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  2. Because the Mind Is Purposeful
     … The Buddha talks about the process of what he calls sankhara—which we translate as fabrication. As he points out, we fabricate all kinds of things. We fabricate our sense of the body, our feelings, our perceptions, and our thought constructs. Even our consciousness has an element of intention. Of course, we don’t fabricate these things out of nothing. We start with raw … 
  3. Free Sources of Energy
     … bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication. And of course, when you’re focusing on the breath, you have to have certain perceptions in mind and you’re developing certain feelings. That’s mental fabrication. In this case, what kind of breathing would feel energizing? What kind of perception of your abilities right now would be helpful? Your freedom to search for potentials that may not be … 
  4. Cornered
     … You’ll notice that as you’re doing this, you’re engaging not only in verbal fabrication and bodily fabrication, but also mental fabrication: your perceptions, the images you hold in mind of the breath as a whole-body process, and the body not just as a big lump of flesh, but as a body of breath energy. Then you can ask yourself, are … 
  5. Sensitive to Fabrication
    There’s a passage where the Buddha describes the characteristics of things that are fabricated and of things that are not fabricated. With the things that are fabricated, you can detect their arising, you can detect their change as they remain, and you can detect their passing away. As for the unfabricated, there’s no arising to detect, no change, no passing away. When … 
  6. Older than the Cosmos
     … When you pass judgment on fabrications, saying they’re stressful, you’re not passing judgment on things out there. You’re passing judgment on the process of fabrication as it comes out of the mind. As I said, you wouldn’t experience the worlds of becoming unless there was this fabrication in the mind, so you look at the process of fabrication and you … 
  7. As They’ve Come to Be
     … So, how does that relate to what we’re doing right here, right now? When the Buddha teaches breath meditation, he talks a lot about fabrication: You get sensitive to bodily fabrication and then you calm it down; you get sensitive to mental fabrication and you calm it down. Learning how to see the way you breathe as a fabrication is not just a … 
  8. Fear of Missing Out
    The Buddha talks about the three kinds of fabrication on two levels. One level is that of karma playing out across lifetimes. On this level, bodily fabrication is whatever you do intentionally with your body. Verbal fabrication is whatever you do intentionally with your words. And mental fabrication is what you intentionally do with your mind. These actions can have influence in this lifetime … 
  9. Endurance Through Discernment
     … Even when we tell ourselves to just sit, that’s a form of fabrication. As the Buddha said, there are three forms of fabrication in all: there’s bodily fabrication, verbal, mental. Bodily is the way you breathe; verbal is the way you talk to yourself; mental is the combination of perceptions you hold in mind, images you hold in mind, or words you … 
  10. Sensitive to Fabrication
     … You begin to see that your perceptions do play a role in shaping your experience, because after all, it’s in the interaction among fabrications—bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, mental and fabrication—that you understand the extent to which you are fabricating things right now. At the same time, when you’re in touch with fabrications, you’re very close to seeing ignorance. Ajaan … 
  11. Off the Continuum
     … At the same time, you’ve learned a lot about fabrication: how thoughts or perceptions have a fabricating influence on the mind, how the breath has a fabricating influence on your sense of the body. You learn this not by just sitting there and watching things arising and passing away, but steering them or training them in particular direction. It’s like learning to … 
  12. True to the Breath
     … That’s a process of fabrication that’s actually useful. After all, concentration itself is a kind of fabrication, but it’s a helpful fabrication. Instead of pulling you away from the present moment, it helps you stay here, so that you can see other fabrications as they come and go. Ultimately, you’ll want to turn around and look at this process of … 
  13. Fabricating the Present
     … Just look at the fabrications of the mind. The principle of dependent co-arising says that fabrications are conditioned by ignorance. So if you’re wondering where this ignorance is that we’re trying to track down, it’s right here where the mind is fashioning things — fashioning bodily sensations and mental events. From fabrication comes consciousness, and consciousness leads to name and form … 
  14. In Touch with Your Fabrications
     … We learn how to be sensitive, get in touch with the processes of fabrication. Then we can fabricate in more skillful ways. You can fabricate a path. You can fabricate a path that leads all the way to the end of suffering. That’s what the truths are telling you. So at the very least, you can learn how to fabricate a more wholesome … 
  15. Study to Practice
     … This is where the Buddha’s teachings on the three fabrications come in useful. You look at the way you’re breathing. Say anger comes up: How are you breathing around the anger? That’s bodily fabrication. Then there’s verbal fabrication: How are you talking to yourself around what’s got you angry? The technical terms are directed thought and evaluation: Where are … 
  16. Breath, Tranquility, & Insight
     … Then the Buddha says try to calm the process of bodily fabrication, in other words, the way you breathe. Here, he’s introducing you to one of the three forms of fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication is your directed thought and evaluation, as when you bring up a topic in the mind and then evaluate it. This is … 
  17. The Power of Present Kamma
     … Now all of these abilities are things that we have to fabricate in the present moment. The word fabrication, *sankhara, *doesn’t mean we just make them up out of thin air. We have to take the good potentials that come from the past and turn them into actualities. But it turns out that our present karma is what really makes all the difference … 
  18. The Brahmaviharas Are Not a Complete Practice
     … That’s called verbal fabrication. And then there’s mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. These are the activities by which we put things together in the present moment. The Buddha teaches breath meditation in a way to get you sensitive to the fact that you’re putting these things together. First, you develop good bodily fabrications and mental fabrications, and then you calm them … 
  19. Angry
     … Here it’s good to remember the Buddha’s way of analyzing emotions into those three kinds of fabrication: bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation, which means the way you talk to yourself about things; and then mental fabrication, feelings and perceptions. When you fabricate anger, one, you breathe in a certain way that gets the breath all … 
  20. High Level Metta
    When the Buddha talks about the three kinds of fabrication—bodily, verbal, mental—he does so in the context of dependent co-arising. And most people, as soon as they hear the term dependent co-arising, tune out because most of the treatments of it are so complex that it seems very far away from anything you’re experiencing or doing in the meditation … 
  21. Calm & Insight
     … As for insight, the questions are: “How do you view fabrications (the word is saṅkhārā)? And how do you understand them with insight?” The viewing has to do with the different types of fabrications there are. There are two main sets. There are what are called the five aggregates, the five khandhas: the form of the body as you feel it from within. Feelings … 
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