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  2. Delusion Concentration
     … The primary thought in people’s minds is: “How can I get through these hours as pleasantly as possible?” The mind finds a little place—it’s called delusion concentration—where there’s a sense of ease, and the mind’s not doing any work at all. It’s just very, very still. You go to hide out there, but you don’t really … 
  3. The Buddha’s Medicine
     … The problem, though, is compounded by the fact that one of the main diseases in the mind is delusion. And it’s the nature of delusion that you don’t know you’re deluded. So as a good precaution, you have to go on the assumption that as long as there’s suffering, as long as there’s stress, you’re still suffering from … 
  4. Look After Yourself with Ease
     … As the Buddha said, to act for your own benefit, one, you try to overcome your passion, aversion, and delusion; and, two, you observe the precepts. It’s interesting: We tend to think of the precepts as ways of protecting others from our unskillful habits, and that is true, but the real protection of the precepts comes to us. When we don’t do … 
  5. Fires of the Mind
     … burning with the fires of greed, anger, and delusion; or the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion. One of the reasons we’re here is because we feel that our minds are on fire and we’d like to put them out—because passion is like a fire. Aversion is like a fire. Delusion is a little bit harder to compare with a fire … 
  6. A Refuge from Modern Values
     … The mind— through its greed, anger, and delusion—so quickly picks up the ideas out there that foster more greed, anger, and delusion. If our minds were truly pure, if you really did have that wonderful Buddha nature that deep down inside is so true and good, this wouldn’t happen. It would be incorruptible. But the mind is corrupted. It’s defiled. What … 
  7. Greed for Outer & Inner Wealth
    When the Buddha lists the qualities that set the mind on fire, the list is passion, aversion, delusion. When he lists the qualities that are the basis for unskillful mind states, he has a different list, similar but not quite the same: greed, anger, and delusion. The big difference there is between the greed and the passion, because not all passion is unskillful. After … 
  8. Dualities
     … greed, aversion, and delusion. We don’t like to hear the word “defilement” applied to our minds. It’s as if we’re being harshly judged. But the Buddha’s like someone coming into your house and telling you that the walls of your house could be cleaner. And certainly, it’s when you realize that, yeah, there is soot on the walls and … 
  9. Practical Wisdom
     … So greed, anger, and delusion arise around the pleasure and pain, and then the greed, anger, and delusion have an impact on your subsequent actions, your subsequent intentions. This keeps the cycle going around and around in directions that tend to lead to suffering. The greater the defilement, then the greater the suffering—because when your mind is clouded, it’s hard to make … 
  10. One Person
     … Basically it meant that you inspired them to observe the precepts, to try to develop their minds so that they could get rid of passion, aversion, and delusion. That’s not an easy thing to do. So it’s no wonder he said he would rank those who were able to assist themselves—i.e. those who did practice the precepts themselves and were … 
  11. Training Your Cynical Voices
     … Be skeptical about your cynical voices, as you should be skeptical about your greed, aversion, and delusion. There’s a fair amount of aversion in the skepticism and the cynicism. And there’s a lot of delusion, thinking that you’d be better off not doing the practice, or resting, not driving yourself so hard. What this comes down to is that you’ve … 
  12. The Mind's Immune System
     … And as for delusion, that usually centers on feelings that are neither pleasant nor painful: neutral feelings. You don’t pay much attention to them. You don’t really see them, because you’re out looking for the pleasure and trying to push away the pain. The neutral feelings seem unimportant, and so a lot of delusion comes into the mind right at that … 
  13. Bad Friends Inside
     … You’ll notice that when there’s greed, anger, or delusion, your breath changes. It’s not comfortable. It feels tense or tight in different parts of the body. This is one way to work around these different emotions. Every emotion has lots of components, and you want to learn how to take it apart. There’s the mental side and there’s the … 
  14. Restraint Leads to Freedom
     … When you look at something, why are you looking at it? Who’s doing the looking? For what purpose? Is greed doing the looking? Anger? Delusion? Or is wisdom doing the looking? What is your purpose in doing these things? This is one of the insights you’re going to have to develop as you meditate as it gets deeper and deeper and more … 
  15. Resisting the Germs of Defilement
     … and delusion. I saw a cartoon one time: A man was standing in front of a magazine rack, and the different names of the magazines were the seven deadly sins. You can probably think of the same sort of thing with the different unskillful mind states the Buddha talks about. There are magazines for anger, magazines for lust, magazines for greed, magazines for delusion … 
  16. An Hour of Bliss
     … You think about all the suffering in the world that comes from people acting on greed, people acting on aversion, people acting on delusion—and here you’ve got a mind that’s perfectly capable of acting on greed, anger, and delusion, too. So you want to train it. And these are the tools for the training: mindfulness, alertness, ardency. Mindfulness means keeping something … 
  17. Nurturing Your Inner Adult
     … They’re curious about the fact that when the Buddha lists the roots of unskillful behavior, there’s greed, aversion, delusion—or passion, aversion, and delusion. But where’s the fear? For so many of them, fear is the unskillful emotion. Well, that’s not necessarily the case. Actually, there are some good things to be afraid of. Be afraid that you’re going … 
  18. Self Esteem
     … The problem is when fear is conjoined with greed, anger, and delusion. The greed, anger, and delusion are what create the problem. Fear in and of itself can often be skillful. After all, a lot of the Buddha’s teachings are based on the very rational fear of the suffering that comes with aging, illness and death. There’s the word, “ottappa,” which means … 
  19. How to Save the World
     … The things you have to watch out for are greed, anger, and delusion. We were talking today about a person who was teaching that now that Buddhism has come to America, it should get rid of these teachings that look down on greed, anger, and delusion—as if somehow American greed, anger, and delusion were different or better than Asian greed, anger, and delusion … 
  20. The Uses of Fear
     … greed, aversion, and delusion. Some psychotherapists have asked why he didn’t list fear as the fourth, because psychotherapy tends to see neurotic fear as the primary source of mental illness. Why didn’t the Buddha have the same understanding? Because he saw that fear has its uses. It’s not always unskillful. If you go into a forest, it’s right to be … 
  21. You Can’t Clone Awakening
     … You want some particular idea that sounds nice, or you’re averse to certain things in your daily life that you want to just push aside and be rid of, and the whole thing gets wrapped up in delusion. So when you’re cloning awakening, delusion is what’s doing the cloning. It’s all fabricated out of delusion and ignorance. This is why … 
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