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**eXC3Kvnn** · 07-18-2010, 01:47 AM

I become increasingly aware how my own mind constructs stories out of contacts occurring through the six senses (e.g., I have not paid the insurance, so the house might burn down, so we will be out on the street, so I feel fear). If I understand this correctly, these stories are volitional formations. On many occasions, I have been mindful of these stories as they arise and have regarded them as just more thoughts (e.g., I have not paid the insurance, but I remember that the mind has a propensity to create stories out of such things and I will be watchful in case this happens - in this case, no story and therefore no fear). Maybe the complete cessation of volitional formations is nibbana and this happens when one's mindfulness has developed to the point where one is never unmindful. I would see this as a gradual process, but perhaps for some it can happen all at once.

Mindfulness in the above example seems to be intervening between sense contact and feeling arising from sense contact.

07-18-2010, 01:47 AM	#2
eXC3Kvnn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	I become increasingly aware how my own mind constructs stories out of contacts occurring through the six senses (e.g., I have not paid the insurance, so the house might burn down, so we will be out on the street, so I feel fear). If I understand this correctly, these stories are volitional formations. On many occasions, I have been mindful of these stories as they arise and have regarded them as just more thoughts (e.g., I have not paid the insurance, but I remember that the mind has a propensity to create stories out of such things and I will be watchful in case this happens - in this case, no story and therefore no fear). Maybe the complete cessation of volitional formations is nibbana and this happens when one's mindfulness has developed to the point where one is never unmindful. I would see this as a gradual process, but perhaps for some it can happen all at once. Mindfulness in the above example seems to be intervening between sense contact and feeling arising from sense contact.
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