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2. Play AudioThe Origination of Suffering
    … The other side of our task, of course, is to put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any thoughts about the world outside right now, you just put them aside. Remind yourself: What are those thoughts? The world itself, as the Buddha said, is simply sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations, and thoughts. And your thoughts about the world: Either they … 
3. Play AudioCheerfully Ardent
    … Put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Here your greed and distress related to the world might be that you’re too eager to get results, saying, “The amount of time I have here is so little. I’ve worked so hard to get here. I really want to see results of this right now.” Well, the results are going to … 
4. Play AudioGenerosity & Virtue as Skills
    … You can say No to your greed, you can say No to your possessiveness. This is especially true when you’ve given something, not because it was the holiday when people give things or you were under a compulsion to give, but because you just felt like giving. You saw something you had, and that someone else could use it well and would benefit … 
5. Play AudioHead, Heart, & Gut
    … Actions based on greed, aversion, and delusion are going to cause suffering. Actions based on the lack of greed, lack of aversion, lack of delusion can lead away from suffering. That’s one of the basic principles of causality. In fact, causality is so central to the Buddha’s awakening that when he gave the very shortest description of what he awakened to, it … 
6. Play AudioInterconnectedness
    … As you work through the processes that ordinarily would give rise to greed, anger, or delusion, you find that you can manage them in a way that doesn’t have to stumble into those unskillful states. At the same time, you find that the people around you are subjected to less of your greed, anger and delusion as well. The whole atmosphere surrounding you … 
7. Play AudioDamming & Diverting
    … In other words, greed, aversion, and delusion don’t start from things outside. It’s not the case that we’re just sitting here perfectly fine—passive and placid—and then something comes along and stirs us up. All too often we’re out there looking for trouble. The mind goes flowing out, looking for things that it can desire, looking for things that … 
8. Play AudioConcentration & Insight
    … Say you sense that there’s greed, anger, or delusion lurking around in the mind. The Buddha says if you really want to understand them to the point of getting past them, you have to understand not only their drawbacks but also their allure. Why is it that that particular state of mind is so attractive? Why are you willing to play along with … 
9. Play AudioThe Boundaries of Mindfulness
    … When you’re doing mindfulness practice, the Buddha tells you to put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Your frame of reference has to be either the body, feelings, mind, or mental qualities—dhammas—in and of themselves. That’s your territory. Every place outside of your territory is dangerous. So you want to stay grounded. You want to keep these … 
10. Play AudioInner Wealth Management
     … You don’t say that “I’m going to go past my greed by not doing any work at all.” That, as Ajaan Lee would say, is letting go like pauper. You let go and you’re still a pauper. When you realize that you need wealth, you do whatever is needed. As the Buddha said, your wealth is “earned with the strength of … 
11. Play AudioWhat to Tolerate, What Not
     … When greed comes, what is it like? When anger comes, what is it like? When delusion comes, how do you recognize that it’s delusion? When you’re clinging to something, you have to watch that: What is the clinging here? Why? This is why we work on developing our mindfulness and alertness: so that we can see these things and deal with them … 
12. Play AudioLessons for New Monks
     … All too often we let greed, aversion, and delusion have free rein as we look at things and listen to things. Our looking and listening is pretty much determined by what we like, so we’re feeding our likes. But then, as the Buddha pointed out, so many of the things that we like are actually suffering or the cause of suffering in and … 
13. Play AudioThe Five Hindrances
     … These two derive from the unskillful roots of greed and aversion as unskillful roots. The last three hindrances that derive from delusion. There’s sloth and torpor, a type of delusion that comes when your energy level is too low; restlessness and anxiety, the delusion that comes when you energy level is too high; and then, uncertainty. Ajaan Lee has an interesting analysis of … 
14. Play AudioThe Art of Right Speech
     … The Buddha said that if certain things, when you say them, give rise to greed, aversion, delusion in you or in the person you’re speaking to, or if your intention is to give rise to greed, aversion, delusion, you shouldn’t say them. Of course, you can’t be totally responsible for the other person’s response. But if you’re anticipating that … 
15. Play AudioStart with Yourself
     … If you can’t trust other people to behave well in difficult situations, how are you any different? How can you trust yourself? As long as you have greed, anger, and delusion inside the mind, especially delusion, you can’t trust yourself at all. This is why the Buddha’s way of improving the world starts from inside. You’ve got to start with … 
16. Play AudioBirth Is Suffering
     … how you put greed together, how you put anger together, how you put grief together. They’re all the same processes. So we’re looking at the process of construction to learn how to pull ourselves out of our constructs. That’s how we can pull ourselves out of this problem of birth. As the Buddha says, as you put these things together, you … 
17. Play AudioHelp Others, Help Your Mind
     … You do what you can not to provoke greed, aversion, delusion in yourself, and you don’t try to provoke greed, aversion, and delusion in others. As you do that, you develop qualities that will help you on your path, train both your heart and your mind to the point where you see that they really are part of the same thing, and that … 
18. Play AudioSorting Yourselves Out
     … What kind of happiness have you seen in the world, what kind of happiness have you gained from following your greed, your lust, your aversion, your fears? Then weigh those pleasures against the pain you’ve felt by following those things. Ask yourself: “Have you learned your lessons?” If one of these unskillful internal selves is coming on really strong, you need some tools … 
19. Play AudioPaying Off Your Debts
     … And you realize that by not getting them to break the precepts, or actually getting them to observe the precepts, and getting them to overcome as much as they can any greed, aversion, and delusion in their minds, that’s when you’re really being helpful. This is a gift of the Dhamma. Sometimes we think of the gift of the Dhamma simply as … 
20. Play AudioSignificance
     … As for the recipient, as the Buddha said, the best recipients are those who are free from greed, aversion, and delusion and those who are practicing for that purpose. Those are the people who will make the best use of the gift. But all this is optional. It’s up to you to decide how much skill you want to bring to the act … 
21. Play AudioLust
     … We like our greed. We like our lust. We like our anger. And so we nurture these things. We may not be consciously doing it as a practice, but it is a habit. It becomes a way of nurturing, of training the mind in that particular direction. But when we come to actually developing the factors of the path, somehow it seems awfully hard … 
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