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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. Again & Again
     … You get to the point when you realize, “I can put together this state of concentration, but it’s fabricated. I can move to another state of concentration, but *it’s *fabricated, too.” This is where a sense of tedium comes in. You realize that this is the best state of mind you can do, the best state of mind you can put together … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. To Discern Suffering
     … saying, “This is pleasure, this is pain, this pleasure I can handle, this pleasure I can’t handle.” Thought-fabrications add even more complex layers of likes and dislikes and analysis on top of things. And then there’s consciousness, your awareness of these things. We hold on to these things. This is how we suffer. The word for clinging in Pali means basically … 
  11. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. He says that we suffer because we cling to these things. Form is any physical form. It can be the form of your own body or the form of things you’re attached to, items that you like, people you like. Feeling is just registering the sensation of pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. These feelings can … 
  12. Concentration
     … You learn how to develop skillful fabrications and abandon unskillful ones. And it’s in this way that concentration leads to discernment. It both builds on discernment and creates the conditions for more discernment. After all, if you didn’t have some understanding of the mind, you wouldn’t be able to get it to settle down. Once it settles down, you can see … 
  13. More Buddhist Engineering
     … You have to want to go beyond concentration, because you see that no matter how good concentration gets, it’s still fabricated, and things that are fabricated are going to fall apart. If you just spend all your time on the road or on the bridge, and never get to the mountain, never get to the other side of the river, there will come … 
  14. The Meaning of the Body
    The Meaning of the Body October 15, 2004 Everything in life is fabricated. It’s all put together. And it doesn’t just fall together on its own. A lot of effort goes into putting things together. And because we have to put so much effort into life, we want to make sure that our effort is well directed, our energy is well spent … 
  15. Everybody Benefits
     … We see the process of fabrication and we try to calm it, so that the blatant levels of fabrication can get out of the way and we can see the subtler levels and just keep on going in, in, in like this. In that way, we get to the subtler levels of our awareness that can give us a more solid foundation, so that … 
  16. Getting Your Head Around the Goal
     … But if you exercise your mind through developing powers of concentration and mindfulness, and then turn them on understanding how it is that the mind creates suffering for itself—suffering around physical pain, suffering around mental pain—you can see a lot of the levels of fabrication going on in the mind. There’s a book someone once did of Ajaan Chah’s Dhamma … 
  17. Talking to Yourself
     … This is where another type of fabrication comes in. It’s called mental fabrication, *saññā *or perception: the words you use to label things, the images you use to present things to yourself. What kind of image is good to hold of the breath energy in the body? Do you want to be aware of the breath energy along the skin? Or do you … 
  18. Respect for Concentration
     … We’re taking the khandhas — these aggregates of body, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, and consciousness — and instead of identifying with them, we use them as tools. And as part of the process of mastering them as tools, there will have to be a sense of identification. You identify with the state of concentration, whatever sense of the body is present in the concentration, whatever … 
  19. Committed to the Breath
     … The mind fabricates its way of approaching things, its way of thinking about the breath, thinking about feelings, perceptions, thinking about thoughts. To put an end to suffering, we have to see those processes. The best place to look, from the very beginning, is at the breath. It’s near the mind, but it’s not directly at the mind. I remember, years back … 
  20. At the End of the Day
     … Then he simply says to breathe in and out sensitive to mental fabrication, and to breathe in and out calming mental fabrication. Those two steps require a lot of teasing out. Mental fabrication is perception and feeling. You want to see how those two things together have an impact on the mind. If there’s a pain in the body, it’s having an … 
  21. Escape from Inter-eating
     … You’ve seen the limits of fabrication. You realize that the processes of fabrication require feeding. You want something that doesn’t require feeding, something more peaceful, something safer and more secure. And you’re confident that there must be something of that sort. That’s why you let go. The Buddha was pretty amazing. He didn’t have that assurance. He was totally … 
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