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- Trading Up… This pleasure is called the pleasure of form. It can be very intense, if you sit with it long enough, but it’s still a pleasure of form: the form of the body as you feel it from within. It’s not sensuality. It gives you a place where you can look at your sensual pleasures and fantasies, and ask yourself, “Do I really …
- The Making Of… The same with name and form: That’s another one of the factors of dependent co-arising that come before contact. You’ve got the form of the body sitting right here, and it’s composed of sensations of warmth, energy, solidity, liquidity. You’ve got name, which includes attention and intention. You’ve got your intention to stay with the breath, and the …
- Protection for the Holidays… There are some forms of joy that are skillful and should be pursued and other forms of joy that are not. Some pains should be pursued and others should not. Some forms of equanimity should be pursued and others should not. Remember that our feelings are not handed to us ready-made. As the Buddha said, there’s an element of fabrication in terms …
- Wild Horses… As for the fear that comes from not knowing the true Dhamma, that affects all the three forms of craving. You may want to be annihilated, but you may not be. You may want to be reborn, but you’re afraid because you have no idea whether it’s really going to happen or—if it does—where you’ll be reborn. So all …
- Alternative Conceptions… It gets you down to the basic level where insight happens, what the Buddha called name and form together with consciousness. Form, of course, is the form of the body, how it feels from inside as we’re sitting right here: the sense of warmth, which is the fire element; the solidity, which is the earth element; the liquidity, the water element; and the …
- Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge… After all, craving, the cause of suffering, is an unskillful form of action. The path is a skillful form of action. The path is a type of kamma. But it’s a special type of kamma: kamma leading to the end of kamma*. *It’s also a special type of fabrication because it gets you to the unfabricated. But you have to develop it …
- How We Cling… clinging to form, feeling, perception, thought fabrications, ad consciousness. This is where it gets unfamiliar. You may say, “I don’t consciously cling to these things.” But you have to understand that there are four ways of clinging, and they’re all very familiar: clinging to sensuality, your ideas of where you’re going to find sensual pleasures; clinging to views, your ideas about …
- The Cool Fire of Jhana… First you make the forms; then you pour the concrete into the forms. As long as the concrete hasn’t yet set, you can’t take the forms away. But as soon as it’s set, you can take them away. No problem. The concrete won’t spill out because now it’s solid. The same way with the directed thought and the evaluation …
- One Point, Two Points, Many Points… We were talking earlier this morning about name and form and how they play a role in the arising of suffering. Well, they also play a role in the path leading to the end of suffering. You’ve got form, which is the form of the body, the four great elements, and the breath is the most prominent element. You’ve got perception: whatever …
- Acceptance… We have lots of different selves, formed around lots of different activities aimed at happiness. If we use these selves properly, they can help one another along. They can provide a perspective on one another so that what one self doesn’t see, another self can see; what one self can’t do, another self can. So it’s important that we learn to …
- In Line with the Dhamma… So it’s a peculiar form of stubbornness. We usually think of people who don’t practice the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma as those who want to change the Dhamma. But they are also those who simply aren’t willing to practice the Dhamma as it is. The reasons are many, but try to figure out: What’s your reason for not …
- Craving & Desire on the Path… Learn how to foster the skillful forms of desire, the skillful forms of craving, and they’ll help get you across. So your own desire helps to get you across, as it motivates you to learn to become more and more skillful. You think about what the Buddha taught about cause and effect, path and goal, so you focus your desires in the right …
- The Uses of Right Concentration… It’s because we delight in form, for example—we want form, we want to have this experience of the body—that we take the potentials for form, coming from our past kamma, and turn them into an actual experience of form. Whatever potential there is to augment that experience and to verify it, we go for it. We turn it into an actual …
- Birth Is Suffering… There will be a desire of one form or another. Around the focal point of that desire, there will form either a world—the world in which that object exists—or an identity. Sometimes your desire’s not so much about what you want to get out of the world. It’s more about what you would like to be. This is when becoming …
- Understanding Aggregates… You’ve got the body—that’s form—and you’ve got the form of the food out there. The question as to whether it exists or not is not really an issue; you just stick it in your mouth and if you get nourishment, that’s good enough. But you’re driven by a feeling: the feeling of hunger—the pain of hunger …
- The Wheel of Dhamma… Form is any physical form. It can be the form of your own body or the form of things you’re attached to, items that you like, people you like. Feeling is just registering the sensation of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. These feelings can be physical or mental, but in either case, we’re talking about the feeling tone. These are …
- Rites of Passage… This applies not only to ideas in the mind, but also to the body, this form we’re sitting with here. The same principle also applies to feelings of pleasure and pain as they come and go, to perceptions, to thought-constructs, even to our consciousness of things. Meditation gives us a place where we can step back from these things and watch them …
- Putting out the Flame… The Buddha says to see feelings as like bubbles on the water when the rain falls, say, on a river, and little bubbles form on the surface of the water. They disappear almost as soon as they’re formed. The same goes for all the other aggregates. They’re basically without essence, without substance. And you’re going to create something solid out of …
- Strategic Thinking… You’ve got form, which is the form of the body, the breath; and you’ve got feeling—feelings of pleasure and pain in the body, which you’re trying through the breath to turn into more feelings of pleasure. There’s also the perception of the breath, there are fabrications, in other words, directed thought and evaluation—verbal fabrication—and finally there’s …
- Isolating the Aggregates… The terms for “form,” “feeling,” and so on were already current in his time, but the idea of grouping them together as a set was original with him. And it’s very directly related to the mastery of right concentration. Ajaan Lee points this out. He says that when you’re dealing with the breath, you’re dealing with form. As the form begins …
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