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  2. In Restraint Is Strength
     … mind is getting strengthened by looking that way? The Buddha doesn’t say not to look, just learn how not to focus on the things that are going to stir up greed, aversion, or delusion in the mind. There are lots of things you can look at out in the world, lots of things you can listen to, and lots of things you can … 
  3. Looking for Essence in the Wilderness
     … Finally, through this process of progressively emptying itself of disturbance, you can get the mind to a point where it has no more greed, aversion, and delusion for things, and that’s your dwelling. You’re not dwelling in nature anymore. You’re dwelling in emptiness. Of course, emptiness is not located anywhere. But we can use this location as a way to get … 
  4. Heedful, Attentive, Mindful
     … The dangers multiply out from those three—you get greed, aversion, delusion; passion, aversion, delusion—all the long lists of defilements that the Buddha gives. These are things that cause suffering. To have appropriate attention, you focus inside—where the main dangers are, although the Buddha does recognize there are dangers from outside. But they’re not the ones you might ordinarily expect. It … 
  5. Friendship Leading to Seclusion
     … But even then as you work with the defilements that come up—the subtle forms of greed, aversion, and delusion, states of becoming—you’re going to need some good friends to talk to you: the knowledge you gained from the texts, the knowledge you’ve gained from your teachers, the knowledge you gained from your own practice It’s not the case that … 
  6. Surveying the World
     … He saw beings on fire with the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. But his fires were out. So his relationship to the world was very different this time around. Now he was free. The first time around, there was a sense of terror—samvega—because he was trapped in this world. But after his awakening, he was freed—totally free, to the point … 
  7. A Mirror for the Mind
     … As you’re doing this, you’ll see a little bit of greed slipping into your actions, or a little bit of anger or fear. Other things slip in. But if you’re looking carefully, you’ll see them, and that’s the important thing: You want to see these things because they’re the factors that obscure the course of how you start … 
  8. The Problem Is Birth
     … We’re not going to go into thoughts of greed or distress with reference to the world. We’re not going to go for sensuality or any unskillful qualities. We’re going to stay right here. As we stay right here, we begin to see that these distractions are composed of those aggregates that we like to identify with. We begin to see that … 
  9. The Energy You Broadcast
     … It could be greed flowing out, or anger flowing out, delusion flowing out. Or it could be mindfulness and discernment flowing out. That’s the choice you can make. It can be compassion flowing out, goodwill flowing out, or equanimity. Again, that’s your choice. The Buddha gives an extreme example. You’re pinned down by bandits who’ve taken a two-handled saw … 
  10. Mindful to Be Skillful
     … no killing, no stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no divisive talk, no coarse talk, no idle chatter, trying to overcome excessive greed and ill will, and to develop right views. These are the areas in body, speech, and mind where you want to be careful to avoid unskillful behavior and try to develop skillful behavior in its place. Right view is where skillfulness … 
  11. What’s Important
     … He fought against the institution of greed, aversion, and delusion in each person’s mind, starting with his own mind. So, when people make deprecating remarks—and it’s sad, sometimes we hear even monks making deprecating remarks—about people who sit with their eyes closed, we should remember that their attitude has very little to do with the Dhamma. After all, the Buddha … 
  12. Noble Contentment, Noble Discontent
     … What in the mind can you change? What can you not change yet? Any unskillful qualities that come up in the mind, you don’t simply accept the fact: “Oh yeah, there’s a lot of greed. There’s a lot of aversion. There’s a lot of lust. There’s a lot of fear, jealousy”—whatever. You don’t deny the fact that … 
  13. Think Like a Thief
     … What we see, what we hear, is only what fits in with our own ideas, what fits in with our greed, anger, and delusion. In other words, there’s actually more coming out our ears and eyes than there is coming in, more in terms of suppositions, preconceptions, liking and disliking. Even when we try to be perfectly nonreactive, the fires of delusion come … 
  14. Rightly Directed
     … When greed comes into the mind, why does it come? When anger comes, why does it come? You really have to be alert to see these things, because all too often when they come, you just jump inside them, and go with them. You don’t see the steps: How is it that a thought forms in the mind? How does it become an … 
  15. Turtle Meditation
     … If a thought was unskillful, if involved greed, anger, delusion, lust, jealousy, fear, or whatever, it will have an impact on the mind. The mind will quiver in a certain way that lets you know that this was unskillful. And the quivering doesn’t last just for a few seconds. Sometimes it goes on for a whole day. If you let yourself get involved … 
  16. Joyous Endurance
     … Put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s the basic formula. That’s how you get into concentration, where the mind can settle in but still maintain its right direction. You do that by learning not to pay attention to anything that would disturb you right now: the background sound of the plane there, the sound of the crickets, any … 
  17. Mindfulness Like a Dam
     … Your ability to see them is the first step toward washing them away—trying to understand when and why you have greed for something, or lust for something, or anger for something. There are many layers going on—again, like many layers of currents in the river. First, there’s what you see as immediately appealing about the object. And, even with anger, there … 
  18. The Sport of Wise People
     … We excuse it by saying, “Well, the mind needs a little time off, needs some rest, needs some entertainment.” But the fantasies usually involve passion, lust, greed, anger, aversion, ill will, or just plain delusion. You have to ask yourself “Haven’t you had enough of that? Isn’t there better entertainment?” How about the entertainment of learning how to breathe in different ways … 
  19. Insight from Developing Concentration
     … On the other hand, you’re also putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world—in other words, when there’s any other thought having to do with any thought world, aside from the world of concentration, you’ve got to say No. It’s in saying No to those thought worlds that you strengthen your concentration at the same time that … 
  20. A Sense of Yourself
     … But there’s also the harm that comes by inciting greed, aversion, and delusion in yourself by the way you look at things or listen to things. How careful are you as you go through the day? What kind of fantasies do you indulge in? Are they actually helping you on the path or are they not? That’s an aspect of virtue, too … 
  21. No One in Charge
     … If you act on motivations based on greed, aversion, or delusion, there’s going to be suffering. If you act on motivations based on renunciation, non-ill will, or harmlessness, it pulls you out of suffering. So it’s not the case that, because there’s no purpose to things, there’s no pattern at all. You’re not totally free to shape things … 
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