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  2. Cutting the Fetters
     … As you begin to contemplate the drawbacks, the mind inclines for something that’s not fabricated. And it’s a natural inclination at this point, because you’ve seen how good fabrication can be and yet you can see its limitations. You stay in this state of concentration, there’s going to be stress. You go to stay in another, there’s going to … 
  3. What Right Mindfulness Remembers
     … Because you’re already doing this kind of fabrication, what the path is teaching you is to fabricate in more skillful ways. So the purpose of mindfulness is to remind you how you want to fabricate, what you’re going to do right now. You’ve got a whole hour here to sit and focus on the breath, and you can make all kinds … 
  4. The Power is in Your Hands
     … And it turns out that it’s one of the forms of fabrication that, if you do it in ignorance, is going to lead to suffering. So focus right here. That’s your entry into all of this. Breathe in a way that feels really good so that you have alternative ways of dealing with the different kinds of fabrication, the different manifestations of … 
  5. Accepting the Way Things Function
     … This means that right resolve is something you fabricate, something you put together. As when you’re meditating right here: There’s directed thought and evaluation. That’s called fabrication. You’re thinking about the breath and evaluating how it’s going, and then you adjust it. You don’t just sit there. You do something with it. If one way of breathing doesn … 
  6. The Complexity of Pain
     … So, you change your perceptions, you change the way you’re talking to yourself about the breath—technically, that’s verbal fabrication and mental fabrication around bodily fabrication—and you see what happens. I noticed with Ajaan Fuang: The people who had the most interesting understanding of pain were the ones who had the most pain. They found that you can’t have just … 
  7. Where the Mind & Body Meet
     … Those, too, are types of becoming, and they’re fabricated. As long as the concentration feels really good, the fact that it’s fabricated doesn’t bother you. But as you get more sensitive, there comes a point where you say, “Wouldn’t it be better if there was something that was not fabricated?” That’s when the mind begins to move on. But … 
  8. The Train Trestle
     … All that’s called fabrication. It’s how we create our inner world. It’s how we create our outer worlds as well. This is one of the reasons why getting the mind in a good state of concentration like this, with the proper understanding, is such a good laboratory. You look at the world outside and it seems pretty confusing. You say, “How … 
  9. Not-self
     … Now, the special feature of not-self is that it differs from inconstancy and stress in one important area, which is that, as the Buddha says, all fabricated things are inconstant, all fabricated things are stressful, but then when he gets to not-self, he says all phenomena—which would be fabricated or unfabricated—are not-self. That’s because it is possible to … 
  10. Dispassion
     … The noble eightfold path is the highest of all fabricated phenomena, but dispassion is unfabricated—and it’s the highest experience you can have. Here again, the idea that dispassion would be better than anything else you could know sounds very strange. But the forest ajaans talk about this a lot. They say it’s like sobering up after you’ve been drunk. When … 
  11. Enlightenment is Not a Hot Dog
     … The fact that you’re trying to think about the breath continually and evaluate the breath, that’s called verbal fabrication. This too, is a fabrication that’s involved in the meditation. It’s also involved in your different emotions. So you learn how to keep the mind with the breath, learn to think about the breath in a way that’s helpful, how … 
  12. Skillful Desire
     … The path is made up out of things that are fabricated. “Fabrication,” here, means that you take what you’ve got and work with it. You’re not making up things totally out of thin air. You’ve got some good potentials already. You learn how to maximize those potentials, look after them, so they grow. It’s like looking after a tree. You … 
  13. Goodwill Plus
     … This is why, when they say that goodwill is innate, they’re making it hard for you to gain insight into it, because you actually have to see that it’s something manufactured, something fabricated, something that has to be kept in mind, particularly in cases when you’re trying to extend goodwill to people who are difficult. That’s where the second factor … 
  14. Not-self for the Sake of Happiness
     … It has to apply perceptions and thought fabrications in order to figure things out. And it’s conscious of what’s going on. The sense of self as a consumer may focus on the body being satisfied with the food that it’s found. It very much identifies with the feelings of pleasure or pain, and will tend to fabricate a lot of thoughts … 
  15. Selfing & Not-selfing
     … All of that is fabrication. Then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. So you can exert some control over the aggregates. If you couldn’t exert any control, there’d be no path. Discernment, right view, is a matter of perceptions and thought fabrications. Right resolve—a matter of fabrications and perceptions. All the elements of the path—all the … 
  16. Goodwill for Free
     … They still depend on fabrication. Goodwill is something you have to fabricate, especially if it’s going to be universal. Beyond that, though, developing goodwill is one of the bases for developing discernment. It leads to a type of concentration that is conducive to discernment if you apply it in that direction. From there it liberates you to the noble dwellings. So keep these … 
  17. Negotiating with Death
     … As for fabrication, that starts with the process of finding what you want, which you’ve identified as the proper food to feed that hunger. Then it fabricates whatever you’ve got to do to fix the food so that you can actually digest it. You get a raw potato. What do you do with it so that you can actually eat it? That … 
  18. The Steps of Breath Meditation
     … You see all the effort that goes into producing a particular type of experience, and the question becomes, “Is it worth it? Isn’t this burdensome, having to keep making, making, making these experiences all the time?” Then the problem becomes, “What are you going to do to let go of this burden?” If you don’t fabricate these states of concentration, is your … 
  19. Maintenance Work
     … You begin to overlook the act of tuning-in because it gets easier and easier, more and more natural — but it’s still there, the element of construction, the element of fabrication that keeps you there. When the concentration gets really solid so that you can look into it even in its most refined state, that’s when the insight really hits you: how … 
  20. Food for Consciousness
     … But when you begin to see that feeling is a fabricated process and there’s an element of choice, then the sense that this is the “real you”—or what you really feel deep down inside or you really crave deep down inside—no longer seems so compelling. You begin to pull away. You’re not a sucker for pleasures so much anymore. And … 
  21. Finding Extra Energy
     … With others, you have to exert what he calls a fabrication. You have to look at the way you’re breathing around the issue. You have to look at the way you’re thinking about it, how you evaluate it, how you direct your thoughts to it: in other words, the conversation you’re having in your mind about the issue. Maybe that has … 
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