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  2. Something to Stand On
     … If you want something really dependable, you’ve got to find something that doesn’t change—something that’s not fabricated, something that’s not conditioned. But in the meantime, we can work on the path, which is fabricated and will get us to where we want to go. It’s like one of those old cartoon films where people are riding along in … 
  3. Goodwill & Kamma
     … Every perception, every fabrication, even plain old consciousness contains an intentional element. Something is fabricated out of a potential, coming from past kamma, and turns into an actuality. Just like the issue of past kamma in general: What you focus on is going to become the actual kammic result you experience. And so it’s the intention there that’s important, the intention to … 
  4. Not Resolved on Self
     … You see the deathless by getting more and more sensitive to how you fabricate your experience until you begin to reflect on what it means to fabricate an experience. In other words, you look at the question of skillful and unskillful actions until that becomes your focus. That’s where you’re resolved. Right resolve is not resolved on deconstructing your sense of self … 
  5. Stress
     … In the same way, you turn around and look at what the mind is still doing in this process of fabricating a state of concentration that still feels burdensome, even though the concentration itself is extremely light in the sense of not requiring all that much effort. Still, there’s a fair amount of fabrication going on. You look at some of the suttas … 
  6. Train Your Hunger (The Sea Squirt)
     … That’s basically saying that there’s no true happiness to be found through fabricated things, so just give up on the whole idea of happiness and just be equanimous. That’s defeat. As the Buddha said, though, one of the names for the noble eightfold path is unexcelled victory in battle. You battle the ignorance that’s been guiding your hunger, and you … 
  7. Pleasure & Pain
     … As you begin to take apart all these various strands of fabrication in the mind, you’re going to run across something that’s unfabricated, at the point where the mind has no intentions at all to weave things together. When that happens, it’s very dramatic. Things open up in a totally new way. That’s one of the main benefits that come … 
  8. Firmly Intent
     … I’ll try to calm the fabrication of the body”—which is basically the breath, the impact that the breath has on your experience of the body—“I’m going to calm that down.” Okay, those are the messages you’re going to send to yourself. Try to be as consistent and as thorough and as persistent as possible in those messages. Those messages … 
  9. Right Speech
     … It’s called verbal fabrication: the way the mind chatters to itself. What you’re trying to do as you meditate is to learn how to make this chattering, which is often a problem, actually part of the path, an element of your concentration that helps the mind to settle down with a sense of interest, a sense of comfort, a sense of wellbeing … 
  10. Basic Wisdom
     … If really refined fabrication, really refined action is preferable to grosser action, how about no action at all? And it turns out there is a way you can get the mind to the point where there is no intention whatsoever. That opens you up to something that’s even more radical than the gradations of refinement. So it may be a logical step, but … 
  11. When You’ve Played Enough With the Breath
     … The last two steps in the second tetrad tell you to be sensitive to mental fabrication and try to calm mental fabrication: You’re breathing in such a way—you’re using feelings and perceptions in such a way—to calm the mind down. In the third tetrad, you’re focusing directly on what kind of states you want the mind to have. The … 
  12. A Clear Agenda
     … Then you look out for what he calls bodily fabrication. This is the intentional element that goes into the in-and-out breath. He says to calm it down. How do you calm it? You’re trying to make things more comfortable so that the breath feels less laborious and the body feels at ease. You change the rhythm of the way you breathe … 
  13. Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana
     … things we do, things we fabricate. Sometimes non-reactivity gets inserted into the path under the factor of right mindfulness. But the Buddha never defined mindfulness as non-reactivity. Mindfulness in his lexicon means the ability to keep something in mind. And there is such a thing as right mindfulness and wrong mindfulness. Wrong mindfulness is when you keep in mind desires that get … 
  14. Healing Breath
     … You want to see how there’s an element of intention in the breath, that’s why it’s called kaya-sankhara, a fabricating element in the body. The word sankhara, fabrication, includes the meaning of intention. There’s an intentional element in the way you breathe. You want to sensitize yourself to that. And you want to calm that, to make it more … 
  15. The Karma of Self & Not-Self
     … We have this power, through our ability to act in ways that have consequences, that we can train the mind to act consistently in ways that lead eventually to a happiness that’s not fabricated, not conditioned—something that doesn’t change. That, of course, is going to require bringing some order in to your senses of self: the way you create your sense … 
  16. Think Outside the Ruts
    Think Outside the Ruts March 26, 2022 There’s a strange passage in the Canon where the Buddha talks about how we take the potential for a form, feeling, perception, fabrication, or consciousness, and we fabricate it into an actual aggregate of form, feeling, etc., for the sake of having that aggregate. It’s expressed in a strange way in the Pali, but the … 
  17. Beyond Natural Suffering
     … form as a clinging aggregate, feeling, perception, fabrication as a clinging aggregate, consciousness as a clinging aggregate. The usefulness of the synopsis is that you realize that clinging to these five things: That’s suffering. The clinging is the problem. So when you have any experience of suffering, you have to look for the clinging. You look for what it is that you’re … 
  18. The Buddha’s Investment Strategy
     … As you apply these qualities to the process of breathing, you’ll see that it’s a kind of fabrication. There’s a willed and intentional element in there. And because there’s an element of will, you can change it. You can find ways of calming it down. This way you give rise to discernment as well, leading to concentration. These two qualities … 
  19. The Image of the Raft
     … The Buddha identifies suffering as clinging to the five aggregates—form, feeling, perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness. And there are four ways of clinging. You can cling in terms of sensual pleasure, sensual desire; you can cling in terms of your views; you can cling in terms of your ideas of what should and shouldn’t be done; and then you can cling in terms … 
  20. A Meditation Karma Checklist
     … Then you calm the fabrication of the body. In other words, you calm the way the breath has an impact on the body. These are things you choose to do. Always have it clearly in mind what you’re going to be doing. Otherwise, you sit here and the mind wanders there a bit, wanders back, comes here, goes there, deals with the pain … 
  21. Breath Energies
     … At the same time, you learn a lot about this process of fabrication: how the in-and-out breathing has an effect on the different parts of the body; how your perceptions have an impact on the breath, in addition to an impact on the mind. They talk about perceptions being mental fabrications, having an effect on the mind, but they also have an … 
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