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  2. Learning How to Learn
     … get there? You have to turn around and look at the means: “What do I do to get to where I want to go?” This reminds you that concentration is something fabricated: It’s done with a purpose. But, to do it well, you have to focus on the causes. Then, based on that desire, you develop your persistence: You actually do your best … 
  3. What Should & Shouldn’t Be Done
     … So when you hit a state like that, you have to remember what the Buddha said about the fabrications of the mind. We can create different states out of the way we breathe. We can create them out of the different perceptions we have. So what is the perception that’s holding you in those states? Look at that action and the perception and … 
  4. A Pleasure Not to Be Feared
     … It’s fabricated. It’s willed. As you begin to see the slight variations and slight fluctuations in this sense of ease and well-being, you look for something deeper, more solid. That’s how right concentration becomes a step to greater insight. You can become more and more a connoisseur of pleasure. Your sensitivity for what’s stressful and what’s inconstant gets … 
  5. An Island of Concentration
     … After all, the breath is a kind of fabrication. It has an intentional element, so you can make use of that: You can try not only long breathing and short breathing, but also fast, slow, heavy, light, deep, shallow, to see what feels best right now. Then, when you have a sense of breathing that feels good, try to make yourself aware of the … 
  6. No Mistakes Are Fatal
     … There’s a lot of air in there, a lot of fabrication going on. So what you want to do is keep things basic but be very observant, because you’ve got a lot of tricks up your sleeve for creating something out of nothing, making mountains out of the tiniest molehills. So, keep it on the level of molehills, very simple, very basic … 
  7. The Graduated Discourse
     … There’s the suffering of the fact that things are inconstant, stressful, and not self, that they’re products of fabrication. And then there’s the suffering of the four noble truths, the suffering that’s based on craving. The main message of the four noble truths is if you focus on this second kind of suffering—the suffering that your mind is creating … 
  8. Make the Most of This Breath
     … the verbal fabrications, the directed thought and evaluation that run your meditation will have been exercised. After all, the mind talking to other people is the same mind that’s talking to itself. So you want to be really clear about what’s happening, how you describe things, making sure to be as accurate as you can. After all, when you’re going to … 
  9. Self-Healing
     … The word the Buddha uses is *saṅkhāra. *We translate in English as “fabrication.” In Thai, they translate it as prung deng, and prung and deng are the things that you do with food so that you can eat it. So think about that. You’re feeding on the world. And you usually feed on the world in hopes of getting some pleasure out of … 
  10. Bringing Daily Life into the Practice
     … What the Buddha calls verbal fabrication is something you’re engaging in all the time: directed thought and evaluation. Every time you speak, you first have to choose a topic and then make a mental comment on it. You’ll be bringing those two activities, or those two skills, into your concentration, so make sure they’re well trained before you apply them to … 
  11. A Good Independent Self
     … What have you got? The three kinds of fabrication: You’re breathing; you’re talking to yourself; you’re dealing with perceptions and feelings—but you can learn how to do all three of those things in skillful ways. You keep on breathing, but now you breathe in different ways. You breathe with the whole body. You think of the breath energy coming in … 
  12. Housecleaning
     … It’s called the bodily fabrication because it’s the process in the body that responds to your intentions, and it has an effect on the rest of the body. You can make use of that fact to get the rest of the body comfortable. Or at least, if you can’t make the whole body comfortable, you can give yourself a spot, an … 
  13. The River of Karma
     … As you take apart all the various levels of fabrication and intentions in the mind in the present moment, you finally get to something that’s unfabricated. That, the Buddha said, is the end of action. So it’s important that we learn how to understand the principle of karma and see how it plays out in our mediation, so that we don’t … 
  14. Magha Puja
     … this is the Dhamma they all teach. Sometimes you hear the idea that the Buddha said that everything changes, therefore the Dhamma has to change, too. But he never said that. Fabricated things change. That’s true. But the way of the Dhamma never changes, which is why it’s a teaching that’s as relevant now as it was back then. It starts … 
  15. A Snare of Death Laid Out
     … It means the mind’s fascination with planning them, all the embroidery we create around them, all the perceptions and feelings and thought constructs—verbal and mental fabrications. Often that’s where our craving is focused. Often, when you desire a person, it’s not the person you desire. You desire your perceptions and thoughts of the person. So you want to get the … 
  16. At Home with the Breath
     … Ignorance, fabrication, all those things you read about in dependent co-arising: You actually begin to see them because you’re more quiet, in the same way that you can hear subtle sounds when you’re more quiet. So this is a form of the ease and well-being that, as the Buddha said, is blameless, i.e., you’re not harming anyone else … 
  17. Part II : Common Problems
     … The Buddha identifies perception and feeling as mental fabrications, i.e., the things that create your sense of well-being or not well-being in the mind. But it turns out perception is the really big one. So you want to look for all the different labels you have around the pain. Learn how to see it as impermanent, coming and going, coming and … 
  18. Lessons from the Buddha’s Awakening
     … It doesn’t make much distinction between which parts of the picture come from the Canon, which parts come from the commentaries and later texts—which is a shame, because the later interest in all those different levels seems to go beyond what the Buddha intended, which is to think simply that no matter how good it gets within the realm of fabrication, it … 
  19. The Duty to Understand
     … Ultimately, you see that even that the path has to be let go because it’s fabricated, you can’t totally trust it in and of itself. You can take hold of it as a tool but there comes a point where you have to let your tool go. Your craving for the path turns into dispassion and with dispassion there’s release from … 
  20. An Issue of Control
     … If the body or feelings or perception, fabrications, consciousness were self, then you could say, “I want it to be like this,” or “I want it to be like that.” But you can’t have total control over any of these. The Buddha’s constantly focusing on the issue that your sense of self is built around control. Some people say when the Buddha … 
  21. Abandoning Effluents (2)
     … our thoughts of getting upset around the pain, the things we tell ourselves about the pain, the perceptions we have—in other words, the way we fabricate around the pain. Those added arrows are the ones that really go into the heart. The first arrow only goes as far as the body, yet we don’t realize that because we’re pulling it in … 
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