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  2. Help Others, Help Yourself
     … Your greed, aversion, and delusion don’t go prowling around the neighborhood, disturbing the neighbors. Other people benefit, too, from your practice. But in that sutta, the Buddha isn’t talking just about how helping yourself helps others. He also talks about how helping others helps you. Unfortunately, there’s no image to illustrate the principle, which is why that part of the sutta … 
  3. How Right Mindfulness Leads to Right Concentration
     … Well, why think about it at all? We don’t know how much time we have, but we do have this time right now, so why don’t we make good use of it? You realize that that thinking, if it’s involved with greed, aversion, delusion, lust, or fear, is a waste of time. So you bring the mind back. If that thought … 
  4. Death Is Normal
     … It takes us off into greed, into aversion, into delusion—all kinds of places where we really don’t want to go. So we need the ability to step out. You jump out when you realize it’s not a good car to be in and the driver’s not trustworthy. This is how you jump out safely: You just jump back to the … 
  5. The Importance of Being Truthful
     … And to recognize that they’re bad is not a form of aversion. It’s a form of heedfulness, which is the beginning of all that’s skillful, realizing that if you keep on acting in unskillful ways, you’re going to suffer, the people around you are going to suffer. But keep it on that level: just the action. When you see these … 
  6. Today Is Better than Yesterday
     … In the same way, your mindfulness and concentration working together enable your discernment to pierce through all the flimsy arguments that greed, aversion, and delusion will churn out. It’s in this way that, regardless of how good yesterday’s meditation was, today’s meditation is going to be better. Not only because it’s today’s meditation, the one that you can actually … 
  7. We’re All Learning the Ropes
     … That way, when we leave the world, we leave on good terms, not out of aversion but with a sense of mature dispassion that comes when you realize that you’ve done enough. That particular job is done. The world itself will never be perfect, but we’ve paid off our debts. That’s another good thought to keep in mind. We’re all … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. Large-hearted
     … We can come out victorious over our greed, over our aversion, over our delusion. It’s something human beings can do. As he said, if human beings couldn’t do this, he wouldn’t teach it. The fact that he taught it means that we can.
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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