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- 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 …
- The Language of the Heart (1)… In other words, you’ve allowed your greed, aversion, and delusion to drive you for who knows how long. They get you to do things that are not in your own interest. And in Ajaan Lee’s image, they get you to do these things and then, when the police come to catch you, they run away. You’re the one left to deal …
- Questioning the Hindrances… The second, ill will, is more related to aversion. The last three are more related to delusion one way or another. The only way you’re going to get past these things is to understand them, because in each case we tend to fall in with a hindrance. We believe it. We get fooled by it. That’s why we get ensnared in it …
- Dimensions of Right Effort… There’s lots of delusion right there and lots of aversion. So you have to ask yourself, “Is everything really horrible?” The Buddha said there are four noble truths. There is suffering but there’s an end to suffering and there’s a path to the end of suffering. Those are the good things in the world. And the path involves right action, right …
- Fabricated Path, Unfabricated Goal… So we’re here to catch the animals that are greed, aversion, and delusion in their many forms. You can’t get them to make appointments as to who will come when. You deal with whatever is coming up and disturbing your concentration. And if you can deal with it, undercut it, understand it, drop the cause, then that amount of concentration was enough …
- The First Noble Truth… In other words, you’ve been driven around by greed, aversion, and delusion for who knows how long, and there’s a part of you that says, “Enough!” Nourish that part. Keep it strong. Make it a larger voice in your decisions as to when to meditate, when to read the Dhamma, when to turn off the TV, when to turn off the Internet …
- No Happiness Other than Peace… After all, the Buddha did recognize that it’s possible to get into very strong states of absorption based on greed, aversion, and delusion. They’re wrong concentration but they are absorption and there’s an element of peace, an element of stillness there. Whatever pleasure those things contain, it lies in those moments of peace, those moments of certainty. Of course the problem …
- Observe Yourself in Action… Does it involve aggravating your greed, aversion, and delusion? If so, maybe you should look for another livelihood. But again, you’re looking at what you’re doing by stepping back. You’re not saying, “Well, just because I’ve identified myself as someone who does this livelihood, I’m going to stick with it.” You pull back to see: “This is the role …
- Customs of the Noble Ones… We really like our greed, aversion, and delusion. In fact, we identify ourselves with our suffering. As the Buddha said, suffering comes from clinging to the five aggregates. And what is our identity made out of? Out of the clinging to those same five aggregates. We identify with our suffering. So of course it’s going to be hard to let go as long …
- Insight from Jhana… Now, why does this have an impact that goes all the way through the mind and affects even your strong greed, aversion, and delusion? Because there’s a common pattern to all our suffering. It’s analogous to eating. Just as the body needs to feed, the mind needs to feed, and it’s in the act of feeding that we suffer. But this …
- Developing Discernment… Sometimes you can understand a particular defilement—a particular case of greed, aversion, or delusion—simply by watching it and seeing, “Oh, this is how it comes; this is how it goes.” Because you never watched it before, the ability to observe it can cut through what you hadn’t noticed before. Other times, though, the defilements are not that easy to deal with …
- Sensitive in Seven Ways… When greed, aversion, and delusion come in, with their tender, sweet voices—how do you deal with them? When they come with their harsh voices—they’re yelling at you and, as the Thais say, they’re squeezing your nerves: What do you do? You need to have techniques for recognizing different groups of defilements and dealing with them effectively. Then finally, which voices …
- Dealing with Limitations… The various forms of aversion—ill will, resentment, cruelty—are the main limitations on the first three brahma-viharas. The limitation on equanimity is affection. The people you really love, to whom you’d like to give all you can, but who you can’t help as much as you’d like: They’re the ones for whom it’s hard to feel equanimity …
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