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- 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 …
- Two Things to Keep in Mind… If you see that the way you’re looking at something is causing greed, aversion, or delusion to arise, you want to look in a different way. Again, this helps you to remind yourself that you’re not totally on the receiving end of these things. Sometimes you hear people say the because there’s something beautiful out there, of course it’s giving …
- 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 …
- 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 …
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