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- Smart About Lust… They had learned how to see that their lust, their greed, and their aversion were really dumb. They had seen through these things. They had figured them out. So an important part of learning to overcome your lust is just that: seeing that it requires intelligence to overcome it, and that the people who give in to lust are the ones who are dumb …
- A Dhamma Bucket List… Sensual desire comes up, anger comes up, greed comes up, jealousy, envy: You want to put these fires out. You don’t let them stay around, because if they get used to staying around, they begin to take over. Ajaan Chah has a nice image. He says it’s as if your mind is a house with one seat, and whoever’s sitting in …
- W.W.B.R.… More greed. Ah, cut through that one again. And it becomes your sport. When nothing is coming up, you can settle down and be with the breath. Give the mind the rest it deserves. And often, we feel that “There are these other things I have to take care of first. I have all of these other responsibilities; it’s kind of selfish to …
- Customs of the Noble Ones… We’re doing this because we see we have a disease within our minds—the disease of greed—and we need to develop contentment as a way of counteracting that disease. So, just as you don’t compare yourself with other people who are sick and think, “Who’s better at taking medicine? Who’s better at getting cured?” you focus on your cure …
- Right Livelihood… So I’ll answer you.” He goes on to say that if, as you’re acting, you give rise to greed, anger, and delusion in your audience, and your motivation for acting is greed, anger, and delusion, then after you die you’re going to go to the hell of laughter — i.e., not the place where people laugh with you, but where they …
- Knowledge over Fear… We have greed, aversion, and delusion in the basic list, but not fear. The Buddha does list fear as one of the causes for behaving in an unskillful way, but he doesn’t list it as a necessarily unskillful state in and of itself. Why? Because there are things that are worth being afraid of. Being unskillful, acting in a harmful way, the fact …
- Respect for the Mind… Greed, anger, delusion come bubbling up, and you place your mind on the greed, anger, and delusion. They eat through the mind like an acid. This is why we place the mind on the breath. Adjust the breath so that it feels comfortable coming in, going out. Place your mind there, both with the breath and with the sense of ease that comes from …
- Fear of Letting Go… If, for most our lives, we’ve been depending on greed, aversion, and delusion, those are our refuge. Lust, jealousy—all these things: We think that we’re going to find happiness by cultivating these mind states as we hold on to things, hold on to the desire for revenge if we feel we’ve been wronged, hold on to the desire for more …
- The Mind Comes First… So you want to bring the voice of knowledge, the voice of awareness—particularly awareness of the tricks that your greed, aversion, and delusion can play on you—to the discussion. As you’re focused on the breath, talking to yourself about the breath, your knowledge about these things will then get lodged in the breath. That will become your reminder. When unskillful thoughts …
- Treating the Diseases of the Mind… We all have diseases in our minds—not necessarily the really heavy kinds of diseases that they put you in an institution for, but we do suffer from greed, aversion, and delusion. We suffer from the hindrances, the fetters. There are long, long lists of the problems of the mind. So we want to make sure we take the right medicine. When we think …
- Over the Pass… This is why part of the formula for right mindfulness is putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. You don’t want any reference to the world in here. As soon as something says “world,” then there’s going to be something in the world that you want, and you’re going to take on an identity to get it. So …
- The Buddha’s Protection… At the same time, you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. The world here means sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations, ideas, and the senses that allow you to see and know those things. As we chanted just now, those things are on fire with the flames of birth, aging, and death; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair. Our problem …
- A Foundation for Restraint… The unhealthy use is what gives rise to greed, aversion, delusion—pride around the body, lust around the body. These things can create huge problems for the mind. Of course, the mind is what’s creating the problems. If we weren’t latched on here, the body would totally be a matter of indifference. But at the same time, you need the body in …
- Modest in Manner, but Not in Goals… After all, if you’re not acting on greed, aversion, or delusion, you’re not harming anyone. You’re setting a good example. And sometimes just being around you will calm people down. So this is your responsibility right here, directly, which is one of the reasons why the Buddha says that modesty is a virtue on the path. We’re not doing this …
- Developing Discernment… And the other, as he says, is to “put aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” In other words, how to say No to any thoughts that would come by and pull you away from your focus. In learning how to make yourself want to be with the breath, and not want to be with those thoughts: That’s how you exercise …
- You Can’t Clone Awakening… You’re going to run into greed, aversion, delusion—all the tricks the mind plays on itself. But if you don’t face up to them and learn how to deal with them, you’re never going to get past them. If you don’t really recognize them for what they are, that picture you have of awakening can get formed by greed, aversion …
- Don’t Underestimate Merit… The fact that you’re dealing with your greed, aversion, and delusion—trying to make them weaker, trying to make them less likely to burst out of their cages and go prowling around the neighborhood: That means that other people are going to benefit. They don’t have to be victims of your greed or your aversion or your delusion. So it’s good …
- The Kamma of Self & Not-self… What am I doing to make this experience worse? Sometimes you’ll find that there’s greed involved, sometimes aversion, sometimes delusion. Who’s responsible for those things? You can’t go blaming your parents, you can’t go blaming society, because that will take you nowhere. If you look for what you’re doing in terms of your greed, anger, and delusion right …
- Right Speech, Inside & Out… Your friendship with your greed, with your aversion, with your delusion: Those are friendships you want to break. So here again, you have to be very discerning in how you apply this principle. The same with harsh speech: You don’t want to beat yourself down; you don’t want to discourage yourself and say that you’re hopeless. But there are times when …
- Humility… seeing the processes of the mind as they give rise to greed, anger, and delusion, or to mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. Even though these things have abstract names, they’re specific events. Choices are made each time you breathe in, each time you breathe out. Look for the specific choice, look for the specific movement of intention that heads either in a skillful or …
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