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- Unlimited Mind, Limited Resources… As with any mind state that has an emotional quality to it, it requires all those three forms of fabrication—bodily, verbal, mental. So this is a complete practice in the sense that it takes all of your energy while you’re doing it. And it’s a good practice to frame the day—the beginning of the day, the end of the day …
- Cut Through the Narratives… that simply the way you breathe, what the Buddha calls a bodily fabrication, can have an impact on feelings of pleasure or pain. The way you perceive a feeling of pleasure or a feeling of pain can also have an impact on how you experience it. In other words, the label you apply to it can either inflame the pain or it can reduce …
- Dangers Outside & In… You look at what he calls mental fabrication, which includes perceptions and feelings, and you try to calm those perceptions down; you calm those feelings down. He doesn’t give you much to go on, but this is an area where the ajaans have lots to say. Ajaan Lee will talk about perceiving the breath energies in the body flowing through the pain. Ajaan …
- The Three Perceptions as Tools… And when these three perceptions have done their work, you reflect on the fact that they, too, are fabrications, and then you can put them all down. That’s how you reach something totally unfabricated that even these perceptions can’t touch. That’s when you can rest. The image the forest ajaans give is of being a carpenter, working on a chair. You …
- The Buddha’s Tools… But if we say, well, there’s a feeling, there’s a perception, and there’s a way of fabricating thoughts, it helps to pull us out of that drama. You can step back from a lot of the things that have been causing trouble. You realize that you’ve been asking the wrong questions and trying to find the wrong answers. There’s …
- Tap, Tap, Tap… The fabrications of the mind are things that you do. It’s not that they don’t have any reality. They do have a reality—after all, they have their influence—but you have to see where you’re putting effort into something that’s not paying off. All too often we don’t even see the effort we put into these things. They …
- Dealing with Limitations… As the Buddha said, when you become a being, you identify with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, or consciousness of particular kinds. And whatever way you identify yourself, that’s how you limit yourself. You gain certain powers by bringing those things under your control, but you also take on certain limitations. Those limitations may not be getting in the way of the particular task …
- Victory in Battle… When the Buddha talks about how we fabricate the present moment, he said it’s always for the purpose of something. We’re hoping to get someplace. We don’t just sit here. Even when he tells you to make your mind like earth, it’s for a purpose, and the purpose isn’t the earth. The purpose is to learn how to watch …
- What Am I Becoming as Days & Nights Fly Past?… This is what you’ve become so far, and it’s the result of actions, it’s the result of mental fabrications and all the processes that we hear about all the time in the Buddha’s analysis of what the mind is up to. So put some effort into delighting in developing good qualities. Make that your pleasure, because what’s the pleasure …
- Seriously Happy… He says that the aggregates of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness—the things out of which we create our sense of self—have their pleasures and their pains. He says that it’s because of their pleasures that we get stuck on them. It’s because of their pains that we look for a way out. So when you find yourself missing a particular …
- Cutting Edge Perceptions… But the things that get in the way of the concentration can be perceptions as well, these mental fabrications that weigh you down, place obstacles in your way. Based on those perceptions you can actually create sensations in the body that become uncomfortable. So the first thing to do when you notice that there’s a sense of dis-ease in the body, a …
- Training the Whole Mind… After all, the big issue is how you relate to yourself, how you relate to the body, how you relate to feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. That’s the area where you’re causing yourself suffering, so that’s the area where you’ve got to gain sensitivity and insight. Nobody else can get into your head and straighten these things out for …
- Radical Questioning… There may be the stress of fabrications, which is a common factor in life, but then there’s the stress and suffering that comes from craving, comes from ignorance, and that’s not necessary. That’s what we can change. So if you have any thoughts that are burning in the mind, there’s a wrong assumption there someplace. It may be backed up …
- The Safety of Jhana… You’ve got your old karma and then you’ve got consciousness, focused in on whatever old karma presents in terms of form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, or consciousness itself. Instead of delighting in the idea of making something new out of these things, you can simply see them as they arise and pass away. That’s how you go beyond the dichotomy between …
- Mange in the Mind… Allow there to be the least amount of fabrication possible as you breathe in and breathe out. See what happens. You’ll find that the body has a potential for creating a sense of fullness, a sense of rapture. You can’t take that as an end in and of itself, but it is part of the path. As you settle in with that …
- What Is Skillful?… You dig down into the causes of dependent co-arising and you find the Buddha talks about fabrication, he talks about perceptions and feelings. He talks about the way you talk to yourself. He talks even about the way you breathe. So you dig down into your intentions and you come back to right where we are, right here, right now: the way you …
- Respect for Concentration… Why can’t you? Then there’s fabrication, when you’re talking to yourself about the breath—and there’ll be a fair amount of talking as you try to get the mind to settle down—“inner dialogue” is too weak a word. There’s a cacophony of voices in there. But you can talk to yourself about the breath. How does this breath …
- Dhamma Survivalism… As for Oneness, he said there are levels of concentration in which you can get the mind into a state of Oneness, but it’s fabricated and it still contains some suffering. The way to insight, he said, is not to see things as One but to see them as separate, because only when you see them as separate can you get an objective …
- Passion for Nostalgia… The memory is composed of some feelings, some perceptions, some thought fabrications. Just tease them out: Which are the perceptions? What are the ways you’re talking to yourself about them? See those as separate components. The more you see them as separate components, the more you realize that they’re pretty ephemeral: hints, whispers, shadows of things—nothing really substantial. And yet you …
- Goodwill Starts with Gratitude… Dedicate the merit to your mother.” So this is the fabric within which we practice: goodwill for everyone, along with a very strong sense of those for whom we have to be grateful, those who we’ve been dependent on. It’s not that we’re all One, but we are connected through our actions, so you want to make those connections good. And …
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