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  2. Conceit Defanged
     … You have to remember that we’re each on the path because we have the diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. We’re here treating our diseases. We’re not here in a race. So if you have a virtue of any kind but then use that virtue as a means or the basis for looking down on other people, you’re using the … 
  3. Moral Intelligence
     … If we allow the mind to wander into thoughts of greed, aversion, delusion or sensuality, ill will, harmfulness, then we’re going to suffer—and eventually other people will suffer, too. So our efforts to control the heart here, bringing it into line, choosing an object to stay on: It’s moral issue. We don’t usually think about it, but that’s what … 
  4. Wearing the Breath
     … The major issues are greed, aversion, and delusion. There are the hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, torpor and lethargy, restlessness and anxiety, uncertainty. These things happen to everyone. They can come into the mind, and you have to recognize them as hindrances; you don’t identify with them. But how much you want to recognize them to best get rid of them without … 
  5. Two Eyes, Not Just One
     … They were clearing out their minds as much as possible to sense the animals all around in the same way that you want to sense the animals in your own mind—the animals of greed, aversion and delusion—because they may show up first in just little, tiny hints that there’s something going on. If you’re not really quiet, you’re not … 
  6. Mindful of the Buddha’s Shoulds
     … This is the path we’re on right now—focusing on the body, just the body in and of itself, as it breathes in, as it breathes out, ardent, alert, mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. We keep this frame of reference in mind so that we don’t get entangled in the greed and distress that come with … 
  7. The Equanimity of a Winner
     … They tell you to develop equanimity around the fact that you’ve got greed, aversion, and delusion. These emotions come and go, and you learn to be okay with that, and learn to let go of any desire for anything better than this. As Ajaan Lee would say, that’s letting go like a pauper. You don’t have anything and you tell yourself … 
  8. Heedful of Small Dangers
    Those who see danger and respect being heedful: one of the passages in the chant just now. What danger is it talking about? Most dangers come from within: greed, anger, delusion—all the unskillful mental states that can lead to unhappiness for ourselves, unhappiness for other people. Those are the dangers. To respect being heedful means that you realize you can make a difference … 
  9. Forest Bathing
     … It’s what your mind can do to itself—what your greed, aversion and delusion can do to you. The causes of suffering, as the Buddha said, come from within. We tend to focus on the pains and hardships that come from people outside, situations outside, the climate, the economy. But as Ajaan Lee once said, “Those are the shadows of real suffering. The … 
  10. The Dhamma Channel
     … our own greed, aversion, delusion, our own desires, our own craving. We broadcast out, looking for satisfaction for our wants, satisfaction for the needs we have, and it’s just I, I, I like the little traffic cone in the article in The Onion: I, I, I important! I, I, I want this; I, I, I need this. All you hear are the rays … 
  11. In the Light of Karma
     … But all too often we abdicate that power to somebody else, to greed, aversion, delusion, the voices in the mind that want to just go over old stories: “This person did this to me, that person did this to me, that wasn’t right, that wasn’t right.” We can carry these things for years. Sometimes we’re not even conscious that we’re … 
  12. Borrowed Wealth
     … There’s a goodness that you share with people around you, added to the fact that you need to feed on them less and less, and you’re subjecting them less and less to your greed, aversion and delusion. But there’s also goodness for beings you can’t see. Ajaan Funn one time was talking about how beings filled space the same way … 
  13. Toward Release
     … The other activity the Buddha calls “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world”: All your thoughts about what you want out of the world or your past disappointments with the world—put those aside. The problem is that we’re very quick at picking them up again. Even though a lot of those issues are not right here right now, we … 
  14. Cleaning up Your Personal Environment
     … So why are you sending your attention out to look? Why are you sending it out to listen? Sometimes we’re looking for something to excite our lust or greed or anger. You have to be very careful about that. Again, think of your state of mind when you meditate. If you’re cluttering it up with all these defilements in the course of … 
  15. A Network of Goodness
     … The less greed, anger, and delusion you have roaming around in your mind, the less they’re going to go out and bite other people. Part of the Buddha’s genius was iin realizing that happiness can be found in such a way that the fact that you make yourself happy increases the happiness of others. So, when we think of the goodness that … 
  16. A Full Range of Archery Skills
     … to recognize when something’s going wrong, to recognize when something’s going right, and not to give in to your greed, aversion, or delusion. That way, you can develop that third skill, which is to pierce great masses. This the Buddha says, corresponds to piercing ignorance, where you really see how you’re causing unnecessary suffering. You see that the problem lies inside … 
  17. A Sense of Direction
     … The best way to deal with that is to realize, well, the roots of unskillful behavior are greed, anger, and delusion. And particularly delusion: The mind doesn’t even know itself. So ask yourself, well, what does it know? Bring everything back to basics. Focus everything right here. Is the breath coming in? Do you know that? Well, yes. Is it going out? Do … 
  18. The Real World
     … And the desire to do a lot is not called greed. It’s called initiative. It’s one of the virtues of finding happiness in this life. And in showing initiative in things like generosity, virtue, and meditation, you guarantee happiness in future lives. That goodness can even take you beyond lives—present, past, and future. That’s when it gets really good. We … 
  19. A Rare Gift
     … But if you straighten out your mind, it means that you’re not subjecting other people to your greed, anger, and delusion. If you straighten out your mind, and have a greater sense of ease, well-being—you’re not constantly piling all sorts of extra stress and suffering on top of yourself—then you’re in a better position to be helpful, to … 
  20. Getting Out of Karmic Debt
     … When you start looking for ways in which you can undercut your lust, undercut your greed, undercut your aversion, undercut your fear, jealousy, all these things, try to see that as a game, as a sport. That’s what will carry you through. So even though you recognize your debts, it doesn’t mean you have to be grim about them. In fact, grimness … 
  21. The Hall of Mirrors
     … This is why an important part of the meditation is that phrase in the description of right mindfulness: “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” In other words, you’re not playing with the monkey out there. You’re not trying to steal berries from the birds. You’re trying to understand this process of what it means to look into … 
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