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- Birth 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 …
- Help 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 …
- Sorting 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 …
- Paying 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 …
- Significance… 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 …
- Lust… 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 …
- A Leap of the Heart… Your greed says, “Just one more thought of greed.” Your lust says, “Just one more thought of lust.” But there’s not even any water there. Or what little water there is, is certainly not enough to keep you going. And then all these thoughts are going to die regardless. So why are you willing to be their slaves? When you can think of …
- If These Walls Could Talk… We’re here to compete with our own defilements, our own greed, our own pride. So we learn to use the requisites of life, not to stoke our greed or stoke our pride, but to be content with what we have so that we can focus on the areas where we should not be content. This has to do with the fourth of the …
- How & Why We Meditate… Part of the mind will complain because, of course, the mind still has its greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s not the case that you sit down, close your eyes, and they all go away. They hide out for a while, but they’re going to come up again. And they’re going to complain: They’d rather do this, think that, go here …
- Perfection in an Imperfect World… He started out with greed, aversion, and delusion just like ours. But he was able to find qualities in his mind that he could develop: the resolution, ardency, and heedfulness that allowed him to get past those defilements. Now, we have those qualities in ourselves to some extent. Heedfulness is when you see the dangers that can come when you act in unskillful ways …
- Dhamma Medicine… that would send you to an insane asylum necessarily. They’re the basic everyday diseases: greed, anger, and delusion. These are big troublemakers in the mind because they cause you to see things wrongly. We think something may be in our best interest, but it’s not. Greed may cloud our vision, anger can cloud our vision, and delusion is the biggest cloud of …
- Smoothing It… A lot of them have to do with greed, aversion, and delusion. Our problem is that we delight in developing those things—the wrong things. We should learn how to delight in developing mindfulness—catching ourselves when the mind is about to go into something unskillful, and being able to say No. The developing and the abandoning go together there. Learn to see that …
- Stepping Out of Yourself… Are these things really true and beneficial, what they’re telling you?” If you have a sense of well-being with the breath, it’s a lot easier to step back and take that as your foundation, so that the hunger of your greed, the hunger of your aversion, and the hunger of your delusion are not quite so strong. Then you can question …
- Conviction in Charge… And are you sticking with that original intention to find that true happiness, or are you wandering off someplace else? And who’s in charge? Is your conviction in charge? Or is your greed, aversion, or delusion in charge—or somebody else’s greed, aversion, or delusion in charge? Because the mind is complex. It’s like a committee. It’s got lots of …
- Inner Negotiating Skills… Your greed, aversion, and delusion want to pull you off in different directions away from the path. So you need a healthy set of ego functions—in other words, internal skills for negotiating—so that you can get everybody on the same page. After all, every voice in your mind wants happiness—it’s just that they have very different notions of what that …
- Spread Goodness Around… You want to give to people who are free of greed, aversion, and delusion, or working on getting rid of their greed, aversion, and delusion.” In addition, you give in a way that you’re not harming anyone. In other words, you don’t steal something to give. You don’t give gifts to people who are actually going to be harmed by using …
- Independent Values… We like our greed. We like our anger. We’re comfortable in our delusion. Yet those are precisely the things that cause us suffering. When you realize this, you should develop an attitude where you’re willing to let go of these things. You see through them. You see that they have some attractions, but they also have lots of drawbacks. You learn to …
- Treasure Island… Focus on the body in and of itself, puttin aside all thoughts of greed and distress with reference to the world—just you right here with your body. Be ardent, alert, and mindful. Notice the order there in those three qualities: They start with ardent, Ardency is what makes everything skillful there, because mindfulness can simply be keeping anything in mind, skillful or unskillful …
- Common Sense… They can spark all kinds of greed, anger, and delusion. Sometimes the mind gets set on fire by just a single glance, or by listening to a single sound. It’s not the sights or the sounds or the smells that are the problem, though: The problem is the way you look at them, the way you listen. So you’ve got to be …
- Getting Yourself… They’re the customs of people with defilement, based on greed, anger, and delusion. He was more interested in the customs of the noble ones, customs that had been set down by people who had no greed, no anger, no delusion. So we take that as our guide. There’s nothing in the Buddha’s teachings simply to please people. All the teachings are …
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