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  2. Circumspection
     … We’re told to be truthful, but how truthful is truthful? As the Buddha said, there are times when you know that if you say the truth about a certain matters, it’s going to give rise to greed or aversion or delusion, in which case you don’t talk about it. This doesn’t mean that you lie about it. You find ways … 
  3. Virtues & Values
     … The less greed, aversion, anger, and delusion you have in your mind, the less these things will come out in your actions, and the less other people will be affected. If they’re interested in the practice, they’ll find it easier to stick with the practice, too. The Buddha gives the example of two acrobats. One acrobat is standing on the end of … 
  4. Death World
     … There’s a passage when he talks about how we can give rise to desire, aversion, delusion very easily if we don’t think about the consequences of those things. We should stop and think: “What will be the consequences if I give in to this desire? Or if I focus on things that would give rise to the desire, in such a way … 
  5. Feeding on the Breath
     … It doesn’t give rise to a lot of greed, aversion, or delusion. In fact, as you’re feeding here in the present moment, you’ve got a good reliable source of food here. The mind’s in a good position where it can start observing things about itself, all the processes that are going on in this process of feeding. When you understand … 
  6. Where Your Mind Gravitates
     … In other words, go back and look in more detail at your lust, at your anger, at your delusion, but come from a position where the mind is feeling relatively well fed, relatively secure, more soundly based, more soundly grounded, so that you can see things a lot more clearly. It’ll be less and less inclined to want to fall in with your … 
  7. Get Out of Yourself
     … Now, if you think of mindfulness as meaning awareness, you wonder how you’re going to be aware outside of somebody else’s breath or aware of their greed, aversion, or delusion, or their feelings of pleasure and pain. But that’s not what mindfulness means. It means keeping something in mind. And here the reflection to keep in mind is that whatever you … 
  8. A Strong Post
     … The fact that we’re stronger having this sensation inside, and we can maintain it inside, means that we’ll be less likely to act in unskillful ways, less tempted to give in to our greed or aversion or delusion as they come welling up in the mind. The Pali word āsava means “things that flow out.” Sometimes sensual desire flows out of the … 
  9. Lessons from Generosity & Virtue
     … They also remind you also that you’re capable of overcoming some of the mind’s more blatant forms of greed, aversion, and delusion. As the Buddha pointed out, the way we define ourselves as beings is around the act of feeding. To maintain your identity, you have to eat physical food, but there’s also mental and emotional food that you take in … 
  10. Truthful & Observant
     … Your delusion is displaying itself. You just don’t notice. You don’t see these things for what they are. There’s an open story going on, but we’re hiding from the story. We’re refusing to see it because our attention is elsewhere. So you’ve got to turn around and look at what you’re doing, look at the results of … 
  11. Settling In
     … Ajaan Lee calls it “cool electricity.” It’s not like the hot electricity of your greed, anger, and delusion. It’s the cool electricity of awareness, being aware of the whole body breathing in, the whole body breathing out, so that your home is clean and bright. Try to breathe in a way that gives you a sense of fullness. That puts food into … 
  12. Shoulds & Desires
     … And when the mind settles down, it’s a lot less likely to be hungry to act on greed, aversion, and delusion. So again, you’re giving safety to other beings. We’re looking for happiness in ways where there’s no clear line between who benefits and who doesn’t benefit. You, of course, are the prime recipient of the goodness of your … 
  13. Staying True
     … And you don’t want to have your mind hijacked by greed, anger, or delusion at that time, so you want to work on training the mind, developing the good qualities you’re going to need to withstand these defilements. What this means is that in order to maintain the truthfulness of your original decision to stay here, you’ll need some discernment. You … 
  14. Focus on the Precepts
     … To comprehend them means to understand them to the point where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around them, and you comprehend them through applying these perceptions. The perceptions are actions—they’re a type of karma—applied to the aggregates with a specific purpose. As the Buddha said, the aggregates do have their pleasant side. But if you focus on their pleasant … 
  15. The Path Has a Goal
     … If a practice leads to unskillful behavior rooted in greed, anger, and delusion; unskillful behavior in taking life, breaking any of the precepts, having wrong views, having greed, ill will, any of these things: Realize that that path of practice leads you to a bad place, so don’t go there. Follow the path that actually gives good results. This whole pattern of cause … 
  16. Merit: Goodness of the Heart
     … You’re going to be less prey to your greed, aversion, and delusion—because an important part of the meditation is that when you make up your mind to stay with the breath, you’re going to have to fight off your distractions. What used to be normal thinking suddenly becomes something you’ve got to fight. It makes you more sensitive to ways … 
  17. The Path is Fabricated
     … She says that whenever an insight comes into the mind, you have watch to see what arises next—and what arises next and next, because often, as soon as an insight comes in, another defilement like pride or delusion comes in and takes it over. If you don’t catch that, you’re missing a lot. That closes off the path. There’s something … 
  18. Skillful Desire
     … When the mind has a sense of comfort inside, then it’s not so willing to run along with greed, aversion, delusion, fear, or any of the things that make it go off course. My teacher had a student, a woman, who had cancer. And she had it for twenty years. She’d get cancer in one part of the body; they’d cut … 
  19. An Ennobling Pleasure
     … They’re less subject to your greed, anger, and delusion. As you find more and more of your needs for happiness satisfied here, you’re going to impose yourself less and less on other people. Now, the Buddha does mention the dangers in getting stuck on jhana. He says it’s not the danger in doing the jhana, doing the right concentration, simply that … 
  20. The Mind Set Tall
     … because of delusion, the things that the mind hides from itself. And the reason it hides them from itself is because it really is painful to look at them. This is why we need to practice concentration, to let the mind get really firmly settled, so that it can be in a place, an inner space, where it’s willing to look into what … 
  21. The Brightness of Life
     … in the aggregates, in the different forms of fabrication, first in areas where it’s really obvious—when there’s greed or aversion—and then in the less obvious areas, where there’s delusion. He gives you the tools for taking these things apart and for understanding them and getting beyond them. That’s the whole point of this: We’re going beyond just … 
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