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  2. Adjust the Flame
     … Now, dispassion is not aversion. It’s simply realizing that you’ve outgrown something. This is how we outgrow our childish habits. There are a lot of things that when we’re children have an appeal, but as you begin to grow up, you realize that the appeal is very meager, whereas the drawbacks are pretty great. Think of all the candy you ate … 
  3. Goodwill for the Whole Committee
     … Then it’s a lot easier to let go of some of the unskillful voices without a lot of aversion. In that way, you can make peace. Remember that all those identities in your head of who you are, what you have been, are actions, are choices, based on different skills you’ve had, different desires you’ve had. Your idea of who’s … 
  4. Strengthening Concentration
     … Why is it that greed, aversion, and delusion can still have power over the mind even when you’ve learned so much about their drawbacks? What’s still their gratification? What can you do to wean yourself off that? Can you teach yourself new ways of feeding? This is up to your own ingenuity. But that’s how you strengthen your concentration. You come … 
  5. Virtue Fosters Concentration
     … In other words, learn how not to identify with every instance of greed, aversion, and delusion that make you want to look at this or listen to that. You have to look at where the desire to look is coming from. And where is it going to lead? What is it going to do to your mind? Instead of just following your likes and … 
  6. Duties
     … You read about the minds of arahants—their task done, no passion, no aversion, no delusion, not suffering, no limitations—and that seems very far from the mind you’re experiencing right now. This is called renunciate grief, the grief you feel when you realize that there is a deathless goal that others have attained, but there’s a lot you need to do … 
  7. The Right Time at the Right Place
     … Think about how much you use your eyes especially, now in this age of screens, taking in all kinds of harmful information—things that are designed to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion. Those nerves need to be rested. They need to be soothed. So here you have the chance to close your eyes, soothe those nerves, soothe all the different organs in … 
  8. What You Can’t Change, What You Can
     … We take our greed, aversion, and delusion for granted. We take our normal everyday state of mind for granted, thinking that that’s the way things are. And yet that’s something that can be changed. So we have to stop and take stock: What are the things we can change, what are the things we can’t? The fact that things are inconstant … 
  9. Overcoming Delusion
     … greed, aversion, delusion. And of the three, delusion is the hardest, because by definition you don’t know when you’re deluded. It’s not that you don’t know anything at all. You have your ideas, but the ideas go against what’s actually happening. Fortunately, the problem isn’t that we’re deluded, say, about the cosmological constant or the meaning of … 
  10. Addictive Thinking
     … Thoughts of greed, thoughts of aversion, thoughts of delusion—thoughts by which we harm ourselves—are addictive. You wouldn’t think that we’d develop these addictions, but we do. It’s partly out of force of habit and partly out of an inability to imagine ourselves doing anything anyway else, thinking anyway else, feeling anyway else. So in the meditation, we have to … 
  11. Respect as a Sign of Intelligence
     … They’re trying to go straight for your greed, aversion, delusion. So you have to resist their message. This is why we try to keep the Buddha’s teachings in mind. He says true happiness is possible. Sometimes it comes by having to do without, but you gain a lot in return. There are greater happinesses and lesser happinesses in life, and the wise … 
  12. The Challenge
    They say that when the Buddha gazed the world after his awakening, he saw all beings as on fire—on fire with the fires of passion, aversion, delusion, aging, illness, and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair. That’s what the world looks like to an awakened person, someone who has found true peace, true happiness. The nature of fire is that it … 
  13. The Value of Effort
     … And why the flavor of a text like the Dhammapada is the heroic flavor, because it takes heroic determination to face down your greed, aversion, and delusion. As you sit here meditating, you could be just allowing whatever comes to come and pass away, pass away, that’s it; or you could be actively trying to work on concentration. Nobody’s forcing you. The … 
  14. A Happiness Based Inside
     … Like the discourse just now, “The eye is burning,” he said, “with the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion, with the fires of birth, aging, illness, and death, sorrow,” and all the rest. It wasn’t his nature to simply badmouth things. He pointed out the drawbacks of sensuality because he wanted to point you to the fact that there’s something better, something … 
  15. Strength to Be Good
     … And you want to have that at your fingertips, so that when something bad comes up in the mind—greed, aversion, delusion—or something good comes up, such as rapture, you can remember how to handle it. If you’ve had experience in the past, then you apply what you’ve learned. The basic principle with regard to rapture is that whatever comes up … 
  16. To Be Sure
    The Buddha had lots of names for the state of mind free from passion, aversion, and delusion. Nibbana, “unbinding,” is only one of them. Its meaning is freedom. That’s one of the attributes of that state of mind. Another attribute is one of safety. Refuge, harbor, the secure: These are some other names of that same state. That’s what we’re looking … 
  17. Factors for Stream Entry
     … Does it give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion ? Then there’s something wrong. If it makes you difficult to maintain, if it makes you be burdensome on other people, then there’s something wrong. You look for a Dhamma that gives you good reasons to behave in skillful ways. Then when you’re heard the Dhamma, the next factor is appropiate attention. This … 
  18. Seven Facets of Discernment
     … As they relate to greed, aversion, delusion. We have to learn these lessons by being observant. When you’ve learned something, figure out what’s the right time to apply it—because sometimes you can learn a lesson that will be good for some situations and not for others. We develop our powers of concentration, our powers of mindfulness, our powers of discernment so … 
  19. How to Be an Admirable Friend
     … You keep your passion, aversion, and delusion – to some extent at least – within proper bounds. If you’re not able yet to get rid of these things entirely, at least you can get some control over them. As a result, you’re going to benefit, and the people around you benefit as well. This is why meditation is a friendly activity, not in the … 
  20. Meaning & Purpose
     … The pleasures of the senses can get us all wound up in greed, aversion, and delusion, and we end up doing a lot of unskillful things. But the pleasure that comes from breathing in a comfortable way has never led anybody to kill or steal or have illicit sex, to lie or to take intoxicants. It’s a safe pleasure, a nourishing pleasure. So … 
  21. Reflecting on Karma
     … The happiness where there’s no greed, aversion, or delusion to make you do foolish things with your good fortune. So when you see people who are abusing their good fortune, take it as a lesson. Maybe someday you’ll be there too, having good fortune. And for your own sake you want to make sure you don’t abuse it. This kind of … 
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