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- In Memory of King Rama IX… Does this person have the kind of greed, aversion, and delusion that would make him or her claim knowledge of things that he or she did not know? Or would this person try to get someone else to do things that were not in that other person’s best interest? So you watch carefully. As the Buddha said, it takes time and sensitivity, powers …
- The Community of the Wise… Many of the attitudes that lead so easily to greed, anger, and delusion tend to be this way. So it’s important not only when you’re sitting and meditating, but also at any time when you see a particular attitude is pushing itself in the mind, when there’s an attitude that seems to be very strong, but it’s not all that …
- To Sustain Your Practice… How does that apply now? We live in a different environment, in a different world.” But you have to remember, greed, aversion, and delusion then, and greed, aversion, and delusion now are the same sorts of things. The good qualities of the path to fight those defilements are also the same sorts of things. There are certain things that don’t change, and the …
- In Touch with Your Fabrications… Verbal is how you talk to yourself, what you say about a particular situation that provokes greed, aversion, delusion, sorrow, envy—whatever the emotion may be. Then there’s mental—your perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the mental labels you use for identifying this as this and that as that. Sometimes these labels are individual words. Sometimes they’re pictures. Then feelings, in this …
- Farming Your Body & Mind… But you also want to take this ability to observe your mind into daily life, so that you can detect when an unskillful intention comes up, one that’s based on greed, or aversion, or delusion. You want to see it as it’s happening and try to catch it as quickly as you can—before it gets strong, so that you’re not …
- Speaking Truth to Defilement… Now, there are times, of course, when he says that if you say something that’s going to give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion within you, or would give rise to those mind-states in your listener, then you don’t say that. You learn to avoid it. The promise to yourself that you will not misrepresent the truth means that you have …
- How the Tree Leans… There are the four wrong courses, when you’re biased because of favoritism, biased because of antagonism, biased because of delusion, or biased because of fear. Those are directions you don’t want to go. Whereas if you develop the treasures of the mind—virtue, conviction, a healthy sense of shame, a healthy sense of compunction, learning, generosity, discernment: These things lean the mind …
- Undefeated Goodwill… Of course, where is their well-being going to come from? It’s going to come from their actions, so you don’t want to act in a way that deliberately inspires them, say, to break the precepts, or to give rise to passion, aversion, or delusion. When there are conflicts, you have to figure out, “How can I deal with this conflict in …
- An End to the Stories… You’re fighting with your own greed, aversion, and delusion—and all your attachments. The hardest attachments to let go of, they say, is the sense of having been wronged. There’s usually a desire to want to get back or, at the very least, to have the other side acknowledge that they did wrong. But remember, we’re living in a world where …
- Unattractive… But you have to ask yourself, why? What’s it all about? There’s a lot of self-delusion in lust. A lot of people think that when they’re lustful, they’re attractive. Others like to think they’re pretty clever. I’ve told you the story about the time when I was teaching in Indiana at a university there. A friend of …
- Dhammacentric… Comprehension is defined as putting an end to passion, aversion, and delusion. Abandoning the origination of suffering requires dispassion for craving. And the cessation of suffering is dispassion itself. So with those first three, you’re aiming at dispassion. You reserve your passion for the path, because you’ve got to do it well. That’s where the ardency comes in. Then you reflect …
- Responsible Conviction… That way, you begin to detect more and more precisely where there was delusion even in your good intentions. The effort you put into this is endeavor well spent. This, too, is something that’s good to believe. Otherwise, if you believe that your life is totally determined by forces from outside, you’re helpless. Or if you believe that you simply have to …
- The Buddha’s Encouragement… Or the mind gets drowsy, and you’re willing to drift into either sleep or delusion concentration, where it’s very quiet inside the mind but not very clear. You come out of it wondering, “Was I awake? Was I asleep?” And while you’re in there, you’re not really clear about what you’re focused on. There’s restlessness and anxiety. You …
- The Best Use of Your Time… Are you training yourself in greed, anger, and delusion, or are you training yourself in mindfulness and alertness? You’re constantly making these choices where you realize them or not. So that kind of thinking is the stick, to remind yourself you’ve got something better to do. And although the other results in the meditation may not appear immediately, they build up over …
- The Dhamma Points Inside… As he said after his awakening, he looked around and he saw beings on fire with the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. He felt compassion, because he’d been there, but now he was out. **That’s how you have to treat people who are insistent on still getting into battles. You don’t have to engage them in battles, but you do …
- Mundane Right View… If you can chip away at some of the greed, anger and delusion in your mind, the people around you are going to benefit a lot. This practice builds not only on generosity, but also on gratitude. If you open your eyes right now and look around, every material thing you see here is the result of somebody else’s generosity—maybe some of …
- Fear & Insecurity… to fear making unskillful choices—choices that are harmful for yourself, harmful for others, based on unskillful intentions, laced with greed, laced with anger, laced with delusion. Notice that the Buddha doesn’t say that fear is necessarily unskillful. It is one of the wrong courses, or agati. You can go wrong based on fear. But not all fears make you go wrong. After …
- What’s Real… We’re not constantly bombarded by the images meant to incite greed, aversion, delusion, lust, fear, whatever, that the media are churning out. But if we didn’t have the germs for those things in our minds, the media wouldn’t be able to do anything to us. Even when you’re sitting perfectly alone with your eyes closed, those germs can get into …
- A Refuge from Aging, Illness, & Death… Many of us are very driven, but we have the option to step back, look at our greed, aversion, and delusion, to look at our pride, and ask ourselves: “Are these the things that are going to take us to happiness? Can we really trust them?” This is why one of the Buddha’s most basic teaching is on the topic of refuge. We …
- A Happy Tradition… They had their greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes we read the biographies of the ajaans and it sounds as if they were born arahants, but that’s not the case. They had a lot of defilements they had to fight against. On top of that, they came from a society in which they were very low on the ladder. A lot of the teachings …
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