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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. A Cure for the Sluggish Mind
     … Or you’ll drift off into delusion concentration, where the mind is still, but there’s not much alertness, not much awareness—which is not what you want. So energize the body. Then look at the mind: Is it too energetic, or is it too sluggish? From that, figure out what needs to be done. If it’s too sluggish, think of the Buddha … 
  7. May You Forever Be Well
     … When you look at things in a certain way, what happens? When you listen to things in a certain way, what happens? If it has a bad impact on the mind, well, try to look in a different way, listen in a different way, so that you’re not stirring up more greed, aversion, and delusion. So virtue and right view are the foundation … 
  8. The Forerunner of All Things
     … You don’t simply fall head over heels into whatever state of becoming is being pushed on you by your greed, aversion, or delusion. In this way, staying with the breath makes you sensitive, and it also gives you some resistance. The benefits of having the mind in charge come from directing it in a skillful way. Think of that question the Buddha has … 
  9. Staying Grounded
     … At the very least, you’re not going to cause yourself a lot of delusion, greed, or aversion. And you’re less likely to get involved in any struggles and conflicts that go around these things. Conflict, the Buddha said, comes from the thought process he calls papañca. It’s a hard term to translate. Some people like proliferation, but the issue not so … 
  10. Judging Your Thoughts by What They Do
     … This means that even though you thought the action was going to be harmless, maybe there was some delusion in your motivation that you didn’t realize. So you’ve got to keep checking things back and forth like this. Notice: Nowhere does it say that the thought is to be judged by how it feels. Some unskillful thoughts can really feel bad, but … 
  11. Rapture
     … Why go out looking for trouble? Greed, aversion, and delusion are all looking for trouble. They’re like strong attacks of hunger and they’re never really satisfied. When you act on these things, they may provide a little bit of fullness and a little bit of energy, but then it goes. It’s like food that’s bad for your health. But here … 
  12. Values
     … Try to be very clear about the results of your actions.” That reflection is how you begin to see through the clouds of delusion that otherwise keep moving in, moving in, moving in all the time. When you can see through your delusion, you realize that it doesn’t have to be there all the time. This principle is what allows us to practice … 
  13. Training Your Minds
     … to deal with greed as one big defilement and take care of all forms of greed all at once.” Greed comes in many different guises. Anger comes in many different guises. Delusion comes in many different forms. And you’re going to have to learn how to deal with them all. After a while, in some cases once you’ve dealt with one, it … 
  14. The Uses of Pleasure
     … Or you just drift off into a sleepy state, or into delusion concentration, where everything is very still, very pleasant, but you don’t really know where you are. That’s a sign that you indulged too much in the pleasure, because actually the pleasure is there to serve a purpose: It’s part of the path, and everything you do on the path … 
  15. A Healthy Body Image
     … greed, aversion, delusion, lust, fear, jealousy, all the unskillful things that can come up. When you’ve got the strength, that’s the best use of your strength. So the body is good for some things. The Buddha didn’t bad-mouth the body all the timeHe just pointed out: What’s really good about it? What’s useful about it? What’s it … 
  16. Take Care
     … If you focus on the wrong kinds of things, they can give rise to anger, greed, delusion; and then the ripple effect goes rippling out. So, we’re learning a very important skill here as we’re meditating: being very careful to stay with the breath, not letting the slightest thing pull us off, not letting the slightest thing interfere. This is precision work … 
  17. Facing Danger & Hardship
     … One of the reasons is that the Buddha and the noble Sangha were free of passion, free of aversion, free of delusion, and for that reason, they’re free of fear. We should take heart in that they have faced dangers and were able to come out, at the very least, with their goodness intact. And we should follow their example. Another reason is … 
  18. The Path Is in the Details
     … Is there any greed, anger, or delusion in there? If so, watch out. You have to be willing to the test your intentions and to learn from your mistakes. All this is the nuts and bolts of the meditation, which may sound dull and uninteresting, but if you keep your awareness on this level, you find you have less and less chance of being … 
  19. Taking an Active Role
     … Greed, anger, and delusion can take root pretty easily if you’re not filling your awareness with mindfulness, mindfulness of the whole body. Other people’s energies can enter into your space as well if you’re not fully inhabiting it. Sometimes you’ll notice as you go to somebody’s house, you go to a room where people have been fighting, and you … 
  20. A Positive-Sum Game
     … But if you learn to gain some control over your mind so that it doesn’t go into areas that cause suffering, it doesn’t go into areas that cause stress, doesn’t go into areas that give rise to greed, anger, and delusion, impatience, fear, whateve: When you’ve gained the concentration, the mindfulness, and the discernment to see through these things, those … 
  21. A Slave to the Dhamma
     … After all, what do the defilements ask us to do? Anything for the sake of greed, anything for the sake of anger, anything for the sake of delusion. You look at the ways of the world, the way people cheat, lie, mistreat each other, mistreat themselves: That’s what the slavery to defilements is like. You do horrible things, things you’re ashamed to … 
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