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- Questioning & Acceptance… Is there any greed in your mind? Is there any anger? Is there any aversion? Lust? Envy?—a long, long list of possible things that, if you find any of these things, you’ve got to work on them. If your meditation wasn’t working, he’d encourage you to ask: What’s not going right? He gave the analogy of a cook working …
- The Buddha’s Questions… Is this the sort of person who would tell a falsehood, pretending to know something he didn’t know because of greed, aversion, or delusion? Would he try to get someone to do something that wasn’t in that person’s best interest? You’ve got to check out the teacher first, realizing you can’t just trust anybody you come across, no matter …
- Mindful of Death… Then you ask yourself, “Okay, what unfinished business do I have? Are there still unskillful thoughts in my mind?” If you notice that there are attitudes of greed, aversion, delusion, or any of the reasons why you might fear death, he says to work on them as quickly and with the same sense of urgency and mindfulness that a person whose head was on …
- Right View Tells You What to Do… The descriptions in the texts are there to tell you about what it should be ideally, but first you’re going to have to grub around in some of your own greed, aversion, and delusion. Because it’s one thing to be able to see the mind forming another thought, and realizing it’s not all that interesting to begin with, and so you …
- The Choice Not to Suffer… When there’s greed, aversion, or delusion, you recognize them as unskillful thoughts. You’re seeing them simply as events, part of a process. You’re not concerned about how well they’re representing the world to you, or whether they’re telling you something you need to get worked up about. For the time being, you’re not involved. It’s just, “That …
- The Fourth Noble Truth… And you can use that level of involvement in the concentration to help peel away a lot of really gross defilements, because as you leave concentration, and the mind picks up greed or aversion or delusion, you see how gross those things are. The mind inclines to not go for them because it’s got a better point of view, a better perspective, coming …
- Sensitivity & Strength… Comprehending means understanding it to the point where you lose all passion, aversion, and delusion around it. With the cause of stress, the skill is learning how to let it go. With the cessation of stress, the skill is learning how to realize it; and with the path to the cessation, the skill is learning how to develop it. There are things you have …
- The Reality of Your Thoughts… The ones that really stir-up a lot of greed, aversion, delusion, fear, jealousy, grief: They seem real because they have such a lasting impact in the body. But the Buddha has you regard these, as well, as processes. And again the question is: Where do these things lead? Most of us never think about them in those terms. As with grief: We don …
- Be Bigger Than Your Pains… When you’re free of greed, aversion, and delusion, you’re no one’s debt at all, which means that everything you do, say, and think is a gift. That would be a really nice position to be in, instead of the way we are right now, constantly piling up karmic debts. We’re beholden to this person for food, that person for shelter …
- Skills for Awakening… Where exactly is the allure of this particular instance of greed, aversion, or delusion? You may not be able to foresee the particulars of a particular defilement, but you can learn the basic principles of how to approach a problem skillfully. You look for the allure. And you look for the drawbacks. You look to see, when something comes up in the mind, why …
- Timeless Practice… That means understanding to the point where you have no passion, aversion, and delusion about it. The duty with regard to craving, the cause of suffering, is to abandon it. You abandon the cause. The cessation of suffering, the third truth, is basically the act of abandoning the cause and realizinig that suffering stops. And the way you do that is to follow the …
- The Brightness of Life… Nobody likes to look at his or her own greed or aversion, or the times when the mind is being dishonest with itself or keeps falling back on old habits that it knows are unskillful, but keeps going back anyhow. We don’t like to look at those things. But if we don’t look at them, we’re not going to be able …
- Training Your Minds… Then when the thought comes that you might want to do something based on greed, aversion, or delusion, you say, “Why bother? It’s needless suffering. Why bother with it?” You’ve got something better. This is how you train the mind: You develop good qualities that lead to knowledge and you also develop a sense of well-being that can sustain you. That …
- The Dhamma Wheel… At the same time, as you’re working on reducing your own greed, aversion, and delusion, these qualities don’t go out and pester the neighbors. So you’re looking for happiness in a responsible way. When the Buddha taught this to the five brethren, he said this was the beginning of his Dhamma. This Dhamma wheel, he said, is now set in motion …
- Hold on to Your Frame of Reference… Sometimes it’s because of greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of going back to your old surroundings, and all the associations from those old surroundings begin to take over. So one of the main qualities we’re developing as we meditate is this ability to keep something in mind. The word for “meditation” in Pali, bhavana, actually means to …
- Full-Body Breath… Instead of looking so much at the content, he saw that skillful thoughts were motivated by lack of greed, lack of aversion, lack of delusion, or by renunciation, lack of ill will, lack of harmfulness. Those thoughts would give good results. Unskillful thoughts were the ones based on sensual passion. He used the word, sensuality, which in the Canon means your passion for your …
- An Auspicious Night… We know that to comprehend suffering, you try to overcome any passion, aversion, and delusion around the suffering. Abandoning craving requires that you develop dispassion for craving. The cessation of suffering is dispassion in and of itself. But then the path requires passion; it requires desire. To solve that paradox, learn how to think strategically. Notice where the passages in the Canon seem to …
- Discipline… When the world takes over, the greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind take over as well, because those are the values of the world. So when you leave the monastery, you need to have a sense of self-discipline. While you’re here, the environment helps subdue a lot of thoughts because they’re not in your face. When you go out there …
- Dealing with Pain… You feed on it through hatred, aversion, or whatever, but it’s still feeding. You remind yourself that you don’t want to gobble that down. You don’t have to gobble it down. It’s there, but it doesn’t have to be something that you lay claim to, and you know that it’s going to change. It’s not that it …
- Broad, Tall, & Deep… You can actually feel sorry for those people if they’re simply speaking out of greed, aversion, or delusion. If what they have to say is actually true, if you’ve actually done something wrong, then by lifting your mind to a higher plane, you’re in a better position to admit your mistake and to learn from it. So this ability to depersonalize …
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