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  2. Living Forward, Understanding Backward
     … As the Buddha once said, our emotions are a fabrication. They’re created in the mind. They’re not necessarily a given. What are they made out of? Physically, they’re affected by the breath. Inside the mind, they are affected by the kind of conversations the mind has with itself, and also by feelings of pleasure and pain, neither pleasure nor pain, and … 
  3. The First Noble Truth
     … We latch onto things like form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness as being us or ours. Or we latch onto the idea that they have to be this way or that way. And not only do we latch on. We feed on these things. That’s actually one of the meanings of the word for clinging, upadana: feeding. We try to get our nourishment … 
  4. Two Kinds of Cross-Questioning
     … When he says to train yourself to calm bodily fabrication, which is the breath coming in and out, how do you do that so that it’s comfortable and you’re not just clamping down or starving yourself of breath energy? So even in the instructions there are questions. But they’re a session of guided questions on how to start exploring what’s … 
  5. Values
     … When there are no more defilements, you can let go of the path, which is composed just of activities, because you’ve found something that’s not an activity, something that’s not fabricated. That’s what we’re working on. But you can’t clone the unfabricated. You’ve got to do the work. You’ve got to develop the factors that give … 
  6. The Need for Right View
     … something that’s not fabricated. As Ajaan Lee said, it’s even beyond right view or wrong view at that point. But to get there, you have to drop wrong views and develop right views, as he says, until they’re like a fruit that’s ripened: ready to just fall from the tree. As I’ve said many times, you can’t get … 
  7. Sensitive in Seven Ways
     … You look at pains and pleasures as part of a causal fabric—and not in terms of whether you like them or not. You say, “If I indulge in this pleasure, where does it lead? If I indulge in that pain, where does it lead? Or if I inflict this pain on myself, where does it lead?” These are the things you have to … 
  8. A Good Buddhist Ego
     … You ask yourself if the breath is comfortable or not, and if it’s not comfortable, what can be done to improve it? If it is comfortable, what can be done to maintain it? That’s the aggregate of fabrication. And then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. So you’re taking these aggregates and you’re turning them into … 
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