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- Fabrication… Other times you have to reflect actively on the drawbacks of that other world, of the thinking that creates it, especially if it’s thinking imbued with lust, aversion, delusion, or harmfulness. You’ve got to remind yourself, “What would happen if I thought about this for a while?” Well, you’d create certain habits in the mind, and once those habits are imbedded …
- Hobo Mind… This is what’s called delusion concentration—the Pali term is moha-samadhi. It’s pleasant, but it doesn’t accomplish anything in the mind. The real sense of well-being comes when you have this full sense of the body. All your nerves that get frazzled by being tense or being stressed out: When they’re allowed to experience a sense of fullness …
- Conceit Defanged… You have to remember that we’re each on the path because we have the diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. We’re here treating our diseases. We’re not here in a race. So if you have a virtue of any kind but then use that virtue as a means or the basis for looking down on other people, you’re using the …
- Wearing the Breath… The major issues are greed, aversion, and delusion. There are the hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, torpor and lethargy, restlessness and anxiety, uncertainty. These things happen to everyone. They can come into the mind, and you have to recognize them as hindrances; you don’t identify with them. But how much you want to recognize them to best get rid of them without …
- Two Eyes, Not Just One… They were clearing out their minds as much as possible to sense the animals all around in the same way that you want to sense the animals in your own mind—the animals of greed, aversion and delusion—because they may show up first in just little, tiny hints that there’s something going on. If you’re not really quiet, you’re not …
- Restraint… Who’s doing the gobbling? When you’re looking at something, what’s the purpose? Is the purpose in your best interest, or is it in the interest of greed, aversion, and delusion? If it’s the latter case, then you’re not really the one looking. Greed is looking. Anger’s looking. Delusion is looking. The more they take charge of the looking …
- On the Surface of Things… Of course, the fact of delusion raises the question of what’s hidden. A lot of what’s hidden is actually on the surface, but it’s hidden because it’s so fast. A little thought will appear in the mind and immediately disappear. Things will come together in the mind and they seem to form a block. But they’re very much like …
- The Equanimity of a Winner… They tell you to develop equanimity around the fact that you’ve got greed, aversion, and delusion. These emotions come and go, and you learn to be okay with that, and learn to let go of any desire for anything better than this. As Ajaan Lee would say, that’s letting go like a pauper. You don’t have anything and you tell yourself …
- Heedful of Small Dangers… greed, anger, delusion—all the unskillful mental states that can lead to unhappiness for ourselves, unhappiness for other people. Those are the dangers. To respect being heedful means that you realize you can make a difference through your actions. If you couldn’t make a difference, there wouldn’t be any need to be heedful. You’d just have to accept the fact that …
- Forest Bathing… It’s what your mind can do to itself—what your greed, aversion and delusion can do to you. The causes of suffering, as the Buddha said, come from within. We tend to focus on the pains and hardships that come from people outside, situations outside, the climate, the economy. But as Ajaan Lee once said, “Those are the shadows of real suffering. The …
- In the Light of Karma… But all too often we abdicate that power to somebody else, to greed, aversion, delusion, the voices in the mind that want to just go over old stories: “This person did this to me, that person did this to me, that wasn’t right, that wasn’t right.” We can carry these things for years. Sometimes we’re not even conscious that we’re …
- A Network of Goodness… The less greed, anger, and delusion you have roaming around in your mind, the less they’re going to go out and bite other people. Part of the Buddha’s genius was iin realizing that happiness can be found in such a way that the fact that you make yourself happy increases the happiness of others. So, when we think of the goodness that …
- A Full Range of Archery Skills… to recognize when something’s going wrong, to recognize when something’s going right, and not to give in to your greed, aversion, or delusion. That way, you can develop that third skill, which is to pierce great masses. This the Buddha says, corresponds to piercing ignorance, where you really see how you’re causing unnecessary suffering. You see that the problem lies inside …
- An Island above the Flood… In the same way, thoughts about the world can come into the mind, and if the mind has a lot of greed, aversion, and delusion, if it has all these floods flowing around inside, it can use those thoughts to drown itself. So you’re stepping out of that kind of thinking, taking on a becoming that can fend those things off. Ultimately, you …
- A Rare Gift… But if you straighten out your mind, it means that you’re not subjecting other people to your greed, anger, and delusion. If you straighten out your mind, and have a greater sense of ease, well-being—you’re not constantly piling all sorts of extra stress and suffering on top of yourself—then you’re in a better position to be helpful, to …
- Enlarged Awareness… There’s still an element of delusion even in this enlarged awareness, but it’s a lot less than in your normal reactions to things. So this is an important part of the training. It’s the first training in breath meditation. It’s something you have to will, and this is how you get to know intentions in the practice. In other words …
- Strength of Conviction: 1… Does this person have the sort of greed, aversion, or delusion that would get him or her to claim to know something he or she didn’t know? And if they do, well, you know they’re not people of integrity. The second test: Would this person try to get someone else to do something that was not in that person’s long-term …
- Dimensions of Right Effort… In some cases, all you have to do is look at an instance of greed or anger or delusion in the mind and as soon as you see it, it withers away. You don’t have to do anything. All you have to do is just see it. The seeing is the doing and that’s all the doing that’s needed. Other times …
- The Easy Way Out… the arrow of suffering, greed, aversion, delusion. We all want to find a way to take the arrow out. Some of us, of course, don’t realize that the arrow is there. We feel the pain but we think that it’s coming from something else. We grow up when we really realize that, okay, the arrow is here, and that we’re the …
- A Refuge in Quiescence… Our greed, aversion, and delusion present a lot of dangers. Our wrong views, wrong resolves, wrong actions: It’s because of these things that we need refuge. Traditionally, we talk about taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. In the Buddha’s time, it seems to have been a common pattern: People who knew nothing about the Buddha’s teachings would …
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