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  2. Use Your Defilements
     … It takes advantage of your desires and aversions, and directs them in a good direction. It’s okay to want the mind to settle down, to be in concentration. It’s okay to want to gain total release. Those desires fuel the path. And it’s okay to be averse to suffering. You make use of these defilements in the same way that you … 
  3. The Path to the Top
     … Ananda and asked him, “Whose teaching is right? Whose teaching is wrong?” Ananda asked in return, “If someone teaches for the ending of passion or if someone teaches for encouraging passion, which one is right?” And the man said, “The one who teaches for the ending of passion.” “How about if someone teaches for the ending of aversion or if someone encourages aversion?” The … 
  4. Death Is Normal
     … In the same way, when the mind is attached to greed, aversion, and delusion, it’s going to burn. But when it can let go, it’s freed. Notice: The greed and aversion and delusion don’t latch on to us. We’re the ones latching on to them. When we let go, that’s how we’re freed. When you think about this … 
  5. Courage
     … He had greed, aversion, and delusion just like us. He had impatience. His practice had its ups and downs. But he didn’t let the downs get him down, even after six years of austerities, when he had pushed the limits of what a human being can do in terms of denying himself any kind of pleasure at all. At that point, he looked … 
  6. Food, Shelter & Work
     … So any little disturbance is potentially greed, aversion, delusion, fear, or jealousy. Sometimes it’s not much in and of itself, this little stirring in the mind. But there’s some other part of the mind that wants some action, wants a little greed, wants a little aversion, and takes whatever excuse it can get to go in that direction. You want to catch … 
  7. Therapy for the Mind
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion go through the mind, they leave their traces in the body: tightness here, tension there, blockage here. And because the body is so uncomfortable, it’s very easy to go running back to the greed, aversion, and delusion again. You don’t like being in the present moment, so you create worlds in the mind, little becomings. It’s … 
  8. Right Fear
     … Otherwise, you gauge the situation, and whenever fear does come up in the mind, you have to ask yourself, “Where’s the unskillful part of this fear? Is greed involved? Attachment to certain things—are you afraid you’re going to lose them? Where does aversion come in?—aversion to other people, other things you find fearsome.” As for the greed, it can include … 
  9. Family Ties
     … We’re all sloshing around in our greed, aversion, and delusion. And there’s nothing you can really do about other people’s greed, aversion, and delusion—especially if you haven’t dealt with your own. So you focus here where the work can be done and, at the very least, you can be a good example to others to show that it is … 
  10. What You’re Bringing
     … You notice that when the Buddha describes the factors that come prior to sensory contact, he doesn’t say things like greed, aversion, and delusion. Just things like intention and attention and perceptions and feelings. Now, this doesn’t mean there isn’t any greed, aversion, or delusion in there. There certainly is quite a lot. But we don’t see those factors in … 
  11. Resisting the Germs of Defilement
     … certain types of greed, aversion, delusion, lust. And normally we can resist them. But when our resistance is down, when it’s weak, they take over. There are other things that sneak into the mind and we don’t recognize them at first as being a problem. They move in and they take over. And only when you realize that you’re suffering from … 
  12. Fear of Others
     … Fear becomes unskillful when it’s tied up in greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s the kind of fear you want to get past. The fear that comes from knowing that your mind has unskillful habits and the conditions could come about where those unskillful habits might take over: That’s something legitimately to be feared. You want to train your mind so that … 
  13. Strengthening Conviction
     … There’s a lot in Western culture, that feeds on our greed, aversion, and delusion, that encourages our greed, aversion, and delusion. Like that cartoon in The New Yorker several years ago: A man is standing in front of a magazine rack, and the names of the magazines are all the seven deadly sins. Or like the billboard that used to be on I … 
  14. Magha Puja
     … When you’re not taking that much care about what you’re doing, it’s obvious that greed, aversion, and delusion are going to slip in. It’s when you gather the mind together: That’s when you begin to see, “Oh, this is the state of my mind right now.” Some people say they can’t meditate because their minds are too scattered … 
  15. Compassion for People on Fire
     … on fire with the fires of passion, aversion, delusion, running around setting fire to everything they touched. He felt compassion and goodwill, based on saṁvega, seeing that beings were already suffering from birth, aging, illness and death, and if that weren’t enough, all the added sufferings that come from greed, aversion and delusion. So when we think about the Buddha’s goodwill for … 
  16. The Whole Story
     … passion, aversion, delusion, with delusion the big one. Passion and aversion gain their power from delusion, which is not simply a matter of not knowing, but often a matter of lying to yourself, of setting up walls in the mind. Learning how to take down those walls and really tell the truth to yourself is what strips these roots of their power. For example … 
  17. The Dhamma Without Price
     … After all, the Buddha says that to be an object of someone else’s generosity, the ideal object of generosity either is free of passion, aversion, and delusion, or is practicing for the sake of freeing him- or herself from passion, aversion, and delusion. This is how you keep the Sangha alive. You make that your goal. Passion arises: What can you do to … 
  18. Nimble with Your Questions
     … If you find that attachment to food is a problem, maybe part of the problem is your attachment to aversion. So look at your relationship to aversion. If you find that sitting long periods is a problem, ask yourself: What is it in you that doesn’t want to sit long periods of time? And there will be a part of the mind that … 
  19. Restraint Leads to Freedom
     … It’s not the case that the mind is sitting around very innocently, free of greed, aversion, and delusion, and then something sparks it, provokes it. It’s out looking. It’s got a purpose. The problem is that its purposes are not always very clear: a muddled idea of maybe what happiness might be, and where you might look for it. But it … 
  20. Shame & Compunction
    There’s a famous passage in the Kālāma Sutta where the Buddha says that if you see somebody acting on greed, aversion, and delusion, breaking the precepts, you know that it leads to harm—harm for them or harm for others. You notice that it’s criticized by the wise. So you should abandon that kind of behavior in yourself. There are three things … 
  21. What Is Skillful?
     … If we do something unskillful, we—or a lot of people—will say, “Well, I did that because someone else did this.” But the Buddha said no, it comes from your own greed, aversion, and delusion. And that’s what we want to see, so we need to dig up those roots. To do that, first we counteract them. For instance, we counteract greed … 
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