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  2. Finding the Openings
     … We keep fabricating things, we keep trying to repair the hut and fix it up. All we do is make it bigger, offering more resistance to the wind, so of course when the wind comes, it blows over. Try to make your hut no bigger than necessary and make sure what hut you do have is well-thatched. Make sure your concentration is solid … 
  3. Comprehending Suffering
     … That’s where fabrication comes in, which is the fourth aggregate. You’re directing your thoughts to the breath and you’re evaluating how it’s going. You evaluate the breath. You evaluate the state of your mind right now. Is it ready to settle down? Work with the breath for a while and see how it feels. If the mind refuses to settle … 
  4. True Freedom of Speech
     … It’s what the Buddha calls verbal fabrication: When you think about things and then you comment on them in the mind, it’ll very quickly come out in your speech outside. So you’re training your directed thoughts, you’re training your acts of evaluation, in preparation for the practice of concentration. As we sit here meditating, we have to talk to ourselves … 
  5. An Auspicious Night
     … Part of what we experience is the result of past karma, but then that’s shaped into an actual experience with the three types of fabrication: by the way we breathe, the way we talk to ourselves, the perceptions and feelings we focus on. You want to be really clear about, one, the fact that you are doing this; and two, the question of … 
  6. The Strength to See
     … It’s only when you see how unnecessary these fabrications are that you can gain release from them. So that’s how you develop the strength you need to look at physical pain. As for mental and emotional pain: The ability to see that depends on your integrity, seeing that you can’t blame your emotional pain on other people. There is an awful … 
  7. Admirable Intentions
     … You see the way the mind fabricates things. You see perceptions simply as events in and of themselves, part of a causal chain, before they coalesce into a state of becoming—in other words, the act of taking on an identity in a world of experience. If you can see things in this way, you begin to gain some distance from your other cravings … 
  8. Death Is All Around
     … You’ve got to use these fabricated aggregates, these makeshift things. But that’s the beauty of the Buddha’s path: taking these makeshift things and using them to find something that’s not makeshift, something totally and unlimitedly free. Once you find that, then it’s really easy to let go of all these things, because you’ve got something a lot better … 
  9. Mindfulness the Seamstress
     … You want to develop that aspect of your awareness and then bring it to the breath meditation, so that you can see the processes of fabrication going on in the breath and in the mind, and sort out which ones are skillful and which ones are not. How are you going to know what’s skillful? You look at the results. Part of this … 
  10. Wearing the Breath
     … something the mind fabricates and then it goes into the thought and takes a ride for a while. Then things fall apart, and you come back. You find something else and take a ride in another direction. But here you want to inhabit the breath, wear the breath, and see what new things will come. As the Buddha said, it’s all for the … 
  11. Building Concentration
     … all the processes of fabrication, how things get put together in the mind. It’s when you try to build a state of concentration that you really get to know these things. Otherwise, they just pass, pass, pass by your eyes. You see them but you don’t really see them. There are potentials there that you miss because you haven’t tried to … 
  12. Clinging & the End of Clinging
     … suffering.” He said something more specific, useful, and insightful: “Suffering is the five clinging-aggregates.” As he pointed out elsewhere, the problem isn’t with the aggregates of form, feeling, perceptions, fabrication, or consciousness. The problem is with the clinging. So, suffering is clinging. When he said that all he taught was suffering and the end of suffering, he was basically saying all he … 
  13. Choosing Sides
     … It’s something fabricated. You have to put it together; there’s work you have to do. There are things that are not arising yet that you want to make arise; and there are things that are arising that you want to learn how to stop. That’s what right mindfulness and right effort are all about. Again, this is something else that we … 
  14. Shame & Compunction
     … Supply lines break down, and the basic fabric of society seems to be torn. So how can you live safely in a place like that? There’s one thing you can depend on, and that’s the Dhamma. The Buddha teaches us how to find refuge, how to find safety through developing good qualities in the mind. That’s another meaning of the word … 
  15. Persistence
     … In those cases, the Buddha said, you have to exert a fabrication. To know what this means, you have to think of the three fabrications: the way you breathe, the way you talk to yourself, and the perceptions and feelings you hold in mind. Say anger comes into the mind. How are you breathing? Are you breathing in a way that aggravates the anger … 
  16. The Value of Concentration
     … After all, it’s something fabricated, something intentional. So learn to treat it as something of value, and that’s when it’ll show you what its true value is.
  17. Inner Baggage
     … This is called verbal fabrication. You learn how to ask the right questions of the breath. Focus on it in such a way that you’re not putting too much weight on it, you’re not putting too little pressure on it. It seems just right, coming in, going out. Your mind is right there with the breathing, not repressing it, not drifting away … 
  18. Monologue on the Breath
     … The conversation in the monologue in Pali is called vaci-sankhara, which literally means verbal fabrication. There are two parts to it. One part is called directed thought, when you decide what you’re going to talk about. The other part is evaluation, when you make comments on what you’re thinking about, deciding whether you like it or not, or turning it into … 
  19. Reflecting on the Requisites
     … You just get engaged in weaving the web and the fabrication around the pleasure to make it seem like a lot more than it was. One of the things you have to do as a meditator is learn how to cut through those webs and actually look at a sensory experience for what it is: a brief moment of contact, a brief experience of … 
  20. Going Out of Your Way
     … What if there were something better? What if there were pleasure or well-being that wasn’t fabricated at all? How would you find that? That requires strategizing, it requires thinking, it requires ingenuity. You can’t cause that unfabricated, but you can get the mind trained so that it’s ready to sense it. That requires sensitizing the mind, and this is where … 
  21. The Beginnings of Wisdom
     … It begins with, “What, when I do it, will lead to my long-term welfare and happiness?” As for the inconstancy of form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness: That’s a teaching you use within the context of that search for long-term happiness. As you get in the more advanced stages of the practice, you look at the states of concentration that you … 
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