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  2. Respect, Confidence, & Patience
     … There are classical lists of topics for recollection when you find that you’re frustrated, when there’s aversion, lust, fear, anxiety. There are specific topics you can think about. You can think about the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha to develop a sense of confidence, to overcome any sense of aversion you may have either to your meditation object or to yourself … 
  3. Good at Thinking
     … On a deeper level, passion, aversion, and delusion: These are the qualities of the mind that cause you to do unskillful things. But there are also times in the mind when there’s no passion, no aversion, no delusion—everything is very clear. And in times like that, you tend to act in skillful ways. So it’s not an issue of, “You are … 
  4. Putting Out the Fires
     … The first thing that struck him was that people’s minds are on fire—on fire with greed, aversion, delusion, lust, fear. These things are constantly smoldering away in the mind and then they flare up. This is why one of the images of the goal that he teaches, nibbana, actually means is the extinguishing of fires. Back in those days, there was the … 
  5. Clinging-Aggregates in Context
     … And comprehension is defined as developing lack of passion, lack of aversion, lack of delusion for them. In other words, you’re not passionate about identifying with them, but at the same time you don’t hate them. The Buddha’s not telling you to hate yourself. And h certainly doesn’t want you to be deluded about them. He simply wants you to … 
  6. In Alignment
     … What you want is the Buddha’s middle, and it may be a little bit hard to get used to if we’ve broken precepts in the past, or if our life is involved in a lot in greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s like any process where, say, you try to get your body into alignment. You go for a treatment, and the … 
  7. A Healthy Ego
     … Greed aversion, delusion, and sensual craving: These are the things that push you away, and they’re the ones you have to learn how to overcome. But at the same time, you also learn how to promote the desires that would lead to true happiness. So the function of your ego is to learn how to negotiate between this whole set of desires and … 
  8. The Lessons of Good Kamma
     … It gives you practice in overcoming your greed, your aversion, and all the other unskillful attitudes that would get in the way of being generous and freely giving something away. You’ve lifted yourself above your defilements, and it was a free choice. This is why there are lots of rules for the monks around how they treat the generosity of lay people. Monks … 
  9. The Equanimity of a Victor
     … As he said, it’s “the unexcelled victory in battle.” We’re doing battle with our defilements, battle with our misunderstandings about what happiness is, our misunderstandings about what suffering is, battle with our greed, aversion, and delusion—which means that there’s work to be done. It’s in this context that we develop equanimity: the equanimity of a searcher, the equanimity of … 
  10. Protection Through Mindfulness Practice
     … This is how these three qualities keep spinning around the mind and the body, working to give you the protection you need from things like lust, aversion, delusion, greed—all the unskillful things that come welling up inside, that you’ve been so good at creating and that create so many dangers for yourself. This is why, when Ajaan Lee was writing about the … 
  11. Dedicating Merit
     … If you have less greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind, you’re not the only one who’s going to benefit. Other people will benefit from the fact that they’re not the victims of your greed, aversion, and delusion anymore. The second way is when you’re more deliberate and conscious of what you’re doing to spread that goodness to others … 
  12. For Your Benefit Here & Now
     … The voices that are on the side of greed, aversion, and delusion don’t advertise themselves as greed, aversion, and delusion’s henchmen, but they are. You have to learn how to recognize them. Ajaan Suwat used to say that our problem is that we see pain as our enemy and craving as our friend. It’s actually the other way around. If you … 
  13. Undomesticated Happiness
     … It’s when you get them to break the precepts, get them to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion in their minds. You avoid that. You help yourself by observing the precepts and getting rid of greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind. That’s how far our responsibilities go. When we try to extend them beyond that, it all gets very vague … 
  14. Blessings
     … You want to see where it is in the thoughts where they hook you—especially things like greed, aversion, delusion, fear, grief, or jealousy: When they hook you, why do you go with them? What’s the appeal? And if you go with them, what are the results? The Buddha himself said that he got on the right path to awakening when he learned … 
  15. Antidotes for Narcissism
     … If we can get to the point where we have less greed, aversion, and delusion, we’re not the only ones benefiting. Other people are suffering less from our greed, aversion, and delusion. If we get to the point where we don’t have to feed at all, it takes a huge burden off of everyone else. So instead of thinking about yourself as … 
  16. The Inner Saboteur
     … not that there’s anybody standing behind us shaking us, but there’s a part of us that’s actually afraid of what would happen if we no longer had any greed, aversion, or delusion. What would happen if we really got good at the practice? What then? There’s a part of us that’s afraid that we would get away, depriving us … 
  17. Creating Your Environment
     … Because if you’re going to be practicing for putting an end to greed, aversion, and delusion, and yet you’re going out there and exciting your greed, aversion, and delusion, it’s like knowing you’ve got to clean up your house and first you go through and trash it. Then you clean it up and then you trash it again and then … 
  18. Selves with Skills
     … If you’re good at anger, good at greed, good at aversion, good at delusion, they’ll be part of the identity you take on. The Buddha wants to teach you that there are other ways of doing things. But the first thing he does is to have you build a better sense of becoming. He talks about what he calls the four bases … 
  19. Turtle Mind
     … It allows you to understand your mind, to get over your delusions, and not be subject to your greed, aversion, and all the other unskilful mental states there are, and yet at the same time not be harmed by the world.
  20. Anupassana
     … Sometimes you see a little bit of greed, a little bit of aversion, and you realize, okay, the insight has been tainted. You’ve latched on to it. Ajaan Lee’s method for dealing with insights as they come like this is to ask yourself: To what extent is it true and to what extent is it false? To what extent is the opposite … 
  21. Simple & Basic
     … And particularly you’ll find that when the defilements come on strong—the opinions that are bound up with greed, anger, and delusion, or passion, aversion, and delusion—they’ll have a tendency to push good things out of their way. And one of the first thing that gets stomped on is any state of stillness in the mind. We think it’s stupid … 
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