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2. Play AudioStanding Where the Buddha Stood
    … The concepts he used, say, about fabrication: What does fabrication look like to someone in good, solid concentration? The Buddha talks about three levels of fabrication: bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, which is directed thought and evaluation; and then mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. As you move the mind through the levels of jhana, directed thought and evaluation get abandoned on … 
3. Play AudioCalming Mental Fabrication
   When the Buddha teaches concentration practice—breath meditation practice—he gives you a physical fabrication to focus on, i.e., the breath coming in, going out, and then he gives you a verbal fabrication, the instructions, “Keep track of the breath; remain focused on the breath—ardent, alert, mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” So you keep reminding yourself … 
4. Play AudioEquanimity Isn’t Everything
    … This is where you have to exert a fabrication, like we’re doing it right now: focusing on the breath, adjusting the breath. There’s verbal fabrication in the directed thought and evaluation as you direct your thoughts to the breath and evaluate the breath. Bodily fabrication is the in-and-out breathing itself, because that’s the process that fabricates your sense of … 
5. Play AudioRooted in Desire
    … So what are the things that we do before we see things and hear things? The Buddha lists three kinds of fabrication. There’s bodily fabrication: the way you breathe. Verbal fabrication: the way you talk to yourself—what the Buddha calls directed thought and evaluation*—*as you focus your thoughts on a topic and then make comments about it, ask questions, answer the … 
6. Play AudioInconstancy
    … So you can’t tell yourself right off the bat, “I’m going to just stop fabricating entirely,” because you can’t do that. If you stop fabricating on a blatant level, you do it on a more subtle level. So the Buddha’s having you do fabricate consciously: to get more and more subtle in your acts of fabrication until you see that … 
7. Play AudioDon’t Stop with Acceptance
    … That’s fabrication on the macro level. But then when we meditate, the Buddha takes it much deeper, much more intimately, here on the micro level. Bodily fabrication is the way you breathe. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation. Mental fabrication is feelings and perceptions. Now, there are some people who say these two levels of fabrication are totally unrelated. But how can … 
8. Play AudioWell-armed Efforts
    … And one of the things we learn from listening and reading is how this process of fabrication happens in the present moment. The Buddha says there are three kinds: There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, which is directed thought and evaluation, in other words, the way you talk to yourself; and there’s mental fabrication, which are perceptions, the labels … 
9. Play AudioDependent Co-arising Right Now
    … So what have you got? Starting with ignorance, ignorance conditions fabrications. These can be bodily fabrication—the breath; verbal fabrication—the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication—perceptions and feelings. That’s on the immediate level as you’re sitting here meditating. But then there’s also the bodily, verbal, and mental fabrication that creates karma going on to new births—the … 
10. Play AudioWorldly Narratives
     … You use the process of fabrication to peel away your attachment to fabrications. Use the process of fabrication to create states of concentration in the mind. That’s what the path is: a type of fabrication, but it’s skillful fabrication. There are certain aspects of the Buddha’s teachings that are non-dual but, when you’re getting on the path, dualism is … 
11. Play AudioTraining Heart & Mind
     … In dependent co-arising, the Buddha says that from ignorance comes fabrication. Fabrication is the way the mind orders, interprets, and shapes its experience from the raw data it gets. There are three kinds of fabrication: physical, verbal, and mental. Physical fabrication is the breath—the intentional aspect of the breath. If we do that in ignorance, we’re going to cause ourselves unnecessary … 
12. Play AudioFabrications
13. Play AudioUseful Thinking
     … As the Buddha said, there are three kinds of fabrication going on. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the breath; verbal fabrication, which are your directed thoughts and the act of evaluation—those are the processes that are basic to any kind of speech, both in the mind and outside; and there’s mental fabrication, feeling and perception. And a good place to see … 
14. Play AudioFabricating Concentration
15. Play AudioMeditation as Fabrication
16. Play AudioStilling Mental Fabrication
17. Play AudioHappiness, Fabricated & Not
18. Play AudioFabricating the Path
19. Play AudioĀnāpānasati Day
     … This is where thinking in terms of fabrication gets useful. There’s bodily fabrication: the way you breathe. Mental fabrication: perceptions, images, labels you hold in mind. And then the one kind of fabrication that’s not mentioned in the instructions: verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself. But the instructions themselves are an example of how you talk to yourself: “I will … 
20. Play AudioThe Committee of Fabrications
21. Play AudioFabricating the Breath (outside)
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