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- The Prison Break… concentration based on desire, and the fabrications of the right effort. The brahman said, “Well, in that case, it’s going to be impossible. How can you use desire to put an end to desire?” And Ananda said, “I’ll ask you some questions. Before you came to this park, did you want to come?” “Yes.” “Now that you’re here, where is the …
- A Private Matter… The breath is a fabrication, which means that there’s an intentional element in the way you breathe. You want to be very sensitive to that, to what you’re adding to the breathing process. Try to do it skillfully. As long as you’re going to add an intentional element, add something good. Your relation to the breath is something very intimate, very …
- What You Don’t Like About Yourself… And we’re constantly having to fabricate it anew, because each present moment just dies away, dies away, and you have to keep replacing it. And so in the rush to replace things, sometimes we grab onto some bad raw materials from our past karma and we have some knee jerk reactions, some old habits—the way we put things together that cause a …
- Rebirth & Not-Self… The directed thought and evaluation are fabrication. Then you’ve got consciousness, which is aware of all these things. Consciousness, of course, is part of the consciousness aggregate. So you’re engaged in these aggregate-activities. You’re still holding on. As the Buddha said, there will be sense of “I am” all the way up through non-return. So make use of that …
- Instructions for a New Monk… They are fabrications: They’re things you intend to do. But they can take you to something that’s beyond them. It’s like the road going to the Grand Canyon or the act of going to the Grand Canyon. The act of going to the Grand Canyon doesn’t cause the Grand Canyon to be, but it gets you there. This is why …
- Fears… form, feeling, perceptions, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. You look to see where these things are inconstant. Where they’re inconstant, you realize they’re stressful. There’s stress right there in the inconstancy. Then when you look at stress, look at suffering — although at this level it’s more stress than suffering — you ask yourself, “What am I doing to cause that stress, to …
- Motivation… We want to get to a state that’s unfabricated, but we really do have to fabricated strong intentions and strong desires to get there. Desire is one of the elements of right effort. The formula for right effort always starts out with the phrase, “generating desire.” Desire is the also the first of the bases for success or the bases for power: concentration …
- Hope… All of these things have an element of fabrication. There’s an element of doing, an element of intention in all of these things. And we tend to miss that, which is why we miss the point where we can make a difference. So always keep that in mind. Your feelings have an element of doing, an element of intention. Your perceptions have an …
- Strength Training… You create feelings of ease of the breath, you perceive the breath energy as filling the body, you direct your thoughts and evaluate the breath —that’s fabrication—and you’re aware of all this. You’re taking these five aggregates and turning them into the path. That’s what you learn when you start reading the Buddha’s teachings. It opens your awareness …
- To the Far Shore… His brother asked him, “All those years you’d been spending as a monk, what did you learn?” The monk said, “Everything changes.” And the brother said, “Duh, of course.” Yet the teaching that everything changes—everything fabricated, everything put together, is impermanent, inconstant: It is an important teaching. The question is, why is it important? To see how it’s important, you have …
- Hold on for All You’re Worth… Once you’ve done that, you’ve learned everything you need to know about how the mind fabricates and shapes its experience. You’ve learned how to shape it into something that’s still and good at the same time, so you can watch it carefully—something right up close, so you can see all the processes as they’re happening. This is how …
- Wise About Pleasure… Now, notice that the Buddha doesn’t talk about getting in touch with your true feelings about something or what’s truly going on in your mind, because as he says, everything going on in your mind is a fabrication. Something put together. And just because you put things together consistently in a bad way in the past doesn’t mean that that’s …
- The Dhamma Eye… Understanding that suffering is clinging—clinging to the body, clinging to our feelings, clinging to our perceptions of things, clinging to the way the mind fabricates and puts together its experience, and even clinging to our awareness of things. That’s what suffering is. It’s not an intuitive definition. He starts out by talking about the suffering of aging, illness, and death, of …
- The Practice of Right View… So as you get to know more and more about the breath, you’re doing away with ignorance around the breathing process, what’s called in technical terms the process of bodily fabrication. You bring more awareness to the process. As you do this, you’ll notice that you may have some subtle craving around the breath. You may prefer the in-breath to …
- The Graduated Discourse… So it’s not that he’s denying the fact of the pleasures, but as he says, it’s because of the pleasures of form, feeling, perceptions, fabrication, and consciousness that we’re stuck on them—that’s the problem. But still, he wants people to have a sense that, yes, he does appreciate that there are pleasures in life. Then, when he gets …
- The Noble Eightfold Path to the Deathless… That’s when you start to turn on the path itself, analyzing your concentration in terms of those five clinging-aggregates, seeing that it, too, is fabricated. No matter how good the bliss, rapture, and equanimity that come from concentration, they still have to be maintained. There’s still an effort involved there. And they can fall away. You want something more secure. Now …
- The Rewards of Stream Entry… The one noble truth where you don’t have to do much is to realize the cessation of suffering, because it’s not something you have to fabricate, it’s not something you have to put together. It just is. So work on the development, work on the maintaining. In other words, if good qualities are not there in the mind yet, you try …
- Investment Strategies… Some of the chants we repeat, many, many times because it’s a way of drumming particular messages into the fabric of your thought. “May I be happy, i.e. may I be truly happy.” That’s a useful thought to keep in the back of your mind, to remind yourself that this is your motivation, so that when there’s a temptation to …
- Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge… It’s based on fabrication. And so it’s got to change. It’s got to be inconstant. And that’s where you see it. Before, you’d heard it. But now you’re trying to push against the principles of inconstancy, stress and not self. You’re making the mind as constant and full of ease and as much under control as you …
- Using Your Many Minds… form feeling, perception, mental fabrications, consciousness. They’re all there in the concentration. When you learn how to let go of the most subtle levels, then you’re totally free. But you can do this only if you’ve mastered them. It’s not the case where you say, “Well I’ve had a taste of concentration, so now I’m beyond that, I …
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