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  2. Right View
     … The aggregates of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness come in a potential form and then—based on which things we’re interested in, which things we want to create, which things we want to destroy—we actually create our experience of the present out of these different potentials. So we need to do a lot of digging down into our experience of the … 
  3. An Auspicious Day
     … You have to remember to look at these feelings as events, as part of a causal process, realising that you’re doing a lot of the fabricating. Pains don’t just happen; pleasures don’t just happen. An element of intention goes into them. And you have to remember that, so that if you see that unskilful fascination with a particular kind of pain … 
  4. Faith in the Buddha’s Awakening
     … There’s an element of intention in how you experience form, feeling, perception, the process of fabrication, and your sensory consciousness. So it’s not just that you’re experiencing a given that’s been provided by the past, you’re actually shaping it here and now. On top of that, it’s possible to shape it in such a way that there is … 
  5. Stepping Out of Yourself
     … Your emotions are sankharas, fabrications—thoughts that get into the body. They feel especially real because they have a bodily presence. One of the reasons we work with the breath is to burst through some of the constraints that our emotions place on the body. And also to give us a handle. When a particular emotion comes up, when you feel that it’s … 
  6. The Power of Truth
     … You start with strong concentration and you develop insight by looking into the concentrated state, analyzing it in terms of the five aggregates, or simply the fact that it’s constructed, fabricated. Even to get into that concentrated state, he also said that you need not only some tranquility but also some insight. If you don’t understand the workings of your mind, it … 
  7. Asalha Puja
     … the form of your body, your feelings, your perceptions, mental fabrications, or consciousness. The fact that we cling there: That’s the suffering. The third level of knowledge is when you know that you’ve completed the duty: In this case, you’ve comprehended the suffering *fully. *Now, that level of knowledge doesn’t come until you’ve completed the duties for the other … 
  8. The Prison Break
     … This is what the Buddha means by the stilling of bodily fabrication. The mind gets really, really still and very content. The body is still. The breath is still. And you can stay there. That’s when you can see events in the mind clearly, because that’s what we’re here for: to see the movements of the mind. To make sure that … 
  9. A Noble Path
     … The path is something fabricated. The goal is unfabricated. The path doesn’t cause the goal. It takes you there. The traditional image is of a road leading to a mountain. The road doesn’t cause the mountain, and the road doesn’t look like the mountain at all. And the road doesn’t take you there. You have to follow the road. It … 
  10. A Larger Perspective
     … You fabricate thoughts. You’re conscious. You’re aware of having a body from the inside. It’s useful to have this vocabulary to help you sense what’s going on, to give you a handle on depersonalizing it, to see it in line with those larger patterns. When the Buddha created a catechism, a series of questions for teaching basic Dhamma concepts—“What … 
  11. The Prison Break
     … concentration based on desire, and the fabrications of the right effort. The brahman said, “Well, in that case, it’s going to be impossible. How can you use desire to put an end to desire?” And Ananda said, “I’ll ask you some questions. Before you came to this park, did you want to come?” “Yes.” “Now that you’re here, where is the … 
  12. A Private Matter
     … The breath is a fabrication, which means that there’s an intentional element in the way you breathe. You want to be very sensitive to that, to what you’re adding to the breathing process. Try to do it skillfully. As long as you’re going to add an intentional element, add something good. Your relation to the breath is something very intimate, very … 
  13. What You Don’t Like About Yourself
     … And we’re constantly having to fabricate it anew, because each present moment just dies away, dies away, and you have to keep replacing it. And so in the rush to replace things, sometimes we grab onto some bad raw materials from our past karma and we have some knee jerk reactions, some old habits—the way we put things together that cause a … 
  14. Rebirth & Not-Self
     … The directed thought and evaluation are fabrication. Then you’ve got consciousness, which is aware of all these things. Consciousness, of course, is part of the consciousness aggregate. So you’re engaged in these aggregate-activities. You’re still holding on. As the Buddha said, there will be sense of “I am” all the way up through non-return. So make use of that … 
  15. Instructions for a New Monk
     … They are fabrications: They’re things you intend to do. But they can take you to something that’s beyond them. It’s like the road going to the Grand Canyon or the act of going to the Grand Canyon. The act of going to the Grand Canyon doesn’t cause the Grand Canyon to be, but it gets you there. This is why … 
  16. Fears
     … form, feeling, perceptions, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. You look to see where these things are inconstant. Where they’re inconstant, you realize they’re stressful. There’s stress right there in the inconstancy. Then when you look at stress, look at suffering — although at this level it’s more stress than suffering — you ask yourself, “What am I doing to cause that stress, to … 
  17. Motivation
     … We want to get to a state that’s unfabricated, but we really do have to fabricated strong intentions and strong desires to get there. Desire is one of the elements of right effort. The formula for right effort always starts out with the phrase, “generating desire.” Desire is the also the first of the bases for success or the bases for power: concentration … 
  18. Hope
     … All of these things have an element of fabrication. There’s an element of doing, an element of intention in all of these things. And we tend to miss that, which is why we miss the point where we can make a difference. So always keep that in mind. Your feelings have an element of doing, an element of intention. Your perceptions have an … 
  19. Strength Training
     … You create feelings of ease of the breath, you perceive the breath energy as filling the body, you direct your thoughts and evaluate the breath —that’s fabrication—and you’re aware of all this. You’re taking these five aggregates and turning them into the path. That’s what you learn when you start reading the Buddha’s teachings. It opens your awareness … 
  20. To the Far Shore
     … His brother asked him, “All those years you’d been spending as a monk, what did you learn?” The monk said, “Everything changes.” And the brother said, “Duh, of course.” Yet the teaching that everything changes—everything fabricated, everything put together, is impermanent, inconstant: It is an important teaching. The question is, why is it important? To see how it’s important, you have … 
  21. Hold on for All You’re Worth
     … Once you’ve done that, you’ve learned everything you need to know about how the mind fabricates and shapes its experience. You’ve learned how to shape it into something that’s still and good at the same time, so you can watch it carefully—something right up close, so you can see all the processes as they’re happening. This is how … 
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