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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- A Passion for the Path… What he means is that greed, aversion, and delusion cease. Your passion for fabrication cease at that point, because it’s done the work it needs to do. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing left. There is the awareness of awakening, and when you hit it, you realize that it really is the end of suffering. At that point you’ve thrown …
- The Allure of Sensuality… The one thing that can do that is your greed, aversion, and delusion. You may ask yourself, “Why do I keep siding with those?” Think of that image in the Dhamma summaries, about the world being a slave to craving. That goes together with an image in the sutta it’s drawn from. It’s about a king who’s got everything he really …
- Goodwill & Kamma… Either you lose your concentration or you goes into what Ajaan Lee calls delusion concentration, where everything is pleasant but there’s very little definition of any kind at all. And you come out wondering, “Well, where was I just now? Was I awake? Was I asleep?” You weren’t asleep, but you’re at a loss to say where you actually were. The …
- The Message of Mindfulness… You need food in order to fight off the enemy—in other words, your defilements of greed, aversion, and delusion. Your mindfulness needs food, too. Your mindfulness is the gatekeeper of the fortress, watching whoever might want to try to come into the fortress, remembering who’s a friend and who’s a foe. Mindfulness, you know, doesn’t just sit there and watch …
- Healing Skills… our greed, our aversion, our delusion. So what we’re doing as we meditate is that we’re giving medicine to the mind, at the same time that we’re giving medicine to the body. They’re often two sides of the same coin. The breath energy in the body is often a reflection of what’s going on in the mind, and what …
- A Mental Fortress… If you see that looking at something or listening at something gives rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, learn to look in a different way. Listen in a different way. Bring some discernment to what you choose to focus on and how you approach things. After all, it’s not the case that the mind is perfectly still and perfectly calm, and then all …
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