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  2. Bad Stuff Happens
     … Why does it like to think about those things? Why does it like greed? Why does it like anger? Why does it like lust? Why does it like delusion? You learn why it likes these things by thwarting them. It’ll complain, but if you develop some solidity in your concentration, you’re not going to be swayed by the complaint. It’s when … 
  3. The True Dhamma Has Disappeared
     … the quality that says, in Ajaan Mun’s words, “I don’t want to come back and be the laughingstock of the defilements ever again.” Greed, aversion, delusion, pride: These things have been laughing at us for a long, long time. And over the centuries, they’ve managed to create a lot of counterfeit Dhamma to make it even harder for us to ferret … 
  4. Of Past & Future
     … We’re getting rid of greed, anger, and delusion right here. This benefits not only ourselves, but also everyone around us. That’s our purpose for being here. And it’s an important purpose. It’s the most important thing we can do with our lives: the sort of thing that if it demands great sacrifices, we should be willing to make them. As … 
  5. Battling Darkness
     … Ask yourself, “Does that have to be true? What if the opposite were true?” And just that much can be enough to jolt your imagination to think in other ways to get out of the rut of that particular defilement, whether it’s greed, anger, delusion, lust, fear, pride, jealousy, whatever. Learning how to cut through any defilement requires a knowledge that has these … 
  6. A Home for the Mind
     … He wants us to remember the lessons we learned and find the right balance between being sensitive to the particular configuration of the present moment and also keeping in mind some of the larger principles at work in dealing, say, with greed or anger or delusion as they arise, in dealing with pain, in dealing with pleasure—because sometimes pleasure can be dangerous, too … 
  7. Asalha Puja
     … There’s the first noble truth, the truth of suffering, and the duty there is to comprehend it—in other words, to understand it to the point where you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion around it. The duty with regard to the second truth is to abandon it. The duty with regard to the third is to realize it, and the duty … 
  8. Heedfulness
     … It’s to get them to break the precepts, or intentionally get them to give rise to passion, aversion and delusion. That kind of thing, he said, is harmful to them. In other words, you don’t treat them simply as objects of your own actions. You realize that they, too, are agents, and they’re going to be experiencing the results of their … 
  9. The Reflective Self
     … So go back, look at those steps, and ask yourself, “Okay, if these were the only tools I had, how would I use these tools to overcome, say, bouts of delusion concentration or laziness or having to sit with pain?” The solutions are there, but it does require ingenuity to find them. It’s through your ingenuity that you make the Dhamma your own … 
  10. The Current News
     … Instead, we should be getting worked up about the fact that greed, aversion, and delusion are taking charge of our own mind, and yet we’re not doing anything about it, or our efforts are half-hearted. You want to give full attention to what’s happening right here, because right here is where you’re responsible, and this is where you can make … 
  11. The Brahmavihāras Aren’t Enough
     … So there’s a lot of delusion in the Brahmā worlds. Then there’s the hypocritical Brahmā in the Dīgha 11, the one who—when a monk asks him, “How far do the four great elements go?”—responds, “I am the Great Brahmā, knower of all, seer of all, father of all, creator of all that has been and will be.” The monk says … 
  12. Appreciating Goodness
     … That’s when you learn how to look out for the greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind, and learn how to say No to them. This training starts with being meritorious, but it goes on beyond that, it goes deeper into the meditation, as you learn to see ways in which the mind is causing itself unnecessary suffering, and you can root out … 
  13. The Trick to Staying in Place
     … When you misunderstand things and act on delusion, you learn, “Oh, what I thought was x was really y, what I thought was y was x.” You see the connections between the unskillful motivations and their undesirable results, and you can learn from them. At the same time, you can learn from your skillful motivations, too. Be willing to learn from both. When you … 
  14. The Train Trestle
     … And all too often, we do it with greed, aversion, delusion, envy, jealousy: all kinds of unskillful mind states, along with that sense of being threatened by the collapse of things behind us. So we tend to do a shoddy job, which is why we find ourselves in worlds that we wouldn’t like to be in. So here, as we meditate, we have … 
  15. Not-self
     … For example, with comprehending suffering and stress, comprehending means to understand suffering and stress to the point where you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion toward them. And what is suffering and stress? It’s clinging to the five clinging-aggregates, or more basically the clinging. The aggregates themselves are not the problem. The problem is in the clinging. We want to comprehend … 
  16. Conviction in the End of Suffering
     … It gives you the strength you need in order to overcome your greed, your aversion, and your delusion—and it reminds you that death is not the end. For a lot of people for whom death is the end, the current pandemic is really cause for dismay. And of course, there really is dismay in the fact that so many people are dying, and … 
  17. In a World of Crooked Wheels
     … Now he’s a Buddha, good at getting rid of the crookedness of greed, aversion, and delusion in his students. You can read this parable in a lot of ways, one of which is that the Buddha’s Dhamma-and-Vinaya is like the first wheel. It’s well designed. It’s going to last for a long time. Look at it: Over 2 … 
  18. Strong Against Anger & Fear
     … The Buddha’s approach is counterintuitive in a lot of ways, but it’s counterintuitive only to our greed, aversion, and delusion. When you see things clearly, you see that he is really right. If you think that your wealth lies in things that people can take away, you’re constantly going to be afraid. As for the fear of death, you’ve got … 
  19. Right Action & Right Livelihood
     … Is it true, as his teachers had told him, that he’s going to go to the heaven of laughter? And again, the Buddha says, “Don’t ask.” The actor asks three times, and finally the Buddha says, “Okay, if you’re trying to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in your audience and in your own mind, then when you die you … 
  20. When Nothing’s Happening
     … Not mistakes based on greed, aversion, or delusion. Not mistakes based on breaking the precepts. Simple mistakes based on having the wrong information. That’s possible. So there is still right and wrong for them in this area. But in the area of nibbāna, there is no right or wrong. As Ajaan Lee says, right view and wrong view are matters of the world … 
  21. Meditate to Win
     … If you can’t laugh at your greed, aversion, delusion, and lust, it’s going to be a grim battle. But if you can laugh, you can basically step back. That’s what discernment is all about: stepping back. I mentioned this the other day around the issue of metacognition: You watch the mind thinking, you watch the mind as it focuses, you watch … 
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