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  2. You Contain Multitudes
     … This is a lot of what the Buddha’s instructions are all about—his instructions on fabrication: bodily, verbal, mental. He’s basically telling you, “These are different ways you can think, these are different ways that you can picture things to yourself, even different ways to breathe, different feelings you can cultivate inside the body, all to your advantage.” So you may have … 
  3. Alternative Conceptions
     … Reducing everything in your experience just to those terms helps you to see the connections, to see how you fabricate things in such a way that leads to suffering, or in such a way that doesn’t. That’s the basic value of all these teachings. Some people think that meditation is aimed at stripping away all of our preconceived notions, all of our … 
  4. Being Somebody, Going Somewhere
     … After all, they are fabrications, and fabrications, the Buddha said, are done for the sake of something. It’s good to be clear about that. When I was in France last time, someone on the retreat complained about practicing the path for the sake of something. He thought we should just be in the present moment for the sake of the present moment. But … 
  5. Insight Is a Judgment Call
     … You could say it’s a web of fabrication. It sounds like a web of lies, which is not quite what the word “fabrication” means here: It’s simply something that’s put together. We’re constantly assembling it. And it’s constantly falling apart. So we keep assembling it some more. We’re driven to do this because we like to feed on … 
  6. Succeeding at Happiness
     … Oneness, as the Buddha pointed out, is something fabricated. It’s put together, and as you get more sensitive to the process of fabrication, you can see that. You want to develop your sensitivity so that you’re looking for something better, something unfabricated. In other words, you get more and more particular about what you regard as satisfactory happiness. That’s part of … 
  7. Neither Here nor There
     … They’re all fabrications, too, all the same sort of thing. You get to see that any world you could go to, any fabrications, are not worth it. That way, you learn to look positively on dispassion, cessation, release. Then he recommends breath meditation as a way of seeing how the mind fabricates these things all the time, right here, right now, learning how … 
  8. A Gift of Well-Being
     … You’re learning how to fabricate your experience of the present moment in a skillful way. This inner fabrication then becomes a foundation for the way you act in the world outside as well. It’s a benefit that spreads from right here and radiates out in all directions. This is why it’s important that you maintain your center right here as much … 
  9. Mastering Causality
     … You begin to get more sensitive to what the mind is doing, particularly in terms of its perceptions and thought-fabrications, and how these relate to your feelings. Perceptions are the labels you put on things. For example, you may experience the body as something solid breathing in and breathing out. Well, you can change that perception. See everything you sense in the body … 
  10. The First Noble Truth
     … Are you clinging to a form or a feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness? He puts these in terms that allow you to step outside of the suffering. Because the big problem of the suffering is that you’re often in it, in what the Buddha calls becoming. You’ve taken on an identity in a particular world and it’s causing you suffering. As long … 
  11. Observe Yourself in Action
     … The first factor after ignorance is fabrication: bodily fabrication—which is the in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation, how you’re talking to yourself; and mental fabrication—feelings and perceptions. Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the images you hold in mind, the labels you apply to things. You have these things right … 
  12. Part V : Finding a Teacher
     … It could be clinging, it could be craving, it could be feeling, intention, attention, verbal fabrication, mental fabrication, or bodily fabrication like the breath. When you think about dependent co-arising and all the various ways that suffering and stress can arise in the mind, it’s useful to know that whatever the factor that’s coming or contributing to that, all you have … 
  13. You Are Not a Textbook
     … And it’ll also be your guarantee so that you know when you’ve hit that dimension you’re really not fabricating anything because you’ve learned fabrications really, really minutely as you develop your sensitivity to what you’re doing right now.
  14. Making an Effort
     … The basic building blocks of our experience, the five aggregates, require fabrication. Even before we sense things, there’s an element of fabrication going on in the mind. If the mind weren’t active, if it weren’t putting effort into this, it wouldn’t be able to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch anything at all. Then there’s all the effort that … 
  15. Look after Your Mind with Ease
     … You’re noticing, as the Buddha says, what you’re doing to fabricate your sense of the body by the breath, what you’re doing to fabricate your sense of the mind by the way you perceive things—i.e., by the images you hold in mind, the words you hold in mind as you meditate. Then you notice what you can do to … 
  16. Locate Your Craving
     … In the Buddha’s analysis, craving is based on feeling, but where is that feeling based? It can be based in an object, or it can be based in the way you talk to yourself about the object, or the perceptions you hold in mind—what the Buddha calls verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. Think about advertisements. Often they’re not selling the object … 
  17. Parsing Out Suffering
     … Which kinds of activity are you attached to? Is there a particular perception you like? A particular feeling or thought fabrication? Ajaan Maha Boowa talks about his contemplation of the body. The practice got so that he was really good at looking at every person and seeing them reduced to what was inside. But it didn’t really put in an end to the … 
  18. The Path Is in the Details
     … When the Buddha talks about experience being composed of the five aggregates, each aggregate is a potential coming in from the past that then gets actualized through your fabrication of the present moment out of those raw materials. There’s a potential for form, for feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness, but with your present intention you choose how to put those things together and turn … 
  19. The Purity of Your Intentions
     … When you think about how the breath fabricates feeling, and feeling fabricates the mind, you realize how important it is to get to know the breath. Then you think about all the important things you’re going to learn about the mind as it stays here, the things that’ll be revealed as you set this one intention in place. That way, you’re … 
  20. Eyes in the Back of Your Head
     … This is sankhara, fabrication, and that can exist on many levels. In the beginning of concentration, when you’re actively working through the body, it’s pretty blatant. On the more subtle levels of concentration, it goes more into the background. But there are intentions going on. There has to be an intention that maintains that concentration all the time. And there is going … 
  21. Truth in Action
     … Even the highest form of non-duality, the Buddha said—the non-duality of consciousness—is still fabricated. It’s still something that’s put together. And you want to see that as an activity. That’s how you get to go beyond it. So it’s not the case that we work at being very careful about what we’re doing up to … 
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