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  2. The Energy You Broadcast
     … It could be greed flowing out, or anger flowing out, delusion flowing out. Or it could be mindfulness and discernment flowing out. That’s the choice you can make. It can be compassion flowing out, goodwill flowing out, or equanimity. Again, that’s your choice. The Buddha gives an extreme example. You’re pinned down by bandits who’ve taken a two-handled saw … 
  3. What’s Important
     … He fought against the institution of greed, aversion, and delusion in each person’s mind, starting with his own mind. So, when people make deprecating remarks—and it’s sad, sometimes we hear even monks making deprecating remarks—about people who sit with their eyes closed, we should remember that their attitude has very little to do with the Dhamma. After all, the Buddha … 
  4. Introduction to the Breath
     … He’d woken up from his delusions, form his ignorance. That’s the quality of mind we’re trying to develop here: to be awake to what we’re doing. When the breath starts getting comfortable, you can think of spreading the comfortable sensation throughout the body. In other words, find one spot in the body where it’s easy to keep track of … 
  5. Rightly Directed
     … If you leave the breath, it very quickly turns into delusion concentration, a state that’s comfortable, with a nice fuzzy feeling, but you don’t really know where you are. When you come out, you’re not really sure: Were you awake? Were you asleep? That’s not the kind of concentration you want. That’s one where the feeling of comfort has … 
  6. Turtle Meditation
     … If a thought was unskillful, if involved greed, anger, delusion, lust, jealousy, fear, or whatever, it will have an impact on the mind. The mind will quiver in a certain way that lets you know that this was unskillful. And the quivering doesn’t last just for a few seconds. Sometimes it goes on for a whole day. If you let yourself get involved … 
  7. The Sport of Wise People
     … We excuse it by saying, “Well, the mind needs a little time off, needs some rest, needs some entertainment.” But the fantasies usually involve passion, lust, greed, anger, aversion, ill will, or just plain delusion. You have to ask yourself “Haven’t you had enough of that? Isn’t there better entertainment?” How about the entertainment of learning how to breathe in different ways … 
  8. A Sense of Yourself
     … But there’s also the harm that comes by inciting greed, aversion, and delusion in yourself by the way you look at things or listen to things. How careful are you as you go through the day? What kind of fantasies do you indulge in? Are they actually helping you on the path or are they not? That’s an aspect of virtue, too … 
  9. No One in Charge
     … If you act on motivations based on greed, aversion, or delusion, there’s going to be suffering. If you act on motivations based on renunciation, non-ill will, or harmlessness, it pulls you out of suffering. So it’s not the case that, because there’s no purpose to things, there’s no pattern at all. You’re not totally free to shape things … 
  10. Disenchantment & Dispassion
     … Your ear is on fire, your nose, tongue, body, mind are all on fire—with the fires of passion, aversion, delusion, aging, illness, and death. Some people think that when the Buddha’s being very precise and philosophical, that’s his genuine teaching, and that his other, more metaphorical teachings—like the fires in your senses —are simply there to stir up your enthusiasm … 
  11. The Gift of Speech
     … But you don’t say harmful things, things that will destroy the relationship, things that will give rise to passion, aversion, or delusion, either in you or in the listener—**that’s what harms. There’s a big misunderstanding about this, especially in modern society. I read a book one time where someone said, “Well, the Buddha himself engaged in harmful speech.” What the … 
  12. Above the World
     … liking, hatred, delusion, or fear. Only when you can get the mind away from that spinning around can you keep it from tilting in those directions. It won’t get blown over no matter which direction the wind is coming from. That’s a mind you can trust—and a mind that other people can trust as well. So this is the purpose of … 
  13. Make Yourself Reliable
     … Your body has been so shaped by your mind and so shaped by your defilements that the body can’t be trusted as a source of knowledge, either, because your greed, aversion, and delusion have learned how to hijack your breath, and through the breath they get control of the hormones. So the way you feel your body from within often has nothing to … 
  14. The Gift of the Practice
     … And you learn how to end all passion, aversion, and delusion with regard to those things. That’s the first duty. With the second noble truth—the cause of suffering or the origination of suffering—the duty is to abandon it. Once you recognize the craving, let it go. With the cessation of suffering, the duty is to learn how to realize it, recognize … 
  15. Loving Yourself
     … You’ve got greed, you’ve got anger and delusion. Don’t let that depress you. Just realize, okay, there’s work to be done, and you’ve got the tools to do it. At the same time, you’ve got these different aspects of the practice—the precepts, goodwill, the meditation—as walls to run up against when you find yourself entertaining an … 
  16. Solid Inside
     … In other words, when you don’t give expression to greed, anger, and delusion, you yourself benefit, the people around you benefit. It all begins with how you relate to yourself inside. Start with something simple like the breath here. It’s where the mind and the body relate. If you learn to develop a sense of mindfulness and alertness here, a sense of … 
  17. In the Land of Wrong View
     … Your greed gets in the way, your aversion gets in the way, your delusion gets in the way. You start asking the wrong questions. Voices of others don’t stay outside. They come inside. And they’re sloshing around in your head right now. Now, the sources of right view are the voices of another—in other words, someone saying something that’s going … 
  18. Riding an Elephant to Catch Grasshoppers
     … just a lot of greed, aversion, and delusion, nothing very impressive. But when you clean those things out, you find that the mind is capable of a lot, and you don’t want to waste it on little day-to-day concerns. So remember, the state of your mind is the most important thing in your life. You want to protect it as best … 
  19. Right Here, Right Now
     … where the Buddha says that if someone actually puts the teaching into practice, develops the right level of alertness, the right level of mindfulness, and can clear away greed, anger, and delusion, there’s no way that that person could not come to the Dhamma. This is why, when he was teaching the basic principles of the Dhamma in the Wings to Awakening, there … 
  20. Friends with the Dhamma Wheel
     … That means understanding it so well that you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion around it. We don’t think that we’re passionate for suffering, but after all, the Buddha defines it as clinging or holding on. This may explain why there’s so much scholarship that really doesn’t like the four noble truths. You get people saying the Buddha never … 
  21. Rottweilers in the House
     … There are things outside that will aggravate greed, anger, and delusion in the mind when you bring them in. When these people come knocking on your door, you have to say, No, because you know that if you let them into the house, they’d stir up a lot of trouble. So you have to be very careful about, for instance, what conversations you … 
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