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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. Perspectives & Priorities
     … your greed, aversion, delusion, and your irritation, or your wisdom and compassion? You want to keep in mind what the Buddha had to say about these things. That’s how you train a wise inner critic. Then you want to be alert, watching what you’re actually doing, so that you can check to make sure that it is in line with the Buddha … 
  10. Respect for What’s Noble
     … This is why we suffer.” Instead of simply falling in with our clinging, we have to step back and try to comprehend it—in other words, get to the point where we understand it so that we have no passion, aversion, or delusion around it. He says that there are four kinds of clinging. We cling to five things. They’re called “aggregates,” but … 
  11. Do Jhana
     … We feed off our greed, aversion, and delusion: There are all kinds of things we feed on. The problem is that we don’t really exercise much discretion or discernment in what we eat. Our feeding habits tend to be pretty voracious and haphazard. What we’re trying to do as we get the mind into concentration is give it better food so that … 
  12. For the Survival of True Happiness
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion, start in the mind, they’re reflected in the way you breathe. As you focus on the breath, you’ll see yourself using perceptions to stay with the breath. Directed thought and evaluation to stay with the breath. This sensitizes you to these processes in the mind. There are a lot of Tibetan teachers who say, “Why focus on … 
  13. A Trained Observer
     … This is where you’re encouraged to ask your own questions to understand your own greed, aversion, delusion, your own desires and passions, and to learn to develop some dispassion around them. Basically, it comes down to that old pattern of seeing the allure, seeing the drawbacks, and catching yourself going for the allure when you realize at the same time, “This is nothing … 
  14. Treasures from the East
     … Some people ask, when the Buddha lists the different causes for unskillful behavior as greed, aversion, and delusion, why doesn’t he list fear? That’s because some kinds of fear are actually skillful. It’s good to be afraid of the power you have to do something wrong, to do something harmful. This is a kind of fear that comes not from a … 
  15. Strong & Heedful
     … the delusion, the craving, and the aversion that make us latch on to things in the first place. So the problem lies inside, and we have to find the solution inside as well. And it’s useful to look at craving and delusion as forms of weakness, because the Buddha says the qualities that counteract them are strengths. The Pali word is bala, and … 
  16. Worlds to Watch Out For
     … They like their slavery to greed or aversion or delusion. So they put on blinders. They pretend that the Buddha never gained awakening. The Dhamma’s not there. The Sangha, they pretend, has not been here all along to show us the good example, to show that it’s not just somebody 2,500 years ago—but it’s a path that is still … 
  17. Independent of the World
     … The discernment that allows you to let go of your greed, aversion, and delusion is the highest form of relinquishment. And, of course, the calm, the satisfaction, the sense of peace and security that come with attaining nibbana is the highest noble calm. So we desire these things. But in desiring them, we don’t just wait for them to come at the end … 
  18. Detail Work
     … Turn it on to in trying to understand your greed, your aversion, your delusion. Understand the workings of the mind that may be getting in the way of your concentration. Take an interest in the skills that are needed. Concentration is not a dulling of the mind. If it’s done right, it sharpens things. Because it’s quiet, it allows subtle things to … 
  19. A Passion for the Path
     … What he means is that greed, aversion, and delusion cease. Your passion for fabrication cease at that point, because it’s done the work it needs to do. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing left. There is the awareness of awakening, and when you hit it, you realize that it really is the end of suffering. At that point you’ve thrown … 
  20. The Allure of Sensuality
     … The one thing that can do that is your greed, aversion, and delusion. You may ask yourself, “Why do I keep siding with those?” Think of that image in the Dhamma summaries, about the world being a slave to craving. That goes together with an image in the sutta it’s drawn from. It’s about a king who’s got everything he really … 
  21. The Message of Mindfulness
     … You need food in order to fight off the enemy—in other words, your defilements of greed, aversion, and delusion. Your mindfulness needs food, too. Your mindfulness is the gatekeeper of the fortress, watching whoever might want to try to come into the fortress, remembering who’s a friend and who’s a foe. Mindfulness, you know, doesn’t just sit there and watch … 
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