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2. Play AudioEquanimity as a Skill
    … You’re getting your mind under control, and you can develop qualities of discernment, mindfulness, and alertness to learn how to put aside your greed, aversion, and delusion. When you can do that, you benefit and the people around you will benefit, too. This is a part of your motivation for being here: that it’s going to be better for the people around … 
3. Play AudioRehab Work
    … the diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. We wound ourselves with things we do under the influence of these unskillful mental qualities. Although we may have picked up habits from the outside, in the same way that we can pick up germs from the outside, the act of choosing to follow the habits that others have modeled for us was our choice. Our resistance … 
4. Play AudioPerception
    … If greed comes, you want to be able to perceive it very early on. Lust comes, you want to perceive it very early on. Any unskillful emotion: If the mind is quiet, you can perceive it. The two senses of the word in English—to detect something and to identify it—are actually two separate words in Pali. The first, simply acknowledging the presence … 
5. Play AudioThe Skill of Renunciation
    … The whole point of concentration practice is that you can put the mind in a position where it has a sense of well-being inside, so that it’s happy to stay in the present moment—so that it can watch itself, see where it’s getting involved in greed, aversion, or delusion, even on very subtle levels. For that, the mind has to … 
6. Play AudioThe Larger View
    … So as you’re sitting here meditating and finding that thoughts of greed, aversion, or delusion come up—or fear, jealousy, whatever—you’ll always want to remember the larger picture. And regardless of what’s coming up and what your mind is telling you about how you have to obey these things, or fall in line with them, and regardless of what it … 
7. Play AudioTimeless Practice
    … If find yourself wandering off in greed, anger, lust, jealousy, envy—whatever the unskillful emotion—stop. Gather the mind. Then you can continue with whatever task you’ve got going. This way, you begin to bridge those gaps in your mindfulness, so that it does become continuous. It just keeps going and going and going and going and it doesn’t really have to … 
8. Play AudioIn Search of What is Skillful
    … He saw that those pieces of the formula—keeping the mind focused on something in and of itself, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world, being ardent, alert, and mindful: Those three qualities were equivalent to the different factors of the first jhana. Of those three qualities, the wisdom quality is ardency. Mindfulness is defined simply as being able to remember … 
9. Play AudioWhat Right Mindfulness Remembers
    … basically greed, aversion, and delusion. You do let in skillful mental qualities: right view all the way down through right concentration. So mindfulness is not simply a matter of being open and accepting of everything that comes by or comes up or comes in. There’s another place where the Buddha defines mindfulness as the ability to remember, to keep in mind what was … 
10. Play AudioVolunteer Spirit
     … The most blatant way is that if we can cut down the amount of greed, anger, and delusion in our actions or motivating our actions, other people are going to be happier. This is a common pattern throughout the Buddha’s teachings. The practice is voluntary. After all, the Buddha didn’t pretend to be a god who had created us or wanted to … 
11. Play AudioStay
     … We take in so much information, and so much greed, aversion, and delusion gets aroused—or not only gets aroused, but actually goes out looking for trouble. All of that in-and-out, in-and-out, wears down the mind. So now you’re finally trying to give the mind a place of balance, right here, right in the middle of everything, but not … 
12. Play AudioBad Stuff Happens
     … Why does it like to think about those things? Why does it like greed? Why does it like anger? Why does it like lust? Why does it like delusion? You learn why it likes these things by thwarting them. It’ll complain, but if you develop some solidity in your concentration, you’re not going to be swayed by the complaint. It’s when … 
13. Play AudioInjustice
     … If you come from anger or from greed, you end up doing and saying and thinking lots of unskillful things, even if you mean well. Say you see injustice going on in the world and you want to put an end to it: It is possible to work for the end of injustice when you’re coming from an equanimous mind state, a mind … 
14. Play AudioDethinking Thinking
     … One is to stay focused on one thing in and of itself, and the other is put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. This is going to require you to put aside all references to the world while you’re sitting here. You want to be just awareness, breath, and that’s going to be becoming enough. And sure enough, the … 
15. Play AudioThe True Dhamma Has Disappeared
     … the quality that says, in Ajaan Mun’s words, “I don’t want to come back and be the laughingstock of the defilements ever again.” Greed, aversion, delusion, pride: These things have been laughing at us for a long, long time. And over the centuries, they’ve managed to create a lot of counterfeit Dhamma to make it even harder for us to ferret … 
16. Play AudioOf Past & Future
     … We’re getting rid of greed, anger, and delusion right here. This benefits not only ourselves, but also everyone around us. That’s our purpose for being here. And it’s an important purpose. It’s the most important thing we can do with our lives: the sort of thing that if it demands great sacrifices, we should be willing to make them. As … 
17. Play AudioBattling Darkness
     … Ask yourself, “Does that have to be true? What if the opposite were true?” And just that much can be enough to jolt your imagination to think in other ways to get out of the rut of that particular defilement, whether it’s greed, anger, delusion, lust, fear, pride, jealousy, whatever. Learning how to cut through any defilement requires a knowledge that has these … 
18. Play AudioA Home for the Mind
     … He wants us to remember the lessons we learned and find the right balance between being sensitive to the particular configuration of the present moment and also keeping in mind some of the larger principles at work in dealing, say, with greed or anger or delusion as they arise, in dealing with pain, in dealing with pleasure—because sometimes pleasure can be dangerous, too … 
19. Play AudioIntelligent Effort
     … focused on the body in and of itself—or feelings or mind states in and of themselves—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. It’s good to know, to have a sense of which world you’re living in. If you’re living in the world of the media, there’s so much that has to be done to fix … 
20. Play AudioAbandoning Effluents (3)
     … Then you have to put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any thoughts that come up with reference to the world that would pull you out of this frame of reference, you’ve got to put them aside. You discipline them, get them under control. You can’t let them come in and destroy what your concentration is trying to build … 
21. Play AudioThe Gatekeeper’s Duties
     … As for the foes, the formula for mindfulness is that you also put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. What that means is that if any thoughts come up as to what you’d like out of the world or what you find upsetting in the world, you just let them go. You don’t have to engage in them, because … 
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