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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. The Joy of Heedfulness
     … no inordinate greed, no ill will, and developing right view. These are the things that you shouldn’t underestimate. They can do a lot of good for you. Even little things, like generosity: You think of ways in which you can add to the goodness of the world, even if it’s just immediately around you. When I was at Wat Dhammasathit, especially during … 
  17. Desire Is Part of the Path
     … In the description of right mindfulness, which is basically the Buddha’s prescription for how you do right concentration, he says you keep track of the body in and of itself—and an aspect of the body would be the breath—ardent, alert, mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Greed and distress cover all the unskillful attitudes you might … 
  18. As They’ve Come to Be
     … One is staying focused on, say, the body in and of itself, or feelings in and of themselves, or the mind in and of itself; and the other is putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. The first emphasizes the focus; the second protects the focus, but each combines tranquility and insight in a different way. The Buddha recommends a five … 
  19. A Willingness to Learn
     … learning how to read the mind, how to notice, okay, when there’s greed, when there’s anger, when there’s delusion, when there’s too much desire, when there’s too little desire in the practice. Because the whole purpose of meditating, giving the mind a topic to focus on, is not that you study just that topic. You also learn how to … 
  20. The Equanimity of a Victor
     … As he said, it’s “the unexcelled victory in battle.” We’re doing battle with our defilements, battle with our misunderstandings about what happiness is, our misunderstandings about what suffering is, battle with our greed, aversion, and delusion—which means that there’s work to be done. It’s in this context that we develop equanimity: the equanimity of a searcher, the equanimity of … 
  21. Dedicating Merit
     … If you have less greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind, you’re not the only one who’s going to benefit. Other people will benefit from the fact that they’re not the victims of your greed, aversion, and delusion anymore. The second way is when you’re more deliberate and conscious of what you’re doing to spread that goodness to others … 
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