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- An End to the Stories… You’re fighting with your own greed, aversion, and delusion—and all your attachments. The hardest attachments to let go of, they say, is the sense of having been wronged. There’s usually a desire to want to get back or, at the very least, to have the other side acknowledge that they did wrong. But remember, we’re living in a world where …
- A Safe Place… Sometimes your greed, your aversion, your delusion can take very strange forms; forms you wouldn’t like anyone to see. You get to the point where you don’t want to see them yourself. So little messages get sent around in the mind, and you turn a blind eye to them. You’re like a teacher in a classroom where the kids are sending …
- Remarkable Qualities… When you can catch yourself in the midst of giving into greed, aversion, or delusion, and can stop yourself, you see what a valuable skill that is. Think about the fact that aging, illness, and death are bound to come, and as the chant just said, the world offers no shelter. There may be doctors to help with your illnesses, but they can only …
- Dhammacentric… Comprehension is defined as putting an end to passion, aversion, and delusion. Abandoning the origination of suffering requires dispassion for craving. And the cessation of suffering is dispassion itself. So with those first three, you’re aiming at dispassion. You reserve your passion for the path, because you’ve got to do it well. That’s where the ardency comes in. Then you reflect …
- An Hour of Bliss… You think about all the suffering in the world that comes from people acting on greed, people acting on aversion, people acting on delusion—and here you’ve got a mind that’s perfectly capable of acting on greed, anger, and delusion, too. So you want to train it. And these are the tools for the training: mindfulness, alertness, ardency. Mindfulness means keeping something …
- Be Observant… Greed, aversion, and delusion start with little tiny things: little tiny ideas, perceptions, feelings. If your vision isn’t all-around, they can start growing. So come to the meditation telling yourself that you’re here to observe. You’re here to watch, which means when the meditation goes well, you watch it. When it doesn’t go well, you watch it—not to …
- The Dhamma Points Inside… As he said after his awakening, he looked around and he saw beings on fire with the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. He felt compassion, because he’d been there, but now he was out. **That’s how you have to treat people who are insistent on still getting into battles. You don’t have to engage them in battles, but you do …
- Dispassion & Delight… You try to comprehend suffering, and comprehension means that you understand it to the point where there’s no passion, aversion or delusion around it. You try to abandon the cause of suffering, which means that you develop dispassion for the cause. The third noble truth is when you succeed at developing dispassion for the cause. But, then, with the fourth noble truth, the …
- The Evening News… There are the greed magazines, there are passion magazines, the aversion magazines, the delusion magazines all around us. Imagine what the world would be like if people just stopped breaking the five precepts. There wouldn’t be much news. So that’s the kind of stuff you see when you look outside. It doesn’t change much. But if you look inside, there is …
- What’s Real… We’re not constantly bombarded by the images meant to incite greed, aversion, delusion, lust, fear, whatever, that the media are churning out. But if we didn’t have the germs for those things in our minds, the media wouldn’t be able to do anything to us. Even when you’re sitting perfectly alone with your eyes closed, those germs can get into …
- A Refuge from Aging, Illness, & Death… Many of us are very driven, but we have the option to step back, look at our greed, aversion, and delusion, to look at our pride, and ask ourselves: “Are these the things that are going to take us to happiness? Can we really trust them?” This is why one of the Buddha’s most basic teaching is on the topic of refuge. We …
- A Happy Tradition… They had their greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes we read the biographies of the ajaans and it sounds as if they were born arahants, but that’s not the case. They had a lot of defilements they had to fight against. On top of that, they came from a society in which they were very low on the ladder. A lot of the teachings …
- The Power of the Will… When greed, aversion, and delusion arise, how do they arise? How do they pass away? How do they come back again? When they come back, why do you go for them? What’s the allure? Again, the texts will answer in general terms, but you want to answer yourself in specific terms on what the drawbacks are in going with them. Then it’s …
- To Be an Adult… They can get us to break the precepts, they can get us to give in to passion, aversion, and delusion, telling us that greed is good, anger is good—all kinds of horrible things they can say are good. If we believe them and act on those beliefs, that becomes our karma—and that’s the danger. So we have to look into our …
- The Four-in-One Establishing of Mindfulness… Here we’re trying to develop a mind free from greed, free from aversion, free from delusion, one that’s centered and not scattered, but enlarged. In other words, you’re aware of the breath throughout the whole body. That’s right here. Your range of awareness is enlarged. Then finally, there are dhammas. These can be the five hindrances or the seven factors …
- Balance & Release… Otherwise, the release is just aversion, dislike. You’re trying to run away from something. You don’t like this; you don’t like that. You push yourself away. But the pushing becomes another type of becoming. As the Buddha said, craving for non-becoming leads to more becoming. The image of the middle path can be the middle point of a spectrum or …
- Skillful FearI’ve known a number of psychotherapists who’ve asked me why the Buddha doesn’t put fear in his list of the causes of unskillful behavior, along with passion, aversion, and delusion. It’s because some forms of fear are unskillful, but others are skillful. The most unskillful form of fear is the one that the Buddha lists in the four biases, when …
- Training the Whole Mind… You begin to see: “Oh, this is how greed works, this is how aversion works, this is how I’ve fallen for this stuff before in the past. Well, this time around I’m not going to fall.” Sometimes it’s like a battle. Other times it’s more a question of learning how to work together in a way that’s for your …
- Bowing & Chanting… You can ask yourself as you go through the day, what do you bow to? Do you bow to your moods? Do you bow to your fear of other people’s power? Do you bow down to your lust, to your aversion, to your delusion? If you don’t like bowing down to those things, it’s good to practice bowing down to something …
- In Restraint Is Strength… is getting strengthened by looking that way? The Buddha doesn’t say not to look, just learn how not to focus on the things that are going to stir up greed, aversion, or delusion in the mind. There are lots of things you can look at out in the world, lots of things you can listen to, and lots of things you can think …
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