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2. Play AudioLetting Go
    … Relax around, as they say, the fabrication of the thought, and it won’t have anything to hold on to in the present moment. It’ll stop. If none of these approaches works, just make up your mind to grit your teeth, press your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and say, “No, I’m not going to think that thought.” Just stay … 
3. Play AudioCulture Shock
    … In other words, these fabricated things, if you learn how to use them skillfully lead someplace. Even if you don’t learn how to use them skillfully, they still lead places: random places, miserable places. The question is, “Do you really want to go where they’re taking you?” If you make the effort to get skillful at fashioning conditioned things, they can lead … 
4. Play AudioAcceptance & Equanimity
    … Take them apart in terms of your perceptions or in terms of your bodily, verbal, mental fabrication around the pain—how you breathe around the pain, how you talk to yourself about the pain, the perceptions you apply. Does the pain have an intention? Does it have a shape? Does it have a color? Is it solid? Call these perceptions into question. And simply … 
5. Play AudioStrength Training
    … You see how all the factors of the mind that the Buddha would describe in dependent co-arising, or in the different kinds of fabrication, all play a role in developing these strengths. You get hands-on experience in using them. That’s when they’re easiest to see. Which is why these basic strengths lie in just coming back, coming back, coming back … 
6. Play AudioQuestion Your Perceptions
    … What do you perceive of the process of breathing? How does it happen? And what kind of perceptions help you settle down? As the Buddha said, perception is a mental fabrication. It has an impact on the mind. What ways of perceiving the breath have a good impact on the breath and a good impact on the mind? You want to test them. Ajaan … 
7. Play AudioThe Humble Way to Awakening
    … This is why the Buddha has us divide things into the aggregates, because the comings and goings of perceptions, the comings and goings of thought fabrications are going to have an impact on the pain. You see that the perception, the label you place on the pain, acts like a bridge. Certain perceptions come and they make the anguish flare up. When you can … 
8. Play AudioVictory
    … There is, as the Buddha said, some fabrication going on. You have your ways of shaping this experience and if you’re not paying careful attention to what you’re doing, middle-level management takes over—in other words, your old habits. You can find yourself tensing up over a little pain here and there without even realizing that it’s happening. It’s … 
9. Play AudioA Victory that Matters
    … The social fabric gets torn apart. This is what happens when a narrow view becomes ascendant and demands to be ascendant in every area. It’s not just now that people are challenging the Buddha about the metaphysics of rebirth. Back in his time it was a controversial issue, too. One of the major fallacies that you hear repeatedly is that the Buddha just … 
10. Play AudioThe Origination of Suffering
     … One of the events that leads up to the craving that leads to clinging is the process of fabrication: the breath coming in, going out, your conversation inside, your thoughts, acts of evaluation, perceptions, feelings. Try to see these things simply as “those events” until you get a sense of dispassion for them. That’s how you can get past this dilemma of the … 
11. Play AudioDetermined to Make a Difference
     … As the Buddha said, we fabricate our experience for the sake of happiness. So, there’s always a for the sake of in our experience, but you have to ask yourself, “For the sake of what?” What is your purpose? Fortunately, you get to decide. It’s not the case that there’s an overarching purpose for the universe that you somehow have to … 
12. Play AudioStepping Out of Truth Games
     … Even the Buddha’s analysis of what’s going on here in terms of fabrication and becoming: these are conventions, too. There’s only one thing that’s not a convention, and that’s release. So while we’re working at the practice, we’re moving from one set of conventions to another set, a more useful set, but it’s good while you … 
13. Play AudioStay
     … There are times, as the Buddha says, to exert a fabrication, and there are times to just watch. So if you’re going to tell this dog to stay, you also have to teach it how to stay relaxed around the spot where it’s staying, and how not to let it get caught up in any of the urges that may suddenly bubble … 
14. Play AudioThe Story behind Impatience
     … That’s what the whole fabric of our experience of time and space comes from: the constant input coming from intention. And the Buddha’s insight was that if you look at where the new input is coming from, you’ll see the way out. And where are you going to see that new input? Right here, right at the intentions in the present … 
15. Play AudioInconstancy
    One of the basic principles of insight or clear seeing is that all compounded or all fabricated things are inconstant. They don’t last. They waiver. They change. And as someone once said, So what else is new? Things change. And if that’s all there was to the Buddha’s insight, there wouldn’t be much to it. But it goes deeper than … 
16. Play AudioA Decent Education
     … It doesn’t have to be fabricated. It doesn’t have to be protected. It’s there, and it will always be there for you to tap into when you really need it. So finding that oil is the most important skill you can develop. This gives the most satisfying narrative to your life. The narrative of most people’s lives is — what? They … 
17. Play AudioMeaningful Freedom
     … After all, it, too, is fabricated. It, too, is made out of aggregates. These aggregates give you some resistance, but they also open some opportunities. Think of the principle of causality that the Buddha taught. In some cases, the effects arise together with the causes, and they disappear when the causes disappear. In other cases, if the cause comes, the effect can come later … 
18. Play AudioSigns Along the Road
     … Then you calm bodily fabrication. You want to get the body to be really still. You don’t tamp it down but you do want to have a sense of the whole body having whatever breath it needs. Simply through the stillness of the mind, the breath-needs grow more and more gentle over time until you’re fully aware of the whole body … 
19. Play AudioBreath Meditation: Four Sets of Tools
     … You get sensitive to what you’re doing, the process that the Buddha calls fabrication, how you shape your experience right now. Then you energize it and then you try to calm it down. Now, if you’re having trouble staying with the breath, maybe the problem isn’t the breath so much itself. After all it’s coming in and going out all … 
20. Play AudioSense Restraint
     … When the Buddha says that all fabricated things are inconstant, stressful, and not-self—it’s true. But then they have their constant side, their pleasant side, and their aspect that’s under your control. Those three perceptions don’t cover everything. They apply to everything but they don’t encompass the total nature of things. No perception can. So you have to ask … 
21. Play AudioHeedful of Death
     … It’s in those gaps of alertness that the actual machinations of fabrication are going on, so those are precisely the things you want to see. As soon as you realize you’ve slipped off the breath, come right back. You learn several things. You’ll learn how the mind slips off and what it’s doing in the middle of the time when … 
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