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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. Lift Up Your Heart
     … All your thinking is fabricated, so fabricate it for the sake of your own well-being, your true well-being, a well-being that causes harm to no one. That makes the world a lighter place for everyone.
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. Respect for What’s Noble
     … form—this body of ours, which is constantly changing—feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. These are all activities that are involved in feeding: The form is the form of the body, the form of the food we eat. Feeling, in the feeling of hunger that drives us to eat, and in our desire for the feeling of pleasure that comes when we’re … 
  18. All for the Sake of Freedom
     … There’s the fabrication, the directed thought and evaluation, and then there’s consciousness of all these things. All five of these things—form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness—are aggregates. Even when they form a state of concentration, they, too, are inconstant, stressful, and not self. And when the mind is really ready, it can then let go of all these things. At the … 
  19. Defilements at the Door
     … name and form, or fabrication. What perceptions fuel your greed, anger, and delusion? What intentions fuel it? What ways of paying attention to things fuel these things? Look into those, because that’s where you can make a difference here in the present moment. You may not be able to choose who’s going to appear at your door or who wants to get … 
  20. Why We Bow Down
     … And is it really worthwhile to say that these things are not-self, that you’d be better off not trying to lay claim to things? When you fabricate a really good state of concentration, what proof is there to deny that that’s best there is, so that you should maintain what you’ve got and never let it go? After all, there … 
  21. Tough Goodwill for a Tough World
     … These are fabricated things, but you can make them strong. This is how brahmas become brahmas. They started out as human beings and learned how to make their goodwill strong, so that they were able to feed off of that goodwill. That then got them to the brahma realms. Ideally, though, you want to find something better still, something that’s not fabricated. In … 
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