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  2. The Wall of Discernment
     … There’s still something fabricated. You get to the point where you’re tired of having to fabricate. You wonder: Is there anything that is not fabricated? And as you contemplate that question, there can come an opening to something that’s totally unintended, and involves no intention to keep it going. That’s where you can find the happiness the Buddha was talking … 
  3. The Desire for Things to Be Different
     … There’s the factor of fabrication, saṅkhāra, in which case you have three types: bodily fabrication, the breath; verbal fabrication, how you talk to yourself with directed thoughts and acts of evaluation; and mental fabrication, perceptions and feelings. These can lead to bodily actions, verbal actions, mental actions that can have affect for a long, long time. But you want to look at them … 
  4. Don’t Clap Hands with Pain
     … As the Buddha said, just the fact that you’re experiencing the present moment already involves some fabrication. The fact that you’re breathing involves some fabrication, and there are perceptions, and there are thoughts, and there are intentions: All of these things are types of fabrication. So hold the perception in mind that there is space permeating the body. That will help fabricate … 
  5. Seeds of Becoming
     … In doing that, you engage all the forms of fabrication: physical, verbal, mental. There’s the breath, which is the physical fabrication; then there’s directed thought and evaluation, which are verbal fabrications; and then there are feelings and perceptions, which are mental fabrications. These are the basic building blocks from which you create this world, the world of a concentrated mind. You use … 
  6. The Not-Self Discourse
     … feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness. That dealt with the aggregates in the present moment. Then he continued by saying you can extrapolate from the present moment and think back to the past. Those who are able to remember past lives, what are they remembering? They’re remembering form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. And wherever you could go in the future in the universe … 
  7. Feelings of Pain
     … The third step is to breathe in and out sensitive to mental fabrication—in other words, feelings and perceptions. Feelings are feeling- tones of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the labels you use to identify things. Then the fourth step is to calm mental fabrication. In other words, find a way to breathe that calms the feelings and calms the … 
  8. Fabrication Theory
     … In the same way, this is thought theory, fabrication theory, where you learn how the mind fabricates things. When you’ve mastered that, you’ve mastered the ways of the mind. That’s when you’re really in charge. After all, the biggest danger in life is a mind out of control. And who does it harm? Well, the first person it harms is … 
  9. The Good Fight
     … Even these states of concentration are fabricated. It’s one of the reasons you don’t want to do this type of analysis too early, because early on in the process they’re obviously fabricated. But as you get more and more used to them, they become more and more part of the way the mind is. And you tend to forget what went … 
  10. A Point of Balance
     … After all, the Buddha said the path is something fabricated. So we fabricate a sense of well-being. It may not be absolute well-being, but it’s relatively better than anything else we’ve experienced so far. So learn how to explore what you’ve got here, and see how you can take the breath—which is simply coming in and going out … 
  11. Frame Your Questions Well
     … It’s something you have to fabricate. It’s called a sankhara in Pali, a fabrication. And it requires desire, which is part of right effort. You put it together with this desire so that you have the state of becoming that allows you to watch other states of becoming as they come in. You see the mind tempted to go off into a … 
  12. What to Tolerate, What Not
    The Buddha calls the breath a type of bodily fabrication. Which means two things. One is that the breath is what shapes your experience of the body, of the various properties of the body: breath; fire or the warmth; liquid, coolness; earth or solidity. The breath is your most immediate experience of the body. It’s through the energy of the body that you … 
  13. Layers of Selves
     … And then breathing in and out sensitive to mental fabrication, i.e., your perceptions and your feelings. How are the perceptions having an effect on you? How are the feelings having an effect on you? How do they get mixed together to have an effect on the mind? Then you find a way to calm that. When you’re dealing with the pleasure of … 
  14. Awaken to Your Potentials
     … You’re taking these three types of fabrication and you’re making them into a path—both for the immediate benefits of a sense of well-being and also for gaining insight. You can improve your mindfulness, improve your alertness, and gain insight into how far these fabrications can go. So, it’s not just a matter of deciding whether you agree with the … 
  15. Four Noble Truths to One
     … the five clinging-aggregates of form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness. The aggregates don’t cling. We cling to them, and the clinging is the actual suffering. Once we learn how to be with these things, to engage in these things without clinging, then there’s no suffering around them. So you have to comprehend: How is that clinging suffering? We have to … 
  16. Poison Your Fantasies
     … You’re putting a lot of your effort into fabricating things. When the Buddha says that things are fabricated, he’s not just saying that things are conditioned. He’s saying that your experience of things requires effort on your part. This food that you’re feeding requires that you do a lot of hunting and gathering and fixing. Years back, we had a … 
  17. The Art of Right Speech
     … It is possible to reach a happiness that goes beyond fabrication, that goes beyond intentions, where all the dimensions of space and time fall away. But to get there, you’ve got to look very carefully at your intentions. You can’t know what is truly unintended until you’re thoroughly familiar with all the levels of fabrication and intention going on in the … 
  18. Not Pained by Pain
     … The third is that you breathe in and out being sensitive to mental fabrication—in other words, feelings and perceptions. Perceptions, here, are the images you hold in mind. And the fourth step is to breathe in and out calming mental fabrications. Now, his explanation here is focused on how to give rise to a sense of pleasure, and then refine that pleasure in … 
  19. Passion, Dispassion, Compassion
     … The fact that we keep going after things, the energy we put into fabricating things, is what keeps the whole process of fabrication going, along with all the stress that comes with fabrication. Yet this sort of passion is something that society encourages. We’re happy to play along and don’t like to think that we’re misguided. So we tend to paint … 
  20. Discernment in Concentration
     … Even form he says deforms; feelings feel; perceptions perceive; fabrications fabricate; consciousness cognizes. These are activities, and you use them as you get the mind to settle down. In this way, you get on familiar terms with them. As a famous philosopher once said, “The things we know best are the things we do.” And for the most part, most people do things, say … 
  21. Count Yourself Lucky
     … One of the Buddha’s most radical insights is seeing how much our experience of the world is simply fabricated. It’s all activities. Even these five khandhas, these aggregates: The word “aggregate” makes it sound like pieces of rock, but they’re not. They may be as heavy as rock but they’re actually activities. Everything is a means to something else. And … 
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