fabrication—like the Buddha explains in his instructions on breath meditation. That’s how things begin to get put together right.
- Universal Truths… In the Buddha’s analysis of suffering, ignorance conditions fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the breath. If you breathe with ignorance, it can be a condition for suffering. If you breathe with knowledge and awareness, it can help cut through suffering. It can help you see your ignorance more clearly. As you see your ignorance more clearly, you’re replacing it with knowledge. So when …
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