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  1. The Form of the Body
     … Its exploration of cause and effect in the way the mind relates to this sense of form gets more and more continuous. When it’s continuous, you see more, especially in terms of connections, cause and effect. It’s what the Buddha’s awakening was all about, seeing cause and effect within this framework of name and form, name being the mental events, form … 
  2. Name & Form
    Name & Form January 24, 2020 When you close your eyes and focus on the breath as you feel it, you’re moving from the level of sensuality to the level of form. It’s a step up. The pleasures that can come from the level of form are much more refined and much less likely to lead to unskillful behavior than the pleasures of … 
  3. The Karma of Not-self
     … Given that these are forms of karma, when are they skillful and when are they not? The karma of self the Buddha calls “I-making” and “my-making.” You create a sense of self around your desires. You have a desire for happiness of one form or another, and you create a sense of self around it in two ways: One, you’re the … 
  4. Pleasure from the Body
     … But we also experience the body in another way, what we in the West call the kinesthetic sense, or proprioception, the sense of form of the body, how you feel it from inside. When you’re sitting here, the fact that you know where your legs are, where your arms are, where your head is, the general shape of the body: That’s form … 
  5. Consciousness, Name, & Form
     … In dependent co-arising, the Buddha says that name and form depend on consciousness, consciousness depends on name and form. You can interpret this on many different levels. On the level of rebirth, if there’s no physical basis for rebirth, then even if there is a consciousness, consciousness has no place to land. If there are physical requisites for name and form, but … 
  6. Inhabit the World of Form
  7. The Pleasure of Form (outdoors)
  8. Comprehending Pain
     … You might want to start with the perception of form you’ve got. What is form? Form is the four physical elements properties: earth, water, wind, and fire, or solidity, coolness, energy, and warmth. Those things are all form. But the actual feeling of the pain, that’s something else. If you can notice a sensation that’s warm, that’s not the pain … 
  9. The Regularity of the Dhamma
     … In one analysis of dependent co-arising, he describes these factors as name and form on the one hand, and consciousness on the other. These two influence each other. Form is the form of the body. For example, you’re sitting here right now with the form of the body, your sense of the body, how it feels from within. That sense of form … 
  10. Concentration & Insight
    When you’re focused on the breath, you’re focusing on what’s called “form.” The breath is one of the elements that make up your sense of the form of the body as you feel it from within. In other words, you’re not concerned with how the body looks on the outside. You’re concerned more with how you feel it from … 
  11. The Buddha’s Currency
     … It’s a form of currency. People talk a lot these days about the different currencies. There are the cryptocurrencies and the national currencies, along with the question about which ones are going to be devalued, which ones are going to have inflation, which ones are going to be reliable. You have to remember that the Buddha found a form of currency that doesn … 
  12. Events as Events
     … what the Buddha calls, on the one hand, name and form, and on the other hand, consciousness. Consciousness is your awareness. Form is your sense of the body as you feel it from within, in terms of earth, water, wind, fire, or solidity, liquidity, energy, warmth. Name refers to mental events: feelings, perceptions, intentions, acts of attention, and contact among these things. You want … 
  13. Stupid about Pleasure
     … where you have to choose one form of pleasure over another. There’s a passage in the Dhammapada: “When you see a greater form of happiness that comes from abandoning a lesser form of happiness, the wise person abandons the lesser form for the sake of the greater.” Note that not everybody does that. It’s only the wise person who does. Someone who … 
  14. Dispassion Is Freedom
     … When there’s a fetter between the eye and forms: Is the eye the fetter of the forms, or the forms a fetter of the eye? Well, no. The fetter is in the passion that ties the forms to the eye, and through the eye to the mind. Years back, I remember hearing a reporter complaining about a Buddhist teacher. This was back in … 
  15. A Simple Path Through a Complex Map
     … It appears again in name and form. There it has different company. It’s accompanied by perception again, but also by intention, attention, contact. It appears again right after contact at the senses, and then again right after becoming, in the suffering of aging, illness, and death. Perception appears in fabrication and again in name and form. In some formulations, it also comes after … 
  16. Inner Strength, Inner Wealth
     … There’s form, feeling, perception, fabrications and consciousness. You can probably think of lots of other ways of dividing up the activities of the mind. But these five are especially relevant to the way you feed, both physically and emotionally, intellectually. Form would be, on the one hand, the form of your own body, which you need to keep going. Then there’s the … 
  17. Chewed Up by Your Food
     … We still feed off of them, but we try to feed off of nourishing forms, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. We focus on the breath: That’s form. We focus on the sensations of the body: That’s form. We try to work the breath through the body so it gives rise to pleasant feelings: That’s feeling. We have to hold the perception … 
  18. Insight from Jhana
     … Even form is something that you create through having the perception that there is a form here; there is a body here—and it keeps changing. Yet you maintain this belief that this one form goes through time. So you’ve got this form that keeps deteriorating and so needs to be maintained, needs to feed. At the same time, you’ve got the … 
  19. Freedom & Security
     … That was a form of wealth that he had left behind. Generosity is also a form of wealth, which means that giving away is a form of wealth. That’s the paradox of generosity. It frees you in the sense that you’re not tied down by your stinginess. It provides you with security when you know that there are people who love you … 
  20. Becoming
     … As you watch these things even more carefully, you begin to realize that even these aggregates have an element of fabrication, an element of intention, in what you thought was their raw form. As the Buddha says, we create form for the sake of form-ness. Your sense of the form of the body is something you fashion out of sensations so that you … 
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