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  2. Fear
     … Can you really believe in your commitment to being good? Can you really believe in your commitment to being a moral person? Because when something close to home that you really hold onto as being you or yours gets threatened, delusion comes in. Your perspective changes. Can you trust yourself that that won’t happen, that you won’t decide you have to do … 
  3. The Carpenter’s Adze
     … Were there any places, either on the way to the village or in the village or on the way back, where the mind was taken with desire, lust, anger, irritation, or delusion around any sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations? If you detect any of these unskillful qualities, you should work to get rid of them. Even when you meditate, you have to reflect … 
  4. Strengthening Concentration
     … Why is it that greed, aversion, and delusion can still have power over the mind even when you’ve learned so much about their drawbacks? What’s still their gratification? What can you do to wean yourself off that? Can you teach yourself new ways of feeding? This is up to your own ingenuity. But that’s how you strengthen your concentration. You come … 
  5. The Dhamma Protects
     … That’s not lighting up with insight, it’s lighting up with fires of passion, aversion, delusion. They’re blinding. I was talking the other day to a couple, and the wife was saying that she’d returned from Thailand and she was really angry at her husband. She turned to her husband and said, “That’s why I didn’t see you when … 
  6. When the Mind Is Still
     … There’s a sense of ease, you just go with the ease, forget the breath, and you get into what’s called delusion concentration, where you’re quiet, things are kind of hazy, you’re not really sure whether you’re awake or asleep. That’s not where you want to be. When you settle down, there’s still work to be done. The … 
  7. Virtue Fosters Concentration
     … In other words, learn how not to identify with every instance of greed, aversion, and delusion that make you want to look at this or listen to that. You have to look at where the desire to look is coming from. And where is it going to lead? What is it going to do to your mind? Instead of just following your likes and … 
  8. Delight & Beyond Delight
     … As for your mind that’s so good at advertising greed, aversion, and delusion, get it to advertise the path to itself: how good it is that you can wake up early in the morning and have nothing else to do but sit and meditate. Think of all the people in the world who don’t have that opportunity. Think of the fact that … 
  9. Large-hearted
     … We can come out victorious over our greed, over our aversion, over our delusion. It’s something human beings can do. As he said, if human beings couldn’t do this, he wouldn’t teach it. The fact that he taught it means that we can.
  10. Duties
     … You read about the minds of arahants—their task done, no passion, no aversion, no delusion, not suffering, no limitations—and that seems very far from the mind you’re experiencing right now. This is called renunciate grief, the grief you feel when you realize that there is a deathless goal that others have attained, but there’s a lot you need to do … 
  11. The Right Time at the Right Place
     … Think about how much you use your eyes especially, now in this age of screens, taking in all kinds of harmful information—things that are designed to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion. Those nerves need to be rested. They need to be soothed. So here you have the chance to close your eyes, soothe those nerves, soothe all the different organs in … 
  12. What You Can’t Change, What You Can
     … We take our greed, aversion, and delusion for granted. We take our normal everyday state of mind for granted, thinking that that’s the way things are. And yet that’s something that can be changed. So we have to stop and take stock: What are the things we can change, what are the things we can’t? The fact that things are inconstant … 
  13. In the Present
     … If you lose your mindfulness, the concentration drifts into what Ajaan Lee calls “delusion concentration,” where you lose sense of where you’re focused, where you are in time and space. When you come out, you wonder: “What was that? Was I awake? Was I asleep?” You’re quiet and still, but there’s no mindfulness, very little alertness, and no real ardency at … 
  14. Addictive Thinking
     … Thoughts of greed, thoughts of aversion, thoughts of delusion—thoughts by which we harm ourselves—are addictive. You wouldn’t think that we’d develop these addictions, but we do. It’s partly out of force of habit and partly out of an inability to imagine ourselves doing anything anyway else, thinking anyway else, feeling anyway else. So in the meditation, we have to … 
  15. Respect as a Sign of Intelligence
     … They’re trying to go straight for your greed, aversion, delusion. So you have to resist their message. This is why we try to keep the Buddha’s teachings in mind. He says true happiness is possible. Sometimes it comes by having to do without, but you gain a lot in return. There are greater happinesses and lesser happinesses in life, and the wise … 
  16. Goodwill All Around
     … Because one of the big problems we run across in our meditation is thoughts of greed, anger and delusion. And one way to overcome them, or at least to keep them in check, is to remind yourself you’ve already wished happiness to these other beings. So why do you want to be greedy for their things? Why do you want to get angry … 
  17. Reclaim Your Breath
     … Fear, delusion: We don’t want these things seizing our breath. We’ve got to reclaim our breath. That puts us in a better position to deal with the mind’s defilements. You’ll often notice, especially when anger arises, that the breath has changed, having an impact on the heart rate and the different hormones going into your bloodstream. In other words, the … 
  18. The Challenge
    They say that when the Buddha gazed the world after his awakening, he saw all beings as on fire—on fire with the fires of passion, aversion, delusion, aging, illness, and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair. That’s what the world looks like to an awakened person, someone who has found true peace, true happiness. The nature of fire is that it … 
  19. The Value of Effort
     … And why the flavor of a text like the Dhammapada is the heroic flavor, because it takes heroic determination to face down your greed, aversion, and delusion. As you sit here meditating, you could be just allowing whatever comes to come and pass away, pass away, that’s it; or you could be actively trying to work on concentration. Nobody’s forcing you. The … 
  20. Basic Intro
     … The mind, if it’s not trained, can get overcome by greed, anger, delusion, jealousy, all kinds of things that can make it miserable. So we train the mind to bring it more under control so that it doesn’t create unnecessary suffering for itself. And as we train the mind with the breath like this, we’re developing good qualities to help with … 
  21. Strength to Be Good
     … And you want to have that at your fingertips, so that when something bad comes up in the mind—greed, aversion, delusion—or something good comes up, such as rapture, you can remember how to handle it. If you’ve had experience in the past, then you apply what you’ve learned. The basic principle with regard to rapture is that whatever comes up … 
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