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- 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 …
- Study & Practice… It’s when you use some of the Buddha’s teachings to deal with your own greed, aversion, and delusion, and begin to gain a sense of what works: That’s when the Dhamma becomes your own. That’s when you really can say that you’re discerning. Otherwise, you just have the names of discernment, the ideas of discernment. But when you actually …
- Doubts… Any teaching, any mind state that would lead you to get involved in greed, aversion, delusion, and get you to break the precepts, you’ve got to say No. When he was talking to his stepmother, Mahapajapati Gotami, he went into more detail. Anything that leads to passion, getting fettered, entanglement, being burdensome, that leads to holding on to things that you should be …
- Learning Through Healing… It has its greed, aversion, delusion. It wears itself out with these things. And so we come here for the Buddha’s treatment. As we’re sitting here meditating, the first part of the treatment is to get the mind to settle down. Just be quiet for a while. The process of getting it to settle down is part of the treatment, the part …
- Cornered… worlds of delusion, dementia. But those are really unsafe. Especially when death comes, you want to have your wits about you. You want to be clear about what you’re doing, because choices will come. If you’re mindful, alert, and ardent, you can resist the temptation to go places that won’t be conducive to the practice. You can either direct yourself to …
- The Graduated Discourse… Can you imagine what the drawbacks of bad actions are? The drawbacks of acting on greed, aversion, and delusion? When you find the mind wandering off, try to think of these principles to re-establish your values or get them back in line with the four noble truths, so that you can actually apply the duties. These are not duties that are being imposed …
- Making a Refuge… You’ve got to have protection from your own greed, aversion, and delusion because these things are a lot more dangerous than anything anyone else outside could do. Sometimes we have people coming here to the monastery, and they’re thrown off by the animals around: the coyotes, the snakes. I keep reminding them that the coyotes and snakes don’t do much to …
- Angry… You try to train the mind to get rid of its greed, aversion, and delusion, because this practice is a way of showing goodwill to yourself and all other living beings. These are ways of finding happiness that harm no one. The problem is that even within the framework, no matter how much you do goodwill practice, there are times when anger comes up …
- Beyond Gratitude… Sometimes it’s anger, sometimes it’s delusion, sometimes it’s greed, sometimes it’s fear, sometimes it’s lust. Sometimes they’re heavy cases; sometimes they’re light. This means that you have to be ready for whatever comes up and deal with whatever comes up, learning how to recognize when a misunderstanding has come in and taken over the mind. You’ve …
- The Need for a Purpose… The work of cleaning out your greed, aversion, and delusion is not a minor thing. And you’re not the only one who’s going to benefit. So, you learn how to tell yourself to be happy that you’ve got this seclusion. When the mind is beginning to settle down and part of it says, “Well, you’re not doing much thinking right …
- Bringing Daily Life into the Practice… In other words, you don’t break the precepts for somebody’s sake because you like them and want to please them, you don’t break the precepts because there are people you don’t like and you want to treat them unfairly, you don’t want to break the precepts out of delusion, and you don’t want to break them out of …
- Evaluating Your Practice… Because the mind does have its tendencies—through the things it likes, or the things it’s averse to, or its fears, or its delusions—to go off course very easily. This is why the Buddha set up the Sangha, so that there’s an apprenticeship. You not only listen to Dhamma talks, you also live with someone who’s been practicing the Dhamma …
- Mastering Pleasure & Pain… Otherwise, your concentration turns into drowsiness, or what Ajaan Lee calls delusion concentration. The mind is still, you’re not asleep, but you’re not very clear about where you are: concentration lacking in mindfulness and alertness. That’s what you’ve got to watch out for as the pleasure begins to grow. But again the important point is that you don’t avoid …
- Compunction… You cause harm to yourself by giving in to greed, aversion, and delusion. You might think of breaking the precepts as harming other people, because after all, you’re killing them or stealing from them, lying to them. But he said, no, that’s where you’re harming yourself. If you want to harm other people, you get them to do these things, because …
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