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- The Rewards of Right View… on fire with greed, aversion, and delusion; on fire with sensuality. Of course, when we think of beings on fire, it’s a vision of hell. Because if you hold in mind the perception of inconstancy—that gain, honor, fame, the things that people go running after because they’re on fire, are not really cooling, are not really going to solve their problem …
- The Conditions for Goodwill… Greed, aversion, jealousy: All of these things are just as natural as the good side of the mind. And the mind is something that can change very quickly. There are passages where the Buddha asks the monks, “Have you seen a moving picture show?” You look at the translation and you say, “This must be a mistranslation.” But it turns out they actually had …
- Who’s in Charge Here?… Laugh at your aversion. Laugh at your delusion. See how foolish they are. In the Canon, most of the humor is in the Vinaya, which is the section on disciplinary rules. You wouldn’t think with discipline that there’d be a lot of humor, but this is how they make discipline palatable. Like the story about the monk who gets so drunk that …
- Five Precepts, Five Virtues… If we’re free simply to follow our greed, aversion, and delusion, that’s a kind of slavery. But the freedom that comes when you realize, “Okay, I can choose my actions based on what the long-term results are going to be, and I have the inner strength I need to resist any temptation to go for a quick fix. I’ll stick …
- From Inconstancy to Dispassion… What is it missing? What is it going to be lacking if it can’t give into that particular kind of greed or lust or aversion, delusion, whatever? And then when you see the actual allure, why you went for it, then you can compare that with the drawbacks. Often we do know some of the drawbacks, but the allure is hidden. And because …
- Values of the Noble Ones… Whereas people who are trying to get rid of their greed, aversion, and delusion are going against the stream. So you’ve got to have some inner strength. This is why we take refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. The word for refuge in Pali, saraṇa, also means something you keep in mind. This is the mindfulness practice that will carry …
- A Conglomeration of Germs… If you use it in a way that gives rise to more greed, aversion, and delusion, that’s destructive. If you use it in a way that gives rise to kamma that harms others, that’s destructive, too. If you use it to meditate—to give rise to concentration, to give rise to discernment—or as a means for generosity and virtue, that’s …
- Equanimity as a Skill… You’re getting your mind under control, and you can develop qualities of discernment, mindfulness, and alertness to learn how to put aside your greed, aversion, and delusion. When you can do that, you benefit and the people around you will benefit, too. This is a part of your motivation for being here: that it’s going to be better for the people around …
- Rehab Work… the diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. We wound ourselves with things we do under the influence of these unskillful mental qualities. Although we may have picked up habits from the outside, in the same way that we can pick up germs from the outside, the act of choosing to follow the habits that others have modeled for us was our choice. Our resistance …
- The Skill of Renunciation… The whole point of concentration practice is that you can put the mind in a position where it has a sense of well-being inside, so that it’s happy to stay in the present moment—so that it can watch itself, see where it’s getting involved in greed, aversion, or delusion, even on very subtle levels. For that, the mind has to …
- The Larger View… So as you’re sitting here meditating and finding that thoughts of greed, aversion, or delusion come up—or fear, jealousy, whatever—you’ll always want to remember the larger picture. And regardless of what’s coming up and what your mind is telling you about how you have to obey these things, or fall in line with them, and regardless of what it …
- Mental Seclusion… The problem is that we’re a servant to our own greed, aversion, delusion, fears, resentments, whatever, so that even when we pull ourselves out of the world to come to a quiet place like this, we still find that we’re burdened. You want to give the mind an alternative way of relating to itself, so that it’s not a slave to …
- Timeless Practice… As you go through the day, notice how you look at things, how you listen to things, where you’re trying to stir up passions, where you’re trying to stir up aversion or delusion by the way you look, by the way you listen. If there’s somebody don’t like and you take delight in seeing that person do something wrong, that …
- What Right Mindfulness Remembers… basically greed, aversion, and delusion. You do let in skillful mental qualities: right view all the way down through right concentration. So mindfulness is not simply a matter of being open and accepting of everything that comes by or comes up or comes in. There’s another place where the Buddha defines mindfulness as the ability to remember, to keep in mind what was …
- Stay… We take in so much information, and so much greed, aversion, and delusion gets aroused—or not only gets aroused, but actually goes out looking for trouble. All of that in-and-out, in-and-out, wears down the mind. So now you’re finally trying to give the mind a place of balance, right here, right in the middle of everything, but not …
- Injustice… This means looking at the areas where you feel aversion, where you feel upset over the injustices of the world, and you have to learn how to bring your mind to equanimity in areas where you can’t be of help. Even where you can be of help, you have to be coming from equanimity. This doesn’t mean that you don’t care …
- The True Dhamma Has Disappeared… the quality that says, in Ajaan Mun’s words, “I don’t want to come back and be the laughingstock of the defilements ever again.” Greed, aversion, delusion, pride: These things have been laughing at us for a long, long time. And over the centuries, they’ve managed to create a lot of counterfeit Dhamma to make it even harder for us to ferret …
- Asalha Puja… There’s the first noble truth, the truth of suffering, and the duty there is to comprehend it—in other words, to understand it to the point where you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion around it. The duty with regard to the second truth is to abandon it. The duty with regard to the third is to realize it, and the duty …
- Heedfulness… It’s to get them to break the precepts, or intentionally get them to give rise to passion, aversion and delusion. That kind of thing, he said, is harmful to them. In other words, you don’t treat them simply as objects of your own actions. You realize that they, too, are agents, and they’re going to be experiencing the results of their …
- The Current News… Instead, we should be getting worked up about the fact that greed, aversion, and delusion are taking charge of our own mind, and yet we’re not doing anything about it, or our efforts are half-hearted. You want to give full attention to what’s happening right here, because right here is where you’re responsible, and this is where you can make …
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