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- Levels of the Breath… What do you have in the present moment? You’ve got intentions, or in other words, fabrications. What kind of fabrications do you have here? You’ve got the breath; that’s the bodily fabrication. You’ve got directed thought and evaluation; those are verbal fabrications. And you’ve got feelings and perceptions and the intentional element fashioning them; that’s mental fabrication. These …
- The Power of the Mind… When he brought knowledge to the process of fabrications, they ceased, because this was a knowledge that put an end to passion for fabricating. When there’s no passion for fabricating, why would you do it? The fabrications ceased, and then even the fabrications of the knowledge that put an end to them ceased as well. He relinquished those, too. That’s how he …
- The River Gauge… Yet you’re trying to get beyond fabrication. He said that in a way that implied that you couldn’t use fabrication to get beyond fabrication. But the Buddha’s very upfront about the fact that this path is a fabricated path. You’re putting it together with your thoughts, your words, your deeds, all the five aggregates we chanted about just now. Your …
- A Complete Training… Then the Buddha told them to reflect on the fact that everything you would experience, past or future, everything that you could fabricate, no matter how well you fabricate it, no matter what level of being you go to, is going to be made of these same fabrications. They’re all going to fall apart at some point. And even before they fall apart …
- The Power of Choice… And it’s in this process that you begin to understand the workings of fabrication in the present moment even more deeply. The Buddha said that there are three kinds of fabrication that come out of ignorance: bodily fabrication, verbal, and mental. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, like we’re doing right now: We’re directing our …
- Your Secret Foundation… And when you focus the mind on the breath, you’ve got all the processes of fabrication right here. There is what’s called bodily fabrication: the breath in and of itself. There is verbal fabrication, where the mind directs its thoughts to the breath and evaluates the breath. And then there’s mental fabrication, the feelings that arise—the sense of pleasure, the …
- Tranquility & Insight in Tandem… In fact, most of them require that you look at how you’re thinking, look at how you’re fabricating around them, and learn how to fabricate in new ways. The word fabrication here, sankhara, applies to several things. It applies to the fabrication of the breath, what adjustments you’re making to the breath. It applies to your thoughts, the way you pick …
- The Uses of Right Concentration… We fabricate and use these things as steps toward a goal that lies beyond them: the deathless, total freedom from fabrication, from suffering and stress. This is what makes everything else in the path, all the effort that goes into fabricating and mastering all the factors, worthwhile. The Buddha doesn’t talk much about the goal. After all, it’s not something you can …
- Your Tranquility & Your Insight… Just with the word “fabrication”—which is the central issue in insight—you’ve got the five aggregates, all of which are said to be fabricated. In particular, you’ve got the fourth aggregate, fabrication itself, which plays a role in shaping all the other aggregates, too. Or you can talk in terms of the three fabrications: bodily fabrication, the in-and-out breath …
- Questioning Your Unconscious Actions… The Buddha talks about bodily fabrication, which is a physical process, although the mind is involved in doing bodily fabrication, through its intentions. He also talks about verbal and mental fabrications, which are more purely aspects of the mind. Bodily fabrication is the way you shape the way you breathe. We’re doing this all the time. As the breath comes in, there’s …
- When You Don’t Like Your Selves… This is why the Buddha provides those teachings on the three types of fabrication, because it’s through those types of fabrication that we create our becomings, our sense of who we are in a particular world. The Buddha’s full of recommendations on how you can learn how to create new senses of self, develop new skills, as part of the path to …
- Tranquility & Insight… Here the questions are: “How do you regard fabrications? How do you investigate them? And how do you see them with insight?” You can regard fabrications as the five aggregates: There’s form, feeling, perception, fabrication itself, and consciousness. Or there’s another list called the three fabrications: bodily fabrication—which is the breath; verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation; and mental fabrication—perceptions …
- Clinging-Aggregates in Context… All that is part of fabrication. And then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. The Buddha says we cling to these activities—after all, the aggregates are activities. There’s one spot where the Buddha defines them as verbs. Even form, he says, deforms. It’s constantly changing. Feeling feels, perception perceives, fabrication fabricates, consciousness cognizes. These are the activities …
- A Path of Aggregates… Then there’s fabrication. Fabrication, here, covers all the activities that go into finding the food and fixing it when it needs to be fixed. Say you get a raw potato. You can’t eat a raw potato, but you can fix it so that you can. Fabrication covers all the intentional actions that go around making the food edible. Then there’s consciousness …
- What You Sense Directly… In some passages, when he’s talking about the kind of kamma that leads to rebirth, he calls them bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. But there are also passages in the Canon that talk about bodily, verbal, and mental fabrication in terms of what you experience as you meditate. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, as …
- For the Sake of the Deathless… The Buddha’s question was, can you fabricate in such a way that you arrive at a happiness that doesn’t disappoint, that’s not going to change? At first blush, it sounds contradictory. If you try to fabricate a happiness that doesn’t change, that’s impossible because our fabrications all change. But what he discovered was that we fabricate a path. We …
- Skillful Effort… But if we learn how to do those fabrications with knowledge, that leads to the end of suffering. These are our tools. So what are the tools? There are three altogether. There’s bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation. Mental fabrication is feeling and perception. These are tools …
- The Breath Soufflé… In creating this and maintaining it, you learn a lot about the mind’s habits of fabrication because you’re engaged in all three forms of fabrication. There’s physical fabrication, which is the effect of the breath on the body; verbal fabrication, what you talk to yourself about; and then mental fabrication, the feelings you create through the breathing, through your attention to …
- Turn Off the Automatic Pilot… You’re going in to find out what is it inside the mind that keeps pushing you to shape this, shape that, fabricate this, fabricate that. If you learn how to fabricate things well, it has a good impact inside, outside—it has a good impact all around. This is why the practice of meditation is said to be meritorious. We don’t usually …
- Feeding on the Breath… Learn how to fabricate good things to feed on inside instead. This is why the Buddha never taught bare awareness. He taught that the mind is constantly fabricating, so learn how to fabricate good things. The only thing that’s not fabricated is nibbana. Until you reach that point in your practice, you’re going to be fabricating, so learn how to be conscious …
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