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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. A Strong Post
     … The fact that we’re stronger having this sensation inside, and we can maintain it inside, means that we’ll be less likely to act in unskillful ways, less tempted to give in to our greed or aversion or delusion as they come welling up in the mind. The Pali word āsava means “things that flow out.” Sometimes sensual desire flows out of the … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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