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- Respect for Concentration… You need to get it very solid, very secure, because when you start working on the issues of insight — trying to understand why greed, anger, and delusion take over the mind — you’re going to find yourself running up against all kinds of storms. If your concentration isn’t really solid and settled, you’ll just get blown away. So you have to respect …
- Single-minded… You’ve got something better than thinking about greed, aversion, or delusion. You look at the pleasures that they have to offer, and you realize you’ve got something more solid and reliable here. So content yourself with the oneness. Get so that you’re really good at this. You know your spot, you know the comfortable breath, and you learn how to deal …
- In Your Power… right at the body in and of itself, at feelings in and of themselves, the mind in and of itself, mental qualities in and of themselves—ardent, alert and mindful putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world, taking these things simply as events in and of themselves. Then you watch to see what skillful and unskillful mental states come up around …
- Skillful Fears… If your fear is combined with greed, aversion, or delusion, then it’s going to be unskillful. But there’s also wise fear. The main wise fear is being afraid of the possibility of your doing something unskillful. In other words, you don’t have to be afraid of things outside, or of things that are going to happen to you. You have to …
- Practice Without Gaps… Then you try to put aside all thoughts of greed and distress with reference to the world. That means any thoughts about the world, what you like about it, what you don’t like about it—just put those aside. Maintain your original frame of reference. As it gets more and more solid, that’s when the mindfulness practice turns into concentration practice. As …
- Blessings… He also says that you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any thoughts of the world outside, people outside, places outside, you don’t have to think them right now. You’re not responsible for them right now. Your only responsibility is to look after the state of your own mind. Try to support the voices in the mind that …
- Centered on Concentration… the mind needs training. If you want to be truly happy, you’ve got to train the mind, because the biggest source of trouble in the world is this untrained mind. Greed, anger, and delusion take it over, and they can destroy all kinds of things. Having respect for the training means that we have to have respect for the training over and above …
- Self Determination… The whole society is designed around taking advantage of the defilements of greed, hatred, and fear: Other people have their defilements; you have your defilements. And as long as you stay in there, everybody in the society seems to be okay—at least that’s their attitude. But you look at yourself: Is this really what you want out of life? Just birth, aging …
- The Interactive Present… The same goes with other emotions, such as fear or greed: Once you catch the part of the mind that’s enjoying it — participating, keeping it going right now — learn to undercut it. Learn how to emphasize the part that doesn’t want to play along. Then you can start applying the same principle to positive mind states, the ones that you’re trying …
- Conceit… We like our greed. We like our anger, sometimes. We like our delusions, and yet all these things have to be put aside, let go of as we practice. But it’s within human capability to do this. Even if you do die in the practice, it’s a good way to die. It’s better than dying without having accomplished anything or dying …
- Sweat the Small Stuff… The little changes of the breath that indicate that greed has arisen, or anger has arisen, or fear has arisen: All too often we’re aware of these emotions only after they’ve taken over the mind. But to deal with them most effectively, you want to be able to sense them just as they’re getting started. And that requires that you be …
- The Community of the Wise… Many of the attitudes that lead so easily to greed, anger, and delusion tend to be this way. So it’s important not only when you’re sitting and meditating, but also at any time when you see a particular attitude is pushing itself in the mind, when there’s an attitude that seems to be very strong, but it’s not all that …
- To Sustain Your Practice… How does that apply now? We live in a different environment, in a different world.” But you have to remember, greed, aversion, and delusion then, and greed, aversion, and delusion now are the same sorts of things. The good qualities of the path to fight those defilements are also the same sorts of things. There are certain things that don’t change, and the …
- Nimble with Your Questions… Even though there are certain patterns that everyone has in common in terms of their greed, aversion, and delusion, still there are other aspects that are not quite the same. And you have to have to figure out what your problem is and come up with questions that are just right for you. We know the teachings of Dogen, the Zen master. So much …
- In Touch with Your Fabrications… Verbal is how you talk to yourself, what you say about a particular situation that provokes greed, aversion, delusion, sorrow, envy—whatever the emotion may be. Then there’s mental—your perceptions and feelings. Perceptions are the mental labels you use for identifying this as this and that as that. Sometimes these labels are individual words. Sometimes they’re pictures. Then feelings, in this …
- Farming Your Body & Mind… But you also want to take this ability to observe your mind into daily life, so that you can detect when an unskillful intention comes up, one that’s based on greed, or aversion, or delusion. You want to see it as it’s happening and try to catch it as quickly as you can—before it gets strong, so that you’re not …
- Scramble the Image… things that the mind goes toward either because of lust or greed or anger or whatever. When you try to scramble those images, part of the mind will resist. It wants to protect them, saying, “Don’t touch these things. You can throw a lot of things out of the attic, but these things have to stay.” And if you listen to that voice …
- Speaking Truth to Defilement… Now, there are times, of course, when he says that if you say something that’s going to give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion within you, or would give rise to those mind-states in your listener, then you don’t say that. You learn to avoid it. The promise to yourself that you will not misrepresent the truth means that you have …
- Equanimity… You can tell yourself, “Greed used to overcome my mind, but now I can see through my greed.” There’s a sense of joy that comes with that. Or, “I used to be subject to anger, subject to jealousy, but now I can see through those things. They don’t have that power they had before.” There’s a sense of joy. So you …
- See Your Thoughts as Strange… We have to turn a blind eye to so many things in order to stoke our greed, stoke our lust, stoke our anger, and put the mind into what the Buddha would say is an abnormal state. Yet for us, that’s the spice of life. So we have to learn how to change our views, to see that we have a weird taste …
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