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- 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 …
- 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 …
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