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- Three Levels of Refuge… Our greed, aversion, and delusion can cause us all kinds of trouble. But we can recognize that there is that trouble, but also there’s an escape from the trouble through our own actions: That’s what lies at the basis of what the Buddha said is the most basic quality for being skillful, which is heedfulness—realizing that you have to be careful …
- Mindfulness: The Whole Formula… There are times when the mind says, “I’d just like to have some emotion, it doesn’t matter what—greed, aversion, delusion. Something to spice things up.” It’ll look at things and find something to get worked up about. That’s what you’ve got to watch out for. Remind yourself that you’ve got something good here inside: your ability to …
- The Mind Like Water… The same with greed, aversion, and delusion: They can arise in the mind and can kill off your goodness, even if there’s nothing outside disturbing you at all. So you have to look into these tendencies within the mind itself. This means that once we’ve made the effort to calm the mind down, it’s not the case that the job is …
- The Five Aggregates… You could think about the past, you could think about the future, you could give rise to greed, aversion and, delusion. Or you can turn these things into concentration. Take the body as the object of your meditation. Use the breath to create feelings of ease, feelings of comfort. Think about the breath, picture it to yourself: That’s sañña, or perception. Direct your …
- Up for the Challenge… There can be very strong greed, very strong aversion, a very strong sense of helplessness and weakness. And that’s something we can’t give into. This is one of the reasons why we meditate, to develop strengths of mind so that whatever choices we have to make, we’ll make well. There’s a passage in the Canon where the Buddha’s counseling …
- Breath vs. Distraction… See the drawbacks of thoughts that would pull you into greed, aversion, delusion, or sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety, uncertainty. Have a strong sense that these things could take over your life if you’re not careful, and the other techniques for dealing with distracting thoughts will come easily. You’ve shifted the balance of power inside so that …
- Succeeding at Happiness… The Buddha recommends looking for people who are free from passion, aversion, and delusion, or who are on the path trying to get rid of those qualities in the mind—because those people will be the ones most likely to make the best use of your gift. So you look at the recipient. Then you look at the gift: What are the things you …
- Infinity… It was through your intentions based on your views, and your views based on who you respected—whether you respected the noble ones or respected your greed, aversion, and delusion more. That was how you determined the course of your lives. But the power of your views at the moment of death alerted him to the fact that mental actions in the present moment …
- Asalha Puja… Is it really worth it? Look at the pleasure you get out of greed, aversion, and delusion. Then look at the drawbacks. The human mind is generally very poor at weighing drawbacks and advantages, drawbacks and benefits. We tend to go for the short term and forget about the long term. Then we complain about our suffering, forgetting that, well, we made the choice …
- You Can Make a Difference… That’s what his teachings are all about, why he called his goal *nibbāna, *which means the extinguishing of the fires of greed, fires of aversion, fires of delusion. The fires are burning, and we can put them out, so don’t just sit there burning away. Adjust the flame. That’s what the image of jhāna is for. *Jhāyati, the verb for doing …
- Self-Reliance… If there’s any greed, anger, or delusion—passion, aversion, harmfulness, ill will, any of these things—then once you know how to sense that, you can know right away: This is not a thought you want to follow. You’d better drop it. Other times, it takes time to watch. After all, you’re learning about a person here. Even though you may …
- Two Guardian Meditations… That means that the teaching he gave wasn’t influenced by any greed, aversion, or delusion. That’s one of the reasons why we can trust that teaching. Then there’s the bull, which is a symbol of his strength. As he said, as he was practicing different practices while trying to find the way to awakening, he developed qualities of conviction, persistence, or …
- Constructing & Deconstructing… That means understanding how you cling to them until you arrive at the point where there’s no passion, aversion or delusion around them. Your duty with regard to the craving that would lead you to be passionate about these things is to abandon it. As for anything that’s good, that’s helpful in the path, that’s something you try to develop …
- One Step at a Time… Unskillful use of the future is when you start anticipating either with desire or aversion or fear what’s going to happen in the future. The one fear that is useful is the fear of the consequences of unskillful actions. That’s what keeps you on the path in the present. Another skillful use of the future is your anticipation of how good it …
- Breath Teaches the Bramaviharas… When you’re more centered inside, other people are less subject to your greed, aversion, and delusion. When you’re more solid inside, people can rely on you more. At the same time, you begin to realize there are opportunities for well-being that you may not have thought of before. For me, Ajaan Lee’s method of breath meditation was very different from …
- Multi-Dimensional Dhamma… That’s because we all tend to view our unskillful qualities as our friends—we like our greed, aversion, and delusion—and only by developing dispassion for them can we see through that supposed friendship. The second inner attitude is contentment with the physical conditions surrounding you. Contentment fits in with being unburdensome and finding seclusion. You learn to be content with the food …
- A Sense of Yourself… You can’t just give in to your greed, aversion, and delusion. You need to have a sense that you are competent to take them on. You have the tools you need. If you don’t have the tools you need, you’re going to work on them. This is where having a sense of yourself comes in: knowing what inner tools you have …
- Catch Yourself Lying to Yourself… So when there are times, as he says, that telling the truth would give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, either in your mind or the other person’s mind, so you avoid talking about those things. In avoiding them, you sometimes have to avoid them in a way that the other person doesn’t catch you avoiding them, because then they’ll know …
- To Delight in the Path… In other words, you delight in abandoning your greed, your lust, your aversion. You see it as a victory in the mind when you’re able to pull yourself out of these things. As for delight in developing, of course, that means delight in developing skillful qualities—things like mindfulness and alertness, based on goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. There are lots of …
- Mindfulness of Death… If you can do this, the Buddha says, then you can be free of any aversion-obsession with regard to pain, any passion-obsession with regard to pleasure, and any ignorance-obsession with regard to equanimity. You sense these things disjoined from them, realizing that as the body ends, they’re going to end, too, and what remains is the deathless. That’s how …
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