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  2. Four Mountains Moving In
     … If we let our greed, aversion, delusion, or fear take over, these four qualities—liking, hating, being deluded, being fearful—lead us astray. In Pali, they’re called agati, the wrong course. They can skew our perceptions, and our perceptions can skew our actions, distorting things so that even when we think we’re acting rightly, we’re actually following the wrong course and … 
  3. Recollection of the Buddha
     … We protect the good part inside us, the part that wants to find a true happiness, and we protect it from all the greed and aversion and delusion and laziness and other unskillful qualities that would pull us away. So recollection of the Buddha is one of the most important weapons in our arsenal. Bring it out to use on a regular basis, and … 
  4. Your One Responsibility
     … So many times you hear people say “Well, if everybody behaved in line with their innate nature and didn’t have any of this awful social conditioning, everybody would be wonderful and fine.” But if we didn’t have the potential for greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind, no amount of bad social conditioning would have any influence on us. It’s because … 
  5. Your Game Leg
     … Not in the sense of a dirty-old-man mind, but simply that it’s filled with the dirt of greed, the dirt of aversion, and the dirt of delusion. This dirt is clouding things up, obscuring what you could see if you would take the time. So these instructions are pretty basic. As is often the case, we tend to think we’re … 
  6. Teaching Old Selves New Tricks
     … You’d have to want them to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion. But here you’re doing none of that. So be careful as you look for your happiness, and treat everybody with goodwill, even the people you don’t like—especially people you don’t like. Think of that case of the bandits sawing off your limbs with a two-handled … 
  7. Surveying the World
     … Passion, aversion, and delusion were burning their hearts. At that point, his response was compassion. That’s how he began to think that maybe he might teach. This is a point in his life that the commentaries get all upset about, because after all, he was going to become the Buddha anyhow, right? He was going to teach, but after his awakening he began … 
  8. A Post for the Mind
     … We get fascinated by our sensual fantasies that can enflame the mind with greed, aversion, and delusion. When the Buddha talks about the problem of sensuality, it’s not that the objects out there that are the problem; it’s our fascination with going over a particular sensual desire, making plans, making adjustments. There are not that many things that people get fascinated with … 
  9. Dwelling in Emptiness
     … Ultimately, the Buddha said, his level of an emptiness dwelling was undisturbed by passion, undisturbed by aversion, and undisturbed by delusion. That’s the direction in which we’re headed. As you learn how to appreciate lack of disturbance of the mind as a really good thing, you’ll be more and more inclined to want to go in that direction, too. This is … 
  10. The Gift of Spiritual Materialism
     … Your actions don’t weigh on them, because you’re able to see through your own greed, aversion, and delusion, and to cut them through. That way, other people aren’t subjected to those things. Now, there is a point on the path where you take all these noble treasures you’ve developed and you give them up. Even discernment is something that, at … 
  11. Patience Is a Skill
     … But the Buddha said you don’t accept the fact that you’ve created aversion and delusion in the mind and that they’re going to stay there. You accept the fact that they’re there, but you want to do something about them. This is going to take time because the roots are deep. They’re old habits. You’ve been letting them … 
  12. Single-minded
     … You’ve got something better than thinking about greed, aversion, or delusion. You look at the pleasures that they have to offer, and you realize you’ve got something more solid and reliable here. So content yourself with the oneness. Get so that you’re really good at this. You know your spot, you know the comfortable breath, and you learn how to deal … 
  13. Skillful Fears
     … If your fear is combined with greed, aversion, or delusion, then it’s going to be unskillful. But there’s also wise fear. The main wise fear is being afraid of the possibility of your doing something unskillful. In other words, you don’t have to be afraid of things outside, or of things that are going to happen to you. You have to … 
  14. Centered on Concentration
     … If you simply read the content of the insights, as we chanted this evening—the eyes, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, the mind are burning with passion, aversion and delusion—that doesn’t leave you much. Everything is on fire. Everything the mind lands on, looking for happiness, it sets on fire, too. That insight, taken in isolation, is pretty discouraging … 
  15. Goodwill for All Beings
    They say that after his awakening, when the Buddha surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha, he saw all the beings on fire—as we chanted last night—“on fire with passion, aversion, delusion, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress and despair.” He, however, was no longer on fire. So he spent forty-five years teaching other people, other beings, how to put out … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. To Sustain Your Practice
     … How does that apply now? We live in a different environment, in a different world.” But you have to remember, greed, aversion, and delusion then, and greed, aversion, and delusion now are the same sorts of things. The good qualities of the path to fight those defilements are also the same sorts of things. There are certain things that don’t change, and the … 
  18. In Touch with Your Fabrications
     … Verbal is how you talk to yourself, what you say about a particular situation that provokes greed, aversion, delusion, sorrow, envy—whatever the emotion may be. Then there’s mental—your perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the mental labels you use for identifying this as this and that as that. Sometimes these labels are individual words. Sometimes they’re pictures. Then feelings, in this … 
  19. Farming Your Body & Mind
     … But you also want to take this ability to observe your mind into daily life, so that you can detect when an unskillful intention comes up, one that’s based on greed, or aversion, or delusion. You want to see it as it’s happening and try to catch it as quickly as you can—before it gets strong, so that you’re not … 
  20. Speaking Truth to Defilement
     … Now, there are times, of course, when he says that if you say something that’s going to give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion within you, or would give rise to those mind-states in your listener, then you don’t say that. You learn to avoid it. The promise to yourself that you will not misrepresent the truth means that you have … 
  21. Undefeated Goodwill
     … Of course, where is their well-being going to come from? It’s going to come from their actions, so you don’t want to act in a way that deliberately inspires them, say, to break the precepts, or to give rise to passion, aversion, or delusion. When there are conflicts, you have to figure out, “How can I deal with this conflict in … 
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