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- Friendship Leading to Seclusion… But even then as you work with the defilements that come up—the subtle forms of greed, aversion, and delusion, states of becoming—you’re going to need some good friends to talk to you: the knowledge you gained from the texts, the knowledge you’ve gained from your teachers, the knowledge you gained from your own practice It’s not the case that …
- Surveying the World… He saw beings on fire with the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. But his fires were out. So his relationship to the world was very different this time around. Now he was free. The first time around, there was a sense of terror—samvega—because he was trapped in this world. But after his awakening, he was freed—totally free, to the point …
- Right Livelihood… If you’re trying to inspire passion, aversion, and delusion in people through your acting, then when you die, you go to the hell of laughter, i.e., they’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you. So if your livelihood involves inspiring greed, anger, and delusion either in yourself as you do it or in other people—think about advertising, all …
- What’s Important… He fought against the institution of greed, aversion, and delusion in each person’s mind, starting with his own mind. So, when people make deprecating remarks—and it’s sad, sometimes we hear even monks making deprecating remarks—about people who sit with their eyes closed, we should remember that their attitude has very little to do with the Dhamma. After all, the Buddha …
- Noble Contentment, Noble Discontent… There’s a lot of aversion. There’s a lot of lust. There’s a lot of fear, jealousy”—whatever. You don’t deny the fact that they’re there, but you don’t just stay there, either. You accept is as your starting point. You also accept the fact that you can develop the mind; you can change the mind. This is what …
- The Sport of Wise People… We excuse it by saying, “Well, the mind needs a little time off, needs some rest, needs some entertainment.” But the fantasies usually involve passion, lust, greed, anger, aversion, ill will, or just plain delusion. You have to ask yourself “Haven’t you had enough of that? Isn’t there better entertainment?” How about the entertainment of learning how to breathe in different ways …
- A Sense of Yourself… But there’s also the harm that comes by inciting greed, aversion, and delusion in yourself by the way you look at things or listen to things. How careful are you as you go through the day? What kind of fantasies do you indulge in? Are they actually helping you on the path or are they not? That’s an aspect of virtue, too …
- No One in Charge… If you act on motivations based on greed, aversion, or delusion, there’s going to be suffering. If you act on motivations based on renunciation, non-ill will, or harmlessness, it pulls you out of suffering. So it’s not the case that, because there’s no purpose to things, there’s no pattern at all. You’re not totally free to shape things …
- The Gift of Speech… But you don’t say harmful things, things that will destroy the relationship, things that will give rise to passion, aversion, or delusion, either in you or in the listener—**that’s what harms. There’s a big misunderstanding about this, especially in modern society. I read a book one time where someone said, “Well, the Buddha himself engaged in harmful speech.” What the …
- Make Yourself Reliable… Your body has been so shaped by your mind and so shaped by your defilements that the body can’t be trusted as a source of knowledge, either, because your greed, aversion, and delusion have learned how to hijack your breath, and through the breath they get control of the hormones. So the way you feel your body from within often has nothing to …
- The Gift of the Practice… And you learn how to end all passion, aversion, and delusion with regard to those things. That’s the first duty. With the second noble truth—the cause of suffering or the origination of suffering—the duty is to abandon it. Once you recognize the craving, let it go. With the cessation of suffering, the duty is to learn how to realize it, recognize …
- Riding an Elephant to Catch Grasshoppers… just a lot of greed, aversion, and delusion, nothing very impressive. But when you clean those things out, you find that the mind is capable of a lot, and you don’t want to waste it on little day-to-day concerns. So remember, the state of your mind is the most important thing in your life. You want to protect it as best …
- Friends with the Dhamma Wheel… That means understanding it so well that you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion around it. We don’t think that we’re passionate for suffering, but after all, the Buddha defines it as clinging or holding on. This may explain why there’s so much scholarship that really doesn’t like the four noble truths. You get people saying the Buddha never …
- Circumspection… We’re told to be truthful, but how truthful is truthful? As the Buddha said, there are times when you know that if you say the truth about a certain matters, it’s going to give rise to greed or aversion or delusion, in which case you don’t talk about it. This doesn’t mean that you lie about it. You find ways …
- Virtues & Values… The less greed, aversion, anger, and delusion you have in your mind, the less these things will come out in your actions, and the less other people will be affected. If they’re interested in the practice, they’ll find it easier to stick with the practice, too. The Buddha gives the example of two acrobats. One acrobat is standing on the end of …
- Death World… There’s a passage when he talks about how we can give rise to desire, aversion, delusion very easily if we don’t think about the consequences of those things. We should stop and think: “What will be the consequences if I give in to this desire? Or if I focus on things that would give rise to the desire, in such a way …
- Feeding on the Breath… It doesn’t give rise to a lot of greed, aversion, or delusion. In fact, as you’re feeding here in the present moment, you’ve got a good reliable source of food here. The mind’s in a good position where it can start observing things about itself, all the processes that are going on in this process of feeding. When you understand …
- Get Out of Yourself… Now, if you think of mindfulness as meaning awareness, you wonder how you’re going to be aware outside of somebody else’s breath or aware of their greed, aversion, or delusion, or their feelings of pleasure and pain. But that’s not what mindfulness means. It means keeping something in mind. And here the reflection to keep in mind is that whatever you …
- Lessons from Generosity & Virtue… They also remind you also that you’re capable of overcoming some of the mind’s more blatant forms of greed, aversion, and delusion. As the Buddha pointed out, the way we define ourselves as beings is around the act of feeding. To maintain your identity, you have to eat physical food, but there’s also mental and emotional food that you take in …
- Your Main Foundation… Then you’ve got mind states, such as a mind that’s impassioned, a mind that’s not impassioned, a mind that’s aversive or not. This analysis of mind states works its way up to more subtle things, like a mind that’s concentrated or not, or a mind that has reached a state beyond which it has ever been before or not …
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