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  2. Work & Play
     … He saw it as something you fabricate. And the fabrications don’t come in just from the past. There’s fabrication in the present moment that’s shaping the present moment, and you can’t see the process of fabrication in the present clearly until you learn how to do it skillfully. This is why we work and play with the breath. We accomplish … 
  3. Jhana & Insight
     … But also, in getting to that place, you learn an awful lot about the mind—all the processes of fabrication. Because, in creating a state of concentration, you’re working with fabrication. And the fabrication is the underlying process by which we feed. There’s bodily fabrication, the breath; verbal fabrication, which is your directed thought and evaluation—the way you pose a topic … 
  4. Into the Light of Consciousness
    We talk about the three kinds of fabrication: bodily, verbal, mental. Bodily being your in-and-out breath. Verbal being direct thought and evaluation, the way you talk to yourself. You direct your thoughts to a topic and then you pass judgment on it, ask questions, make comments. Mental is perceptions and feelings, perceptions are the labels you apply to things that give them … 
  5. Breath Meditation – The Four Tetrads
     … sensitizing yourself to the extent to which you’re fabricating things; trying to calm that fabrication down; and ultimately getting to the point where, if it’s unskillful, you just let it go. Then further along in the practice, you let go of even more skillful forms of fabrications. Where it gets complicated is the fact that a lot of things going on in … 
  6. Lessons in Fabrication
     … You look at his teachings, and they’re basically instructions on how to fabricate well. After all, the path is a path of fabrication. Right view is something you fabricate. You put it together with perceptions and thoughts. Concentration, you fabricate out of all the three types of fabrication. All the factors in between are also fabricated one way or another. The Buddha even … 
  7. Deconstructing Anger
     … What it comes down to eventually is contained in that list of three fabrications: bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the breath. You use the breath to influence the way you experience your body. As you learn to get more and more in touch with the breath energies in the body, you can learn how to deal with them to … 
  8. Free from Buddha Nature
     … With ignorance as a condition, there are fabrications. In fact, what you think you are is something you fabricate. Sometimes you’re doing the fabrication right here and now. Sometimes it’s the result of past fabrications. But it’s all fabricated. It’s all put together, which means that it can be taken apart and put together in other ways. The basic elements … 
  9. Noble Wealth
     … Because those instructions for breath meditation involve bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, mental fabrication. The verbal fabrication lies in what you’re telling yourself you’re going to do. As you learn how to see things in these terms, you’re preparing yourself for the insights that will go deeper and deeper. Because as the Buddha discovered, there is a big problem if you want … 
  10. Fabricating Goodwill
    One of the Buddha’s basic insights was the extent to which we shape our experience, through a process he called fabrication—sankhara in Pali. And as he said, we fabricate for the sake of something. We have a purpose. The problem is, all too often we’re ignorant of our purpose. We’re like the CEO of a corporation who doesn’t know … 
  11. In Charge of Your Moods
     … This is getting us into the third fabrication, which the Buddha calls mental fabrication: basically, your perceptions and your feelings. Perceptions are the images or individual words that function as labels in the mind, saying that this is this, or that is that. With verbal fabrication, you’re thinking in full sentences; with mental fabrication, the perceptions are just single words or images. And … 
  12. How to Change
     … But in the present moment, the three fabrications get boiled down to what leads to bodily, verbal, mental kamma on the large scale, and here the Buddha gives different definitions. Bodily fabrication is the in-and-out breathing. If you weren’t breathing, you couldn’t do anything physically. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, how you talk to yourself: You direct your … 
  13. What’s Real
     … And everything that’s fabricated, as the Buddha said, is stressful. The solution ultimately will be not to fabricate anything, but in the meantime we have to fabricate a path, because you can’t take nibbana and use it as a tool to gain nibbana. We take these things that we normally do—bodily fabrication, or the breath; verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation … 
  14. Solving Real Problems
     … We get more and more sensitive to this as we do the breath meditation, because everything’s framed in terms of fabrication: calming fabrication, getting sensitive to fabrication, using the processes of fabrication to gladden the mind, concentrate the mind, and then finally release the mind. Even though you’re going to be gaining release from fabrication, you have to use them as part … 
  15. Making an Effort
     … bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. And sometimes you have to stick with these fabrications for a long time. For example, with lust: Many times you have to think about the unattractiveness of the body over and over and over again. It may have seemed as if you’ve thought about it many, many times, and that that should be enough. But if … 
  16. The Carpenter’s Adze
     … What’s distinctive about the sixteen steps is how much they talk about fabrication, starting with the breath. The Buddha could have said many times, “Calm the breath.” But no, he says to calm bodily fabrication. He could have said to calm your perceptions and feelings. But no, he said to calm mental fabrication. He’s focusing on the fact that you’re fabricating … 
  17. Balancing Tranquility & Insight
     … In each case, you’re sensitizing yourself to some aspect of fabrication. In the first tetrad, the fabrication is the in-and-out breath itself. You sensitize yourself to when the breath is short, when it’s relatively long. The text only says that much, but what you’re actually doing is learning how to notice how short breathing affects the body, how long … 
  18. Staying on Track
     … Then there’s mental fabrication: perceptions, the images you hold in mind, or individual words to identify things; and then feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. It’s through these three kinds of fabrication that we shape our experience. When things go wrong in the mind, it’s because we’re fabricating things in ignorance. So, we want to bring some … 
  19. Moods Are Not-Self
     … Moods would come under fabrication. What are the kinds of fabrication that go into it? The three big ones: bodily fabrication—the way you breathe; verbal—the way you talk to yourself; and then mental—the perceptions you hold in mind and the feelings you focus on. Those are the things that went in to create the mood you’re in, so you can … 
  20. The Message of Mindfulness
     … These are verbal fabrications: “I will breathe in sensitive to the whole body. I will breathe out sensitive to the whole body.” You try to remind yourself that way. “I will breathe in calming bodily fabrication. I’ll breathe out calming bodily fabrication.” And all the way through breathing in sensitive to mental fabrication—perceptions and feelings—breathing out sensitive to mental fabrication. The … 
  21. To Be Worthy of the Dhamma
     … Again the pattern is to be sensitive to fabrication, and the to calm it down: using discernment to begin with and then getting to calm. In the last tetrad, you start out with being sensitive to the fact that fabrications are inconstant and are driven by your intentions. As you develop dispassion for those intentions, dispassion for the fabrications, they stop because you no … 
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