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  2. Good Work
     … Greed, anger, and delusion, craving in its various forms: These are all here, operating in the present moment. They can pull you to the past, they can pull you to the future, but they come out of the present. It’s not that when you get to the present all your problems disappear. It’s that you’re actually getting to the place where … 
  3. Smart About Lust
     … I must admit that when I first learned about arahants having no passion, no aversion, and no delusion, their lives seemed awfully dry. But then I met Ajaan Fuang and other masters of the forest tradition, and the impression I came back with was totally different. These were the people who were really sharp. They had learned how to see that their lust, their … 
  4. Concentration Nurtured with Virtue
     … For instance, when someone has asked you a question, and you know that if you tell them the full truth about the answer, it’s going to harm them—giving rise to greed, anger, or delusion—then you’ve got to be ingenious about changing the topic or giving a partial answer without lying. Taking the precepts requires you to be ingenious, to plan … 
  5. The Fires of Sensuality
     … He saw all the beings in the world on fire with the fever of sensual desire, the fever of anger, the fever of delusion. And in the passage we chanted just now, the Buddha talks about how the eye is on fire with passion, aversion, and delusion. The ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are burning with these things. Each of the senses is … 
  6. Possessed by Emotions
     … All these things play a role in how we experience the present moment and all too often we let these activities in the present moment get possessed by greed, aversion, delusion—whatever. Then we complain about the results. You have to realize that you play a role in shaping them. If you want to accept something, accept the fact that you have a role … 
  7. Right Livelihood
     … So I’ll answer you.” He goes on to say that if, as you’re acting, you give rise to greed, anger, and delusion in your audience, and your motivation for acting is greed, anger, and delusion, then after you die you’re going to go to the hell of laughter — i.e., not the place where people laugh with you, but where they … 
  8. Knowledge over Fear
     … We have greed, aversion, and delusion in the basic list, but not fear. The Buddha does list fear as one of the causes for behaving in an unskillful way, but he doesn’t list it as a necessarily unskillful state in and of itself. Why? Because there are things that are worth being afraid of. Being unskillful, acting in a harmful way, the fact … 
  9. Respect for the Mind
     … Greed, anger, delusion come bubbling up, and you place your mind on the greed, anger, and delusion. They eat through the mind like an acid. This is why we place the mind on the breath. Adjust the breath so that it feels comfortable coming in, going out. Place your mind there, both with the breath and with the sense of ease that comes from … 
  10. The Mind Comes First
     … So you want to bring the voice of knowledge, the voice of awareness—particularly awareness of the tricks that your greed, aversion, and delusion can play on you—to the discussion. As you’re focused on the breath, talking to yourself about the breath, your knowledge about these things will then get lodged in the breath. That will become your reminder. When unskillful thoughts … 
  11. A Foundation for Restraint
     … The unhealthy use is what gives rise to greed, aversion, delusion—pride around the body, lust around the body. These things can create huge problems for the mind. Of course, the mind is what’s creating the problems. If we weren’t latched on here, the body would totally be a matter of indifference. But at the same time, you need the body in … 
  12. Against Your Type
     … There’s the passion type, the aversion type, the delusion type, the intellectual type, the gullible type, and the worrying type. In listing these types, Ajaan Lee is obviously uncomfortable with them. He treats them because they were in the standard Dhamma textbooks that had been disseminated all over Thailand by that time, and which in turn were based on the commentaries. In fact … 
  13. Don’t Underestimate Merit
     … The fact that you’re dealing with your greed, aversion, and delusion—trying to make them weaker, trying to make them less likely to burst out of their cages and go prowling around the neighborhood: That means that other people are going to benefit. They don’t have to be victims of your greed or your aversion or your delusion. So it’s good … 
  14. The Kamma of Self & Not-self
     … What am I doing to make this experience worse? Sometimes you’ll find that there’s greed involved, sometimes aversion, sometimes delusion. Who’s responsible for those things? You can’t go blaming your parents, you can’t go blaming society, because that will take you nowhere. If you look for what you’re doing in terms of your greed, anger, and delusion right … 
  15. Humility
     … seeing the processes of the mind as they give rise to greed, anger, and delusion, or to mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. Even though these things have abstract names, they’re specific events. Choices are made each time you breathe in, each time you breathe out. Look for the specific choice, look for the specific movement of intention that heads either in a skillful or … 
  16. A Safe Harbor
     … You’re here trying to overcome your ignorance, your greed, anger, and delusion. When you’re less prone to greed, anger, and delusion, other people are less subject to your defilements as well. Because you’re not inflicting these things on other people, you don’t have to worry about adding lots of extra dangers to your life. This path is a safe path … 
  17. The Buddha’s Safe Space
     … Even though he was freed of greed, aversion, and delusion, he didn’t look down on people who still had greed, aversion, and delusion. He felt sympathy for them, because he’d come from that place himself. He’d realized how ignorant he had been in the past, in spite of his desires for happiness. He realized that right view and right resolve are … 
  18. Passion for Dispassion
     … We’re looking for happiness through our passion, through our aversion, through our delusion. In other words, we’re looking for happiness in the wrong places, and in the wrong way. So he had to teach us that there’s an alternative way of looking for happiness that actually does lead to a genuine happiness, a happiness that doesn’t change at all. A … 
  19. The Basic Medicine
     … At the time of the Buddha people were suffering from greed, anger, and delusion just as we are. With modern culture, modern society, it seems as if we have more diseases of the mind, more complex ways of getting involved in creating delusion, but they all basically come down to the same three roots. So the treatment here is to learn how to uproot … 
  20. Gratitude, Goodwill & Generosity
     … The more greed, anger and delusion you can uproot from your own mind, the less often people have to suffer from your greed, anger, and delusion. This is why people support meditation monasteries like this. They see it as good for the world as a whole that people are training themselves. Here’s an opportunity to do this. They benefit too. So we’re … 
  21. A Concentration Diet
     … In the same way, when you get a sense of well-being from just being with the breath and then you wallow in it, forgetting the breath, you get into delusion concentration, which is a dead end. In other words, you’re here, but not really present. You’re very still, but if you were to ask yourself what you’re focused on, you … 
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