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2. Play AudioStilling Mental Fabrication
3. Play AudioHappiness, Fabricated & Not
4. Play AudioFabricating the Path
5. 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 … 
6. Play AudioAsking the Right Questions
    … The breath itself is a type of fabrication. Your directed thought and evaluation are verbal fabrication. The feelings of pleasure and the perceptions you hold in mind about the breath: Those are mental fabrications. The questions about discernment concern how to view fabrications in a way that gives rise to dispassion. Of course, this doesn’t mean just trying to drop them immediately as … 
7. Play AudioThe Committee of Fabrications
8. Play AudioFabricating the Breath (outside)
9. Play AudioFabricating the Path (outside)
10. Play AudioFabrications of Exertion (2)
11. Play AudioFabricated Path, Unfabricated Goal
12. Play AudioThe Path of Mistakes
     … Ultimately the practice leads to the total end of fabrication, but the noble eightfold path is a type of fabrication. As the Buddha once said, it’s the ultimate level of fabrication. In fact when you look at the factors of the path you realize that they’re made up of the aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness. These all have to play a … 
13. Play AudioThree Kinds of Fabrication (outdoors)
14. Play AudioFabrications of Exertion (1) (outdoors)
15. Play AudioThe Buddha's Fabrications (outdoors)
16. Play AudioPermission to Play
     … a kind of fabrication. Every factor of the noble eightfold path, from right view through right concentration, is something put together. It’s a fabrication. It’s something you will through bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication: i.e., through the breath, through directed thought and evaluation, and through feeling and perception. But to will skillfully, you have to bring these fabrications together … 
17. Play AudioLean into the Present
     … The Buddha talks about the aggregates as all being shaped by fabrication. We fabricate the sense of the body for the sake of having a sense of the body because we want to do something with a body. We fabricate feelings because we want feelings. The same with perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness: We do this for the sake of something, but all too often … 
18. Play AudioUnderstanding Aggregates
     … The purpose of analyzing these things in this way is so that you can develop that sense of distaste, because from distaste there’s dispassion for the passion that fueled the fabrication of these things to begin with. When there’s no passion, then the fabrications cease. From the cessation of fabrications, there’s release. When you put down everything—worldly conventions, Buddha conventions … 
19. Play AudioShoot Your Pains with Wisdom
     … As you develop skill in this process of fabricating your experience, you gain more insight into the role that fabrication plays in your life as a whole. You’re in a better position to decide how to fabricate things: which areas are worth getting involved in, which ones are not. Learn how to fabricate good states in the mind—the pleasure, the rapture of … 
20. Play AudioStrategic Thinking
     … For instance, in concentration, there are three kinds of fabrication involved. The in-and-out breath is called bodily fabrication. Your directed thoughts and evaluation around the breath, when you keep reminding yourself to think about the breath and then make comments on the breath: That’s called verbal fabrication, because that’s how we create sentences in the mind. Finally, feelings of pleasure … 
21. Play AudioSensitivity & Skill
     … That encourages you to look for a better sense of well-being, something that’s not fabricated. Concentration is about as good as you can get with fabrication. The best bodily fabrication, the best verbal fabrication, the best mental fabrication: They’re all right here in concentration. But concentration is only as good as fabrication can be, and fabrication still has its drawbacks. It … 
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