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- In Memory of King Rama IX… Does this person have the kind of greed, aversion, and delusion that would make him or her claim knowledge of things that he or she did not know? Or would this person try to get someone else to do things that were not in that other person’s best interest? So you watch carefully. As the Buddha said, it takes time and sensitivity, powers …
- Learning & Respect… When the time comes to meditate, the Buddha says, “Keep track of the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, and mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” He repeats the same formula for feelings, mind, and mental qualities. And as he describes it, we’re not just thinking. We are thinking, but we’re also being aware of what …
- Imperturbable… These things burn away at the mind as long as there’s greed, aversion, and delusion. Until you take care of the greed, aversion, and delusion, your thoughts of past and future tend to do nothing more than add more fuel to the fire. Then you can remind yourself with the chants on the brahma-viharas, that you do really want true happiness, a …
- The Best Use of Your Time… You get thinking about greed or lust or anger, and they end up causing you to do all kinds of things that you later regret. So remind yourself that you’ve got better things to do with your time. The way you let the mind go, the things that you return to again and again, create ruts in the mind. Those neural pathways get …
- A Healthy Ego… They’ll say, “If you don’t give in now, it’s just going to get worse and worse and worse and worse and you’re going to explode!” And you say “Nope.” You don’t believe the picture that your greed, aversion, and delusion like to paint about themselves. But in saying No, you need to have some alternative source of happiness. This …
- The Evening News… The news you see in the media is the same old stuff over and over again—greed, anger, and delusion—or as in that cartoon that appeared in a magazine one time: a magazine stand, and the names of the magazines were the seven deadly sins. And that’s true not just in the cartoon: There are the greed magazines, there are passion magazines …
- Self Esteem… The problem is when fear is conjoined with greed, anger, and delusion. The greed, anger, and delusion are what create the problem. Fear in and of itself can often be skillful. After all, a lot of the Buddha’s teachings are based on the very rational fear of the suffering that comes with aging, illness and death. There’s the word, “ottappa,” which means …
- Reclaiming the Breath… Mindfulness is what reminds you that this is what you should be doing—staying here right now, giving the mind a comfortable place to stay, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any other thoughts that interfere with the breath that would make you want to see the body in the context of the world outside or in the context of …
- Rhythms of the Mind… keep focused on the body in and of itself—in this case, the breath—ardent, alert, mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Just do that again and again and again. And focus on two things. One, try to be as sensitive as you can to what you’re doing and the results you’re getting. And two, try to …
- Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge… Who’s doing the looking? And what qualities of the mind are being nurtured by the way you look? Is lust doing the looking? Is anger doing the looking? Greed? Jealousy? Resentment? If so, that’s going to inflame these qualities in the mind. Your choice of what you look at and how you look at it—and this principle applies to all the …
- Protection Through the Practice… So you have to train your mind to free it from the greed, aversion, and delusion that would allow it to be easily influenced by other people’s unskillful ideas. Here again, the protection has to lie inside. You start off by trying to find wise people to give you an idea of how to deal with your own inner dangers. Then you carry …
- Quick on the Draw… But exactly which part of your nature are you going to trust? Are you going to trust the greed, the anger, or the delusion? Because they’re in there, too. Fortunately, they’re not embedded in our nature, but they are qualities we have developed over time. And they have their reasons. They have their arguments. They have their ways of luring you into …
- Grace & Dignity… We have greed, aversion, and delusion, and there are parts of our minds that really like greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s a danger. As the Buddha once said, the mind is capable of almost anything. Think of all the animals in the animal kingdom—all the different shapes and sizes and classifications. He said the mind is more variegated than that. The mind …
- Habits of Perception… In the Buddha’s words, you abandon greed and distress with reference to the world — the world here being the world of the senses. Only when you abandon greed and distress with reference to these things can you look at how they’re directly experienced. See how sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations are experienced right here in the present moment, in and …
- Choosing Freedom… In that description of establishing mindfulness where the Buddha says that you “subdue greed and distress with reference to the world,” or that you “put away greed and distress with reference to the world,” the “world” here means all your six senses. So whatever issues you have with the world out there, or the issues you have with anything that’s happening in the …
- Feelings Not of the Flesh… He gives the formula for right mindfulness—keeping track of the body in and of itself, ardent, alert, mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. And then the same formula for feelings, mind-states, mental qualities. But the questions he asks and answers in the sutta deal only with a small part of that formula: What does it mean to …
- Training the Whole Mind… When greed, anger, and delusion come into the mind, they usually barge in with a lot of force and expect to push you right over. So one thing you have to do is to ask, “Well, why? Why should we follow that? Why should we want instant gratification?” And there will be an “of course-ness” to their answer the first time around. “Of …
- Everything Comes Together Right Here… Which means that we’re putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any thoughts about the world outside, just put them aside right now. They don’t belong here. You just want that sensation. Thoughts of sensuality, thoughts of anger, thoughts of whatever: Think of them as being like clouds. They can come by and they can go away. They don …
- Driving Lessons… keeping track of the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That describes two activities, and three qualities of mind you bring to them. The two activities are, on the one hand, having a topic that you stay with: You keep track of the body in and of itself—which means the body …
- One Thing Clear Through… When you see yourself clearly this way, then your greed, aversion, and delusion get weaker and you’re releasing less greed and aversion and delusion out to disturb the neighborhood. Finally, when you get really clear on what’s going on in the mind, really clear on how you’re constructing your present moment—each present moment—you arrive at something that’s totally …
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