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- Craving & Clinging… This is why the Buddha says that to comprehend suffering, you have to abandon not only passion for it, but also your aversion and your delusion around it. That’s what it means to comprehend. You understand it to the point where there’s no more passion, no more aversion, no more delusion, because you see what you’re doing. With craving, you’re …
- Looking After Yourself… It means simply that if you notice that the way you look at something is giving rise to greed, aversion and delusion, you’ve got to look in another way. The same with your listening and all the other senses. Think about your motivation for why you’re looking at something. Is it to excite greed? Is it to excite anger? It’s not …
- Time to Heal… All those little times offer lots of little entryways for greed, aversion, and delusion to slip into the mind and to infect it. So here we want to have some time to sit down and be quiet and heal the mind. The breath helps. It feels good coming in, feels good going out. If it doesn’t feel good coming in and coming out …
- Equanimity… In other words, certain kinds of greed, aversion, or delusion come up, and when you recognize them for what they are, it’s as if they get embarrassed and they just go away. There are other instances, though, where they’re not embarrassed at all. When you look at them, they stare right back. They’re firmly entrenched. They’re armed with lots of …
- Guarding Against Trouble… If you find that you’re thinking about things or looking at things or listening to things in a way that gives rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, you try to stop. Either you change the way you look or listen, or you just don’t look at or listen to those things at all. You don’t have to go around with blinders …
- All Winners, No Losers… And when you meditate, you’re gaining some control of your aversion and delusion, which means that other people don’t have to be victims of your greed, aversion, or delusion. So you’re looking for happiness the way that doesn’t have any boundaries. It’s not a case where you win and somebody else loses. Everybody wins. This is not like the …
- Reflect on Your Actions… We’ve got our greed, aversion, and delusion in the background. If you put all your energy into focusing on your project, the greed, aversion, and delusion get to run rampant. They might stay within the bounds of the project that needs to be done, but as soon as the project is accomplished or you feel that you can let up a little bit …
- Meaning & Purpose… When the mind gets still and is not analyzing dhammas, it’s suffering from delusion, which is another unskillful state. But: If you can’t have any desire in your practice, and you have to spend all your time analyzing dhammas, you’re not going to be able to complete the whole path, because concentration is part of the path. That person was saying …
- The Gift of Meditation… If you’re able to say No to your greed, aversion, and delusion, then other people don’t have to be exposed to your greed, aversion, and delusion, either. All of the goodness we do in the practice—in terms of generosity, virtue, concentration, discernment—is the kind of goodness, the kind of happiness that spreads around, that doesn’t have clear boundaries—which …
- Limitless Thoughts… The Buddha talks about greed, anger, and delusion as things that make a limit. Pamana-karana is the Pali term. As long as we allow greed, anger, and delusion to hold sway over our minds, we’re limiting ourselves. Then there’s a whole question of self identification: That too is a limit. The Buddha says that whatever you identify as your self, that …
- Skillful Fear… I’ve had a number of psychotherapists ask me: “Why did the Buddha say unskillful thinking comes from greed, aversion, and delusion? Where is fear in the list?” Fear is not in the list because fear is not necessarily unskillful. There are things that are good to be afraid of. The fear gets unskillful when it’s combined with greed or with aversion or …
- The Kamma of Meditation… Actions done under the influence of unskillful intentions, based on greed, aversion, and delusion, tend to lead to suffering. Actions done without the influence of greed, aversion and delusion tend to lead to happiness. Right there is where the Buddha’s teachings are important, different even from those who did teach kamma in the past. There were groups of people who said that your …
- From Dependence to Independence… In other words, if something comes up in the mind, you don’t have to follow its current, as they say—the current of greed, or the current of anger, or the current of delusion. There are also good currents in the mind. There is a current of goodwill, compassion; these are things you can follow. So you want to be particular about which …
- Refuge in the Dhamma… After all, you’ve got your own greed, aversion and delusion that you’ve got to protect yourself from. The Buddha says the mind is luminous, but that doesn’t mean that it’s innately good. It simply means that the mind has a quality of knowing. It can watch its own actions. It can watch the results of its actions. It can catch …
- Concentration Nurtured by Virtue… In other words, the images may be coming into your eyes, but your purpose in looking is going out your eyes, focusing on this detail, that detail, for the purpose of greed, aversion, or delusion. You’ve got to watch out for that. If you allow those things to take over your looking and listening, then they’re going to take over everything else …
- Home Schooling Your Inner Children… Otherwise, its greed, aversion, delusion, and ignorance will just take over, along with all the other members of the committee, and there will be nothing left of your meditation. Notice that not all of the members of the committee are adults. We do have some children. The Buddha’s is attitude is not that you pamper your inner child, although, as the one psychologist …
- Strengthening Your Goodness… You begin to recognize some of the excuses that greed gives or that lust or anger or delusion gives, and you begin to recognize their weak points. The more quickly you can recognize the weak points, the more quickly you can deal with them. This is the work of right effort together with discernment. When the Buddha was teaching mindfulness of breathing to his …
- Verified Confidence… The roots of unskillful action are greed, aversion, and delusion. One of the ways you overcome uncertainty about the Dhamma is to look in your mind to see that when you act on greed, anger, or delusion, what are the results? When you act on their opposite, what are the results? This is where you have to be honest and very observant to see …
- Working Hypotheses… Greed, aversion, are delusion are fires that burn away in the mind, and as we chanted just now, they set fire to our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, and to the things we know through the senses. It’s almost as if our minds are like flamethrowers, setting fire to everything that we fasten onto. Then the Buddha also compares the mind …
- Contemplation of the Body… The benefit of all this is that when there’s the least little delusion about the body, this contemplation helps to cut right through it. Then the desire for an ideal body, any thought that, “Other people may get old but I’m going to do yoga, I’m going to eat right, and I’m not going to get old as fast as …
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