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  2. The Five Hindrances
     … These two derive from the unskillful roots of greed and aversion as unskillful roots. The last three hindrances that derive from delusion. There’s sloth and torpor, a type of delusion that comes when your energy level is too low; restlessness and anxiety, the delusion that comes when you energy level is too high; and then, uncertainty. Ajaan Lee has an interesting analysis of … 
  3. Sorting Yourselves Out
     … What kind of happiness have you seen in the world, what kind of happiness have you gained from following your greed, your lust, your aversion, your fears? Then weigh those pleasures against the pain you’ve felt by following those things. Ask yourself: “Have you learned your lessons?” If one of these unskillful internal selves is coming on really strong, you need some tools … 
  4. The Right Place to Look
     … It burns us because our greed, aversion, and delusion try to hold on to the results of our past kamma. And, of course, those results going to slip through our fingers. They often may not be what we want, but we can’t go back and change our past kamma. So the problem is not with the world. The problem is with our greed … 
  5. The Fortress
     … Just because there’s some mindfulness and alertness and ardency getting started here doesn’t mean that your greed and aversion and delusion can’t come in and destroy them. This is why you have to develop qualities to protect them. The Buddha makes a comparison. He says as you’re practicing, it’s like building a fortress on the frontier. You’ve got … 
  6. Protection for the Holidays
     … You don’t just watch passion come and go, or aversion come and go. Some forms of passion are skillful, some are not. Being averse to doing something unskillful is actually a good aversion to have. And again, these are things that you can promote or you can demote depending on how they fit into the framework. So mindfulness doesn’t hit you against … 
  7. Is the Buddha’s Wisdom Selfish?
     … To work for your own benefit is to observe the precepts and to try get rid of any greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind. To benefit others is to get them to observe the precepts and to get rid of their own greed, aversion, and delusion. In other words, you respect the fact that they have their own karma. They’re agents. They … 
  8. Responsible for Your Actions
     … Because our habitual way is to identify with whatever comes up and if it appeals to our greed or aversion or delusion, we just run with it. That’s a sign of weakness. Strength is when you’re able to step back and say, “Where’s this going? Is it going in the direction that I want it to?” What we are doing as … 
  9. Fires of the Mind
     … burning with the fires of greed, anger, and delusion; or the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion. One of the reasons we’re here is because we feel that our minds are on fire and we’d like to put them out—because passion is like a fire. Aversion is like a fire. Delusion is a little bit harder to compare with a fire … 
  10. A Mind Without Inertia
     … On the one hand, he saw how everyone was aflame with passion, aversion, and delusion, burning from these things, and he felt compassion. But then he reflected on the Dhamma he had discovered. He was struck by how much it went against what people would want to hear, how subtle it was, how hard it would be for them to understand. He almost gave … 
  11. Great Expectations
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion arise, the Buddha would call them defilements. Modern psychology calls them us. There’s a big break right there. When greed comes up, when lust comes up, it’s not necessarily something we have to identify with. When anger comes up, we don’t have to identify with it. And in not expressing it, in learning restraint around these … 
  12. Greed for Outer & Inner Wealth
    When the Buddha lists the qualities that set the mind on fire, the list is passion, aversion, delusion. When he lists the qualities that are the basis for unskillful mind states, he has a different list, similar but not quite the same: greed, anger, and delusion. The big difference there is between the greed and the passion, because not all passion is unskillful. After … 
  13. The Heart to Keep Going
     … But what keeps the soldier going is that firm determination—a firm desire not to be fooled by greed, aversion, or delusion ever again. That’s your motivation. That’s you right now. And the more you can make that “you” identify with all the thoughts that cluster around that identity, the easier it’ll be to let go of the other identities that … 
  14. Right Resolve & Right Concentration
     … When you’ve got the mind in right concentration, you’re working with the breath, which is usually the part of you that gets hijacked by your greed, aversion, and delusion. These emotions can start getting you to breathe in unskillful ways—you can even have panic attacks—that just squeeze the mind, squeeze your nerves as they say in Thai, to the point … 
  15. Kill Your Anger
     … There are three—greed, aversion, delusion—but there are no clear lines among the three. In particular, greed and aversion owe an awful lot to delusion. This is particularly true in the case of aversion or anger. We may see something very clearly when we’re angry, but we don’t see the whole picture. It’s like trying to look at a landscape … 
  16. Greed & Distress with Reference to the World
     … When you think about all the minds out there that are churning out greed, aversion, and delusion right now: They talk about how the frequency of the electric current that goes through the United States can be detected even out in outer space. I’m pretty sure that the frequency of the minds churning out greed, aversion, and delusion right now can probably be … 
  17. The Bureaucracy of the Defilements
     … the bureaucracy of your defilements—things like greed, aversion, and delusion, which cloud the mind and get in the way of genuine discernment. Our mind is very complex. It’s like a large organization, making all kinds of decisions all the time, and we have a tendency to delegate a lot of our decisions to our old habits. There are a lot of little … 
  18. The Uses of Fear
     … greed, aversion, and delusion. Some psychotherapists have asked why he didn’t list fear as the fourth, because psychotherapy tends to see neurotic fear as the primary source of mental illness. Why didn’t the Buddha have the same understanding? Because he saw that fear has its uses. It’s not always unskillful. If you go into a forest, it’s right to be … 
  19. Withstanding Pleasure & Pain
     … There’s desire, aversion, delusion, and fear. And a lot of our desire, aversion, delusion, and fear are around issues of pleasure and pain. As long as your mind can get easily pushed around by pleasure and pain, it’s very easy for these four qualities to take over. So first you deal with the sources inside by learning how to be with pleasure … 
  20. Right & Wrong Decisions
     … As for aversion, aversion is never skillful, but recognizing when something is wrong is a useful skill to develop. When you see people acting in unskillful ways, is there a skillful way that you can get them to change their ways? You can’t use force in most cases. Nine times out of ten, you can’t use force. But there are other ways … 
  21. The Mind's Immune System
     … There are all sorts of things out there that would spark passion, aversion, and delusion, but only when our resistance is down do these things actually take over the mind. There are times when you can look at something really beautiful and feel no passion at all. Events can be really bad and yet there’s no aversion. That’s a sign that your … 
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