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  2. Question & Probe
     … You’re not given any help as to how not to get overwhelmed by the emotion, or how not to end up feeling trapped or trying to run away from it? Remember, the Buddha taught three types of fabrication. First is bodily fabrication, the in-and-out breath. You work with the breath in the body so that even though there may be difficult … 
  3. An Ennobling Pleasure
     … Mindfulness itself is a type of sankhara, a type of fabrication. Your attention to the present moment is a type of fabrication. Your decision to watch the present moment: That’s a fabrication as well. But as you get the mind into this fabrication, one, you’re putting yourself in a better position to observe the grosser kinds of fabrication; and two, as your … 
  4. What You Bring to the Moment
     … So let’s take a close look at how the Buddha describes fabrication. What is there along with the breathing? There’s also what he calls verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, which is what you’re supposed to bring to the breath as you meditate. You direct your thoughts to the breath and then you evaluate how … 
  5. Verified Confidence
     … You see that that state of the mind as something fabricated. And, as we all know, once you start thinking in terms of fabrication—that’s the way you breathe, that’s the way you think, talk to yourself, the perceptions you hold in mind, the feelings you hold, focus on; these things fabricate your sense of the body, they fabricate your words, they … 
  6. The Joy of Renunciation
     … Then use whatever skills you have—the mind’s skills for fabricating things, which are already good at fabricating defilements: Convert those skills to fabricating motivation to practice the Dhamma, to finding joy in the Dhamma, joy in investing in the long-term. As the Buddha said, delight in the Dhamma, delight in abandoning, delight in developing: These are among the forms of delight … 
  7. Disenchantment
     … You look at fabrication. The bodily fabrication is breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation. Mental fabrication is feeling and perception. These are the basic elements the Buddha has us focus on as we concentrate. First, of course, we learn how to dress them up in a new way. In other words, bring the directed thought and evaluation to the breath, to create … 
  8. The Perception of Inconstancy
     … And then the path—even though the factors of the path are made out of fabrications, you have to develop them, because those are fabrications that can get you out. You can’t simply say, “Well, everything’s inconstant. Just leave it at that.” You try to figure out, “Well, what’s inconstant? In what way? And what has what potentials?” This connects with … 
  9. The Dhamma Eye
     … You have to know this part of the mind really well, the part that’s adjusting things in the present moment, using the different kinds of fabrication—bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, feelings and perceptions. Get to know these things really well, so that when they finally fall away, you’ll know … 
  10. Focus on What You’re Doing
     … This is why we fabricate a state of concentration: so that we can get good at fabricating a good state of mind and get more conscious of what it means to engage in fabrication. We’re always fabricating different mental states: greed, aversion, delusion—all kinds of things. We’re doing it all the time, to the point we’re not really conscious of … 
  11. How We Cling
     … Thought fabrications fabricate things, and consciousness cognizes. We’re not holding on to things here. We’re holding on to actions. When you gain that insight into the aggregates through your concentration, then you can turn it on to the things you hold on to, and you realize that you’re holding on with these same activities. Yet they’re all pretty ephemeral. They … 
  12. Protect Your Energy
     … This is where the other forms of fabrication come in. First there’s verbal fabrication, which is the way you think about things and evaluate situations. Then there’s mental fabrication, the perceptions and feelings you have. Those are things you have some control over as well. Those are things that you use to shape your experience, too. If you do it with ignorance … 
  13. Counter-cultural Values
     … The Buddha talks about three kinds of fabrication. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, which is the way you talk to yourself about things. You direct your thoughts to a topic and you evaluate it. These are the sentences with which you describe things in your mind. And then there’s mental fabrication: perception and feeling, which are the raw … 
  14. Lessons of Right Resolve
     … You see that they depend on all three kinds of fabrications. There’s bodily fabrication—the way you breathe; verbal fabrication—the way you direct your thoughts to a topic, in this case, goodwill, and the way you think about it and evaluate it. You realize that this is something you have to think about, because infinite goodwill isn’t something naturally there in … 
  15. The Noble Truths of the Breath
     … The important point in all the steps is that as you breathe in and breathe out, you give yourself a task to do, either in making the breath comfortable, giving rise to a sense of refreshment, or in dealing with what the Buddha calls fabrication. This is where breath meditation connects to the four noble truths. Because the way you fabricate the body is … 
  16. Anapanasati Day
     … These are mental fabrications, the Buddha calls them. Then you learn how to calm the mental fabrications. In other words, where there’s pain, you try to turn it into rapture; where there’s rapture, you might want to turn it into pleasure. Then there’s the very subtle pleasure of equanimity. These are all things you can play with. Again, if you couldn … 
  17. Dissolving Distress
     … He says you try to breathe in and out aware of what he calls bodily fabrication. Breathe in and out aware of mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the breath and its effect on the body. Mental fabrication deals with your perceptions and your feelings, which shape the state of your mind. As you’re trying to stay with the breath, keeping it in mind … 
  18. The Forerunner of All Things
     … Physical fabrication is the breath itself. Verbal is the way you talk to yourself, what the Buddha calls directed thought and evaluation: You focus on a topic and then you comment on it. And finally there’s mental fabrication, which is composed of feelings and perceptions. Feelings are feelings of pleasure, pain, or neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Perceptions are the images or labels that … 
  19. Wise Endurance
     … clinging to form, feeling, perception, thought fabrications, or consciousness. In particular, what are your perceptions, what are your thought fabrications about a particular issue? Remember that even with the aggregates, there’s an element that comes in from the past and an element of fabrication in the present. The way you breathe, the way you talk to yourself, the perceptions and feelings you focus … 
  20. Defabricating Anger
    The Buddha says that we suffer from our ignorance, and the first thing we’re ignorant of is the extent to which we fabricate the present moment. We take the raw material coming in from our past karma, and then we turn it into an actual experience of the present moment. We that with three activities called fabrication: bodily fabrication, the in-and-out … 
  21. Physical Pains & Painful Words
     … The next two steps—being sensitive to mental fabrication and calming mental fabrication—correspond to Ajaan Maha Boowa’s recommendations for how to deal with pain. “Mental fabrication” basically means feeling and perception. And here the perception is the important element: how you perceive the pain. You might want to ask yourself, “What color is the pain? What shape is the pain?” Strange questions … 
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