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- Values… Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are images you hold in mind, and they’re related to your sense of values: “This means that, that means this; this is worthwhile, that’s not worthwhile.” Sometimes you actually see a visual image in the mind of yourself being deprived of something, or being threatened by something. You can …
- Right View: Feeding Instructions… Feeling means feeling tone, like pleasure and pain, or neutral feelings of neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the labels you place on things, saying this is this and that is that. Then there’s fabrication – the way the mind puts together ideas out of its perceptions, comments on things, asks questions about things, and gives answers. Then there’s consciousness, which is aware …
- Training Your Moods… But you can be sensitive to the quality of breath energy throughout the body—the general feeling tone of ease or tension, openness or tightness. If it’s tight, think of it opening up, loosening up, relaxing. If you’re feeling tired, what kind of breathing would give you more energy? There are potentials here in the breath, potentials in the body, that you …
- Respect for Suffering… Think of all the different nerves in your body and do what you can to let them all have that same feeling tone. Once everything opens up inside like that, then allow it to stay that way. Show some respect for your concentration. After all, concentration is a noble truth. It’s the heart of the path. Once your concentration is solid, then you …
- Friends… They create all kinds of feeling tones in the body, some of which are useful, some of which are not. Learning how to sort them out, seeing cause and effect, seeing which causes lead to good effects, which causes lead to less desirable effects: You want to be really observant here. If you’re not observant, then no matter how many books you read …
- Rooted in Desire… Then there are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. We fashion these things intentionally. You can stop and think about that: You don’t usually think of your feelings as something you do intentionally, but there is an intentional aspect in which you pay attention to them—you’re looking for something. Now, of these fabrications, the one that’s probably …
- The Power of Present Kamma… They’re feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the labels you put on things, the images you have in your mind. And again, when we meditate, these are directly related to the breath. We have an image of the breath, of what’s happening when we breathe. And then you notice that there are certain feelings that come out …
- Training Your Inner Critic… Feelings are feeling-tones: pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. It’s important to see the connection between these two levels. Every intentional bodily action is going to involve the breath. If you couldn’t breathe, you couldn’t move the body. Every verbal act is going to require that you pick a topic and talk to yourself about it before you decide what …
- Into the Light of Consciousness… Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. We encounter these forms of these fabrications very directly as we meditate. But the three fabrications are also interpreted in another way in some passages in the Canon, where bodily fabrication is any intentional bodily action. Verbal fabrication is any intentional verbal action. Mental is any intentional mental action. In other words, three …
- Teachings to Rahula… When he talks about what are called the aggregates, there’s feeling—like feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain; perceptions—in other words the labels you apply to things; thought fabrications—the thoughts you put together; and then your consciousness of all these things. These are the terms that the Buddha has you use as you try to figure out what …
- Strong-hearted… We have to be especially mindful of how we relate to our feelings—feeling-tones of pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain—because those can spark some pretty unskillful desires very quickly. We’re going to have to learn how to cultivate pleasures that are more skillful. There are pleasures that the Buddha calls “pleasures of the flesh”—nice sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile …
- Admit Your Stupidity… The perceptions are the images you hold in mind; feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. So you can ask yourself what kind of perceptions would be useful to get the mind to settle down. In fact, this is one of the ways in which you can develop tranquility and insight together, as you make the questions about fabrication relate …
- More than a Sliver of Mindfulness… This is relevant to right concentration, because the stages of right concentration center on their feeling tones. When you read the list of feelings under right mindfulness, it seems as if you’re just aware of feelings that are there and feelings that are not there. The same with mind states. You’re aware of mind states as they come and they go. Remember …
- The Wheel of Dhamma… These feelings can be physical or mental, but in either case, we’re talking about the feeling tone. These are things we really like to hold onto. The problem is, though, when you start holding on to pleasure, pleasure turns into something else, and you find yourself holding on to pain. Perceptions are the mental labels you apply to things, the names you have …
- Calm in the Storm… verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself—what he calls directed thought and evaluation; and then mental fabrication, your perceptions and feelings—feeling tones, here, of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. As I said, if you do these things in ignorance, they lead to suffering, but if you do them with knowledge, they can actually become part of the path to the …
- Dharma Medicine… It’s a feeling tone. Solid is form. Try to distinguish between the two. Not because some books says that this is what reality is, but as the Buddha said, these are useful perceptions for dividing things up. That’s what discernment is. It’s learning, one, how to divide things up and two, to see what happens when you do. That way, you …
- When Attacked by Distractions… What are the feeling tones and perceptions you’re holding in mind that make this kind of thinking attractive? The same applies to anger, the same applies to whatever thoughts you find addictive: What perceptions do you hold in mind? The Buddha offers a few alternative perceptions, say, for sensual desire, to help you see through its allure. He says it’s like a …
- Stepping Out of Yourself… We’re talking about emotions, not just the feeling tones that they call *vedana *in the technical Buddhist terminology. Your emotions are sankharas, fabrications—thoughts that get into the body. They feel especially real because they have a bodily presence. One of the reasons we work with the breath is to burst through some of the constraints that our emotions place on the body …
- Things Aren’t as They Should Be… As with every form of meditation where there’s a phrase that you repeat, there comes a point where, if you really want the mind to settle down, you have to drop the phrase and just be with the feeling tone. What you’re doing right now can make a difference if you understand, if you have a set of skills to handle whatever …
- Beyond Nature… Then there’s purely mental fabrication, which is feeling and perception, “perception” here meaning the labels you apply to things, while “feeling” means the different feeling-tones of pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain. Normally, the way we put these things together causes stress and suffering. If you do this with ignorance, you suffer. If you can learn how to do it with …
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