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- 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 …
- Living Forward, Understanding Backward… As the Buddha once said, our emotions are a fabrication. They’re created in the mind. They’re not necessarily a given. What are they made out of? Physically, they’re affected by the breath. Inside the mind, they are affected by the kind of conversations the mind has with itself, and also by feelings of pleasure and pain, neither pleasure nor pain, and …
- The First Noble Truth… We latch onto things like form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness as being us or ours. Or we latch onto the idea that they have to be this way or that way. And not only do we latch on. We feed on these things. That’s actually one of the meanings of the word for clinging, upadana: feeding. We try to get our nourishment …
- Two Kinds of Cross-Questioning… When he says to train yourself to calm bodily fabrication, which is the breath coming in and out, how do you do that so that it’s comfortable and you’re not just clamping down or starving yourself of breath energy? So even in the instructions there are questions. But they’re a session of guided questions on how to start exploring what’s …
- Values… When there are no more defilements, you can let go of the path, which is composed just of activities, because you’ve found something that’s not an activity, something that’s not fabricated. That’s what we’re working on. But you can’t clone the unfabricated. You’ve got to do the work. You’ve got to develop the factors that give …
- The Need for Right View… something that’s not fabricated. As Ajaan Lee said, it’s even beyond right view or wrong view at that point. But to get there, you have to drop wrong views and develop right views, as he says, until they’re like a fruit that’s ripened: ready to just fall from the tree. As I’ve said many times, you can’t get …
- Sensitive in Seven Ways… You look at pains and pleasures as part of a causal fabric—and not in terms of whether you like them or not. You say, “If I indulge in this pleasure, where does it lead? If I indulge in that pain, where does it lead? Or if I inflict this pain on myself, where does it lead?” These are the things you have to …
- A Good Buddhist Ego… You ask yourself if the breath is comfortable or not, and if it’s not comfortable, what can be done to improve it? If it is comfortable, what can be done to maintain it? That’s the aggregate of fabrication. And then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. So you’re taking these aggregates and you’re turning them into …
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