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- Strength from Within… Regular culture is a culture of people with defilements shaped by greed, aversion, and delusion, whereas he wanted out of that culture. And the way out was to follow the customs of the noble ones. Ajaan Chah has a very interesting discussion where he talks about how controversial both Ajaan Sao and Ajaan Mun were for many years. People used to get into arguments …
- Gratitude & Trust… If things were very comfortable, very easy, and very convenient, you’d have no test against which to measure your greed, aversion, and delusion. But the hardships aren’t so overwhelming that we can’t practice: That’s the whole point. So that was his intention for starting this place. That’s the meaning of this place. To keep maintaining the meaning of the …
- A Pleasure Not to Be Feared… It’s not done with hate or aversion, it’s simply dispassion: You’ve found something better, something more solid, something more reliable, something less blameworthy, a pleasure that allows the mind to be clear rather than clouded. As you look at all the other pleasures you’ve been pursuing through your life, you begin to realize that they don’t nearly match this …
- An Island of Concentration… Greed, aversion, and delusion can swoop down and get you. So you do have to restrict your range of awareness. But then when you stay with the body as you get more and more firmly centered, you don’t have to keep it just at one point. The Buddha talks about mindfulness of breathing as a kind of concentration. When a monk came to …
- Study & Practice… It’s when you use some of the Buddha’s teachings to deal with your own greed, aversion, and delusion, and begin to gain a sense of what works: That’s when the Dhamma becomes your own. That’s when you really can say that you’re discerning. Otherwise, you just have the names of discernment, the ideas of discernment. But when you actually …
- Doubts… Any teaching, any mind state that would lead you to get involved in greed, aversion, delusion, and get you to break the precepts, you’ve got to say No. When he was talking to his stepmother, Mahapajapati Gotami, he went into more detail. Anything that leads to passion, getting fettered, entanglement, being burdensome, that leads to holding on to things that you should be …
- Learning Through Healing… It has its greed, aversion, delusion. It wears itself out with these things. And so we come here for the Buddha’s treatment. As we’re sitting here meditating, the first part of the treatment is to get the mind to settle down. Just be quiet for a while. The process of getting it to settle down is part of the treatment, the part …
- The Graduated Discourse… Can you imagine what the drawbacks of bad actions are? The drawbacks of acting on greed, aversion, and delusion? When you find the mind wandering off, try to think of these principles to re-establish your values or get them back in line with the four noble truths, so that you can actually apply the duties. These are not duties that are being imposed …
- Making a Refuge… You’ve got to have protection from your own greed, aversion, and delusion because these things are a lot more dangerous than anything anyone else outside could do. Sometimes we have people coming here to the monastery, and they’re thrown off by the animals around: the coyotes, the snakes. I keep reminding them that the coyotes and snakes don’t do much to …
- Verified Confidence… The roots of unskillful action are greed, aversion, and delusion. One of the ways you overcome uncertainty about the Dhamma is to look in your mind to see that when you act on greed, anger, or delusion, what are the results? When you act on their opposite, what are the results? This is where you have to be honest and very observant to see …
- The Need for a Purpose… The work of cleaning out your greed, aversion, and delusion is not a minor thing. And you’re not the only one who’s going to benefit. So, you learn how to tell yourself to be happy that you’ve got this seclusion. When the mind is beginning to settle down and part of it says, “Well, you’re not doing much thinking right …
- Evaluating Your Practice… Because the mind does have its tendencies—through the things it likes, or the things it’s averse to, or its fears, or its delusions—to go off course very easily. This is why the Buddha set up the Sangha, so that there’s an apprenticeship. You not only listen to Dhamma talks, you also live with someone who’s been practicing the Dhamma …
- In the Details… What is getting results? A defilement comes up in the mind—greed comes up in the mind, lust comes up in the mind, aversion comes up in the mind—and if you can look at it and it just drops away, you know you’re making progress. But if you find that it comes up and just latches on, and you have trouble shaking …
- Compunction… You cause harm to yourself by giving in to greed, aversion, and delusion. You might think of breaking the precepts as harming other people, because after all, you’re killing them or stealing from them, lying to them. But he said, no, that’s where you’re harming yourself. If you want to harm other people, you get them to do these things, because …
- Remembering Ajaan Suwat… Because you realize that you’re doing this not to make yourself better than other people, but simply because you’ve got these diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind. You need to cure them. Then there’s the fourth custom of the noble ones, which is to delight in abandoning and to delight in developing. In other words, you abandon unskillful …
- Judging Your Meditation… how to get the mind to settle down and be more patient, resilient; how to replace thoughts of ill will with goodwill, cruelty with compassion, resentment with empathetic joy, and irritation and aversion with equanimity; how to contemplate the body so as to overcome feelings of lust; and how to watch the inconstancy of everything in body and mind as a way of undercutting …
- A Dhamma Bucket List… They would have stayed with their greed, aversion, and delusion, and there’d be nothing special there to remember. But they took it upon themselves to say, “There are better things I can give rise to. These are these bad things I can let go of. And here’s my chance.” This is what’s really good about the Dhamma. It doesn’t make …
- Descartes’ Error… It can also be translated in a stronger way, disgust, in the sense of losing your taste for something—not so much an aversive state, simply that you’ve outgrown your old ways of thinking because you find that skillful of thinking gets genuine results. It really does make a difference. Ajaan Suwat used to quote a passage from the Pali Canon, “We’re …
- Protect Your Inner Center… For instance, when greed, aversion, or desire arises in the mind, sometimes it arises in a very weak form—so weak that you hardly notice it. But you may notice that something’s changed in the breath. Sometimes you’ll notice that the influence goes the other way: Something happens in the breath, there’s a tension you’re holding in a certain part …
- Pleasant Practice, Painful Practice… If you have a lot of passion, a lot of aversion, a lot of delusion, you really do have to look into this issue of how you’re attached to the body. One way of counteracting the attachment is to start thinking about all the unattractive and undesirable things that there are in your body. This is not to make you hate the body …
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