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- Protecting the Mind from Itself… the dangers that come from our own greed, aversion, and delusion—the things that can get us to behave in ways that will cause trouble for ourselves, trouble for other people. When the Buddha said that the duty of a teacher is to protect the student in every direction, what he meant was that he gives us instructions on how to behave in a …
- 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 …
- Adbusting the Mind… Of course, the same principle applies to your greed, aversion, and delusion. They try to distract you, and because you’re distracted, you give in to them. You don’t think things all the way through and you don’t notice what’s actually going on in the mind. Your attention is diverted someplace else. So you can think of meditation as a defiant …
- Wide-open Awareness… Greed comes, and you realize that if you’re going to go with the greed, you’ve got to erect barriers that are uncomfortable in the mind. Anger comes, and what so often happens with anger is that things get shut down in the mind so that only two courses seem open to you: Either you’re going to let it all out or …
- Safety… There’s greed, aversion, delusion, with all of their various permutations, and they can get us to do some very unskillful things. Yet they’re very appealing. We think we gain our happiness through being greedy. We get what we want done, sometimes, through anger. We even like our delusion. We don’t recognize it as delusion, but we like it. So he has …
- Looking for Trouble… You can look in a way that gives rise to anger, fear, greed, anxiety. The outside stimuli don’t create these things, it’s the mind that creates these things. Often it creates them even before the stimulus comes in. That’s what you’ve got to watch for. So when you leave formal meditation, remind yourself you’ve got this inner world to …
- No Who or Where… The Buddha said, “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” That’s what the instructions on mindfulness are all about: looking at “the body in and of itself”—in other words, not in reference to whose body it is; “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world”—not being concerned about where it is. You’re thinking more in …
- Coping & Beyond Coping… As he says, when you step back from the world, you’re trying to step back from greed and distress with reference to the world. The distress is the part we don’t like, but there’s greed for the world, too. That’s what leads us to get involved in the world to begin with, and then we have to pull out. Then …
- Visakha Puja – True Homage… You yourself suffer less from your own greed, anger, and delusion; the people around you also suffer less from your greed, anger, and delusion. Everybody benefits. This way, as you make the Dhamma larger than yourself, it’s not that you really make it larger. You simply admit that the Dhamma is already larger than you are. It’s something you can really give …
- Make Yourself Reliable… Your body has been so shaped by your mind and so shaped by your defilements that the body can’t be trusted as a source of knowledge, either, because your greed, aversion, and delusion have learned how to hijack your breath, and through the breath they get control of the hormones. So the way you feel your body from within often has nothing to …
- No-Tech Meditation… You keep focused on the body in and of itself, the breath in and of itself, and you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Those are the things you have to do. In fact, it’s important to realize that concentration is something you do. The whole path is something you do. As the Buddha said, it’s the highest …
- A Matter of Life & Death… Then the Buddha adds, of course, that Sakka himself is subject to greed, anger, and delusion, so his standard was not all that reliable. For a meditator going out to the forest, it’s better to take the Triple Gem as your standard. That’s a much more reliable standard, because the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha are not subject to greed, anger, or …
- In the Land of Wrong View… Your greed gets in the way, your aversion gets in the way, your delusion gets in the way. You start asking the wrong questions. Voices of others don’t stay outside. They come inside. And they’re sloshing around in your head right now. Now, the sources of right view are the voices of another—in other words, someone saying something that’s going …
- 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 …
- Noble Ardency… When there’s less greed, aversion, and delusion coming out of your mind into your actions, then there’s less of your greed, aversion, and delusion for other people to suffer from. So these questions of discernment that ask about the level of stress and whether it’s necessary and what you can do to put an end to that stress: They all come …
- Selves with Skills… We do greed well. We do anger well. Delusion—we’re experts. And we have a very strong sense of self around these things: “It’s just the way I am. It comes naturally.” In fact, you don’t even think that you’re doing it so much—it just comes. But actually, you are putting these things together. One of the important insights …
- Lift Up Your Mind… But when you get down to the real problem, it’s not so much the things; it’s the mind’s tendency to like greed, to like anger, to like delusion. The objects are only secondary. So the primary issues are all the same. This is why Ajaan Mun’s principle was practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. This is the Buddha …
- The Right Place to Look… It burns us because our greed, aversion, and delusion try to hold on to the results of our past kamma. And, of course, those results going to slip through our fingers. They often may not be what we want, but we can’t go back and change our past kamma. So the problem is not with the world. The problem is with our greed …
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