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- Stay… 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 …
- Bad 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 …
- Injustice… 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 …
- Dethinking 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 …
- The 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 …
- Of 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 …
- Battling 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 …
- A 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 …
- Intelligent 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 …
- Abandoning 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 …
- The 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 …
- The Current News… Instead, we should be getting worked up about the fact that greed, aversion, and delusion are taking charge of our own mind, and yet we’re not doing anything about it, or our efforts are half-hearted. You want to give full attention to what’s happening right here, because right here is where you’re responsible, and this is where you can make …
- Mindful of Your Potentials… What is it that originates it? What is the provocation of that potential for unskillful thinking? And when the unskillful thinking goes, what happened? When it comes back again, and you latch on to it, why did you latch on to it? What’s the allure? What’s the appeal of greed? What’s the appeal of anger? What’s the appeal of lust …
- Concentration that Bears Great Fruit… As the Buddha says, you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world outside and you’ve got just this world in here to stay focused on. This is what leads to so much suffering: the fact that we keep going from one becoming to another one, all centered around a desire. In your daily life, this process is happening many, many …
- The Trick to Staying in Place… For example, when you act on that kind of motivation, when you act on greed, this is why the result is going to be a problem. When you act on anger, these are the results. When you misunderstand things and act on delusion, you learn, “Oh, what I thought was x was really y, what I thought was y was x.” You see the …
- The Train Trestle… And all too often, we do it with greed, aversion, delusion, envy, jealousy: all kinds of unskillful mind states, along with that sense of being threatened by the collapse of things behind us. So we tend to do a shoddy job, which is why we find ourselves in worlds that we wouldn’t like to be in. So here, as we meditate, we have …
- Conviction in the End of Suffering… It gives you the strength you need in order to overcome your greed, your aversion, and your delusion—and it reminds you that death is not the end. For a lot of people for whom death is the end, the current pandemic is really cause for dismay. And of course, there really is dismay in the fact that so many people are dying, and …
- In a World of Crooked Wheels… Now he’s a Buddha, good at getting rid of the crookedness of greed, aversion, and delusion in his students. You can read this parable in a lot of ways, one of which is that the Buddha’s Dhamma-and-Vinaya is like the first wheel. It’s well designed. It’s going to last for a long time. Look at it: Over 2 …
- The Middle Way… You’re ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s the definition. How it works out in practice is that you focus on the breath without any reference to anything else outside—just what it feels like to be breathing right now. As for any thoughts that’d pull you away to something else, you say …
- Strong Against Anger & Fear… The Buddha’s approach is counterintuitive in a lot of ways, but it’s counterintuitive only to our greed, aversion, and delusion. When you see things clearly, you see that he is really right. If you think that your wealth lies in things that people can take away, you’re constantly going to be afraid. As for the fear of death, you’ve got …
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