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- Deep Time… She says, “Please, try to live, try to live.” He said, “If you really loved me, then you wouldn’t say that.” So she said, “If I really loved you, then what should I say?” He said “All fabrications are inconstant. They should be let go.” And so, with tears running down her cheeks, that’s what she tells them. The king lets go …
- Inner Worlds… When you engage in these fabrications with knowledge, you can put an end to suffering. If you do it in ignorance, you’re going to create more suffering. It’s your choice. And part of knowledge is realizing the importance of your choices: the opportunities, the options that are available for you. You can create a good world inside, you can maintain a good …
- Patience Is a Skill… those three fabrications. Keeping the image of farming in mind, of plants growing, is one useful perception to help with the process. As for skillful qualities that are actually getting in the way, a lot of the problem is impatience. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, there are two types of people who come to meditation: those who don’t think enough and those …
- Don’t Believe Everything You Feel… But you have to remember that they, too, are fabrications. They’ve been put together and they can be taken apart, and other moods and thoughts can be put in their place. When you don’t feel like doing this work, remember Ajaan Chah’s statement that the practice is the sort of thing that you do when you feel like doing it and …
- Issues… What kind of fabrication went into this? What kind of name and form? In other words, your *intentions, *things you’re paying attention to. What are you clinging to? What are you craving? That framework puts things on the up-and-down axis, with which you can release yourself from a lot of issues. Because one of things that defines this world, this state …
- The Tricks of Denial… And that’s when you use the Buddha’s analysis for how to deal with the perceptions, or the feelings or the other types of fabrication that do have a pull over the mind. You look for them arising. You look for them passing away. Sometimes we read about how discernment is simply knowledge of the arising and passing away of phenomena. That’s …
- Exploring Contentment… There’s an element of fabrication that goes into this that you really want to get to know. And the best way to get to know it is to learn how to fashion things in a skillful way. So contentment here doesn’t mean just putting up with whatever the breath is doing, because there are ways in which the breath can really get …
- Getting into the Body… The Buddha says that if you really want to see your attachment to form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness, this is the place to see it: in a concentrated mind. As you fully inhabit the body, you can see what it’s like to identify with the body. Ordinarily, our sense of identification is very erratic. It’s like the reflections of sunlight off …
- Arising & Passing Away… The questions you bring to someone who’s good at clear seeing are: “How are fabrications to be viewed? How are they to be seen with clear insight?” This is where the Buddha’s definition of discernment comes in. He says that discernment means seeing things arising and passing away in a way that’s penetrating and leads to the right ending of suffering …
- On Idle Chatter… Remember that one of the elements of concentration practice is verbal fabrication—the things we talk to ourselves about. That’s one of the elements of the first jhana. If you can get some good control over the way you talk to yourself as you go through the day, then it’s a lot easier to talk to yourself about the right things as …
- One Thing Only… Breath meditation is your home base because it’s a method that sensitizes you directly to bodily, verbal, and mental fabrication, and points you in the direction of learning how to calm these things. But sometimes issues come up in the mind that are a lot more blatant than that. That’s when you need contemplation of the body, contemplation of death, contemplation of …
- Control… After all, even concentration is something fabricated. It, too, will have its subtle ups and downs. But it’s good enough to get you across, good enough to get you to safety. So you work with form, the form of the body, in other words the breath. Learn how to relate to the form of your body so that you can have a good …
- Unattractive… You can see the different kinds of fabrication: bodily, verbal, mental. Bodily, being the breath itself. Verbal being directed thought and evaluation—the way you talk to yourself. Mental being perceptions—the images and words you use to give meaning to things, identify them. And then feelings—feelings of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Those are all easiest to see as you’re …
- Stick to Your Duties… Well, our problem is the way we fabricate the present moment. We do that doing what? By the way we breathe, by the way we talk to ourselves, the images we hold in mind. So when the Buddha gives an analogy it’s not just for decoration, it’s a recommendation: This is how you look at things for the sake of putting an …
- Meditation as Play… Where do you want to place the center? What happens when you place it further down in the body? Your directed thought and evaluation—that’s fabrication. How do you talk to yourself about the breath? How do you talk to yourself about the mind? How do you talk to yourself about what you’re doing? And there’s consciousness, which is aware of …
- Look at Yourself… You get hands-on experience with these different kinds of fabrication, so that when the time comes to analyze them for the purpose of dispassion, you know what they are. They’re not just concepts. They’re things you’ve dealt with directly. It’s this kind of discernment—the discernment that deals with individual things directly here in the present moment—that’s …
- The Buddha’s Encouragement… You’ve got the form of the body, the feeling of pleasure that you’re trying to develop, the perceptions that hold you here, the intentions, the thought fabrications that keep you here, and your awareness. All the aggregates are right here. They’re all doing their thing. And of course, we want to learn about the aggregates, so this is a good place …
- Potentials for Rapture… All the forms of what they call fabrication are right here when the mind is with the breath. All the potentials for the path are right here as well. It’s simply a matter of familiarizing yourself with the potentials you’ve got here and, over time, making the most of them. That’s how the practice works.
- The Bright Tunnel… There’s form affected by clinging, feeling affected by clinging, perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness, all of which are affected by clinging. The clinging is what turns them into suffering. The clinging is what tries to wring a happiness out of them that they simply don’t have to offer. Having to run around clinging to things all the time puts the mind in a …
- Self-doubts… If it’s not curious, if it just wants to give up, then you ask yourself, “Well why? What’s going to be accomplished by giving up?” Learn to engage in some mental fabrication—using some new perceptions that are true. You’re not making these things up, but just learn how to perceive things in such a way that you give yourself energy …
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