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- Momentum Through Restraint… As you go through the day, you look at something, you listen to something, and if you see that the way you’re looking or listening will create greed, lust, anger, or delusion in the mind, you have to ask yourself, “Why are you looking in that way?” Restraint doesn’t mean that you put blinders on your eyes or plugs in your ears …
- Opportunities Everywhere… After all, you don’t want to have to wait until greed, aversion, and delusion are really big and have moved in and claimed their space in your mind before you do something about them. You want to catch them when they’re just little tiny seeds, little tiny weeds, and uproot them right then and there. Like those burr plants we have around …
- Ripples Go Far… But then you look at your own mind, the amount of greed, aversion, and delusion that drives your own mind is pretty scary too. Can you trust the little shows that the mind makes for itself, driven by these factors? We tend to trust the shows because these things come from within us, but that’s one of the reasons why we have to …
- Practicing from Gratitude… greed, aversion, delusion, flowing out of the mind. Our desire to be this or that: That comes flowing out of the mind. Discernment, when it’s fully developed, as the Buddha says, can cut these things, cut the flow, and the mind is no longer flooded by suffering. This, too, is a gift you give to yourself that you also give to the people …
- Doing the Practice… how things like greed, anger, and delusion get started, how they grow, how they take over, how they can be dropped, what happens if you don’t drop them, what happens if you do. You may have some general ideas about this, but if you want to see really clearly so that these things don’t overcome you, you want to stop and watch …
- Believe in Your Actions… At the same time, it’s easy not to believe that the quality of your intention is going to determine the results of your actions, because you see a lot of people acting out of greed, hatred, and delusion, and yet they seem to be pretty happy, in the short term at least. So it is a matter of belief. And the Buddha’s …
- Motivation… Even though you may not be able to uproot all your greed, aversion, and delusion, the fact that they’re lighter, less forceful, means that the people around you are going to be less victimized by them. So if the mind says, “You’re being selfish, just looking after yourself,” you can reply that looking after your mind is not a selfish activity. The …
- Train Your Hunger (The Sea Squirt)… After you’ve fed the mind well on concentration, you begin to look at all the other things that would pull you out of concentration, and you see that there’s greed or aversion or delusion involved in going after those things. So, to get past them, the first step is to see, when the greed or the anger comes, how does it come …
- Good Fences All Around You… They want you to think that this is your greed, your aversion, your delusion, your way of looking at things. This is what you feel in your bones. They get into your bones this way, through the breath. That’s one of the reasons why we stay with the breath not only while we’re sitting here with our eyes closed, but also as …
- Training in Right Resolve… But there are a lot of things we believe in 100 percent—we’re convinced of our rightness, we hold to our rightness—and there can be a lot of delusion there, a lot of ignorance. Look at the Buddha. When he taught right view, he’d practiced it and then he’d put it down. He would pick it up then when it …
- With Reference to the World… Those are the two main reactions, both of them based on delusion. One of the ways not to get involved in the world is to reflect on how the Buddha defined the world simply as sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations, and ideas. In other words, he says, don’t assume that there’s a reality out there, and don’t assume there’s …
- Firmly Intent… That delusion is something you have to learn how to overcome. You do it through those instructions that the Buddha gave to Rahula. You act on your best intentions. Then when you see that the results were not quite what you thought they’d be, you learn from that. Over time, you get more and more informed. You get less and less deluded about …
- Strength from Within… Regular culture is a culture of people with defilements shaped by greed, aversion, and delusion, whereas he wanted out of that culture. And the way out was to follow the customs of the noble ones. Ajaan Chah has a very interesting discussion where he talks about how controversial both Ajaan Sao and Ajaan Mun were for many years. People used to get into arguments …
- Gratitude & Trust… If things were very comfortable, very easy, and very convenient, you’d have no test against which to measure your greed, aversion, and delusion. But the hardships aren’t so overwhelming that we can’t practice: That’s the whole point. So that was his intention for starting this place. That’s the meaning of this place. To keep maintaining the meaning of the …
- What Should & Shouldn’t Be Done… There are also some deep delusions in the mind. So it’s good to have some advice on what dangers to watch out for and what possibilities to look for. This is why we study. If we had a simple method that simply said, “Well just note, note, note, note, note whatever comes up, and you don’t have to think about anything, and …
- Breath Meditation, Step by Step… Whatever attachments were causing suffering, whatever ignorance was causing the diseases of the mind—greed, anger, and delusion: That ignorance can be gone for good. That’s the good news of the Buddha’s teaching. Even though there are things in the world that change and are impermanent, the effect that the Dhamma can have on the mind when it’s used with precision …
- Commit Yourself… Or else you go into a state called delusion concentration, which feels nice and pleasant, but you don’t really quite know where you are. When you come out of it, you’re not sure whether you were awake or asleep. Or there’s a nice kind of bright haze that you go into, like a fog on a summer day. There’s light …
- Exercising the Mind… The battle of training the mind, winning out over greed, anger, and delusion, the qualities that get in the way of mindfulness, alertness and discernment: That’s the most important battle in life. So as you’re working with the breath, remind yourself that these are important skills you’re developing. And you never know how much time you have do it. You may …
- Faith in the Buddha’s Awakening… If you know that looking at something is going to give rise to greed, anger, delusion, lust, or fear, you don’t look at it. Or you try to look at it in a different way so as to prevent those qualities from arising. As for skillful qualities, if they haven’t arisen yet, you try to give rise to them. When they have …
- An Island of Concentration… Greed, aversion, and delusion can swoop down and get you. So you do have to restrict your range of awareness. But then when you stay with the body as you get more and more firmly centered, you don’t have to keep it just at one point. The Buddha talks about mindfulness of breathing as a kind of concentration. When a monk came to …
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