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- 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 …
- The Power of Truth… the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion. You learn how to ward them off by being true in your meditation. That’s the only way you’re going to know if what I said just now is true. But it’s good to know that that’s where the truth resides: in your own truthfulness. It doesn’t reside in someplace else, some other …
- Not-self, Not No Self… If they come from greed, aversion, and delusion, you can tell yourself, “If I act on these thoughts, if I follow through with them, it’s going to cause trouble. I don’t want that.” So it can say No to those thoughts. As for thoughts that’ll lead to true happiness, you want to identify with them for the time being. So when …
- Top Priorities… Nobody’s going to mind the fact that you have less greed, less aversion, less delusion. And it’s a job that really can come to an end. This is one of the reasons, I think, they talked about the paramis of the Buddha. There are lots of disagreement on what the word parami comes from, but one of the possibilities is that the …
- Alone with Your Mind… This is what he discovered after having fought the mind past greed, aversion, and delusion. We’re so fortunate that we have a teaching like that. You can think about his wisdom, you can think about his purity, you can think about his compassion and remind yourself that this is what a human being is capable of. That’s uplifting because you can look …
- All-around Eye… When the arguments for your greed, aversion, and delusion come in really strong, you can have a quick and effective response. One of the principles of his teachings on protection was that you have to protect yourself all around. All too often, you hear the teaching boiled down to a few short phrases: let go, accept, don’t be reactive. Even though simplifying your …
- Right Resolve in Real Life… Otherwise, your greed, aversion, and delusion hijack the breath and hold it hostage. They say, “Okay, we’re going to be making a lot of unpleasant feelings here in your body until you do something in line with what we want. And only then will we let it go.” That’s a pretty high price, because what they want you to do can often …
- On Not Twisting the Cow’s Horn… You’re sorting things out in here, whether they’re involved with greed, aversion, or delusion, or with things past, present, or future. Step back from them for a bit and try to identify, “Well, what’s the problem here? What does my mind latch onto? Is it habitually angry, or greedy or lustful or fearful?” Get a sense of what precisely the problem …
- Endurance & Restraint… The Buddha didn’t believe in burning away karma, but he did believe in burning away your greed, aversion, and delusion. And you do that through patient endurance. But the trick to patient endurance is not just putting up with things. You learn how to talk to yourself in a way that makes you eager to be enduring, eager to have that strength, because …
- Shaping the Present… You’re trying to calm it down so that the mind can let go of some of the tension around any greed, anger, aversion, jealousy, fear—whatever unskillful emotions are keeping the mind from settling down. We work with the breath here because often the problem is not so much with the mental side, but with the physical side, which aggravates things. When you …
- The Return of Chickens from Hell… What are the raw materials that we turn into, say, greed, aversion, or delusion? What are the raw materials that we’re holding onto? And by looking at their arising, you catch sight of them before you’ve made much of them and you can begin to see that some things are actually eggs and some things are not eggs—they’re chicken shit …
- Metta Metacognition… And when you meditate, you’re reducing the number of times you give into greed, aversion, and delusion. You benefit; the people around you benefit as well. And you benefit not only now, but also in the long term. These practices get you to think in the long term. That’s another important part of spreading thoughts of goodwill. As the Buddha said, this …
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