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- Toughen & Tenderize the Mind… You also see your own defilements—where your greed, aversion, and delusion come in. The important thing is not to get discouraged; not to get depressed. This is where the other emotion that the Buddha recommends comes in, which is pasada, which is confidence—confidence that there’s a way out, that there’s a solution to the problem. Having this confidence allows you …
- Always in Training… When unpleasant feelings arise in the body, or strange energies arise in the body based on greed, aversion, or delusion, you can breathe through them, just as you breathe through a painful or blocked sensation in the body as you’re here meditating. It may be too much to be aware of the whole body as you’re going through the day, but it …
- Conceit Defanged… You have to remember that we’re each on the path because we have the diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. We’re here treating our diseases. We’re not here in a race. So if you have a virtue of any kind but then use that virtue as a means or the basis for looking down on other people, you’re using the …
- Wearing the Breath… The major issues are greed, aversion, and delusion. There are the hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, torpor and lethargy, restlessness and anxiety, uncertainty. These things happen to everyone. They can come into the mind, and you have to recognize them as hindrances; you don’t identify with them. But how much you want to recognize them to best get rid of them without …
- Two Eyes, Not Just One… They were clearing out their minds as much as possible to sense the animals all around in the same way that you want to sense the animals in your own mind—the animals of greed, aversion and delusion—because they may show up first in just little, tiny hints that there’s something going on. If you’re not really quiet, you’re not …
- The Inner Monitor… As we see all around us, the power of greed, aversion, and delusion can cause all kinds of harm, not the least harm being to the person who gives in to them. Yet when that person has to suffer the consequences of the greed, aversion, and delusion, they’re gone. They’re like unreliable friends. They get you to do something against the law …
- Your Inner Teacher… What we’re doing as we meditate is to put the mind in a good place where it can begin to look at these things for what they are, and not have that immediate aversion that makes you block them out. But this takes time, and you have to be observant. In this way, you begin to know the virtue, the purity, the endurance …
- The Equanimity of a Winner… They tell you to develop equanimity around the fact that you’ve got greed, aversion, and delusion. These emotions come and go, and you learn to be okay with that, and learn to let go of any desire for anything better than this. As Ajaan Lee would say, that’s letting go like a pauper. You don’t have anything and you tell yourself …
- Stay Principled… The second form of bias is the bias that comes from aversion for people you don’t like, people you want to get back at. They’ve wronged you or someone you love, and you want to see them suffer. Here’s a case where, actually, you don’t really have to do anything. If you want to see them suffer, they will suffer …
- Forest Bathing… It’s what your mind can do to itself—what your greed, aversion and delusion can do to you. The causes of suffering, as the Buddha said, come from within. We tend to focus on the pains and hardships that come from people outside, situations outside, the climate, the economy. But as Ajaan Lee once said, “Those are the shadows of real suffering. The …
- The Dhamma Channel… our own greed, aversion, delusion, our own desires, our own craving. We broadcast out, looking for satisfaction for our wants, satisfaction for the needs we have, and it’s just I, I, I like the little traffic cone in the article in The Onion: I, I, I important! I, I, I want this; I, I, I need this. All you hear are the rays …
- In the Light of Karma… But all too often we abdicate that power to somebody else, to greed, aversion, delusion, the voices in the mind that want to just go over old stories: “This person did this to me, that person did this to me, that wasn’t right, that wasn’t right.” We can carry these things for years. Sometimes we’re not even conscious that we’re …
- Gaining the Dhamma Eye… This is why it’s important to find somebody that you really trust, someone whose behavior is inspiring, who you can trust not to make false claims of knowledge on the basis of greed, aversion, or delusion; and someone who can show you the path—because they suggest to you what’s possible in human life. This is why the Buddha once said that …
- Borrowed Goods… You get rid of craving, but with the clinging-aggregates you’ve got to know them, really understand them, to the point where there’s no more passion, no more aversion, no more delusion around them. The delusion is the big problem; you don’t know them well. So how do you get to know them? Think about Ajaan Lee’s comment. He often …
- Best Friends… If you try to get rid of your immature self, that’s usually just an expression of aversion, and you’ve got another very unskillful sense of self hiding behind that. This is a common pattern throughout the practice: You take the things in your mind that are problematic, and you learn to train them—directed thought, evaluation, your sense of self. You train …
- A Full Range of Archery Skills… to recognize when something’s going wrong, to recognize when something’s going right, and not to give in to your greed, aversion, or delusion. That way, you can develop that third skill, which is to pierce great masses. This the Buddha says, corresponds to piercing ignorance, where you really see how you’re causing unnecessary suffering. You see that the problem lies inside …
- A Sense of Direction… Other times your actions are directed by aversion, and that’ll send you off course. Even when it’s obvious that situations are wrong, that people are acting in an unskillful way, if you allow your anger to take over, even though it may seem justified, it can take you off in the wrong direction as well. A third reason for taking a wrong …
- An Island above the Flood… In the same way, thoughts about the world can come into the mind, and if the mind has a lot of greed, aversion, and delusion, if it has all these floods flowing around inside, it can use those thoughts to drown itself. So you’re stepping out of that kind of thinking, taking on a becoming that can fend those things off. Ultimately, you …
- Big Things in Little Things… He saw beings on fire with the flames of passion, aversion, and delusion. He saw beings totally deluded, claiming, as he said, disease to be a self. The Commentary also tells us that every day the Buddha surveyed the world to see who was ready for the teaching on that day. But when we come to meditate, what does he tell us to do …
- Getting Out of Karmic Debt… When you start looking for ways in which you can undercut your lust, undercut your greed, undercut your aversion, undercut your fear, jealousy, all these things, try to see that as a game, as a sport. That’s what will carry you through. So even though you recognize your debts, it doesn’t mean you have to be grim about them. In fact, grimness …
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