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- The Body In & Of Itself… This is called putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. After all, at the moment, all those worlds are just fabrications, total fabrications. You think about your friends: Your friends aren’t here right now. You think about issues at work: They’re not here right now. They’re just baggage you’re fabricating and carrying around. What is here right …
- For Your Benefit Here & Now… The voices that are on the side of greed, aversion, and delusion don’t advertise themselves as greed, aversion, and delusion’s henchmen, but they are. You have to learn how to recognize them. Ajaan Suwat used to say that our problem is that we see pain as our enemy and craving as our friend. It’s actually the other way around. If you …
- Undomesticated Happiness… It’s when you get them to break the precepts, get them to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion in their minds. You avoid that. You help yourself by observing the precepts and getting rid of greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind. That’s how far our responsibilities go. When we try to extend them beyond that, it all gets very vague …
- Blessings… You want to see where it is in the thoughts where they hook you—especially things like greed, aversion, delusion, fear, grief, or jealousy: When they hook you, why do you go with them? What’s the appeal? And if you go with them, what are the results? The Buddha himself said that he got on the right path to awakening when he learned …
- Expanding Your Awareness… When you focus on looking at things in such way as to give rise to lust or anger or greed, you narrow your awareness down to very small details, the little things that excite lust, the little things that provoke your anger. You lose sight of the larger picture. Expanding your awareness helps to keep that larger picture in mind. At the same time …
- Chanting Before Meditation… The other function of right mindfulness is what the Buddha calls putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world, which is one of the reasons we have chanting before the meditation to bring our minds away from the concerns of the world, and more to the concerns of the Dhamma. We start out with reflections on the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the …
- Antidotes for Narcissism… If we can get to the point where we have less greed, aversion, and delusion, we’re not the only ones benefiting. Other people are suffering less from our greed, aversion, and delusion. If we get to the point where we don’t have to feed at all, it takes a huge burden off of everyone else. So instead of thinking about yourself as …
- The Inner Saboteur… not that there’s anybody standing behind us shaking us, but there’s a part of us that’s actually afraid of what would happen if we no longer had any greed, aversion, or delusion. What would happen if we really got good at the practice? What then? There’s a part of us that’s afraid that we would get away, depriving us …
- Turtle Mind… It allows you to understand your mind, to get over your delusions, and not be subject to your greed, aversion, and all the other unskilful mental states there are, and yet at the same time not be harmed by the world.
- Facing Your Responsibilities… When the mind is straightened out, then the effect that you have on the world is not colored by greed, anger, delusion, jealousy; all those other unskillful states that can come along in the wake even of your generally well-intentioned efforts. Because as long as the mind doesn’t really know itself, unskillful states can sneak in in all kinds of disguises. And …
- May All Beings Be Heedful… It’s only when they give rise to more greed, aversion, and delusion: That’s when they’re a problem. Which means that when you genuinely wish for your happiness and the happiness of others, you’re not saying, “May you be happy in whatever way you lie.” You’re saying, “May you be happy in skillful ways.” “May all living beings be happy …
- Anupassana… Sometimes you see a little bit of greed, a little bit of aversion, and you realize, okay, the insight has been tainted. You’ve latched on to it. Ajaan Lee’s method for dealing with insights as they come like this is to ask yourself: To what extent is it true and to what extent is it false? To what extent is the opposite …
- True Freedom of Speech… speech that’s not a slave to your defilements, not a slave to your greed, to your anger, or your delusion. It’s speech that’s free to be harmonious and wise.
- Hold on to Your Frame of Reference… Sometimes it’s because of greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of going back to your old surroundings, and all the associations from those old surroundings begin to take over. So one of the main qualities we’re developing as we meditate is this ability to keep something in mind. The word for “meditation” in Pali, bhavana, actually means to …
- Open Are the Doors to the Deathless… You can enjoy them and they don’t excite, greed, aversion, or delusion. Others are not okay. So you have to judge the pleasures against another standard, which is: What impact do they have on the mind? The same with pain: As he noted, some people have to practice a painful path, which can mean two things. One is that getting the mind still …
- Discipline… You keep focused on the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, and mindful—subduing greed and distress with reference to the world. In other words, whatever the affairs of the world right now, you just put them aside. Don’t let them take over. Don’t let them invade. Of course, the world isn’t invading you. Your thoughts of the world are …
- Steal the Dhamma… generic greed, generic anger, generic delusion. We’re dealing with specific instances of these things. You have to know how to deal with the specific instances. A lot of that has to do with your ingenuity, your ability to think like a thief: to watch, observe, try things out. You might say you’re here to steal the Dhamma. The Dhamma is proclaiming itself …
- Toughen & Tenderize the Mind… You also see your own defilements—where your greed, aversion, and delusion come in. The important thing is not to get discouraged; not to get depressed. This is where the other emotion that the Buddha recommends comes in, which is pasada, which is confidence—confidence that there’s a way out, that there’s a solution to the problem. Having this confidence allows you …
- Always in Training… When unpleasant feelings arise in the body, or strange energies arise in the body based on greed, aversion, or delusion, you can breathe through them, just as you breathe through a painful or blocked sensation in the body as you’re here meditating. It may be too much to be aware of the whole body as you’re going through the day, but it …
- Conviction & Confidence… After all, what could be more interesting than your own greed, aversion, delusion, and the mind’s tendency to lie to itself? You want to figure out why it likes to lie and why it likes to be lied to. What’s going on there? You’re creating suffering for yourself, and you’re doing it willingly, largely because you don’t see the …
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