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  2. Looking after Yourself with Ease
     … Evaluate it. “How is it? Is it good? Is it not good?” So you’ve got the verbal fabrication right there as you’re working with bodily fabrication. And then with the perceptions and feelings: You have the feelings of ease that you’re trying to create and trying to maintain. And the perceptions are the images you hold in mind—in this case … 
  3. Brahmaviharas & Noble Truths
     … realizing that there’s more you’ve got to do, because the brahmavihāras are fabricated states. If you just stay with those fabrications, you’re never really free. Freedom comes when you can look at the mind as it fabricates things, and then step back from its fabrications. We do that as we develop the path, because right view, which is part of the … 
  4. The Food of Feelings
     … All of that is a product of our own fabrication in the present moment. So as long as we’re fabricating things in the present, we might as well learn how to do it skillfully. That, in particular, is what the practice of concentration is about. In the various analogies given in the Canon for the different aspects of the path, concentration often shows … 
  5. Free Not to Suffer
     … With those the Buddha says you have to exert a fabrication, and there are three kinds of fabrication he’s talking about here. The first is the breath: That’s bodily fabrication. The second is what he calls directed thought and evaluation, his terms for the way you talk to yourself. That’s verbal fabrication. Then there are perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are labels … 
  6. Heart & Mind
     … As the Buddha said, this process of fabricating emotions, if we do it with ignorance, will cause suffering. If we do it with knowledge, it actually becomes part of the path. There are three factors here. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath, and “breath” here is conceived in very broad terms as the energy flowing through the body. It courses along the … 
  7. Right Here, Right Now
     … The Buddha talked about sankharas, fabrications, as being the main focus of insight. It’s when you understand fabrications, he says: That’s the knowledge that’s going to clear away all the bonds of the mind, all the fetters on the mind. Now, what are those fabrications? There’s the bodily fabrication, which is the breath. Verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation. When … 
  8. Analyzing Anger
    When the Buddha describes the steps for breath meditation, he words them in a way aimed at making you to be sensitive to three kinds of fabrication, or saṅkhāras, that you’re doing right now and that you’re doing all the time: First is bodily fabrication – the in-and-out breath. Second is verbal fabrication – the way you talk to yourself. In his … 
  9. The Five Aggregates
     … So the question is, what are you going to do with these functions? There’s an interesting spot where the Buddha talks about the functions of the different khandhas, and one of them, fabrication, is the most basic. Because, he says, our experience of all the khandhas depends on fabrication. There’s a potential for form, a potential for feeling, for perceptions, for fabrication … 
  10. Strong Through Commitment
     … So a lot of the Buddha’s teachings are specific instructions in how to fabricate more skillfully. They’re all pretty basic things: bodily fabrication—the way you breathe; verbal fabrication—the way you talk to yourself; and then, mental fabrication—the perceptions, the labels and images that give meaning to things, as when we say, “This is this and that’s that.” As … 
  11. Protest Your Virtue & Right View
     … How do you process things? How do you fabricate things? This is why, when the Buddha gave breath meditation instructions, he talked about bodily fabrication and mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the way you breathe. Mental fabrication has to do with the feelings and perceptions, the images you hold in mind. He uses these technical terms like fabrication, sankhara, even when he’s talking … 
  12. The Power of Attention
     … One of them is fabrication. In fabrication, there’s the directed thought—the act of choosing something to focus your thoughts on, which counts as part of verbal fabrication. In name and form, there’s attention, how you pay attention to things, the questions you ask. These two go together. As you’re focusing on the breath, that’s the first choice you’ve … 
  13. Four Determinations in One
     … But then you realize that even those are fabricated. And anything that’s fabricated is unreliable. So here the emphasis is not so much on not-self; it’s more on inconstancy, stress. When it really hits home that no matter where you go, it’s going to be fabricated, the mind finally has no desire to fabricate for becoming or for not-becoming … 
  14. Part I : Basic Instructions
     … We mentioned earlier today that the big issue is the way the mind fabricates things, and you get to know how the mind fabricates things by fabricating good things first. We’ve been fabricating all kinds of ignorant things that lead to stress and suffering, so now let’s fabricate something good: a state of concentration in the mind. Make way for the things … 
  15. Diagnosing the Mind
     … So you’re not just sitting here, noting just whatever comes up, because what that does is that it blinds you to the fact that there’s a lot of fabrication going on under the surface. So as long as there’s fabrication, you might as well fabricate things in a skillful direction. That gives you insight into how the process of fabrication works … 
  16. A Multilingual Mind
     … how your intentions give rise to suffering, how the process of fabrication gives rise to suffering. He wants you to look at these things as a process so that you can understand the patterns. The first step is to see what kinds of fabrication are blatantly unskillful, so that you can learn how to drop them. And then as your sensitivity to the idea … 
  17. The Psychology of Harmlessness
     … One of the interesting features of those steps is that the Buddha doesn’t say simply, “Let the breath calm down.” He says, “Calm bodily fabrication.” Bodily fabrication*, kaya-sankhara,* is a technical term. It basically means the in-and-out breath. Why would the Buddha use a technical term? He wants to alert you to the extent to which you’re shaping your … 
  18. The Uses of Fear
     … But as you get more sensitive to the full process of fabrication, you begin to realize what you’re doing is creating a thought world here that includes all forms of fabrication: breath, which is bodily fabrication; directed thought and evaluation—verbal fabrication; and your feelings and perceptions—mental fabrication. They’re all right here. When they’re all right here, you’re in … 
  19. Forest Bathing
     … The list chases things down through the processes of fabrication –* sankhara.* There basically are three types. There’s bodily fabrication, which is your in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation, the way you focus your mind on a topic and then make comments about it, ask questions about it—basically, the way you talk to yourself. And then mental fabrication: feelings … 
  20. Lust
     … There are some—and these are the really important, tenacious ones—where you have to, as the Buddha says, exert a fabrication against them. In other words, you have to do something intentional in order to get past them. Like working with the breath: That’s bodily fabrication. The way you breathe can help weaken a lot of the defilements, so at the very … 
  21. Fabricating Equanimity
     … That, too, is fabricated, but it’s based on only one fabrication: just the perception of the still breath. The third level is the equanimity that comes about as a result after you gain full awakening and you reflect on the fact that your mind is released. You can respond with joy or rapture or equanimity. But it’s the result of having completed … 
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