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- The Kamma of Self & Not-self… What am I doing to make this experience worse? Sometimes you’ll find that there’s greed involved, sometimes aversion, sometimes delusion. Who’s responsible for those things? You can’t go blaming your parents, you can’t go blaming society, because that will take you nowhere. If you look for what you’re doing in terms of your greed, anger, and delusion right …
- Do, Maintain, Use… Things like greed, aversion, delusion, fear, impatience, boredom—how do they come to be? What are the steps in the process? To what extent are you contributing to them? And that means, to what extent can you stop contributing? See what happens then. Insight has to be reflective like this. It’s not a matter of seeing the world outside as being inconstant, stressful …
- Games the Mind Plays… And that’s when the work of discernment begins, in figuring out: “What is this coming up? Is this some suppressed wisdom that’s coming up or is it some suppressed greed, aversion, and delusion coming up?” And remember, the path is not going to just come up and push you to the end. Your discernment has to be in charge to keep reminding …
- The Power of Choice… You first have to learn how to make a skillful sense of self before you can take it apart skillfully and not in a neurotic or aversive way. You train yourself to look at what true happiness means, what it’s going to require. It may require some sacrifices in the present moment, it may require that you take other people’s desires into …
- Choices in the Present… I don’t have to go feeding in all those old places anymore.” That way, when you let go, it’s not letting go out of disgust, disappointment, or aversion. It’s simply that you’ve matured. Your skill level has taken you to a higher level. Ultimately, it will bring the mind to a point where it doesn’t need to feed at …
- Concentration Work… If there’s still greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind, what are you going to do? They have to be dealt with, and you need concentration in order to deal with them. Otherwise, they’ll come on strong and overwhelm you. When they’re clever, you won’t even realize that you’ve been overwhelmed. So to get past these things, you’ve …
- Here to Learn… If you induce people to have greed, aversion, and delusion on purpose, okay, that’s harm. If you induce them to break the precepts, that’s harm. But if you hurt their feelings, sometimes it’s skillful and sometimes it’s not. So learn how to make distinctions like this. Learn how to develop the quality that the Buddha calls patibhana. It’s a …
- Compassionate Duties… You have greed, aversion, and delusion. They’re causing harm to you; they’re causing harm to others. Those are your responsibilities, so you focus on what you’re responsible for. Remember, one of the Buddha’s definitions on the difference between a fool and a wise person: A fool takes up duties that don’t fall to him or her. A wise person …
- Look after Yourself with Ease… It’s not by just being nice and saying, “Okay, greed, aversion, and delusion, I want to be nice to you.” We’ve got to realize that these things cause you harm. They make it hard for you to look after yourself with any genuine skill. So learn to look after yourself with ease, skillfully, so that you can taste some of the higher …
- Skills for Dying Well… the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. You want to put out your confusion. **And you want to do this well. So at a time like that, you drop all your other thoughts, your concerns about other people, your concerns about your future, your regrets about the past. Tell yourself, “See? Here I’ve been meditating all this time, and here’s the test …
- Unentangled Compassion… They’re not going to be subject to your greed, aversion, and delusion as they have been in the past. So the meditation is not just a gift to yourself. It’s a gift to everybody you encounter. And it’s a very independent kind of compassion. So try to keep these points in mind as you practice, until you reach the point where …
- The End of Karma… It’s an analogy, the difference being that when the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion go out in the mind and you’re freed from them. They don’t get lit again. The important part of the image is that you get freed by letting go. Just as the fire is not trapped in the fuel, it’s trapped by its own clinging …
- Training Your Moods… It’s your greed, aversion, and delusion doing the looking. As you use those things in the course of the day, you’re strengthening them. Whereas when you’re training the mind, and you’re really serious about the training, you have to weaken them. So when you’re looking, you ask yourself, “Why are you looking? What are you looking for?” When you …
- Visakha Puja… The Buddha is not just being negative or aversive, he’s just saying that these things are not enough to satisfy the heart, because the heart’s true desire is for a happiness that lasts. The basic message of his life is that that desire is something worth respecting. Don’t get disenchanted with that desire. It’s something you want to hold on …
- Defiant Like the Buddha… Greed, aversion, delusion: With these kinds of things, the Buddha said, “Put them out.” But there’s one negative mind state where he says, “Allow yourself to express it as long as you feel that something is accomplished”—and that’s grief. That one, he says, actually can be converted into something skilful. As he says at one point, it’s because of our …
- Possessiveness… The Buddha then took that as an opportunity to call the monks together and tell them what was needed to keep the community together, to make sure there wasn’t going to be an easy prey to the forces of greed, aversion, and delusion. So the story starts with a sense of the fragility of the Dhamma. Once the Buddha passes away, it could …
- Samvega & Pasada… pleasure based on greed, pleasure based on aversion, pleasure based on delusion. That can be very chastening as well. There’s a word in Pali, samvega, which is very difficult to translate into English. Part of it is a sense of dismay: looking at your life realizing, “I’ve been spending a lot of time pursuing mirages.” And not only that, but also causing …
- Purity… greed, aversion, and delusion; sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety, doubt about what you’re doing. Get those things cleared out. Then there are subtler defilements—just the little wanderings of the mind. You clean those out. The question is, what do you clean out of the mind? Whatever is obviously not a good thing to have there, you clean …
- Generosity & Virtue as Skills… But when you set up the rule for yourself that you’re not going to misrepresent the truth at all, then if you come across something that really would be harmful to talk about—and the Buddha recognizes there are some things that when you talk about them give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, either in yourself or in others—you want to …
- Discernment on the Path… That way, greed, aversion, delusion, conceit, and all the other things that can spoil your insights won’t be able to get a handhold. Another image is of the rafters of a house. Discernment is the culminating factor in the five strengths and the five faculties. The other four—conviction, persistence, mindfulness, and concentration—are the rafters that you put up. But they’re …
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