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  2. Strength of Conviction: 1
     … Does this person have the sort of greed, aversion, or delusion that would get him or her to claim to know something he or she didn’t know? And if they do, well, you know they’re not people of integrity. The second test: Would this person try to get someone else to do something that was not in that person’s long-term … 
  3. The Cost of Happiness
     … He talked about how, after his awakening, he surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha and he saw everyone on fire with greed, anger, delusion; passion, aversion, and delusion. And what were the people doing? They were searching for happiness. Yet the way they were searching for happiness was setting them on fire. This is why, in his very first sermon, this … 
  4. Living Forward, Understanding Backward
     … to strengthen the skillful intentions in the mind, the intentions that are not wound up in greed, aversion, or delusion. Greed and aversion are fairly easy to see. Delusion is hard—because after all, when you’re deluded, you don’t know you’re deluded. You don’t really know the truth. The only way around that is to keep your past mistakes in … 
  5. The Easy Way Out
     … the arrow of suffering, greed, aversion, delusion. We all want to find a way to take the arrow out. Some of us, of course, don’t realize that the arrow is there. We feel the pain but we think that it’s coming from something else. We grow up when we really realize that, okay, the arrow is here, and that we’re the … 
  6. Truths That Are Noble
     … Give up your passion, aversion, and delusion around your clinging. That’s a tall order, but the people who take it on are the ones who are being responsible. This is one of the reasons why we don’t have Buddhists out on the street corners, preaching to people, because what the Buddha’s asking is that *you *take responsibility. As he says, all … 
  7. A Refuge in Quiescence
     … Our greed, aversion, and delusion present a lot of dangers. Our wrong views, wrong resolves, wrong actions: It’s because of these things that we need refuge. Traditionally, we talk about taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. In the Buddha’s time, it seems to have been a common pattern: People who knew nothing about the Buddha’s teachings would … 
  8. May You Forever Be Well
     … When you look at things in a certain way, what happens? When you listen to things in a certain way, what happens? If it has a bad impact on the mind, well, try to look in a different way, listen in a different way, so that you’re not stirring up more greed, aversion, and delusion. So virtue and right view are the foundation … 
  9. The Forerunner of All Things
     … You don’t simply fall head over heels into whatever state of becoming is being pushed on you by your greed, aversion, or delusion. In this way, staying with the breath makes you sensitive, and it also gives you some resistance. The benefits of having the mind in charge come from directing it in a skillful way. Think of that question the Buddha has … 
  10. Meditation Prep
     … He’s simply telling him to replace various levels of aversion in the mind—irritation, resentment, ill will, or the desire to harm—with more positive emotions. If you notice ill will coming up in the mind, try counteracting it with goodwill. Don’t just allow the mind to stay stuck with its ill will. You do what you can to foster an attitude … 
  11. Staying Grounded
     … At the very least, you’re not going to cause yourself a lot of delusion, greed, or aversion. And you’re less likely to get involved in any struggles and conflicts that go around these things. Conflict, the Buddha said, comes from the thought process he calls papañca. It’s a hard term to translate. Some people like proliferation, but the issue not so … 
  12. The Pleasure of the Middle Way
     … Any sensual pleasure that requires that you break the precepts or aggravates greed, aversion, or delusion in the mind is a pleasure you’ve got to avoid. Then there’s a gray range in between. With certain pleasures, if some people enjoy them they don’t have any bad effect on their minds, but if other people indulge them, they do develop bad effects … 
  13. Rapture
     … Why go out looking for trouble? Greed, aversion, and delusion are all looking for trouble. They’re like strong attacks of hunger and they’re never really satisfied. When you act on these things, they may provide a little bit of fullness and a little bit of energy, but then it goes. It’s like food that’s bad for your health. But here … 
  14. Admirable Friendship
     … You’ve got to learn how to restrain your anger, your aversion, to the fact that they’re talking.” We can’t expect to have a totally perfectly quiet environment around here. After all, we’ve got people, and not just people, we have the crickets outside; the bugs in the trees. I remember talking to someone coming here whose experience in meditation had … 
  15. At Home with the Breath
     … other habit.” But because you’re learning this new habit in the mind, you’re in a better position to let go of that bad habit—not out of hatred or aversion, but simply because you realize it doesn’t serve any purpose. The sense of well-being you can develop with the breath—by working, adjusting, and then maintaining whatever good breathing habits … 
  16. Hypocrisy
     … Or you begin to discover that there are really some strong areas of greed or aversion that you haven’t been honest with yourself about, that tend to show up around issues of food, clothing, shelter. So look for them. Delight in abandoning the unskillful qualities and in developing the skillful ones, wherever you may find them functioning, so that this becomes a habit … 
  17. A Healthy Body Image
     … greed, aversion, delusion, lust, fear, jealousy, all the unskillful things that can come up. When you’ve got the strength, that’s the best use of your strength. So the body is good for some things. The Buddha didn’t bad-mouth the body all the timeHe just pointed out: What’s really good about it? What’s useful about it? What’s it … 
  18. Centered in the Body
     … You’ve got lots and lots of hungers and thirsts, desires, and aversions that can be excited at any time. The only way you’re going to see these things is if you don’t flow along with them. This is why you want to maintain that inner focus. You have your spot where you stay. The only way you can see things flowing … 
  19. Making an Effort
     … The effort lies in breaking an old habit and appreciating the sense of well-being that comes from restraint or from counteracting our greed, anger, and delusion, our lust and our aversion. The well-being that comes from counteracting these things is much more lasting, goes much deeper. Often you hear people saying that the Buddha’s analysis is that we’re always looking … 
  20. Facing Danger & Hardship
     … One of the reasons is that the Buddha and the noble Sangha were free of passion, free of aversion, free of delusion, and for that reason, they’re free of fear. We should take heart in that they have faced dangers and were able to come out, at the very least, with their goodness intact. And we should follow their example. Another reason is … 
  21. Turn Off the Automatic Pilot
     … Well, who designed that automatic pilot? Who set the automatic pilot? Usually, if we’re not paying attention, greed, aversion, and delusion get to determine the default settings. This means you have to learn how to question them. This is one of the reasons why we read Dhamma books: They help us question areas that we previously didn’t question before. We just felt … 
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