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- 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 …
- 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 …
- More than Mindfulness… As we hack away at these defilements—lust, aversion, delusion—it’s not the fact that we’re going to end them ourselves. We weaken them through our efforts, but we end them by following the path. The path leads to the deathless—and it’s that experience of the deathless that will cut them. But there was no experience of the deathless that …
- 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 …
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