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  2. A Willingness to Learn
     … learning how to read the mind, how to notice, okay, when there’s greed, when there’s anger, when there’s delusion, when there’s too much desire, when there’s too little desire in the practice. Because the whole purpose of meditating, giving the mind a topic to focus on, is not that you study just that topic. You also learn how to … 
  3. What You’re Bringing
     … You notice that when the Buddha describes the factors that come prior to sensory contact, he doesn’t say things like greed, aversion, and delusion. Just things like intention and attention and perceptions and feelings. Now, this doesn’t mean there isn’t any greed, aversion, or delusion in there. There certainly is quite a lot. But we don’t see those factors in … 
  4. The Equanimity of a Victor
     … As he said, it’s “the unexcelled victory in battle.” We’re doing battle with our defilements, battle with our misunderstandings about what happiness is, our misunderstandings about what suffering is, battle with our greed, aversion, and delusion—which means that there’s work to be done. It’s in this context that we develop equanimity: the equanimity of a searcher, the equanimity of … 
  5. Dedicating Merit
     … If you have less greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind, you’re not the only one who’s going to benefit. Other people will benefit from the fact that they’re not the victims of your greed, aversion, and delusion anymore. The second way is when you’re more deliberate and conscious of what you’re doing to spread that goodness to others … 
  6. Less is More
     … What is your intention right now? Is it a skillful intention? And skillfuldoesn’t mean just good, because you can have good intentions for others, but you can also have a lot of delusion at the same time, in which case your intention is not really skillful. When you’re looking for skillful intentions, you’re looking for intentions that aren’t founded on … 
  7. For Your Benefit Here & Now
     … The voices that are on the side of greed, aversion, and delusion don’t advertise themselves as greed, aversion, and delusion’s henchmen, but they are. You have to learn how to recognize them. Ajaan Suwat used to say that our problem is that we see pain as our enemy and craving as our friend. It’s actually the other way around. If you … 
  8. Undomesticated Happiness
     … It’s when you get them to break the precepts, get them to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion in their minds. You avoid that. You help yourself by observing the precepts and getting rid of greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind. That’s how far our responsibilities go. When we try to extend them beyond that, it all gets very vague … 
  9. Blessings
     … You want to see where it is in the thoughts where they hook you—especially things like greed, aversion, delusion, fear, grief, or jealousy: When they hook you, why do you go with them? What’s the appeal? And if you go with them, what are the results? The Buddha himself said that he got on the right path to awakening when he learned … 
  10. Questioning & Conviction
     … You want to start detecting that decision, uncovering all the layers of ignorance and delusion that covered it up. As you do this, you’ll run into other intentions that like to keep it covered up. So there’ll be a battle inside. One mind, but there are a lots of minds to it, lots of opinions, lots of intentions. The only way you … 
  11. Antidotes for Narcissism
     … If we can get to the point where we have less greed, aversion, and delusion, we’re not the only ones benefiting. Other people are suffering less from our greed, aversion, and delusion. If we get to the point where we don’t have to feed at all, it takes a huge burden off of everyone else. So instead of thinking about yourself as … 
  12. The Inner Saboteur
     … not that there’s anybody standing behind us shaking us, but there’s a part of us that’s actually afraid of what would happen if we no longer had any greed, aversion, or delusion. What would happen if we really got good at the practice? What then? There’s a part of us that’s afraid that we would get away, depriving us … 
  13. Creating Your Environment
     … Because if you’re going to be practicing for putting an end to greed, aversion, and delusion, and yet you’re going out there and exciting your greed, aversion, and delusion, it’s like knowing you’ve got to clean up your house and first you go through and trash it. Then you clean it up and then you trash it again and then … 
  14. Unskillful Habits
     … A lot of our delusions about the human body start from our delusions about our own body. That’s why we have to start this contemplation with our own body, taking our own body apart. As the Buddha once pointed out, it’s our sense of attraction to our own body that then spreads out and makes us attracted to the opposite sex. So … 
  15. Turtle Mind
     … It allows you to understand your mind, to get over your delusions, and not be subject to your greed, aversion, and all the other unskilful mental states there are, and yet at the same time not be harmed by the world.
  16. Facing Your Responsibilities
     … When the mind is straightened out, then the effect that you have on the world is not colored by greed, anger, delusion, jealousy; all those other unskillful states that can come along in the wake even of your generally well-intentioned efforts. Because as long as the mind doesn’t really know itself, unskillful states can sneak in in all kinds of disguises. And … 
  17. Breath Meditation: The Third Tetrad
     … This is the best way of dealing with delusion. You’re not really sure whether you know something, or you may think you’re sure you know something but you haven’t yet put it into action to test it. So you have to test it. On the outside level, as the Buddha said, when you’re going to do something, you ask yourself … 
  18. True Freedom of Speech
     … speech that’s not a slave to your defilements, not a slave to your greed, to your anger, or your delusion. It’s speech that’s free to be harmonious and wise.
  19. Steal the Dhamma
     … generic greed, generic anger, generic delusion. We’re dealing with specific instances of these things. You have to know how to deal with the specific instances. A lot of that has to do with your ingenuity, your ability to think like a thief: to watch, observe, try things out. You might say you’re here to steal the Dhamma. The Dhamma is proclaiming itself … 
  20. How to Straighten Out the World
     … They often end up just inflicting other people with their greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s not really helpful. What’s really helpful to others is that you straighten out the greed, aversion, and delusion in your own mind. This is how you do it: by being mindful and developing powers of concentration that’ll allow both for calm in the mind and for … 
  21. Always in Training
     … When unpleasant feelings arise in the body, or strange energies arise in the body based on greed, aversion, or delusion, you can breathe through them, just as you breathe through a painful or blocked sensation in the body as you’re here meditating. It may be too much to be aware of the whole body as you’re going through the day, but it … 
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