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  2. Clinging-Aggregates in Context
     … All that is part of fabrication. And then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. The Buddha says we cling to these activities—after all, the aggregates are activities. There’s one spot where the Buddha defines them as verbs. Even form, he says, deforms. It’s constantly changing. Feeling feels, perception perceives, fabrication fabricates, consciousness cognizes. These are the activities … 
  3. A Path of Aggregates
     … Then there’s fabrication. Fabrication, here, covers all the activities that go into finding the food and fixing it when it needs to be fixed. Say you get a raw potato. You can’t eat a raw potato, but you can fix it so that you can. Fabrication covers all the intentional actions that go around making the food edible. Then there’s consciousness … 
  4. What You Sense Directly
     … In some passages, when he’s talking about the kind of kamma that leads to rebirth, he calls them bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. But there are also passages in the Canon that talk about bodily, verbal, and mental fabrication in terms of what you experience as you meditate. Bodily fabrication is the breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, as … 
  5. For the Sake of the Deathless
     … The Buddha’s question was, can you fabricate in such a way that you arrive at a happiness that doesn’t disappoint, that’s not going to change? At first blush, it sounds contradictory. If you try to fabricate a happiness that doesn’t change, that’s impossible because our fabrications all change. But what he discovered was that we fabricate a path. We … 
  6. Skillful Effort
     … But if we learn how to do those fabrications with knowledge, that leads to the end of suffering. These are our tools. So what are the tools? There are three altogether. There’s bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication is the in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation. Mental fabrication is feeling and perception. These are tools … 
  7. Protecting Yourself Against Yourself
     … What is the mind doing that shapes your experience of the body? What is it doing that shapes your speech, shapes the states of your mind? There are three kinds of fabrication: bodily, verbal, mental. Bodily fabrication is the factor that fabricates the body, which is the breath; the factors that fabricate speech are directed thought and evaluation; and the factors that fabricate the … 
  8. The Breath Soufflé
     … In creating this and maintaining it, you learn a lot about the mind’s habits of fabrication because you’re engaged in all three forms of fabrication. There’s physical fabrication, which is the effect of the breath on the body; verbal fabrication, what you talk to yourself about; and then mental fabrication, the feelings you create through the breathing, through your attention to … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. Turn Off the Automatic Pilot
     … You’re going in to find out what is it inside the mind that keeps pushing you to shape this, shape that, fabricate this, fabricate that. If you learn how to fabricate things well, it has a good impact inside, outside—it has a good impact all around. This is why the practice of meditation is said to be meritorious. We don’t usually … 
  11. Feeding on the Breath
     … Learn how to fabricate good things to feed on inside instead. This is why the Buddha never taught bare awareness. He taught that the mind is constantly fabricating, so learn how to fabricate good things. The only thing that’s not fabricated is nibbana. Until you reach that point in your practice, you’re going to be fabricating, so learn how to be conscious … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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