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  2. To Be Sure
    The Buddha had lots of names for the state of mind free from passion, aversion, and delusion. Nibbana, “unbinding,” is only one of them. Its meaning is freedom. That’s one of the attributes of that state of mind. Another attribute is one of safety. Refuge, harbor, the secure: These are some other names of that same state. That’s what we’re looking … 
  3. Be Precise
     … It’s like going into a dream world, what Ajaan Lee calls “delusion concentration,” where things are very still, but you’re not very clear about where you are. That kind of concentration won’t give any insight into your actions. You have to realize there’s a distinction between the breath and the pleasure. They’re going to both be there in almost … 
  4. Factors for Stream Entry
     … Does it give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion ? Then there’s something wrong. If it makes you difficult to maintain, if it makes you be burdensome on other people, then there’s something wrong. You look for a Dhamma that gives you good reasons to behave in skillful ways. Then when you’re heard the Dhamma, the next factor is appropiate attention. This … 
  5. Seven Facets of Discernment
     … As they relate to greed, aversion, delusion. We have to learn these lessons by being observant. When you’ve learned something, figure out what’s the right time to apply it—because sometimes you can learn a lesson that will be good for some situations and not for others. We develop our powers of concentration, our powers of mindfulness, our powers of discernment so … 
  6. How to Be an Admirable Friend
     … You keep your passion, aversion, and delusion – to some extent at least – within proper bounds. If you’re not able yet to get rid of these things entirely, at least you can get some control over them. As a result, you’re going to benefit, and the people around you benefit as well. This is why meditation is a friendly activity, not in the … 
  7. Reflecting on Karma
     … The happiness where there’s no greed, aversion, or delusion to make you do foolish things with your good fortune. So when you see people who are abusing their good fortune, take it as a lesson. Maybe someday you’ll be there too, having good fortune. And for your own sake you want to make sure you don’t abuse it. This kind of … 
  8. Perspectives & Priorities
     … your greed, aversion, delusion, and your irritation, or your wisdom and compassion? You want to keep in mind what the Buddha had to say about these things. That’s how you train a wise inner critic. Then you want to be alert, watching what you’re actually doing, so that you can check to make sure that it is in line with the Buddha … 
  9. Suppressed Emotions
     … When fear, greed, anger, or delusion come up in the mind, it’s not necessarily helpful to express them outside because sometimes that makes it difficult to observe what’s going on, too. There has to be a middle way between the expression and the suppression. This is important. Often as you meditate you try to tell yourself, “Don’t react. Just be equanimous … 
  10. Respect for What’s Noble
     … This is why we suffer.” Instead of simply falling in with our clinging, we have to step back and try to comprehend it—in other words, get to the point where we understand it so that we have no passion, aversion, or delusion around it. He says that there are four kinds of clinging. We cling to five things. They’re called “aggregates,” but … 
  11. Factors for Awakening
     … Other times, if you notice that you’re getting sluggish—you’re sitting here calm and you’re beginning to doze off, or going into what Ajaan Lee calls delusion concentration, where the breath feels nice, everything is very still, but your focus gets very blurry, so blurry that when you come out, if you ask, where were you right now, you’re not … 
  12. Do Jhana
     … We feed off our greed, aversion, and delusion: There are all kinds of things we feed on. The problem is that we don’t really exercise much discretion or discernment in what we eat. Our feeding habits tend to be pretty voracious and haphazard. What we’re trying to do as we get the mind into concentration is give it better food so that … 
  13. For the Survival of True Happiness
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion, start in the mind, they’re reflected in the way you breathe. As you focus on the breath, you’ll see yourself using perceptions to stay with the breath. Directed thought and evaluation to stay with the breath. This sensitizes you to these processes in the mind. There are a lot of Tibetan teachers who say, “Why focus on … 
  14. Defilements at the Door
     … What perceptions fuel your greed, anger, and delusion? What intentions fuel it? What ways of paying attention to things fuel these things? Look into those, because that’s where you can make a difference here in the present moment. You may not be able to choose who’s going to appear at your door or who wants to get into the fortress. But you … 
  15. Take the Buddha Seriously
     … You’re contributing to their delusion on the one hand. And if they find you out, that it was a lie, then they learn not to trust you. Remember that part: Now everything you say will have a question mark in their mind. So you lose out in a really important way. Yet the world holds on to the things, holds on to the … 
  16. A Trained Observer
     … This is where you’re encouraged to ask your own questions to understand your own greed, aversion, delusion, your own desires and passions, and to learn to develop some dispassion around them. Basically, it comes down to that old pattern of seeing the allure, seeing the drawbacks, and catching yourself going for the allure when you realize at the same time, “This is nothing … 
  17. Treasures from the East
     … Some people ask, when the Buddha lists the different causes for unskillful behavior as greed, aversion, and delusion, why doesn’t he list fear? That’s because some kinds of fear are actually skillful. It’s good to be afraid of the power you have to do something wrong, to do something harmful. This is a kind of fear that comes not from a … 
  18. Worlds to Watch Out For
     … They like their slavery to greed or aversion or delusion. So they put on blinders. They pretend that the Buddha never gained awakening. The Dhamma’s not there. The Sangha, they pretend, has not been here all along to show us the good example, to show that it’s not just somebody 2,500 years ago—but it’s a path that is still … 
  19. Independent of the World
     … The discernment that allows you to let go of your greed, aversion, and delusion is the highest form of relinquishment. And, of course, the calm, the satisfaction, the sense of peace and security that come with attaining nibbana is the highest noble calm. So we desire these things. But in desiring them, we don’t just wait for them to come at the end … 
  20. Joy in Effort
     … It’s possible to relax into the present and still be filled with delusion. It’s possible to enjoy putting effort into the practice, to thrive on challenges, to realize that there’s a mature way to relate to the goal of awakening, and actually get there. You realize that, yes, the experience of awakening is not here yet, it’s someplace in the … 
  21. Detail Work
     … Turn it on to in trying to understand your greed, your aversion, your delusion. Understand the workings of the mind that may be getting in the way of your concentration. Take an interest in the skills that are needed. Concentration is not a dulling of the mind. If it’s done right, it sharpens things. Because it’s quiet, it allows subtle things to … 
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