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- Fabricating the Path (outside)
- Fabrications of Exertion (2)
- Asking the Right Questions… The breath itself is a type of fabrication. Your directed thought and evaluation are verbal fabrication. The feelings of pleasure and the perceptions you hold in mind about the breath: Those are mental fabrications. The questions about discernment concern how to view fabrications in a way that gives rise to dispassion. Of course, this doesn’t mean just trying to drop them immediately as …
- The Path of Mistakes… Ultimately the practice leads to the total end of fabrication, but the noble eightfold path is a type of fabrication. As the Buddha once said, it’s the ultimate level of fabrication. In fact when you look at the factors of the path you realize that they’re made up of the aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness. These all have to play a …
- Three Kinds of Fabrication (outdoors)
- Fabrications of Exertion (1) (outdoors)
- The Buddha's Fabrications (outdoors)
- Permission to Play… a kind of fabrication. Every factor of the noble eightfold path, from right view through right concentration, is something put together. It’s a fabrication. It’s something you will through bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication: i.e., through the breath, through directed thought and evaluation, and through feeling and perception. But to will skillfully, you have to bring these fabrications together …
- Lean into the Present… The Buddha talks about the aggregates as all being shaped by fabrication. We fabricate the sense of the body for the sake of having a sense of the body because we want to do something with a body. We fabricate feelings because we want feelings. The same with perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness: We do this for the sake of something, but all too often …
- Understanding Aggregates… The purpose of analyzing these things in this way is so that you can develop that sense of distaste, because from distaste there’s dispassion for the passion that fueled the fabrication of these things to begin with. When there’s no passion, then the fabrications cease. From the cessation of fabrications, there’s release. When you put down everything—worldly conventions, Buddha conventions …
- Shoot Your Pains with Wisdom… As you develop skill in this process of fabricating your experience, you gain more insight into the role that fabrication plays in your life as a whole. You’re in a better position to decide how to fabricate things: which areas are worth getting involved in, which ones are not. Learn how to fabricate good states in the mind—the pleasure, the rapture of …
- Strategic Thinking… For instance, in concentration, there are three kinds of fabrication involved. The in-and-out breath is called bodily fabrication. Your directed thoughts and evaluation around the breath, when you keep reminding yourself to think about the breath and then make comments on the breath: That’s called verbal fabrication, because that’s how we create sentences in the mind. Finally, feelings of pleasure …
- Sensitivity & Skill… That encourages you to look for a better sense of well-being, something that’s not fabricated. Concentration is about as good as you can get with fabrication. The best bodily fabrication, the best verbal fabrication, the best mental fabrication: They’re all right here in concentration. But concentration is only as good as fabrication can be, and fabrication still has its drawbacks. It …
- The Buddha’s Vipassana… The way you breathe is a kind of fabrication. The way you talk to yourself is another kind. Feelings and perceptions that lurk around the mind, those are another kind of fabrication, too. When you’re getting the mind into concentration, you’re going to be using all those fabrications. You’re going to be talking to yourself about the breath and using perceptions …
- Right Exertion at Play… Finally, you can take things apart in a way where you know entirely what’s going on, so that you can find something that’s not put together, not fabricated at all. You don’t really understand the unfabricated until you learn how to fabricate really well. And you fabricate really well when you enjoy it. This is why the Buddha encourages you not …
- A Good Dish of Concentration… You can say, “Oh, well, I can change perceptions, use different perceptions, create different feelings, fabricate thoughts in different ways.” You want to take the sense of well-being that comes when you’re actually able to fabricate the aggregates into something really good like concentration, so that when you start fabricating other things, you can see that they’re pretty shoddy. Thoughts of …
- Training Your Inner CriticWhen the Buddha talks about fabrications, saṅkhāras, sometimes he talks about five types; sometimes he talks about three. The five types are the five aggregates. For each of the aggregates, he says you take the potential for that aggregate and then you fabricate it into the actual aggregate. In each case, he says you fabricate them for the sake, say, of formness, or for …
- Anupassana… With insight, the questions are: “How is this a fabrication? And what’s the best way to deal with these fabrications?” The Buddha’s instructions on breath are divided into four tetrads: four sets of four steps. In each tetrad, the processes are the same. One tetrad deals with the breath, one tetrad with feelings, another with mind, another with dhammas—in other words …
- Possessed by Emotions… Remember the Buddha’s teaching on fabrication: bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself—technically it’s directed thought and evaluation, you direct your thoughts to a particular topic and you comment on it, ask questions about it, you figure out what’s right and what’s wrong with it; and there’s mental fabrication, which gives …
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