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  2. Take the Buddha Seriously
     … Realize you’ve got bodily fabrication with the breath, verbal fabrication with the way you’re talking to yourself, and mental fabrication with your feelings and perceptions. You see these things clearly because they go into making up your concentration. Once you start seeing them clearly here, you can see them in other parts of your life as well. Say, when anger comes, you … 
  3. Learning from Labor
     … And we see how we’ve constructed it out of form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. Then we can get the mind into very subtle states, so that you can drop the directed thought and evaluation, and just be with the sense of oneness—body, awareness, breath, a feeling of pleasure all one, filling the whole body. Whatever sense of rapture there is after a … 
  4. Get Attached to Jhana
     … It is fabricated, it’s put together, but then the whole path is put together. When the Buddha talks about the highest dhammas, he says there’s the highest unfabricated dhamma and the highest fabricated dhamma. The highest of the fabricated dhammas is the path; the unfabricated dhamma, which is the highest of all dhammas, is dispassion. But the path is the best thing … 
  5. One Thing at a Time
     … To get to know fabrication, the Buddha says, know that there are three kinds: The in-and-out breathing is a kind of fabrication to begin with, because it’s influenced by your intentions. Then there’s what he calls directed thought and evaluation, vitakka vicara, which is how you talk to yourself. So, here with the breath, talk to yourself in a way … 
  6. Dependent Co-arising in Fifteen Minutes
     … Under the factor of fabrication, you have the breath: What are we looking at right now? We’re looking at the breath. You have directed thought and evaluation: That’s verbal fabrication—how you talk to yourself. You focus on a topic and then you make comments on it. Right now, you should be focusing on the breath, commenting on the breath. If you … 
  7. How to Use the Three Perceptions
     … The form of the body in concentration is the breath; there’s also the feeling of pleasure; the perception that holds you with the breath; the thought fabrications, the verbal fabrications—evaluating the breath and the mind; and even the consciousness of the concentration. You start seeing that these things, too, are inconstant. There’s some subtle inconstancy here. And you incline the mind … 
  8. Nourishing & Interesting
     … It was also learning how to see the processes of fabrication in the mind: the way you talk to yourself about the breath, the images you hold in mind, the feelings you focus on, how you relate to those feelings. There’s a lot to explore here, because you learn that when you hold a certain image of the breath in mind, it can … 
  9. Dealing with Pain
     … And then there’s fabrication. This is where the emotions are along with your more complex thoughts. Then finally there’s consciousness—awareness of these things. The Buddha says we feed on these activities. And in fact, these activities are the activities that the mind usually uses in feeding as well. So there are two levels of feeding going on. For example, when you … 
  10. Capture Your Imagination
     … It’s a fabrication. Sometimes you get the idea that when the mind is practicing just being present, practicing bare awareness, just letting things arise and pass away without commenting, without trying to change them at all, that somehow that’s not a fabrication. Well, the intention to keep that level of awareness going: That is a fabrication. It is experimenting with the present … 
  11. How to Look, How to Listen
     … In other words, you look at how you’re fabricating things in an unskillful way, because this is how dependent co-arising gets set into motion. You’re fabricating in ignorance. You’re putting together your experience, right here, right now, and you’re hardly even aware of how you’re doing it. But if you bring some knowledge to the process, then the … 
  12. The Power of Perception
     … You begin to see in action what the Buddha was talking about, which is that if you’re going to have an actual perception, an actual feeling of the form of the body, or the feeling tones of pleasure or pain, you have to fabricate them from the raw material coming from your past. These things exist in a potential form, coming in from … 
  13. The Need for a Purpose
     … We have a purpose, which means, of course, that we have some expectations, that by fashioning a sense of form, feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness out of the raw material given to us by our past karma, we’re looking for something. We have a purpose in mind. This is the nature of our mind. It’s purposeful. When it has no purpose … 
  14. Attention & Intention
     … As the Buddha said, fabricated things do offer their pleasures. Sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations, and ideas; form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness can be very pleasant. He doesn’t deny it. But he says that if you focus on their pleasures, it just gives rise to more passion. And it’s because of our passions that we keep getting involved in … 
  15. Chronic Pain
     … You have to figure out: “What is it that I’m doing that’s making the pain pain the mind?” If you’re willing to sit with the pain, and the pain is not overwhelming, then you get to see a lot of the mind’s conversations around the pain—what the Buddha calls verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. The pain will become the … 
  16. Action & the End of Action
     … Even ultimate Oneness, the Oneness of consciousness, the Oneness of the ground of being, is something fabricated—it’s put together by your intentions, and it’s going to fall apart—then you’re more motivated to look at what you’re doing and to learn how to not put these things together at all. The mind inclines to something that is not fabricated … 
  17. The Six Properties
     … Sankhara, or “fabrication” is way down there, prior to the sensations you feel in terms of form, feeling, and so forth. So how are you going to fabricate the body? If there are feelings of tension in the body, sometimes that’s a sign of too much earth property, so you can think of the breath. This is one of the reasons we start … 
  18. Motivation
     … Because after all, it is something you fabricate, something you put together. Mindfulness you put together. Concentration is put together. All the factors of the path are things that you fabricate. And to fabricate something, you’ve got to have desire. There has to be a passion. So you have to learn how to give rise to that desire: That’s part of right … 
  19. Goodwill for the Real World
     … That’s verbal fabrication. And you hold in mind those images—the images of the bandits sawing you into pieces, the mother protecting her child—which are mental fabrications. Fabrications are things you have to do, to put together. So in working on goodwill, you begin to get more sensitive to how the mind has to create these mental states, and how it can … 
  20. The Mind Comes First
     … As the Buddha said, when you deal with breath meditation, you’re going to learn about the directed thought and evaluation—what they call verbal fabrication—and perceptions and feelings: what they call mental fabrication. All these things are going to appear right here. As you get to know them, you realize that you’re engaged in these activities all the time. Then as … 
  21. In the Light of Karma
     … Concentration may be something fabricated but it takes you to a good place. You can start engaging in your verbal fabrications—all the thoughts and conversations of the mind—in a skillful way. Bring them to a focal point right here with the breath. Learn how to figure out what’s going on here in the body, what positive things you can do with … 
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