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  2. How & Why We Meditate
     … Then you can use those same fabrications to deal with whatever else comes up in the mind. For the time being, you don’t want to get too involved in analyzing any distracting thoughts. Work on using these three types of fabrication to make your concentration as solid as you can. After a while, though, as you get skilled at these types of fabrication … 
  3. Dignity in the Face of Hardship
     … The choice to train the mind so that it keeps its processes of fabrication headed in the right direction is something that we can always do. We can always fabricate a comfortable breath. We can fabricate our inner conversation around the breath. We can fabricate the perceptions that we bring to the meditation. When we learn these skills in the meditation, we can apply … 
  4. Clinging & Its Cure
    One of the methods that the Buddha recommends when dealing with distracting thoughts is the relaxation of fabrications. What that comes down to is that you notice how, when a thought comes into the mind and it grabs your attention, there’s going to be a little pattern of tension someplace in the body that’s your marker for keeping that thought in mind … 
  5. Fabrication
     … These are types of fabrication, of course, but they’re the type of fabrication that keeps you within this frame of reference: the very absolute present. They don’t distract you into other levels where you lose touch with the basic building blocks in the process of fabrication. This is a basic pattern throughout the Buddha’s teachings: Before you let go of things … 
  6. When the Mind Is Still
     … All fabrications are inconstant. All fabrications are stressful. All dhammas are not self.” But we’re not here just to affirm that “Yeah, what the Buddha said is true.” As he noted, fabrications have their pleasant side. If they weren’t pleasant, we wouldn’t fall for them, we wouldn’t have passion for them. But if you focus on their pleasant side, that … 
  7. Beyond Duality
     … For example, mental fabrication: You contemplate mental fabrication paired up with stress to see the connection between them, to see how the process of fabrication does lead to more stress, and then to see what you can do to let go or stop that process of fabrication. See what happens to the stress then. You can do the same thing with consciousness, contact, feeling … 
  8. Becoming
     … There’s an element of fabrication in mindfulness; there’s even an element of fabrication in equanimity. But unless you learn consciously how to fabricate mindfulness and equanimity for long periods of time and then how to observe them, you won’t notice this. This is why you have to build up these states of concentration before you can start taking them apart. There … 
  9. Karma in the Present
     … When we meditate, we try to get quiet so that we can see these intentions and bring more knowledge to them, because if you fabricate these things out of ignorance you’re going to suffer; if you bring skill and awareness to the process of fabricating these things, that turns them into a path, the path to the end of suffering. So fabrication: What … 
  10. The Skill of Letting Go
     … That’s when you have to dig it out by using bodily fabrication—the way you breathe; verbal fabrication—the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication—skillful perceptions, such as the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, not self. When you really see that it’s not worth it, and the desire you had for the allure just withers away, that’s when you … 
  11. Shelter
     … The first is desire—desire accompanied by the fabrications of exertion. Persistence accompanied by the fabrications of exertion: You find out that the fabrications of exertion actually have to do with persistence and effort. Then there’s intent, accompanied by the fabrications of exertion. And then there’s using your powers of analysis, again, accompanied by those fabrications of exertion. These are the things … 
  12. Square One
     … The three ways in which you fabricate these things are, one, bodily fabrication, which is the in-and-out breathing, the topic of the meditation. You focus on knowing, “Now the breath is coming in; now the breath is going out.” And you notice the quality of the breath. This involves the next type of fabrication, which is verbal fabrication, what the Buddha calls … 
  13. The Four Noble Truths from Within
     … The Buddha calls that fabrication. One of his important insights is that if you do this fabrication in ignorance, you’re going to suffer. But if you learn how to do it with knowledge, specifically knowledge of the four noble truths, you can take that process of fabrication and turn it into a path that leads to an experience totally unfabricated. That’s the … 
  14. Training Your Intentions
    One of the features of the Buddha’s teachings on the aggregates that makes you stop and think is the role of fabrication. On the one hand, fabrication—which the Buddha defines as intention—is one of the aggregates: basically, your intention is to fabricate thoughts. You start with perceptions of things, feelings about things, and then you make comments on them. Of course … 
  15. Generosity of Spirit
     … It comes down to those three fabrications that the Buddha talks about so much. Right after ignorance in dependent co-arising, there are the three fabrications. You’ve got the breath, that’s your bodily fabrication; you’ve got directed thought and evaluation, verbal fabrication, and your feelings and perceptions are mental fabrication. For the most part, as we go through life—especially if … 
  16. Endurance & Contentment
     … As you know, the Buddha’s analysis is that through ignorance we fabricate bodily, verbal, and mental fabrications in ways that cause suffering. So we have to bring some knowledge to the process, so that we can turn these fabrications into the path to the end of suffering. And the “knowledge” here is the knowledge of a skill: knowing how to breathe, knowing how … 
  17. Sensitive to Fabrication
     … In his explanations for the steps that lead up to craving and then from craving into suffering, there’s something called fabrication. What’s interesting about fabrication is that it comes before your consciousness. It’s how you prime yourself to sense things. If you’re ignorant of this fabrication, your consciousness can lead to all the other links in the process leading to … 
  18. Rehab Work
     … In the Buddha’s analysis of causation, he talks about how ignorance has an impact on the process of fabrication, and the three types of fabrication—bodily, verbal, and mental—then have an impact on how we receive input through the senses. One of the ways we fabricate our experience is through the way we breathe. That’s called bodily fabrication. When we breathe … 
  19. The Reality of Emotions
     … What you are going to do with them? What use can you get out of them? What’s the wisest thing to do with them? In this way, instead of getting waylaid by the fact that feelings are fabricated and questionable, you focus on the fact that you can fabricate them with discernment, with knowledge. As the Buddha points out, fabricated feelings are often … 
  20. Fabricating against Defilement
     … If they keep coming back it means you have to actually apply serious effort, what he calls “exerting a fabrication.” It’s a technical term. Fabrication is of three kinds: bodily, verbal, and mental. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Exerting the breath against an unskillful mental state means checking to see how that mental state has had an effect on the body, and how … 
  21. Mud Houses
     … No matter how good it gets, you never really arrive anywhere with the aggregates, because they’re all fabricated processes. The nature of fabrication is that it’s done for the sake of something. It’s moving toward something. When it arrives, it arrives at something that falls apart, so it keeps on moving toward something else and then toward something else. It never … 
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