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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- A Safe Harbor… You’re here trying to overcome your ignorance, your greed, anger, and delusion. When you’re less prone to greed, anger, and delusion, other people are less subject to your defilements as well. Because you’re not inflicting these things on other people, you don’t have to worry about adding lots of extra dangers to your life. This path is a safe path …
- The Basic Medicine… At the time of the Buddha people were suffering from greed, anger, and delusion just as we are. With modern culture, modern society, it seems as if we have more diseases of the mind, more complex ways of getting involved in creating delusion, but they all basically come down to the same three roots. So the treatment here is to learn how to uproot …
- Compassionate Duties… You’re focused on the body in and of itself, you’re ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s the standard formula. You stay with the body, right here, right now. You take one aspect of it that you experience, like the breath, and you stay alert to what the breath is doing, and how …
- The Ivory Intersection… So try to find a place, your own island in the midst of the flood, keeping track of the breath in and of itself, the body in and of itself, ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s the traditional formula. The world is still there, it’s just that you’re learning how to put …
- Gratitude, Goodwill & Generosity… The more greed, anger and delusion you can uproot from your own mind, the less often people have to suffer from your greed, anger, and delusion. This is why people support meditation monasteries like this. They see it as good for the world as a whole that people are training themselves. Here’s an opportunity to do this. They benefit too. So we’re …
- Unentangled Compassion… I can think about anything I want.” And it goes straight to things that get you riled up in terms of anger, fear, greed, lust. And so the effort here means learning how to drop those things, how to disentangle yourself from those thoughts. See them simply as events coming into the mind. And don’t get hoodwinked into thinking that they’re something …
- Appreciation… When we meditate and lessen our greed, anger, and delusion, we learn how not to be overcome by our moods and emotions. We realize that we have tools to use so that the emotion is not just a given that we have to accept, but is instead something we can learn to work with. We learn how to reshape the present moment in a …
- Doing, Maintaining, Using… You begin to see where your personal issues are, which things spark your greed, which things spark your anger, which things are still surrounded by delusion. These things are easier to notice if you stay with the breath. For one thing, when anger begins to arise in the mind, it’s going to make a change in the breath. There will be a catch …
- Question Your Perceptions… That allows you to question the perceptions that give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion, and the perceptions that serve the purposes of greed, aversion, and delusion. As you call them into question, you find that you open up a lot of understanding inside. So perception is a good aggregate to focus on, because it’s key to a lot of our defilements. There …
- Perceptions for Training the Mind… Then there’s the other activity, which is putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world—in other words, dealing with all the distractions that would pull you away from your topic. He provides perceptions for dealing with those, too. It’s good to remember that we have this body of knowledge, this body of perceptions that we can draw on. We …
- A Victory that Matters… This is why the Buddha said that it’s better to focus on the battles inside, battles over your own defilements, greed, aversion, and delusion. Those are the battles that can be won, and when you win, you don’t create any bad kamma. As for whether the people outside will acknowledge your victory, that doesn’t really matter. In fact, as Ajaan Lee …
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