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  2. Admirable in the Beginning, Middle, & End
     … It’s not something fabricated into being that’s going to fall apart when the fabrications fall apart. It’s blissful. And it’s free. In fact, the word nibbāna comes from an image that they used to describe how fire went out. Their view of fire was that there was a fire element latent in everything, and when you provoked it, fire would … 
  3. Not Getting What You Want
     … Anything that’s fabricated—in other words, anything that’s put together by nature, put together by causes—is going to have to have these three qualities: inconstant, i.e. it’s wavering and undependable; stressful because it is so fabricated; and that it’s not really worth calling it yourself because you don’t have total control over it. If you try to … 
  4. Admirable Friendship
     … All these things are fabricated. Your feelings are fabricated. The voices in your mind are fabricated. It’s just that some are more habitual than others, and it’s very easy to fall into the groove and the ruts of old habits. Then if you’re not careful, they can be like the ruts that develop in snow in the winter. If the car … 
  5. How to Listen
     … That’s when the mind can open up to something that’s not fabricated, not put together. It was through this process that Yasa gained the Dhamma eye: “Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.” In other words, what is caused by fabrications in the mind will all have to fall away. The question is, in what state of mind would … 
  6. A Safe Harbor
     … We fabricate our emotions just the same way we fabricate our thoughts. We tend to think of our emotions as being more real, being more true and prior to thinking, but they’re fabricated as well. They have their physical side, which is influenced by the way you breathe. The mental side is the way you talk to yourself, the things you focus on … 
  7. Preparing to Die Well
     … You work with the breath to make the breath comfortable so that it’s easier to stay here, and you work with your perception of the breath so you can calm things down and make things more and more quiet inside, both in terms of what’s called the physical fabrication of the breathing, and the mental fabrications that are the feelings and perceptions … 
  8. Enlarged Awareness
     … From there the Buddha has you going to calming the breath fabrications. In other words, as you’re aware of the whole body, you begin to be sensitive to the way you pull the breath in, pull the breath out, all of what they call bodily fabrication, and you begin to see where it’s exaggerated, where it falls in line with your cartoon … 
  9. Thinking Your Way to Stillness
     … Not all fabrication is bad. You have to learn how to fabricate skillfully before you can let go of fabrication, and these are some of the ways you can do it.
  10. Realities Right Here
     … And as the Buddha says, you’re going to find first that there’s the activity of fabrication in all of this. In other words, there are some intentions that tell you to breathe in now, breathe out now, think this, think that. So bring some attention to your intentions. The best way to do that is to intend one thing and stick with … 
  11. Skills for Dying Well
     … That’s what you want to be focus on as your die; just that sense of awareness that’s not fabricating any thoughts, that’s not even fabricating a sense of the body. There may be pains coming and going but you don’t have to turn those pains into a sense that “Well, this is my body in pain right now.” They’re … 
  12. The Quality of Your Awareness
     … Where are your blind spots right now? How do you notice your blind spots? Ajaan Suwat once made the comment that if you want to see ignorance, look at where things are being fabricated. Right there is where you’re going to find ignorance. So try to notice what’s being fabricated and where is it hiding? What is it hiding? This is one … 
  13. The Cost of Happiness
     … To what extent is it still fabricated? How are you going to see the process of fabrication? You look to see: Is there still any change? Is there any stress? If there is, then it’s something not worthy of your attachment. You might want to stay there for a while to get settled and still so that you can look and see. He … 
  14. The End of Karma
     … Any effort to create or imitate the goal is something fabricated, and as the Buddha makes very clear, the goal and the path there are two very different things. The path is fabricated; the goal is not. The path is like a raft; the goal is like the safety of a further shore. Now, when you’re on a raft going across a river … 
  15. Tranquility & Insight Together
     … It leads you ultimately to something that’s not shaped at all, not fabricated at all. It’s just there. So when you’re working with the breath, trying to get the mind into concentration, you’re bringing some awareness to the way you fabricate the state of your mind and your experience of your body. When the breath starts feeling good, you can … 
  16. Judgmental vs. Judicious
     … Before there’s contact at the six senses, you’ve got fabrication; you’ve got name and form. Part of fabrication, of course, is directed thought and evaluation itself. Part of name and form is attention, knowing what questions to pay attention to, which ones to ignore. That requires that you use your powers of judgment. As Ajaan Lee points out, this is the … 
  17. To Have a Purpose
     … That requires a lot of thinking, a lot of fabricating of your thoughts, because you’re doing this for a purpose. When the Buddha describes the aggregate of fabrication, that’s what he talks about: Every fabrication is for a purpose. We’re putting our lives together for a purpose already, so we might as well find a good purpose and do a good … 
  18. Squeezing Goodness Out of the Aggregates
     … He said, “Why are you trying to adjust the breath? It’s just a fabrication.” She told me what he said. And I told her that if he had said that to me, I probably would have been driven out of the monastery, because I would have said, “Well, why are you bathing your body? It’s just a fabrication.” These things are there … 
  19. Only Natural
     … These are just fabrications, and you begin to see that, like the flickering light that gets people to laugh and cry, some of the fabrications provide a lot of emotional juice. Anger comes along with them. Lust. Fear. Greed. Envy. All kinds of things. But if you can see it simply as a play of light, then you realize, “Why get involved?” Part of … 
  20. A Becoming Critic
     … This is how it’s fabricated. This is how all states of becoming are fabricated. And this is as good as anything fabricated can get.” When you really comprehend it, as the Buddha said, then there’s no more passion for it, because you see how ephemeral the whole thing is, how unreliable it is. You see that there’s a lot of suffering … 
  21. Insight Is a Judgment Call
     … You finally get to the point where the level of concentration is the best thing that fabrication can offer. And you begin to see that this, too, has its drawbacks. That’s when the mind is really willing to give the unfabricated a try. It sees its potential value for happiness. Up to that point, there’s something about lack of fabrication that scares … 
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