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- Truthful & Observant… The more generous you can be, the more observant the mind can be of its greed, of its aversion, of its fears. The more virtuous you are, the more you notice. Years back, I had a lay student with whom I was very strict with regard to little white lies. I told him, “You want to make sure that everything you say is true …
- Shoulds & Desires… And when the mind settles down, it’s a lot less likely to be hungry to act on greed, aversion, and delusion. So again, you’re giving safety to other beings. We’re looking for happiness in ways where there’s no clear line between who benefits and who doesn’t benefit. You, of course, are the prime recipient of the goodness of your …
- Don’t Be Afraid of Jhana… If the mind lacks a sense of well-being, then whatever insights it gains are going to be distorted through aversion. But when the mind has a sense of pleasure, it’s like a person who’s eaten well, rested well, and is in a good mood. You can talk to that person about their failings, and they’re much less likely to take …
- Focus on the Precepts… To comprehend them means to understand them to the point where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around them, and you comprehend them through applying these perceptions. The perceptions are actions—they’re a type of karma—applied to the aggregates with a specific purpose. As the Buddha said, the aggregates do have their pleasant side. But if you focus on their pleasant …
- Merit: Goodness of the Heart… You’re going to be less prey to your greed, aversion, and delusion—because an important part of the meditation is that when you make up your mind to stay with the breath, you’re going to have to fight off your distractions. What used to be normal thinking suddenly becomes something you’ve got to fight. It makes you more sensitive to ways …
- Skillful Desire… When the mind has a sense of comfort inside, then it’s not so willing to run along with greed, aversion, delusion, fear, or any of the things that make it go off course. My teacher had a student, a woman, who had cancer. And she had it for twenty years. She’d get cancer in one part of the body; they’d cut …
- The Mind Set Tall… The response is not aversion, but simply dispassion. You’ve had enough. Sometimes you might use the word “disgust,” but there’s a partly right and partly a wrong connotation to that word. You want to be disgusted in the sense that you’ve been eating these things all along, and you’ve had enough. “I don’t need to eat that any longer …
- The Brightness of Life… in the aggregates, in the different forms of fabrication, first in areas where it’s really obvious—when there’s greed or aversion—and then in the less obvious areas, where there’s delusion. He gives you the tools for taking these things apart and for understanding them and getting beyond them. That’s the whole point of this: We’re going beyond just …
- Universal Truths… Wherever there’s stress, you try to comprehend it. “Comprehending” here means understanding it and knowing it so thoroughly that you abandon all passion, aversion, and delusion around it. As for the cause of stress, you try to abandon it. With the cessation of stress, you try to realize it. And the path, you try to develop. That’s why the Buddha has you …
- The Goldsmith… The big problems come down to greed, aversion, and delusion. And as you get to know the mind, you begin to recognize when which of these is operating. But in the beginning, it’s going to have a lot of details and a lot of other idiosyncratic ways of doing things, going out of bounds, coming back. This doesn’t happen only when you …
- Forging a Path… For a while you just find that there’s greed, aversion, and delusion in ways that you didn’t really imagine or you didn’t readily admit to yourself. But you keep on digging deeper and deeper, and peeling things away, and you finally do get to things of real value inside. There’s a sutta where a monk is meditating, and he gets …
- The Flow of Time… The part of the mind that pushes for greed, aversion, and delusion knows how to squeeze the breath and to make you feel that you’ve got to give in. So you’ve got to learn how to undo the squeeze. Work on breathing in a way that feels spacious, that feels soothing to the body, strengthening to the body, calming you when you …
- Watch the Mind at the Breath… When greed, aversion, and delusion come into the mind, you use your mindfulness and ardency to put them out. One of the advantages of staying with the breath like this is that you detect these fires when they’re small sparks, tiny little flames just beginning to get started, and you can snuff them out before your head catches on fire. So try to …
- Ups & Downs… Sometimes the mind seems so clear and settled that you think it will never go back to its old greed, aversion, and delusion ever again. And then of course it does. Part of the reason, of course, is that you got complacent. When you get something good, do your best to protect it, maintain it. When things aren’t going well, remind yourself that …
- Firm in Your Intent… Our greed, aversion, and delusion give rise to all the circumstances that cause us to keep coming back like this. We feel a hunger; we feel a lack. One of the purposes of the meditation is to develop strength inside, so that we have a sense of enough. The lack comes from a desire for happiness, but still, the Buddha says that that desire …
- True for What Purpose?… As he admitted, these things do have their pleasures, but focusing on them in that way just gives rise to more passion, aversion, and delusion. Instead, you could focus on their drawbacks: that no matter how well you fashion them, there will still be parts of them that you can’t rely on, parts of them that will be stressful, parts of them that …
- Happy to Be Here… Those little movements of the mind—a little bit of greed here, a little bit of aversion there, delusion, jealousy, fear: You want to catch these things when they’re still new and weak so that you can begin to see, “Why does the mind go for them?” We know that some of these what the Buddha calls “defilements” are things we like. Others …
- It’s Good to Talk to Yourself… where your greed is, where your aversion is, where your delusion is, where your lust is, where your fears are. You get to the point where you’re not driven by those things because you can step back. That’s an even greater level of calm. So we’re pursuing both calm and insight because you find them together. The important thing is that …
- Focus on What You’re Doing… greed, aversion, delusion—all kinds of things. We’re doing it all the time, to the point we’re not really conscious of what we’re doing. So when we sit down to meditate, we want to be conscious of what we’re doing with the mind right now. That way, you begin to see the steps in the process. You’d like to …
- Acceptance Isn’t the Issue… One of the first things he saw as he surveyed the world was that beings were on fire with the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion. So he didn’t see it as his duty to accept them. He saw it as his duty to make a change so that they could know how to put out those fires. He was really on a …
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