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  2. The Not-Self Discourse
     … When you say that things outside are inconstant, stressful, and not-self, you have to turn around and ask, “Well, what’s going on inside as well?” When the mind is talking to itself about how bad fabrications are, ask yourself, “Wait a minute. The mind talking to itself is also a fabrication, so you have to turn and look at that as well … 
  3. Preparing for Death
     … It is, after all, something fabricated. But it’s fabricated with skill, fabricated with knowledge. It’s the kind of pleasure that doesn’t require that you deny the harm that you may be caused in the search for this pleasure, because there is no harm. And it doesn’t obscure the workings of the mind. When you’re dealing with sensual pleasures, you … 
  4. Stop & Think
     … You’ve got the processes of bodily fabrication, i.e., the breath, and your mental fabrication, and your verbal fabrication. You have to get these all smoothed out so that you can see the mind clearly. We have to deal with the body first because the interference of the breath, the interference of the pains in the body, makes it hard to see the … 
  5. What Are You Doing in the Present?
     … There’s a passage where the Buddha’s talking about the five aggregates, and how fabrication fabricates all the other aggregates, including itself, for the purpose of something: maybe for the purpose of entertainment, for the purpose of whatever: gaining a livelihood, finding pleasure. There’s always a purpose in the way we shape the present moment. The problem is that our purposes are … 
  6. Sucked into the Tube
     … This is what keeps that little stirring in the mind, that little sankhara or fabrication, from turning into something that’s going to suck you in. This is how we overcome ignorance: learning how to see things as cause and effect. So the simple process of learning how to catch yourself before you get distracted is very important. Ajaan Lee makes the point that … 
  7. Worlds
     … Even though this standpoint may ultimately be a fabrication, it’s a useful one. In the beginning you hardly notice that it’s a fabrication. You just notice that it’s a place where you stand still, where you take your stance and try to stay as solid as possible, as uninvolved as possible, so that your frame of reference doesn’t shift — so … 
  8. Distinctions That Make a Difference
     … In the same way, when you go from the first to the second jhana, verbal fabrication falls away. You go from the third to the fourth: Bodily fabrication—the in-and-out breath—falls away. You go from the fourth jhana to the infinitude of space: The sense of form dissolves away. You go to the state of neither perception nor non-perception: Perceptions … 
  9. Pleasant Practice, Painful Practice
     … The teacher said, “Well, that’s all well and good, but you lost an opportunity to gain insight.” That’s a real misunderstanding right there, because how are you going to gain discernment unless you look into this process of what the Buddha calls fabrication and master it? How we fabricate our sense of who we are and where we are, what the body … 
  10. Rooted in Desire
     … Everything you experience comes from the factor of fabrication in dependent co-arising that’s even prior to the experience of the six senses. We sometimes tend to think of the mind as being something passive, receiving input from outside and then responding in the old stimulus-response mode: that only after the stimulus do we play a role in shaping things outside. But … 
  11. Single-minded
     … You’ve got bodily fabrication: the breath; verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation, the way you talk to yourself; and the mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. They’re all right here. There’s no other place you have to look. Simply look really carefully right here, and learn when to look carefully and when to really settle in and aim simply at stillness. Get … 
  12. sBeyond Acceptance
     … There’s that passage in the sutta we chanted just now where the Buddha talks about how, with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, consciousness, it’s hard to say, “Be like this, be like that, don’t be like this, don’t be like that.” And for that reason, they’re not-self. It’s possible to take that as meaning that you can’t … 
  13. Being a Buddhist
     … When you practice concentration to develop your discernment, you realize that the concentration—even though it’s a better pleasure, a more stable pleasure than you can gain from sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations, or thinking about things—is still fabricated. And remember how good fabricated things can be: They can fall apart. You want something that’s not fabricated, something that’s … 
  14. Luminous
     … He says you start out discerning when the breath is long, discerning when it’s short, training yourself to breathe in and out sensitive to the whole body, and then to breathe in and out calming bodily fabrication. The term bodily fabrication, there, is a technical term—basically, a technical term for the in-and-out breath itself. He notes that bodily fabrication is … 
  15. How to Listen to the Dhamma
     … You work with the fabrications in your mind, get them really subtle, maintaining whatever quality of concentration you’ve got. Then, when discernment arises, you begin to see that even the concentration is fabricated, so the next question is: Where do you go to reduce the stress even in the fabricated concentration? You realize that wherever else you could go would also be a … 
  16. Timeless Practice
     … The suffering of the three characteristics is simply the fact that things are fabricated, and there’s stress when you try to find happiness in things that are fabricated. The real suffering is the stress that comes from craving, the stress mentioned in the first noble truth, and that’s not necessary. As long as there’s going to be samsara, there are going … 
  17. Restlessness & Anxiety
     … Take any unskillful thought apart in terms of these fabrications and fabricate new thoughts in a much more skillful way to take its place. That way, you can induce more concentration and more discernment in the mind. These hindrances are obstacles not only to concentration but also to discernment. To deal with them, you’ve got to first borrow the Buddha’s discernment. Then … 
  18. Doubt vs. Questioning
     … For example, a common complaint about concentration, as you begin to fabricate it, is that you notice, “Hey, this is fabricated. This is willed. There’s got to be something wrong here.” You’d think that concentration should be something that happens naturally. Sometimes it does, but other times you really have to will it. You really have to work at it. After all … 
  19. Using Right View Rightly
     … You see how fabricated your sense of the world is and how fabricated your sense of you is. He says when it’s just sensory experience, there’s no “you” there and there’s no “here” or “there” or “between the two.” In other words, the spatial dimensions of the world don’t occur then. That’s useful for deconstructing any sense of “I … 
  20. Guardian Meditations
     … For instance, building right off of ignorance there are what they call fabrications. The way you breathe, if it’s done in ignorance, can contribute to suffering. That’s physical fabrication. Verbal fabrication consists of the way you direct your thoughts to things and then comment on them. If this is done in ignorance, it’s going to lead to suffering. Mental fabrication consists … 
  21. Mindfulness Gets Intimate
     … He calls the breath “bodily fabrication.” When you talk in terms of fabrication, you’re talking in terms of insight. You get sensitive to the breath. You energize the breath. And then you calm bodily fabrication. The calming: That’s the tranquility side. So, you gain practice in stilling and insight into the process of fabrication at the same time. In this way, you … 
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