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- In the Context of the Path… We have to comprehend that—in other words, understand it to the point where we have no passion, aversion, or delusion around the suffering that we’re causing through our clinging. Of course, the clinging itself is caused by craving: craving for sensuality; craving to become, to take on an identity in a particular world of experience; or craving to destroy whatever identity you …
- The Rewards of Right View… on fire with greed, aversion, and delusion; on fire with sensuality. Of course, when we think of beings on fire, it’s a vision of hell. Because if you hold in mind the perception of inconstancy—that gain, honor, fame, the things that people go running after because they’re on fire, are not really cooling, are not really going to solve their problem …
- Who’s in Charge Here?… Laugh at your delusion. See how foolish they are. In the Canon, most of the humor is in the Vinaya, which is the section on disciplinary rules. You wouldn’t think with discipline that there’d be a lot of humor, but this is how they make discipline palatable. Like the story about the monk who gets so drunk that the Buddha was inspired …
- Five Precepts, Five Virtues… If we’re free simply to follow our greed, aversion, and delusion, that’s a kind of slavery. But the freedom that comes when you realize, “Okay, I can choose my actions based on what the long-term results are going to be, and I have the inner strength I need to resist any temptation to go for a quick fix. I’ll stick …
- When Ill Will Is in Fashion… It’s usually through greed or ill will or delusion that we break the precepts. So mettā, in this sense, is a part of the practice of virtue. It’s one of the virtues of the mind. As the Buddha said, if you realize that you’ve harmed other people, you recognize that it was harmful, that what you did was a mistake, you …
- The Management of Suffering… A really high-quality intention is also free of delusion, which means you have to be very reflective in what you do: looking carefully at what you do, looking at the results, learning from your mistakes, and always aiming at long-term happiness. We talked briefly today about when to take a stand and when not to take a stand, and it has nothing …
- True Protection for the World… As long as they’re still acting on greed, anger, and delusion, they leave themselves wide open for suffering. And the Buddha says, Yes, that’s right. Armies are not a protection. Your good karma is your protection. Your good thoughts, your good words, your good deeds: those are your protection; protection against yourself, your own unskillful habits and protection against the unskillful habits …
- From Inconstancy to Dispassion… What is it missing? What is it going to be lacking if it can’t give into that particular kind of greed or lust or aversion, delusion, whatever? And then when you see the actual allure, why you went for it, then you can compare that with the drawbacks. Often we do know some of the drawbacks, but the allure is hidden. And because …
- A Conglomeration of Germs… If you use it in a way that gives rise to more greed, aversion, and delusion, that’s destructive. If you use it in a way that gives rise to kamma that harms others, that’s destructive, too. If you use it to meditate—to give rise to concentration, to give rise to discernment—or as a means for generosity and virtue, that’s …
- Equanimity as a Skill… You’re getting your mind under control, and you can develop qualities of discernment, mindfulness, and alertness to learn how to put aside your greed, aversion, and delusion. When you can do that, you benefit and the people around you will benefit, too. This is a part of your motivation for being here: that it’s going to be better for the people around …
- Rehab Work… the diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. We wound ourselves with things we do under the influence of these unskillful mental qualities. Although we may have picked up habits from the outside, in the same way that we can pick up germs from the outside, the act of choosing to follow the habits that others have modeled for us was our choice. Our resistance …
- The Skill of Renunciation… The whole point of concentration practice is that you can put the mind in a position where it has a sense of well-being inside, so that it’s happy to stay in the present moment—so that it can watch itself, see where it’s getting involved in greed, aversion, or delusion, even on very subtle levels. For that, the mind has to …
- The Larger View… So as you’re sitting here meditating and finding that thoughts of greed, aversion, or delusion come up—or fear, jealousy, whatever—you’ll always want to remember the larger picture. And regardless of what’s coming up and what your mind is telling you about how you have to obey these things, or fall in line with them, and regardless of what it …
- Mental Seclusion… The problem is that we’re a servant to our own greed, aversion, delusion, fears, resentments, whatever, so that even when we pull ourselves out of the world to come to a quiet place like this, we still find that we’re burdened. You want to give the mind an alternative way of relating to itself, so that it’s not a slave to …
- Study & Practice… pleasure-nor-pain; mind-states in and of themselves, noticing, say, whether the mind is overcome by passion or is free of passion, overcome by aversion or free of aversion or delusion, and then noticing, as you get into the meditation, ever more refined distinctions in the mind; and then mental qualities, specific qualities that come up in the mind. If you think of …
- Timeless Practice… As you go through the day, notice how you look at things, how you listen to things, where you’re trying to stir up passions, where you’re trying to stir up aversion or delusion by the way you look, by the way you listen. If there’s somebody don’t like and you take delight in seeing that person do something wrong, that …
- In Search of What is Skillful… biased toward what it likes, biased against what it doesn’t like, biased because of fear, biased because of delusion. You’re leaning over, and you’re likely to fall. Try to set these things upright. Think in ways that set them upright. This is all part of evaluation. Then you look at the breath: This is where Ajaan Lee gives lots of recommendations …
- What Right Mindfulness Remembers… basically greed, aversion, and delusion. You do let in skillful mental qualities: right view all the way down through right concentration. So mindfulness is not simply a matter of being open and accepting of everything that comes by or comes up or comes in. There’s another place where the Buddha defines mindfulness as the ability to remember, to keep in mind what was …
- Volunteer Spirit… The most blatant way is that if we can cut down the amount of greed, anger, and delusion in our actions or motivating our actions, other people are going to be happier. This is a common pattern throughout the Buddha’s teachings. The practice is voluntary. After all, the Buddha didn’t pretend to be a god who had created us or wanted to …
- Stay… We take in so much information, and so much greed, aversion, and delusion gets aroused—or not only gets aroused, but actually goes out looking for trouble. All of that in-and-out, in-and-out, wears down the mind. So now you’re finally trying to give the mind a place of balance, right here, right in the middle of everything, but not …
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