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  2. To Know the Buddha
     … As they say in Pali, rūpa ruppati, which means form deforms; feelings feel; perceptions perceive; fabrications fabricate; consciousness cognizes. They’re not things. When we talk about them as aggregates, it sounds as if they’re piles of gravel, but they’re actually activities. And the activity itself is suffering, stress. We do these things for the sake of happiness—we cling to them … 
  3. Freedom, Conditioned & Not
     … But as the Buddha pointed out, even the highest state of Oneness of non-duality is fabricated. There’s a state where there’s the Oneness of consciousness, a sense of your awareness being one with the object. But that’s fabricated and it’s going to let you down. Even more so when you just slap the label of Oneness on everything without … 
  4. Taking Stock
     … We had that chant just now about how form—one of the forms in our life, of course, is the form of the body—feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness: All these things are not-self. They don’t really lie totally under your control. But it’s not as if you don’t have any control over them at all. You do have some. So … 
  5. Learning by Doing
     … All the different forms of fabrication, all the different aggregates: They’re right here. You’ve got the form of the body, you’ve got the feelings of pleasure or pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Hopefully you can work with the breath so that you can give rise to a greater sense of pleasure. Then there are the perceptions that hold you here … 
  6. Intelligent Design
     … It’s a constructed path, a fabricated path. It leads to something unfabricated, but the path itself is a fabrication, which means that it’s dependent on conditions. Sometimes the conditions aren’t all they could be, but we do have this intelligence within us that can learn how to make the best of difficult things, makeshift things, to hammer things together in a … 
  7. Right Questions in the Right Order
     … But the aggregates are the aggregates of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. Clinging is clinging to these things in any of four ways: through either through the desire for sensual fantasies, the desire for views, clinging in terms of habits and practices concerning the way things should be done, or clinging in terms of your sense of your self. Any of those four … 
  8. An Equanimity You Can Feed On
     … But it is something you fabricate. In other words, you do work on this. You adjust the condition so that it feels good breathing in, feels good breathing out, it feels good just sitting here, inhabiting your body, inhabiting the form of the body. Allow yourself to gain an appreciation for this level of pleasure, this level of refreshment. As the Buddha says, you … 
  9. The Wisdom of Dualities
     … Even when you get to the ultimate state of oneness in the mind, the Buddha said that that, too, is fabricated, just like all the other parts of the path. So there’s something better to do there, which is to learn how to let go, because underlying all of this activity of discernment is the realization that experience comes in two types: fabricated … 
  10. Using the Committee of the Mind
     … It’s when you actually fight off a defilement, it’s actually when you get the mind to settle in and see all the different fabrications that go into getting the mind to settle in—either in terms of the three fabrications or the five aggregates, you see these as activities and you master them yourself: That’s when you gain insight. That’s … 
  11. The Dhamma Protects
     … Once you’ve gotten sensitive to how long breathing feels and how short breathing feels, then you start training yourself to breathe in and out sensitive to the whole body, to breathe in and out in a way that calms bodily fabrication. Then, to get sensitive to feelings of pleasure or rapture, you have to breathe in a particular way to induce those feelings … 
  12. Big Desire, Detailed Focus
     … Well, the breath as it is, is—as the Buddha calls it—a bodily fabrication. And the word “fabrication” there means that there’s an intentional element, there’s at least part of the mind that’s watching over the breath and deciding when to stop breathing in, when to stop breathing out. You have to check the settings for that part of the … 
  13. The Heightened Mind
     … You’re trying to develop this feeling tone, because after all, feeling is one of the mental fabrications, the things that determine the state of your mind. So you want to soothe the mind with a sense of well-being that comes from just being with the body, being with the breath as you feel it from within. In that way, you’re not … 
  14. Duties
     … They come up with all kinds of fabrications so that they don’t have to be held responsible for the cash short-flow and someone else can take the hit. That’s the way of the world. And many of the things you have to do in the world are demeaning, things you’d rather not do, but either hunger or poverty or fear … 
  15. Clinging to Karmic Diarrhea
     … The concentration we’re doing right now has form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness—all right here. We want to get to see that when we put these aggregates together in this way, even though they do involve effort and there is some pain in the practice, it’s worth the effort so that we can look dispassionately at other, more blatant forms of … 
  16. Not Just a Witness
     … As when he talks about the three kinds of fabrication: The way you breathe is the connection between your mind and your body, so he has you focus on the breath. He has you focus on how you talk to yourself about the breath, because how you talk to yourself is how you construct your reality—as in all situations. Of course, those constructions … 
  17. The Wisdom of Ardency
     … Others require what he calls the fabrication of exertion, where you have to figure out how the way you’re breathing is contributing to the problem, how the way you’re talking to yourself is contributing to the problem, how the perceptions you hold in mind, how the feelings you pay attention to are contributing to the problem. From there, you learn how to … 
  18. Factors for Stream Entry
     … Then the Anathapindika points out that if you hold on to any of those things, those things are inconstant, stressful, put together, fabricated. Things of that nature are stressful, so if you’re going to hold on to them, you’re going to be holding on to stress. So they ask him, “What is your view?” He says, “I see that whatever is fabricated … 
  19. Meaning & Purpose
     … We suffer because we’re attached to form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. But we can use those things to create the path, and we hold on as long as we need to. The Buddha makes a comparison with relay chariots. You take one chariot, you hold on, and it takes you a certain distance. Then you get into another one and that takes … 
  20. When Things Aren’t Going Well
     … When you learn how to bring them under control, then this process of fabrication, for example, can turn into the path. Many of the elements of dependent co-arising have the potential to become path factors. Attention, in name-and-form, can become appropriate attention. Fabrication can become the comfortable breathing and directed thought and evaluation of right concentration. So it’s all right … 
  21. Control
     … Once you understand the process of what the Buddha calls fabrication, the intentional actions around the breath, that sharpens your sensitivity, so that you begin to see other kinds of fabrication as well, particularly in the way the mind talks to itself, the feelings and perceptions that it creates in the present moment. Some of these are the results of past actions, but a … 
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