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  2. Working from the Inside
     … It’s what the Buddha calls fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Verbal fabrication is the directed thought and evaluation. Mental fabrications are the feelings and perceptions. The perception here would be the mental image you hold of the breath. You can try playing with that. And you give rise to feelings of well-being. If you don’t, you have feelings of dis … 
  3. A Passion for the Path
     … The path is something you have to fabricate, and fabrication comes from passion.So look at right view and right resolve and all the other factors of the path as things you want to get passionate about. You want to do these things really well. Because what do we have as human beings? We’ve got this life. And as the Buddha pointed out … 
  4. A Mental Fortress
     … As we’ve discussed over the retreat, this has a lot to do with his instructions in how to fabricate your experience: how to breathe, what ways to think about things coming up either in the mind or in the world outside. How would the Buddha have you think about something? Try to keep that in mind. And then your perceptions: What perceptions are … 
  5. Judging Just Right
     … If you find that your concentration is good, then you can start asking the questions of discernment. “How do I understand the way I’m fabricating this state of here right now? And am I fabricating it well? What would be a better fabrication? To what extent can I trust these fabrications?” But when you’re trying to get the mind to settle down … 
  6. Rewriting the Mind’s Song
     … It’s all fabrication. So why not fabricate something good? Now, as you work with goodwill, you find that you can’t just spread cotton candy over everything and think that that takes care of the job. You have to get specific. This particular person in front of you who is being really obstreperous or this particular person who is doing a lot of … 
  7. Free to Do the Right Thing
     … They’re fabrications. They demand so much of our attention because there are times when they’re useful fabrications but they’re not useful right now. You have to develop a very strong sense of that. See the importance of the present moment. See the importance of what you’re doing right now, and learn to get sensitive to what’s skillful and what … 
  8. In the Mood to Meditate
     … After all, as long as feelings are fabricated, why not fabricate some good ones? Develop new habits. If you find yourself habitually negative in your attitude, and if having a good mood or being in a good place emotionally feels false, remember that a negative attitude feels genuine simply because you’re so used to it. It’s as if you’ve been wearing … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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