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- 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 …
- In Alignment… What you want is the Buddha’s middle, and it may be a little bit hard to get used to if we’ve broken precepts in the past, or if our life is involved in a lot in greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s like any process where, say, you try to get your body into alignment. You go for a treatment, and the …
- Using Perceptions… the perceptions that tell you that greed is good, anger is good—or maybe this case of greed is good, this case of anger is good or justified. The same for jealousy, fear, envy: There’s part of the mind that likes these things. It feeds on them. What’s the perception that makes them glamorous? What’s the perception that makes them attractive …
- Unskillful Thinking… The diseases here, of course, are greed, anger, and delusion; or passion, aversion, and delusion. If you learn how to develop your mindfulness, alertness, and discernment, you build up your resistance, so that when a sight comes into the eyes, you can see it for what it is. It’s just a very ephemeral kind of thing. It’s there for just an instant …
- The World Does Not Endure… You’re concerned just with, “What is it like having a body right here, right now?” The other thing you’ve got to do is to put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. To keep the mind on one topic, you have to remind yourself that there’s nothing out there in the world that’s really worthy of greed or …
- New Feeding Habits… Persistence requires that you learn to understand: “Why do I go for anger? Why do I go for greed?” When you come to understand these things, then the next time there’s a temptation to go for them, you realize, “No, I don’t need to go there.” You understand what the allure is, you understand the drawbacks, and you understand that you can …
- The Lessons of Good Kamma… It gives you practice in overcoming your greed, your aversion, and all the other unskillful attitudes that would get in the way of being generous and freely giving something away. You’ve lifted yourself above your defilements, and it was a free choice. This is why there are lots of rules for the monks around how they treat the generosity of lay people. Monks …
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