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- 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 …
- Fabrication… Other times you have to reflect actively on the drawbacks of that other world, of the thinking that creates it, especially if it’s thinking imbued with lust, aversion, delusion, or harmfulness. You’ve got to remind yourself, “What would happen if I thought about this for a while?” Well, you’d create certain habits in the mind, and once those habits are imbedded …
- In Training… Something 2,600 years ago still applies to our greed, aversion, and delusion, to our fears, to our jealousies, the processes by which we create these things right now. Those processes haven’t changed. The details of what we create may be very different. You look at literature. The literature of that time is very different from our literature now. That’s the product …
- Audacious & Undaunted… If you can comprehend the suffering to the point where you go beyond any passion, aversion, and delusion around it, and if you can abandon the craving, that’s the end of suffering. That was the third noble truth. The fourth noble truth is what you do. Everything from right view to right concentration boils down to virtue, concentration, and discernment. These are the …
- Feeding on Right Resolve… As an unlimited attitude, how is it restrained? It’s restrained in that it restrains our greed, aversion, and delusion. And it requires patience, because people will behave in lots of ways that are not in line with what we want. That, of course, brings in equanimity, because even though our goodwill may be unlimited, we have limitations in terms of our energy, how …
- Restraint… Who’s doing the gobbling? When you’re looking at something, what’s the purpose? Is the purpose in your best interest, or is it in the interest of greed, aversion, and delusion? If it’s the latter case, then you’re not really the one looking. Greed is looking. Anger’s looking. Delusion is looking. The more they take charge of the looking …
- Do Jhana… You probably know the image of the flames of passion, aversion, and delusion. That image uses a different verb. Those are the flames that leap up, the flames you can’t read by because they’re so erratic, whereas jhayati is the verb they use for the flame of an oil lamp, burning steadily enough that you can read by it and see things …
- May I Look After Myself with Ease… So this discernment is medicine for all the misunderstandings by which the mind makes itself ill, gives rise to greed, gives rise to anger and aversion, jealousy, feelings of being mistreated and wronged. Because what happens is that you tend to feed on those things. If you don’t have good food inside, you tend to feed on garbage that’s going to make …
- Kamma & Rebirth—A Handful of Leaves… One is that if you do something with a skillful intention—i.e., one free from greed, aversion, and delusion—the result is going to be happy. If you do something with an unskillful intention, the result is going to be miserable. And there are gradations. And because you’re doing things all the time, you’ve got lots of kamma. Another thing he …
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