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- Over the Pass… So the sense of confinement that comes with restraint is for the purpose of freedom—because after all, what are you confining? You’re confining your greed, aversion, and delusion. Things that should be confined. You might make a comparison with being in a countryside that’s very desolate, and there’s a range of mountains between you and a land that’s pleasant …
- The Treasure of Equanimity… Traditionally, this chant is one way of developing equanimity, although it’s useful to note that there’s a passage in the Canon where the Buddha talks about ways of dealing with aversion, and one way is to develop equanimity. Another is to reflect on the principle of karma – that all beings are the owners of their actions. So for him, these were two …
- The Noble Truth of Suffering… But when the Buddha defined comprehending, he explained is as meaning understanding suffering to the point where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around it. We might not think we have passion for our suffering, but remember that definition: clinging. We cling to things we desire. We cling to things we have passion for. We feed off of these things. In fact, that …
- Modest in Manner, but Not in Goals… After all, if you’re not acting on greed, aversion, or delusion, you’re not harming anyone. You’re setting a good example. And sometimes just being around you will calm people down. So this is your responsibility right here, directly, which is one of the reasons why the Buddha says that modesty is a virtue on the path. We’re not doing this …
- Educating Equanimity… It needs a foundation, so that when you’re letting go, it’s not out of neurotic fear or hatred or aversion. You’re letting go out of understanding. You’re letting go because you realize there is something better. You’ve been holding on to middling pleasures, minor pleasures, and in so doing you’ve been missing out on the greater pleasures that …
- Don’t Objectify… Your old friends—greed, aversion, and delusion—can come knocking on the door, and you’re not as interested in them as you used to be. You’ve got new friends. You’ve got directed thought and evaluation, you’ve got pleasure, you’ve got rapture or refreshment, singleness of mind. These are much more interesting friends and they’re much more reliable. So …
- Against Your Type… There’s the passion type, the aversion type, the delusion type, the intellectual type, the gullible type, and the worrying type. In listing these types, Ajaan Lee is obviously uncomfortable with them. He treats them because they were in the standard Dhamma textbooks that had been disseminated all over Thailand by that time, and which in turn were based on the commentaries. In fact …
- Mindfulness + Discernment = Intelligence… When you’re looking at something, are you fettering yourself by the way you look? Is that what you want to do? In other words, if there’s passion for what you’re looking at—it can be passion either in a positive way or passion in the sense of being aversive: Is that the effect you want? Here again, you’re looking at …
- Sensitive to the Mind… They’re still suffering from greed, aversion, and delusion—and the way to solve those problems was found a long time ago. So that’s a tradition that’s worth maintaining. So look at your mind: When the Buddha talks about the steps of breath meditation that deal with the mind, the very first one is to be sensitive to the mind as you …
- 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 …
- Right Speech, Inside & Out… Your friendship with your greed, with your aversion, with your delusion: Those are friendships you want to break. So here again, you have to be very discerning in how you apply this principle. The same with harsh speech: You don’t want to beat yourself down; you don’t want to discourage yourself and say that you’re hopeless. But there are times when …
- 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 …
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