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- 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 …
- Remembering Ajaan Suwat… Because you realize that you’re doing this not to make yourself better than other people, but simply because you’ve got these diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind. You need to cure them. Then there’s the fourth custom of the noble ones, which is to delight in abandoning and to delight in developing. In other words, you abandon unskillful …
- Judging Your Meditation… It doesn’t take anything away from them, and doesn’t lead to increased greed, anger, or delusion in your own mind. It’s important to understand that skillful kamma, which is a skillful intention, is not the same thing as a good intention. Good intentions are well-meaning but they may be unskillful. They may be based on misunderstanding or larded with denial …
- At Home with the Breath… That way, when the mind moves in a particular way—out of greed, anger, or delusion—and creates a sense of stress inside, you’ll see it. It’s no longer obscured by the background hum. So this ability to create a sense of ease in the present moment to make this house of the body into a home is important not just for …
- The Story-telling Mind… So a good part of the meditation is often not just being with the breath but — if you find you’ve got a story that keeps obsessing the mind, stirring up greed, anger, delusion, fear, whatever — learning how to deal with that story, learning how to tell yourself new stories. Learn a corrective to the old stories. One of the basic ways of doing …
- A Dhamma Bucket List… They would have stayed with their greed, aversion, and delusion, and there’d be nothing special there to remember. But they took it upon themselves to say, “There are better things I can give rise to. These are these bad things I can let go of. And here’s my chance.” This is what’s really good about the Dhamma. It doesn’t make …
- An Inside Job… This is how we go from delusion to knowledge, or from uncertainty to knowledge. You start with something simple: the breath. How you experience the breath is something no one else can know. This is one of the reasons why it’s so difficult to talk about breath energies, or how the breath is experienced in the body. Your experience may be different from …
- Pleasant Practice, Painful Practice… If you have a lot of passion, a lot of aversion, a lot of delusion, you really do have to look into this issue of how you’re attached to the body. One way of counteracting the attachment is to start thinking about all the unattractive and undesirable things that there are in your body. This is not to make you hate the body …
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