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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. Consciousness, Name, & Form
    When you’re establishing mindfulness on the body, the Buddha says to do two things: (1) Focus on the body in and of itself and (2) put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. The body in and of itself means not the body in the world; just the body as you have it right here. The body in the world would … 
  17. Protection in all Directions
     … The first one is no undue greed. In other words, you see something you’d like and you realize that there are fair ways and unfair ways of gaining that or something like it. There are right and wrong ways, and you never go for the wrong ways. You always go for the right ways. You also look at the things around you: Exactly … 
  18. Loving Yourself
     … You’ve got greed, you’ve got anger and delusion. Don’t let that depress you. Just realize, okay, there’s work to be done, and you’ve got the tools to do it. At the same time, you’ve got these different aspects of the practice—the precepts, goodwill, the meditation—as walls to run up against when you find yourself entertaining an … 
  19. Solid Inside
     … In other words, when you don’t give expression to greed, anger, and delusion, you yourself benefit, the people around you benefit. It all begins with how you relate to yourself inside. Start with something simple like the breath here. It’s where the mind and the body relate. If you learn to develop a sense of mindfulness and alertness here, a sense of … 
  20. The Gatekeeper Doesn’t Just Note
     … You’re ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s what we’re doing as we’re concentrating: staying focused on one thing in and of itself. Put aside all other topics that you might be thinking about. You do both these activities with mindfulness, you do them with alertness, and you’re ardent. When you … 
  21. Riding an Elephant to Catch Grasshoppers
     … just a lot of greed, aversion, and delusion, nothing very impressive. But when you clean those things out, you find that the mind is capable of a lot, and you don’t want to waste it on little day-to-day concerns. So remember, the state of your mind is the most important thing in your life. You want to protect it as best … 
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