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  2. Therapy for the Mind
     … After all, it is possible to find in the mind something that’s not fabricated, where there’s no bodily fabrication, no verbal fabrication, no mental fabrication. But to see that, you’ve got to clear the fabrications away. And what do you use to clear them away? You use fabrication, the fabrications of the path. As you clear fabrications away, you find something … 
  3. Sensitive to Stress
     … And usually what you did has to do with a perception or some little fabrication in the mind, so you want to be sensitive to that. It’s in this way that learning the different levels of concentration can be really useful for seeing how the mind fabricates things. Sensual thoughts fall away in the first jhana. Verbal fabrication falls away in the second … 
  4. Appreciating Dispassion
    Our minds are so used to the process of fabrication that to encounter something unfabricated sounds kind of scary, because we don’t know what to do with it. We know how to breathe, we know how to talk to ourselves, we know how to develop perceptions and feelings to adjust the world we live in, to adjust our experience of the world we … 
  5. Samatha, Vipassanā, Jhāna
     … You’re dealing with form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness. If the mind is willing to settle down, you don’t have to think about those things. Just give it one thing to think about, and your perceptions and thought fabrications will center on that, revolve around that, without your having to identify what they are. After all, we’re not here to think … 
  6. The Power of Human Effort
     … How can you maximize the pleasure by the way you focus on the breath, by the way you breathe? All of these things are issues of fabrication. As the Buddha said, we suffer because we fabricate our experience—but not out of whole cloth. We fabricate it out of potentials that come from our past karma, yet our present actions play a huge role … 
  7. The Use of the Present
     … And we can fabricate those thoughts into all kinds of worlds. So the solution is to take these things apart and then learn how to fabricate them in good ways. Fabricate the breath. Fabricate your feelings into a state of concentration. Fabricate your thoughts into questions you might ask about where the stress is: What can you do to understand it? What can you … 
  8. Investing Your Happiness
     … As the Buddha said, the noble path is fabricated. It’s the highest fabrication of all. So when we know it’s fabricated, we should do it mindfully, with a sense of alertness to what we’re doing and to the results we’re getting. This is what makes it a skill. And we see the results not only in the immediate present, but … 
  9. Perceptions for Training the Mind
    In the Buddha’s analysis of the causes of suffering and stress, fabrication comes right after ignorance, the message being that if you fabricate in ignorance, you’re going to suffer. But if you fabricate with knowledge, it becomes the path—and that’s what we’re doing as we sit here and meditate. We’re learning how to fabricate with knowledge. We reflect … 
  10. Calm & Insight into Pain
     … That’s verbal fabrication—in technical terms, directed thought and evaluation. You direct your thoughts to the breath and your perceptions, and you evaluate how well they’re calming things down. So you’ve got three kinds of fabrication—bodily, verbal, and mental—and in each case you’re trying to calm them down. To see things in terms of fabrication, that’s insight … 
  11. How Much Concentration Is Enough?
     … Feeling feels, perception perceives, fabrications fabricate, and consciousness cognizes. Even form, the Buddha says, is a type of activity: It’s constantly de-forming. All of these things are present right here. The form, of course, is the breath. The feeling is the sense of ease you try to create with the breath—and you learn a lot about creating feelings. Feelings don’t … 
  12. Things that Arise & Pass Away
     … One of the really radical premises he has you take on as you practice is that if you sense any change—any arising, passing away or, while something is subsisting, any change in that thing—then it’s a sign of fabrication. Fabrication is another word for intention. There’s an element of your intention in that experience. The Buddha’s concerned with not … 
  13. At Home in Jhana
     … The mind has a habit of fabricating things, so have it fabricate right concentration. You’ve got the breath, which is bodily fabrication. You’ve got directed thought and evaluation, which are verbal fabrication. And you’ve got feelings and labels or perceptions, which are mental fabrications. So instead of fabricating worlds outside, thought worlds that can go who knows where, you fix up … 
  14. Jhāna & Discernment
     … It’s called fabrication, or saṅkhāra in Pali. The Buddha wants you to see the extent to which the present moment is not just a given—it’s something you put together through the processes of fabrication. You put it together, one, by the way you breathe. That’s called bodily fabrication. Two, verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself. You choose a … 
  15. The Brahmaviharas on the Path
     … As the Buddha said, you fabricate your emotions through three kinds of fabrication: physical, verbal, and mental. The breath counts as physical fabrication. Directed thought and evaluation count as verbal fabrication. And feelings and perceptions count as mental fabrication. The breath is what actually takes an emotion and makes it real in the body. So a good way to start with the brahmaviharas is … 
  16. The Role of the Observer
     … You’ve got a battle going on in the mind, and that’s the area where the Buddha says that you have to “exert a fabrication.” Now, we know the different kinds of fabrication. There’s the breath, which is bodily fabrication; directed thought and evaluation, when you set a topic in mind and then think about it, ask questions, make comments—that’s … 
  17. Seeing Through Your Defilements
     … That, as the Buddha said, is when you have to exert a fabrication. In other words, you have to work with those unskillful thoughts, using the processes of fabrication. The word “fabrication” here, sankhara, refers to three things. The first, bodily fabrication, is the breath. The way you breathe around certain defilements keeps them going. When anger comes, you breathe in a certain way … 
  18. On the Path of the Breath
     … On the inner level, he said to notice what things can provide what level of happiness, and to see how far you can push this process of fabrication. Because that’s what you’re doing as you breathe in this way: You’re exploring the potentials for bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication to see how far they can go. Once you’ve … 
  19. Not Getting What You Want
     … Those are the ones that will sprout first—and the act of paying attention is part of what the Buddha calls fabrication. We take these potentials and we turn them into a present-moment experience. Fabrication has three types: There’s bodily fabrication, which is your in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication, which the Buddha defines as directed thought and evaluation. This is basically … 
  20. Lessons from Jhana
     … The fact that you’ve arrived at the dimension of nothingness having gone through those stages, taking them apart, primes you to see things in terms of the different kinds of fabrication: the aggregates or the types of fabrication listed in dependent co-arising. Whereas the two other ways that you can get into the dimension of nothingness are simply by repeating a mantra … 
  21. What Are You Taking into the Future?
     … This comes from the process of fabrication. In the Buddha’s analysis of suffering, fabrication comes before your awareness of the six senses. So even before sensory contact comes, there’s a fabricated thought or a process of fabrication that wants things to go in a certain direction, that has a purpose. The Buddha talks about how the mind fabricates form for the sake … 
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