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2. Play AudioIn 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 … 
3. Play AudioWhat 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 … 
4. Play AudioVolunteer 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 … 
5. Play AudioStay
    … 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 … 
6. Play AudioBad 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 … 
7. Play AudioThe 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 … 
8. Play AudioOf 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 … 
9. Play AudioBattling 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 … 
10. Play AudioA 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 … 
11. Play AudioAsalha 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 … 
12. Play AudioHeedfulness
     … 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 … 
13. Play AudioThe 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 … 
14. Play AudioThe 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 … 
15. Play AudioThe 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 … 
16. Play AudioAppreciating 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 … 
17. Play AudioThe 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 … 
18. Play AudioThe 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 … 
19. Play AudioNot-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 … 
20. Play AudioConviction 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 … 
21. Play AudioIn 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 … 
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