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- Healing Skills… our greed, our aversion, our delusion. So what we’re doing as we meditate is that we’re giving medicine to the mind, at the same time that we’re giving medicine to the body. They’re often two sides of the same coin. The breath energy in the body is often a reflection of what’s going on in the mind, and what …
- A Mental Fortress… If you see that looking at something or listening at something gives rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, learn to look in a different way. Listen in a different way. Bring some discernment to what you choose to focus on and how you approach things. After all, it’s not the case that the mind is perfectly still and perfectly calm, and then all …
- Opportunities Everywhere… After all, you don’t want to have to wait until greed, aversion, and delusion are really big and have moved in and claimed their space in your mind before you do something about them. You want to catch them when they’re just little tiny seeds, little tiny weeds, and uproot them right then and there. Like those burr plants we have around …
- Practicing from Gratitude… greed, aversion, delusion, flowing out of the mind. Our desire to be this or that: That comes flowing out of the mind. Discernment, when it’s fully developed, as the Buddha says, can cut these things, cut the flow, and the mind is no longer flooded by suffering. This, too, is a gift you give to yourself that you also give to the people …
- More than Mindfulness… As we hack away at these defilements—lust, aversion, delusion—it’s not the fact that we’re going to end them ourselves. We weaken them through our efforts, but we end them by following the path. The path leads to the deathless—and it’s that experience of the deathless that will cut them. But there was no experience of the deathless that …
- Motivation… Even though you may not be able to uproot all your greed, aversion, and delusion, the fact that they’re lighter, less forceful, means that the people around you are going to be less victimized by them. So if the mind says, “You’re being selfish, just looking after yourself,” you can reply that looking after your mind is not a selfish activity. The …
- Train Your Hunger (The Sea Squirt)… After you’ve fed the mind well on concentration, you begin to look at all the other things that would pull you out of concentration, and you see that there’s greed or aversion or delusion involved in going after those things. So, to get past them, the first step is to see, when the greed or the anger comes, how does it come …
- Good Fences All Around You… They want you to think that this is your greed, your aversion, your delusion, your way of looking at things. This is what you feel in your bones. They get into your bones this way, through the breath. That’s one of the reasons why we stay with the breath not only while we’re sitting here with our eyes closed, but also as …
- 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 …
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