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- 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 …
- Strength for Your Goodness… If they’re based on unskillful mental states like greed, aversion, and delusion, they lead to pain. And it is possible through your efforts to find an end to suffering. In other words, the potentials you have in your actions are quite large. If you believe that your actions do make a major difference, then you have the strength to act in ways that …
- 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 …
- Birth Is Suffering… We’re really good at falling for the traps laid out by greed, aversion, and delusion. What we’ve got to learn now is to get good at renunciation, goodwill, and compassion even when they’re really difficult. What’s going to be more difficult than death? If you can’t master these things in the relative difficulties of life, when the difficulties of …
- The Middle Way… As Ajaan Suwat would often point out, once the mind really gets still with that sense of well-being, then the idea of running after the kind of pleasure you used to get out of greed and aversion and delusion just loses its appeal. You can see that it’s pointless effort. This put you in the right frame of mind to look in …
- Significance… As for the recipient, as the Buddha said, the best recipients are those who are free from greed, aversion, and delusion and those who are practicing for that purpose. Those are the people who will make the best use of the gift. But all this is optional. It’s up to you to decide how much skill you want to bring to the act …
- Standing Outside Your Thoughts… Where is it going to take you? What kind of qualities is it developing in the mind as you pursue that line of thought? Which defilements? Greed? Aversion? Delusion? And what would it lead you to do if you were to think about it for a long period of time? Keep examining the thought in that way until you decide that you really don …
- Restraint… times when you give in to thoughts of resentment, thoughts of nostalgia, thoughts of regret, thoughts of lust, aversion. These thoughts then go out looking for more food to strengthen their hold on the mind. And sometimes you’re willing to give in to them. That’s what you’ve got to watch out for. If you give in to them, they become more …
- Examine Your Happiness… If there’s any harm involved in what you’re doing—either harming yourself by breaking the precepts, trying to incite yourself to passion, aversion, and delusion, or harming others by getting them to do those things—then there’s something in your happiness that’s not pure. There’s also the issue of the effort you put into that happiness. Is it worth …
- Smoothing It… A lot of them have to do with greed, aversion, and delusion. Our problem is that we delight in developing those things—the wrong things. We should learn how to delight in developing mindfulness—catching ourselves when the mind is about to go into something unskillful, and being able to say No. The developing and the abandoning go together there. Learn to see that …
- When Attacked by Distractions… There’s a part of it that’s always saying, “Am I getting what I want? Is this worth the effort?” A large part of meditation is learning how to be more objective and be more clear-seeing about, “Is it worth it?” This applies to greed, aversion, delusion, all the defilements that would pull you away—sleepiness, restlessness, and anxiety. We have ways …
- Stepping Out of Yourself… Are these things really true and beneficial, what they’re telling you?” If you have a sense of well-being with the breath, it’s a lot easier to step back and take that as your foundation, so that the hunger of your greed, the hunger of your aversion, and the hunger of your delusion are not quite so strong. Then you can question …
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