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- The Conditions for Goodwill… to be developed. It’s not innate to the mind, any more innate than hatred can be. Hatred can be very easy to feel. Anger can be very easy to feel. Greed, aversion, jealousy: All of these things are just as natural as the good side of the mind. And the mind is something that can change very quickly. There are passages where the …
- Attahi Attano Natho… So when you’re practicing mindfulness, where do you do that? “Keeping track of the body in and of itself, ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world”: It points inside to body, feelings, mind, mental qualities, all in-and-of-themselves, right here. That’s where the work is to be done. That’s your frame of …
- Five Precepts, Five Virtues… If we’re free simply to follow our greed, aversion, and delusion, that’s a kind of slavery. But the freedom that comes when you realize, “Okay, I can choose my actions based on what the long-term results are going to be, and I have the inner strength I need to resist any temptation to go for a quick fix. I’ll stick …
- True Protection for the World… As long as they’re still acting on greed, anger, and delusion, they leave themselves wide open for suffering. And the Buddha says, Yes, that’s right. Armies are not a protection. Your good karma is your protection. Your good thoughts, your good words, your good deeds: those are your protection; protection against yourself, your own unskillful habits and protection against the unskillful habits …
- Full Attention… You focus on the body in and of itself, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. And part of the enjoyment of meditation is rejoicing in the fact that you don’t have to worry about the world outside right now. Take delight in that fact. You’ve just got your body sitting right here. You can give it your full …
- Take the One Seat… If greed comes in and takes over the chair, or if grief comes in and takes over the chair, or anger, or any of the other emotions: If they take over the chair, then you’re down on the floor. Or if there’s a squabble over who gets to sit in the chair, you’re not an observer anymore. So you stay right …
- A Conglomeration of Germs… If you use it in a way that gives rise to more greed, aversion, and delusion, that’s destructive. If you use it in a way that gives rise to kamma that harms others, that’s destructive, too. If you use it to meditate—to give rise to concentration, to give rise to discernment—or as a means for generosity and virtue, that’s …
- Equanimity 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 …
- Rehab 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 …
- Perception… 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 …
- The 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 …
- The 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 …
- Timeless 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 …
- In 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 …
- What 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 …
- Volunteer 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 …
- 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 …
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