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  2. An Ennobling Pleasure
     … They’re less subject to your greed, anger, and delusion. As you find more and more of your needs for happiness satisfied here, you’re going to impose yourself less and less on other people. Now, the Buddha does mention the dangers in getting stuck on jhana. He says it’s not the danger in doing the jhana, doing the right concentration, simply that … 
  3. Glad to Be Here
     … It’s when you have a certain amount of detachment from your defilements, and can laugh at them, seeing how foolish your greed is, how foolish your anger is, how foolish your depression is: That detachment frees you from those things. Then when the mind is freed from those things, it can settle down. That’s the meaning of all those passages in the … 
  4. The Mind Set Tall
     … This is why we need to practice concentration, to let the mind get really firmly settled, so that it can be in a place, an inner space, where it’s willing to look into what’s painful, the embarrassing things you begin to see about yourself—why you like anger, exactly where your lust comes from, where your greed and fear and jealousy come … 
  5. A Meditator’s Environment
     … How do you do it? Who in your mind is doing the looking? Is greed doing the looking? Or is wisdom doing the looking? Anger? Jealousy? Are these things doing the looking and the listening? Is it the desire for something to get angry about? After all, it’s not the case that something outside will come in and just set off defilements in … 
  6. The Brightness of Life
     … in the aggregates, in the different forms of fabrication, first in areas where it’s really obvious—when there’s greed or aversion—and then in the less obvious areas, where there’s delusion. He gives you the tools for taking these things apart and for understanding them and getting beyond them. That’s the whole point of this: We’re going beyond just … 
  7. Finding Balance
     … As the texts say, put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. So pull away for a while. Get yourself out of those worlds. Look at things in the larger perspective, where your ordinary daily concerns don’t loom so large. Make the mind larger than its concerns, able to maintain an even keel no matter how things are going to turn … 
  8. Change Your Mind
     … You try to be ardent, alert, and mindful in putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. In other words, you put aside any thoughts that would pull you away from the breath. You keep the breath in mind, you’re alert to what the breath is doing, and you’re ardent—in other words you’re trying with your whole heart … 
  9. Metta Can Hurt
     … When is it skillful and when is it not skillful to hold to mettā? When is it more skillful to hold to upekkhā, equanimity? And how do you make sure that your actions are based on mettā* *for others? When thoughts of greed come into the mind, when thoughts of lust come into the mind, and you think, “Well, that’s okay. It’s … 
  10. Forging a Path
     … For a while you just find that there’s greed, aversion, and delusion in ways that you didn’t really imagine or you didn’t readily admit to yourself. But you keep on digging deeper and deeper, and peeling things away, and you finally do get to things of real value inside. There’s a sutta where a monk is meditating, and he gets … 
  11. The Awful Truth
     … So we each have to turn inside and say, “Okay, where are the roots of these unskillful conditionings?” They lie in the greed, anger, and delusion in our own minds. These are the things that cause us to act unskillfully, so that we cause ourselves suffering, and we cause suffering for the people around us. If these things can be uprooted, we’re not … 
  12. Watch the Mind at the Breath
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion come into the mind, you use your mindfulness and ardency to put them out. One of the advantages of staying with the breath like this is that you detect these fires when they’re small sparks, tiny little flames just beginning to get started, and you can snuff them out before your head catches on fire. So try to … 
  13. Ups & Downs
     … Sometimes the mind seems so clear and settled that you think it will never go back to its old greed, aversion, and delusion ever again. And then of course it does. Part of the reason, of course, is that you got complacent. When you get something good, do your best to protect it, maintain it. When things aren’t going well, remind yourself that … 
  14. Building Character
     … This is a kind of greed, you might call it, that actually has no bad consequences. So when things are difficult, look around. I knew of another monk—I didn’t know him personally but I read an article he had written one time, about how when he had gone to Asia, he tended to look down on the monks and nuns who puttered … 
  15. Firm in Your Intent
     … Our greed, aversion, and delusion give rise to all the circumstances that cause us to keep coming back like this. We feel a hunger; we feel a lack. One of the purposes of the meditation is to develop strength inside, so that we have a sense of enough. The lack comes from a desire for happiness, but still, the Buddha says that that desire … 
  16. The Gift of Discernment
     … And then you can use the skills you develop in concentration to deal with other issues as they come in the course of the day because, after all, the fabrications that you use to create that state of concentration are the same fabrications with which you can create greed or anger or fear or anxiety, jealousy—whatever unskillful states there are. They’re basically … 
  17. Medicine – Timely & Timeless
     … What’s it sick with? Greed, anger, and delusion. And this is the treatment. It has its different stages. You try to get as constant and easeful and controlled a state of mind as you can. You’re actually fighting against those three perceptions. But it’s only when you fight against a truth that you know how true it is, how far it … 
  18. Mindful & Grateful for Lessons in Freedom
     … In that moment when you’re generous, you’re free from your greed. You’re free from your attachment. You’re able to rise above these things. You get a sense of your worth as a person and that there’s a higher level of happiness that comes when you don’t simply give in to your appetites. You see the benefits of sharing … 
  19. The Buddha’s Rules of Order
     … When your thoughts involve anger, greed, or lust, remind yourself of the drawbacks of those attitudes, where they would lead you. If you kept with that train of thought for 24 hours, where would it take you? And most of these movies are movies you’ve seen many times before. You know the plot; you know how Humphrey Bogart is going to say. The … 
  20. Happy to Be Here
     … Those little movements of the mind—a little bit of greed here, a little bit of aversion there, delusion, jealousy, fear: You want to catch these things when they’re still new and weak so that you can begin to see, “Why does the mind go for them?” We know that some of these what the Buddha calls “defilements” are things we like. Others … 
  21. Joy & Discontent
     … We talk about developing these qualities to help put aside greed and distress with reference to the world, but we’re also developing them so that when you do have to deal with the world, you’ll be able to deal with the world in a wise way. You can see the world best when you’ve been able to step out of it … 
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