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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. Noble Priorities
     … After all, national customs—the usual civilizations of human beings—are based on greed, aversion, and delusion. They’re based on defilement. Their priorities are different. So as you take on the practice, you have to realize you’re changing your priorities, and you’re going to have to step outside of your culture. This was one of the things I appreciated about Ajaan … 
  8. A Blameless Happiness
     … If it’s a happiness that depends on passion, aversion and delusion, that’s going to be blameworthy too. At the same time, if you’re inciting other people to kill, steal, have illicit sex, lie, take intoxicants, that’s a blameworthy way of finding happiness as well. It’s interesting that when the Buddha talks about benefitting yourself, he frames it in terms … 
  9. Comprehending Clinging
     … Comprehending means putting an end to our passion, aversion, and delusion around it. In the first noble truth, the Buddha defines suffering and stress, in its short version, as clinging to the five aggregates. When we hear that, we tend to focus on the aggregates—that we need to comprehend them. Which is true, we do, but we also have to comprehend clinging. In … 
  10. Learning Right Speech
     … There are a lot of things we could be saying that either give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion, in us or in the listener. With a truth like that, you leave it unsaid because it serves no purpose. Try to speak words that are true, that are harmonious, that are easy to listen to, and that really serve a purpose. So you have … 
  11. Goodness
     … As the Buddha said, one of the best ways you can benefit others is to get them to be interested in getting rid of greed, aversion, and delusion; to get them interested in following the precepts, so that they can take care of the one person that each of them is responsible for. But that’s an area where you have to use your … 
  12. Use Your Imagination
     … Greed, aversion, and delusion can come in 108 different forms, and maybe 108 is too small a number. If you want to just memorize a few principles and hope that those few things will take care of everything, the defilements will eat you up. You’ve got to be willing to come up with new ideas on your own. When you stop and think … 
  13. Recognizing Fools
     … He said, “It’s a good thing that you didn’t kill the monk.” But it shows that devas still have greed, aversion, and delusion. Even the great Brahma has defilements. There’s the story of the monk who goes to visit the great Brahma after getting visions of many levels of devas. He’s been sent up the deva bureaucracy because he’s … 
  14. Renunciation Isn’t Deprivation
     … Would he sleep well? And the young man he’s talking to says, “Well, yes.” But then the Buddha asks, “What about the fevers that are born of passion, aversion, and delusion? Could they keep him awake, keep him from sleeping well?” “Well, yes, that’s true.” The Buddha said, “In the mind of the Tathāgata, those fevers are banished.” In other words, the … 
  15. Accepting the Buddha’s Standards
     … So when we sit down to meditate, all of a sudden we find ourselves face-to-face with greed, aversion, and delusion. Part of us likes to defend these things, saying that they’re okay, that we have to accept them as a necessary part of life. But skillful acceptance means accepting the fact that you’re creating suffering for yourself and other people … 
  16. Inquisitive
     … As the Buddha said, we can use concentration as a pleasant abiding—in other words, just a nice place to settle in—but we can also use it to develop mindfulness and alertness, and to figure out how the mind can free itself of greed, aversion, and delusion. The breath is going to teach you those last two things only if you ask questions … 
  17. Noble Right Concentration
     … To comprehend it means to understand it to the point of getting past any passion, aversion, or delusion around it. Stress is defined as the five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. Where are you going to see those aggregates? You see them in the concentration. The breath is part of form. The feeling of pleasure that arises as you stay focused: That … 
  18. Understanding Aggregates
     … Elsewhere, he says that comprehension means getting rid of all passion, aversion, and delusion around them. In his second sermon, he shows how to do that. He talks about how the five clinging-aggregates should be seen as not-self. One argument is that they don’t lie within your total control. If there’s any disease in any of the aggregates, you can … 
  19. Your Higher Power
     … Otherwise your greed, aversion, and delusion, your fear and your lust—these attitudes in the mind, these emotions of the mind—come and take over. They take over the breath. They have their way of making you breathe so that you feel you’ve got to act on them. They hold the breath hostage. It’s as if they were saying, “As long as … 
  20. Delight in Striving
     … So if you have, say, greed, aversion, or anger coming in and taking over the mind, and they don’t go away when you look at them steadily, then you have to look at how you’re breathing. Especially under the influence of anger, our breathing tends to get irregular and very uncomfortable. All we can think about is how we want to get … 
  21. In the Context of the Path
     … We have to comprehend that—in other words, understand it to the point where we have no passion, aversion, or delusion around the suffering that we’re causing through our clinging. Of course, the clinging itself is caused by craving: craving for sensuality; craving to become, to take on an identity in a particular world of experience; or craving to destroy whatever identity you … 
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