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- Treasure Island… Is it something really honorable? Or is there some greed, aversion, or delusion in there? And when you hold on to these views, what kind of actions do they inspire? Do they actually inspire you to act in skillful ways? If you believe, for instance, that everything is determined by material or physical laws, what impetus is there to go to the trouble of …
- Body Contemplation Is Compassionate… The really compassionate thing is learning how to overcome your greed, your aversion, your delusion, your lust—all the defilements. Realize that they’re the enemy. The people you tend to focus on as exciting your lust are just excuses. The origination of lust comes from within. And it’s combined with all kinds of other things. There’s pride sometimes. There’s resentment …
- Rebirth & Not-Self… Given that you’re going to be letting go of your sense of self eventually, the best way to do that without aversion is to train it. That way, when you do let it go, there will be a sense of appreciation, but also a sense of its limitations. You let go because you know that there’ll be something better that comes when …
- Judicious vs. Judgmental… That way your choice is based on knowledge, not on greed, aversion, or delusion. This is why the Buddha, in his analysis of the four truths, said that our task with the regard to the first truth — the truth of suffering or stress — is to comprehend it. All too often we treat pain in the same way we treat anything we don’t like …
- Customs of the Noble Ones… I’ll put up with having aversion. I’ll put up with having delusion and I’ll put up with the suffering that comes from these things.” That’s not what you do. You’re discontent with the fact that the mind is creating suffering for itself. To stop that suffering, you want to learn how to delight in abandoning unskillful qualities and developing …
- The Skill of Letting Go… Anything that comes up, I’m going to push it out of the way, push it out of the way”—and there’s a certain amount of aversion in that—you can put yourself into a state of non-perception, where everything blanks out. Letting go is a skill. This blanked-out state is not where you want to go. Some people actually think …
- Motivation… This is a wonderful Dhamma we’ve got here, taught by someone totally free from greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s timeless. That points to the positive aspect of the practice. Then the third governing principle is the world. This is the unusual one. The Buddha says that there are people in the world who can read minds. How would you feel if they …
- To the Far Shore… That means to understand it so well that you get beyond any passion, aversion, or delusion around it. The duty with regard to the cause of suffering is to abandon it. The cessation of suffering is something you should realize, and you should do that by developing the path. When you use the four noble truths to divide things up in this way, it …
- Getting Back on Your Feet… When you’re looking, why are you looking? What’s the motivation? Greed? Aversion? delusion? Okay, don’t look in that way. Don’t let those members of the committee be the ones who take over your eyes. Also look at the impact that whatever it is you’re looking at has on the mind. Here again, if you see that it tends to …
- Not Crushed by the World… So, you want to make sure that wisdom is looking, discernment is looking, not your greed, aversion and delusion. You have to see the way you engage with your senses as a cause-and-effect process. What you’re looking for, what you’re listening for, will have an impact on the mind. So be very careful about how you go about these things …
- The Lightning Bolt… finding someone who’s a person of integrity—which the Buddha defines in one of the texts as someone who doesn’t have the sort of greed, aversion, or delusion that would cause him or her to claim knowledge that he or she didn’t have: You find a person of integrity, you listen to the person’s Dhamma, you apply appropriate attention to …
- Worldly Narratives… This way, when you’re letting go of your old attachments, it’s not out of aversion or hatred. It’s more out of a sense of growing up. You’ve got something better to do with your time. When you get more and more firmly established in the state of concentration, then you can use your perceptions and thought-constructs to start taking …
- The Buddha’s Basic Therapy… Realizing that they were well-meaning helps so that you’re not throwing those attitudes away out of anger or aversion; you’re simply trying to sift through the relationship to see what’s worth of keeping and what’s worth throwing away. And if it can be done in an attitude of gratitude, it’s a lot easier to do this skillfully. As …
- Determined on Awakening… The letting go of all greed, passion, aversion, delusion: That’s the highest possible relinquishment. And of course, the calming of all the disturbances in the mind that comes with nibbāna is the highest possible calm. So those are the things you’re determined on, the things at which you aim. But you use those qualities as well. You have to develop them in …
- The Noble Eightfold Path to the Deathless… You see the harm that comes from wrong livelihood—engaging in a livelihood that either breaks the precepts or intentionally gives rise to passion, aversion, or delusion in your mind or in the minds of other people. So you abstain from wrong livelihood. This is where you’re actually carrying through on your resolves. And as you’re carrying through, you begin to realize …
- Unskillful Thinking… The diseases here, of course, are greed, anger, and delusion; or passion, aversion, and delusion. If you learn how to develop your mindfulness, alertness, and discernment, you build up your resistance, so that when a sight comes into the eyes, you can see it for what it is. It’s just a very ephemeral kind of thing. It’s there for just an instant …
- Choosing Your Allies… Try to act in ways that are not overcome by greed, aversion, or delusion, and you find that you really will benefit. You’ve got that power within you. So here’s a wisdom that comes from the desire for true happiness. The Buddha’s question is what gives the right direction to that desire. Compassion comes from the desire for true happiness, too …
- New Feeding Habits… greed, aversion, and delusion. You know you have them, but you don’t really know them, you don’t really discern them. Persistence requires that you learn to understand: “Why do I go for anger? Why do I go for greed?” When you come to understand these things, then the next time there’s a temptation to go for them, you realize, “No, I …
- Reclaiming the Breath… Don’t let your greed, aversion, delusion, or fears take them away from you. If they have, this is how you reclaim them: Move into the body gradually. Get to know its various energies and how you can take advantage of it—the moving energies; the still energies; the movements of the mind; the still parts of the mind. Try to make a survey …
- Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge… Greed, aversion, and delusion don’t come along only while you’re sitting and meditating. They come up all the time and, in fact, they’re more likely to come up while you’re not meditating. And they can do a lot of damage. So you have to be prepared to watch out for these things all the time. This is why we practice …
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