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  2. The Sublime Attitudes
     … The three roots of unskillfulness — greed, aversion, and delusion — can branch out into five hindrances, seven obsessions, ten fetters, 108 forms of craving. They grow exponentially. No one skillful quality can take them all on. Each skillful quality has to be strengthened by others to be effective, to play its part in the training of the whole mind. At the same time, each has … 
  3. Tranquility & Insight
     … Okay, what’s the origination of this thought? What sparks this thought? Is it greed? Aversion? Delusion? Is there a perception that sparks it? What’s the origination? How does this come about? The Pali word for origination, samudaya, literally means arising together. What arises together with the thought? Then you look at it go away. When the cause goes away, then the thought … 
  4. Basic Breath, Basic Insight
     … You get to see your greed, aversion, and delusion, and it’s not fun. It’s not pleasant. Often the mind wants to pretend that they’re not there, or that they’re okay, or whatever. None of those attitudes accomplishes much. So you need to get the mind into a good mood where it’s willing to look at its own faults and … 
  5. The Breath All the Way
     … Having this safe inner space is an act of kindness for others as well, because when you’re coming from a comfortable spot here, a comfortable sensation here in the body, you’re less likely to act on greed, aversion, delusion, or any of the other ways of being unskillful with others. That way, other people will suffer less from your defilements. This is … 
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