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- Finding Balance… For instance, if you’re feeling drowsy or beginning to wander off, what can you do to focus your attention more squarely on the breath? Sometimes it happens that as the mind begins to stay with the breath, it just lets go of everything and goes into state called delusion concentration, where it’s calm and peaceful, but you’re not very mindful. When …
- Universal Truths… Wherever there’s stress, you try to comprehend it. “Comprehending” here means understanding it and knowing it so thoroughly that you abandon all passion, aversion, and delusion around it. As for the cause of stress, you try to abandon it. With the cessation of stress, you try to realize it. And the path, you try to develop. That’s why the Buddha has you …
- Worry… And either the concentration disintegrates or you move into what’s called delusion concentration, where you’re still, quiet, but you don’t really know where you are. There’s no alertness. No ardency. In that case, you’ve been overcome by the pleasure. The right course is that when there’s pleasure, you learn how to use it as a source of inner …
- The Goldsmith… The big problems come down to greed, aversion, and delusion. And as you get to know the mind, you begin to recognize when which of these is operating. But in the beginning, it’s going to have a lot of details and a lot of other idiosyncratic ways of doing things, going out of bounds, coming back. This doesn’t happen only when you …
- Forging a Path… For a while you just find that there’s greed, aversion, and delusion in ways that you didn’t really imagine or you didn’t readily admit to yourself. But you keep on digging deeper and deeper, and peeling things away, and you finally do get to things of real value inside. There’s a sutta where a monk is meditating, and he gets …
- The Flow of Time… The part of the mind that pushes for greed, aversion, and delusion knows how to squeeze the breath and to make you feel that you’ve got to give in. So you’ve got to learn how to undo the squeeze. Work on breathing in a way that feels spacious, that feels soothing to the body, strengthening to the body, calming you when you …
- Watch the Mind at the Breath… When greed, aversion, and delusion come into the mind, you use your mindfulness and ardency to put them out. One of the advantages of staying with the breath like this is that you detect these fires when they’re small sparks, tiny little flames just beginning to get started, and you can snuff them out before your head catches on fire. So try to …
- Ups & Downs… Sometimes the mind seems so clear and settled that you think it will never go back to its old greed, aversion, and delusion ever again. And then of course it does. Part of the reason, of course, is that you got complacent. When you get something good, do your best to protect it, maintain it. When things aren’t going well, remind yourself that …
- Firm in Your Intent… Our greed, aversion, and delusion give rise to all the circumstances that cause us to keep coming back like this. We feel a hunger; we feel a lack. One of the purposes of the meditation is to develop strength inside, so that we have a sense of enough. The lack comes from a desire for happiness, but still, the Buddha says that that desire …
- Stop Weaving… In other words, greed, anger, and delusion arise in your mind as a result of either an experience of pleasure or an experience of pain, but you can decide to not act on them. That takes restraint. And often with restraint, we feel a kind of pressure: “You’ve got to act on this.” The restraint is pushing against your impulse to act, which …
- True for What Purpose?… As he admitted, these things do have their pleasures, but focusing on them in that way just gives rise to more passion, aversion, and delusion. Instead, you could focus on their drawbacks: that no matter how well you fashion them, there will still be parts of them that you can’t rely on, parts of them that will be stressful, parts of them that …
- Medicine – Timely & Timeless… What’s it sick with? Greed, anger, and delusion. And this is the treatment. It has its different stages. You try to get as constant and easeful and controlled a state of mind as you can. You’re actually fighting against those three perceptions. But it’s only when you fight against a truth that you know how true it is, how far it …
- To Depend on Yourself… But if you’re on top of things—right there at the breath, because that’s where you’re going to be seeing things very clearly— you realize that you really do have choices, they really do matter, and you can learn from your past mistakes, because that’s the only way we’re going to get through delusion. A lot of us would …
- Happy to Be Here… Those little movements of the mind—a little bit of greed here, a little bit of aversion there, delusion, jealousy, fear: You want to catch these things when they’re still new and weak so that you can begin to see, “Why does the mind go for them?” We know that some of these what the Buddha calls “defilements” are things we like. Others …
- Mindstorms… No matter what else comes into the mind — greed, anger, delusion, despair, depression, regret, or fear — it’s just part of the mind. There’s also another part that’s just aware of these things, but it tends to get blocked out when strong emotions come in. Still, it’s always there, like the hum of the refrigerator always there in the background. Or …
- It’s Good to Talk to Yourself… where your greed is, where your aversion is, where your delusion is, where your lust is, where your fears are. You get to the point where you’re not driven by those things because you can step back. That’s an even greater level of calm. So we’re pursuing both calm and insight because you find them together. The important thing is that …
- Focus on What You’re Doing… greed, aversion, delusion—all kinds of things. We’re doing it all the time, to the point we’re not really conscious of what we’re doing. So when we sit down to meditate, we want to be conscious of what we’re doing with the mind right now. That way, you begin to see the steps in the process. You’d like to …
- Acceptance Isn’t the Issue… One of the first things he saw as he surveyed the world was that beings were on fire with the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion. So he didn’t see it as his duty to accept them. He saw it as his duty to make a change so that they could know how to put out those fires. He was really on a …
- Noble Priorities… After all, national customs—the usual civilizations of human beings—are based on greed, aversion, and delusion. They’re based on defilement. Their priorities are different. So as you take on the practice, you have to realize you’re changing your priorities, and you’re going to have to step outside of your culture. This was one of the things I appreciated about Ajaan …
- The Best Work Around… There is a way out of all the sufferings that the mind suffers from, and all the stress and distress and despair and delusion and depression. All these other negative things in the mind: There is a way out of the them, and it’s one of the best things you can do in life. When you have that kind of attitude, the difficulties …
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