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- Worldly Equanimity & Its Uses… The awakening itself isn’t equanimity—it’s the highest happiness—but when you reflect on your mind afterward, seeing that it is now freed of greed, aversion, and delusion, you can either feel joy, rapture, or equanimity. That kind of equanimity, you don’t create. It just happens. The other two kinds of equanimity you have to fabricate. Notice that the first one …
- Protection… But if you give into greed, aversion, and delusion, and you kill somebody else, that could pull you down. So the main dangers are inside. When you have conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, all the other strengths follow, if you’re heedful. You realize that you have to do what you can to abandon unskillful qualities in your mind, because that’s where …
- To Escape the Prison of Time… We give them trust because the basic principle they teach is that actions based on greed, aversion, and delusion will lead to suffering. Actions based on an absence of those mental qualities will lead in the direction of happiness. So we have to look at the intentions in our minds, and the motivations for why we’re acting. That’s where we’ll find …
- Quick on the Draw… Why do you have to identify with theirs? Why do you have to take them on? When people are criticizing you because of their greed or because of their aversion delusion, why do you have to listen? This is particularly true of all the weird messages we pick up from the media. So much of what comes in through TV or the movies, magazines …
- Long-Term Welfare… It’s there to help you, both to give you a sense of well-being in the present moment and to form the basis for insight, for insight that’s solid, so that when you let go, you let go out of a sense of simple dispassion—not aversion, but dispassion, two very different things. So no matter how much work that concentration may …
- Friends Inside & Out… So you want to look for someone who would not make false claims to knowledge out of greed, aversion, or delusion, or would recommend to other people that they do things that are in those people’s not best interests. Now, to know that sort of thing about someone, you have to watch that person carefully. You have to be careful about who you …
- Choosing Freedom… It puts you in a better mood to see where there’s greed or aversion or delusion, and not feel threatened by these things, not feeling that you have to stamp them out or deny them. They’re there, but you don’t have to get involved. This is a really important skill. This is the first step in how we learn how to …
- Less is More… When you’re looking for skillful intentions, you’re looking for intentions that aren’t founded on greed, aren’t founded on aversion, and aren’t founded on delusion. That’s what you’re working for. That means you have to start with something immediately present and really obvious—like the breath. Just be with the breath as it comes in; be with the …
- Avoidance… We like our greed, aversion, and delusion—and that’s disconcerting. We prefer to think that the problems in the mind simply come from the fact that you’re out there in society dealing with all kinds of crazy people, and if you just get away from them for a while, distancing yourself from your social conditioning, the mind will settle down and it …
- It’s up to You… You follow that, and you finally get the mind to where it sees that its greed, aversion, and delusion are the problem. They’re disturbing you. You let go of those. Then you stop your fabrication of the present moment. And as you stop that fabrication, something opens up inside: total freedom, totally unrestricted by space or time. That’s the direction we’re …
- Respect for the Precepts… How can I get around that without misrepresenting the truth?” As the Buddha said, if telling the whole truth would lead to the arising of greed, aversion, and delusion, either in yourself or in the person listening, you don’t say it. Now that doesn’t mean you lie. In other words, what you do say is not a misrepresentation of the facts. You …
- The Buddha’s Eight Principles… After all, you’re dealing with your own personal illnesses—the illnesses of greed, aversion, and delusion—and that’s your personal work, nobody else’s. It’s something you have to take responsibility for, and then you’ll know the goodness of the results inside. You can’t show them to other people. If you talk about them, it actually seems to take …
- Conviction & Confidence… He was able to put an end to greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s why he’s a Worthy One. That right there really merits conviction because it reminds us that it is possible through human effort to put an end to suffering. It is possible through human effort to cleanse the mind. Sometimes you hear the idea that the ego is so corrupt …
- Safety… There’s greed, aversion, delusion, with all of their various permutations, and they can get us to do some very unskillful things. Yet they’re very appealing. We think we gain our happiness through being greedy. We get what we want done, sometimes, through anger. We even like our delusion. We don’t recognize it as delusion, but we like it. So he has …
- Pride in Your Craft… in this land of wrong view, where people tend to be careless about the way they look at things, listen to things, and allow their minds to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s very easy for you to go along with the general trend. But there is no safety in numbers. Just because lots of people are doing it doesn’t …
- Remembering Ajaan Lee… That’s where you use your focused powers of ardency to look at the defilement, whether it’s greed or lust or aversion or delusion or whatever the defilement is. If it’s really insistent, if it keeps coming back, you’ve got to look at it and figure out, well, why does the mind like this? And also look at what its drawbacks …
- Perceptions of Self & Not-Self… There’s a duty with regard to that truth, which is to comprehend it—in other words, to understand it to the point of having no more passion, aversion, or delusion around suffering. The second noble truth, the cause or the origination of suffering, consists of three kinds of craving: craving for sensuality, for becoming, for not becoming. The duty there is to abandon …
- Deconstruct Your Emotions… There’s an element of intention and, in many cases, the intentions have become so habitual that they seem automatic, because of the strength of the perceptions and the strength of the breath or that particular way of breathing around greed or aversion or delusion. You tend to think, “Well, this is what I really feel.” But it’s just a habit, and as …
- Dwellings… empty of greed, aversion, and delusion. But it’s not really a dwelling, because again and again the texts say that the enlightened person is everywhere released, fixated nowhere. The image they give is a light beam that doesn’t land anywhere. Look up in the sky at night. It looks dark to us, but there are lots of light beams going back and …
- How to Use the Teaching on Kamma… In this way, you can learn to be more skillful and not be a slave to your passion, aversion, or delusion. The same goes for lust and greed. As Ajaan Fuang once said, when you really desire a sensual pleasure of some kind, it’s a sign that you enjoyed it in the past. You’ve had it already. Then he’d say, “Think …
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