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  2. Is the Buddha’s Wisdom Selfish?
     … There’s fabrication when you get food and try to figure out what to do with it. After all, a lot of times you can’t eat food as you get it, and it doesn’t just come floating by on its own. You have to go out there and find it. All of which is fabrication. Then there’s consciousness which is aware … 
  3. Simple & Basic
     … bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, mental fabrication. They’re all right here. So everything you really need to know is happening right here. It’s simply a matter of looking very carefully, and it’s easiest to look when you keep things simple. The more you clutter up your meditation with other ideas, the less you can see. We talked the other day about respect … 
  4. Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge
     … He realized that you couldn’t just stop feeding off of form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. If you forced yourself to stop, parts of the mind would come sneaking out for a midnight snack. You’ve got to give the mind a good source of food inside. And when the Buddha’s talking about food in terms of the practice, concentration is the … 
  5. The Challenge of Right View
     … As Buddha says, you have to apply the process of fabrication in order to undo these unskillful fabrications. The main fabrications in meditation are directed thought, evaluation, and perception. You direct your thoughts at a particular object, you evaluate it, and then you see which perception you can apply to it that’s going to be helpful. As in concentration: All the stages of … 
  6. Mindful & Grateful for Lessons in Freedom
     … In fact, you’re free in all the types of fabrication you bring to the present moment. There’s bodily fabrication, the breath. There’s verbal fabrication, directed thought and evaluation. You’re free to direct your thoughts anywhere. Well, direct them to the breath, because it’s going to be a useful place to direct them. And evaluate the breath. What kind of … 
  7. A Message for the Universe
     … The Buddha talks about calming bodily fabrication and calming mental fabrication. Calming bodily fabrication requires basically calming the way you breathe. Calming the way you breathe, you begin to realize, is going to depend on how you perceive the breath energy in the body. What are the images you use? Which images are useful? Ajaan Lee gives a series of useful perceptions in his … 
  8. Constructing & Deconstructing
     … But as the Buddha said when he gave breath meditation instructions, you’re trying to look at the breath as bodily fabrication, and your feelings and perceptions around the breath as mental fabrication. When you see things in terms of fabrication, that’s insight. For the time being, we’re not watching them just arising and passing away. We’re trying to give rise … 
  9. Always Looking Inside
     … always looking inside, looking at the movements of the mind—the comments, the fabrications of the mind—because they cause trouble, they cause suffering. But as part of the path, we have to use fabrications. After all, the noble eightfold path is a path that’s fabricated. It’s put together out of our intentions. Right views, right resolves, right mindfulness, and right concentration … 
  10. Imagine Your Breath
     … Ajaan Lee singles this out—verbal fabrication—as the big culprit among the different kinds of fabrication. The sorts of conversations you tend to hold in the mind get carried over into your engagement with the breath. If you tend to talk to yourself in unskillful ways, you’ll be talking to yourself about the breath in unskillful ways. So try to pick up … 
  11. Taking Apart Suffering
     … As you learn to see the process of fabrication, both in learning how to do it skillfully and in learning how to take apart unskillful things, that gives you a certain amount of insight into fabrication. This is how insight helps with concentration. You get the mind into a more stable mood, and it’s more willing to settle down regardless of what the … 
  12. Things as They Function
     … Everything we experience in the present moment is fabricated, put together—the word is saṅkhāra: results of past fabrications and our present fabrications. We’re fabricating things for the sake of happiness. We’re not just static. The present moment is not a frozen moment in time, it’s part of a process going from right now into the future, building on the past … 
  13. Reading & Meditating
     … Well, feeling and perception are together in the factor for fabrication, and they’re together in the factor for name and form. Sometimes the feeling is invading your mind because of the way you talk to yourself: directed thought and evaluation, also in the factor of fabrication. Sometimes the feeling is related to sensory contact. Sometimes it’s related to craving. Sometimes it comes … 
  14. Birth Is Suffering
     … We get hands-on experience with bodily fabrication in the breath, verbal fabrication in the way we talk to ourselves, and then mental fabrication—feelings and perceptions—seeing how we put these things together to create a state of concentration. Then, as the concentration deepens, some of them will peel off. That’s how you see that they are distinct. The first one that … 
  15. Three Levels of Concentration
     … And that’s precisely the skill you’re going to need in order to see fabrication just as that — fabrication. It’s like taking the old Zen story of the finger pointing at the moon and turning it around: You don’t want to look at the moon; you want to look at the finger — because the finger is what’s fooling you. It … 
  16. The Limits of Control
     … You want to be able to fabricate a path to the end of suffering out of your intentions, while you have the ability to do so, because ultimately there comes a point where you have to let go of everything here, and go on to who knows where. So what we are doing as we’re meditating is to find out exactly how much … 
  17. Calm in the Storm
     … When the Buddha talks about the different kinds of fabrication that we do based on ignorance that lead to suffering, he speaks of body fabrication, which is the breath. and then the two that are more mental: verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself—what he calls directed thought and evaluation; and then mental fabrication, your perceptions and feelings—feeling tones, here, of … 
  18. Fear of Death
     … Working with this bodily fabrication also involves other types of fabrication. There is verbal fabrication, in which you direct your thoughts to something and then you evaluate it. So you direct your thoughts here to the breath and you learn how to evaluate it with sensitivity. Then there’s feeling and perception: mental fabrication. We fabricate our feelings as well, partly through the way … 
  19. Doing Aggregates
     … You can see that when the mind slips off, it’s engaging in perceptions and thought fabrication. There’s usually a feeling. When you’re here with the concentration, you’re adding the form of the body as an anchor. But still, there’s also feeling and perception, fabrication, and consciousness. So everything you need to understand is right here. You’re getting practice … 
  20. The Path to Stream Entry
     … After all, the path is fabricated—you do put it together—but it can take you to something unfabricated. This is one of the big paradoxes in the Buddha’s teachings that has been a stumbling block for a lot of people. You hear it again and again through different periods of Buddhist history in different places: “How can something fabricated lead to something … 
  21. Random Word Generators
     … And the result is that you’ve not only learned how get the mind to settle down more fully, but you’ve also learned a lot about this process of fabrication in the mind and how useful the Buddha’s teachings on not-self can be. You’ve learned about fabrication—the tendency we have to churn things out—together with perception. Perception is … 
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