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- Breathing Easy… He says once you’re aware of the way the long breath feels the body, the short breath feels in the body, and you’ve become aware of the whole body as you breathe in, the whole body as you breathe out, the next step is to calm bodily fabrication. Or to put it in simple English, learn how to breathe easy throughout the …
- The Buddha’s Questions… true happiness there, it’s going to be stressful.” “If it’s inconstant and stressful, is it worthy of being called your self?” He asked the same questions of feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. The asking of the questions is meant to open up your attention to an area where there’s been a gap, where there has been something missing in your knowledge …
- Unskillful Habits… You realize that what you’ve got here is a fabrication, something made out of physical elements, something you’ve moved into and about which you’ve assumed a lot of things—about how much it’s going to cooperate, how much it’s going to do this for you, how much it’s going to do that for you—even though it hasn …
- Selves with Skills… We use these processes, what he calls fabrications, to put together the raw material that comes from our past kamma. We’re doing it all the time but, as the Buddha explains, we do it in ignorance, so we’re barely aware of it. That’s why we don’t get the best results out of it. One of the reasons why we meditate …
- A Refuge from Death… But once you’ve practiced to the point where you’ve gained insight into the mind’s process of fabrication, learning to take it apart to the point where there’s no intention in the mind, what’s left is the deathless. It’s there. When you see it, you realize, one, the Buddha knew what he was talking about. And two, he also …
- The Fourth Noble Truth… But ultimately, you use that ability to step back to take apart the concentration itself—when you see that even in these really nice states of stillness, there’s still some fabrication going on. There’s still some inconstancy in the feelings and perceptions. Things go up and down. The level of pleasure goes up and down. The level of stress goes up and …
- Path & Raft… You’re identifying with form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness—all the five aggregates—building a sense of self around them. Either you identify with a particular aggregate or group of aggregates, or you feel that they belong to you. You have a self that owns these things, or your self is in these things, or these things are in yourself. Any of these …
- Sending Happiness… What could you do to make them work out better? Think about the different kinds of fabrication that go into meditation: the way you breathe, the way you talk to yourself in directed thought and evaluation, the feelings you focus on, the perceptions you focus on. What needs to be changed? You can change the way you breathe. How do you direct your thoughts …
- Adjusting the Flame… When the Buddha explains the causes of suffering in dependent co-arising, the most interesting ones are those that come prior to sensory contact—in the factors of fabrication, and the factors of name and form. There’s perception, there are feelings, there’s directed thought and evaluation, there are intentions, there are acts of attention, where you frame questions, look into things. Where …
- Training for Dispassion… form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness.” Then the next question those people would ask would be, “Why? For what purpose?” The answer is that if you haven’t abandoned desire and passion for those things, then when they change, there’s going to be sorrow and lamentation. But if you have abandoned desire and passion, then when those things change there won’t be any …
- The Dhamma Wheel… Thought constructs or fabrications, where you put thoughts together. And then consciousness, which is aware of all these things. He says we cling to these things, and that’s the suffering. The word for “clinging,” upādāna, can also mean, “to feed, to take sustenance.” We go around feeding all the time, trying to find happiness in these things. Yet there’s always a sense …
- When You Practice on Your Own… That gives you some insight into the process of fabrication: You see that feelings are not just givens. There’s a lot of intentional activity going into how you focus on a feeling and what you do with it. As you learn how to deal skillfully with feelings, you gain more and more insights into the mind as the mind is settling down. At …
- Beyond Inter-eating… just masses of form, masses of feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and sensory consciousness. You’ve taken these aggregates and you’ve turned them into your path. Even so there’s still a little bit of clinging there. And the clinging also relates to feeding. It’s the act of taking sustenance on these things. You’ve brought the mind to the most refined form of …
- How to Straighten Out the World… The pains inherent in the fact that this is a fabricated world, a conditioned world where there’s aging, illness and death: That’s always going to be there. Fortunately, that’s not the suffering that really gets into the heart and mind. The suffering that gets into the heart and mind is the type you create through your ignorance and craving. You find …
- Friends with The Breath… The Buddha talks about how we fabricate our present experience out of a combination of past karma and present intentions. Among those present intentions are your perceptions, the images you hold in mind. These have a huge impact on how you relate to pain. So ask yourself, do you see the pain as a solid block? Has it become the same thing as the …
- But Not Sick in Mind… If you’re attached to your body, feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, or consciousness, then as soon as these things change, you’re going to suffer. As long as you see that they’re yours—or that they’re you, or in you, or that you’re in them—you’re going to suffer because they’re sure to change. What you’ve got to …
- Do Jhana… You stitch a few fabrications on it and then you go. The contemplations the Buddha gave to Rahula are to remind you, “No, I don’t want to do this. I want to step back from these things.” So if you find yourself entangled in something, remember one of those contemplations. You might want to remind yourself to make the mind like earth. Of …
- Kamma & Rebirth—A Handful of Leaves… In the Buddha’s instructions on breath mindfulness, this is called calming mental fabrication—in other words, the perceptions by which you shape your experience. This is one of the things you learn as you develop discernment around concentration: that the perceptions you apply to pains really will make a huge difference as to whether you’re going to suffer from them or not …
- Mindful Judgment… The Buddha defines this suffering as the five clinging-aggregates, which is the technical term for the fact that we try to feed on the form of the body, on our feelings, on our perceptions, on the way the mind fabricates its thoughts, and on acts of consciousness, in our attempt to find happiness. It’s like feeding on potato chips thinking that you …
- A Tradition of Ingenuity… In some cases, it’s included with the different kinds of fabrication—bodily, verbal, mental. So maybe the way you’re breathing has something to do with the problem of the pain. Maybe the way you’re talking to yourself has something to do with the problem, or maybe it’s the perceptions you’re holding in mind. Feeling also appears in name and …
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