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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. Feeding on Open Wounds
     … After he gained awakening, he surveyed the world and saw that everyone was on fire with passion, aversion, and delusion. They were running around, setting one another on fire. On the one hand, he felt compassion, but on the other hand, he had to feel equanimity, realizing there was only so much he could do to change what people are doing. You notice that … 
  10. Abandoning Effluents (2)
     … You’re very careful not to let the mind focus on anything in a way that would give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion. In other words, you look at the sensory process not as one in which you’re simply passive, reacting to things coming in at you. You realize you’re out there looking for something. And the question is: Who’s … 
  11. Equanimity & Action
     … In other words, is greed, anger, or delusion involved? What do you want to get out of this? Maybe something can be changed there. Or your motivation: Why are you doing this? Or your perception: How are you perceiving things right now? What’s the story you put around things? What are the images you have in your mind? What happens if you change … 
  12. Goodness Comes from Heedfulness
     … You have to realize you can’t just fall back on what you think may be good intentions, your good nature, because sometimes your good intentions are blinded by delusion. What you think is a good intention may not be so. What you think maybe a good action may not be so. You’ve got to watch, learn from your mistakes, see connections. Always … 
  13. Customs of the Noble Ones
     … And your greed, aversion, and delusion also don’t push you around, because you don’t fall for their baits, either. So when you follow these four customs, remember that they’re customs for the sake of freedom. That’s why the noble ones left their teachings behind. They found freedom this way, and they said this is how you can find freedom, too … 
  14. A Meditation Karma Checklist
     … As soon as you find a nice restful spot, you’ll stay there either with some alertness, or if you really want to rest, you let go of the alertness and go into delusion concentration. This is why the ajaans always say at the very beginning of each meditation session to make sure that your intention is clear. We’re here not just to … 
  15. Skills to Take Home
     … your greed, your aversion, your delusion. You’ve had enough. This is another reason why it’s good to have the breath as your defense against other people. Because, so many times, we keep our defilements up as armor to protect ourselves, or we think we protect ourselves, from others; staking out our place with our anger, staking out our place with an aggressive … 
  16. Goodwill for the Real World
     … So the first thought in generating goodwill has to be that you’re doing this for yourself so that you can protect yourself from your greed, your aversion, your delusion, and especially from your ill will. The Buddha admits that there are a lot of people for whom it’s difficult to have goodwill. That second chant we had just now, from the Paritta … 
  17. Trust Your Desire for Happiness
     … Each of us has our own forms of delusion. What we have in common is this desire for happiness. The great wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings is that he tells us to take that seriously. It’s not a selfish thing. For so many people, the desire for happiness is narrow, selfish, and hedonistic, but as the Buddha said, if you really are … 
  18. Flexibility
     … They tend to fall into large categories, like the hindrances or the categories of greed, anger and delusion. But you also begin to see in your mind that they have their own particular features, and whether or not you like their particular features, those are the ones you’ve got. So learn how to deal with them. As you face the particulars, you start … 
  19. Treating the Diseases of the Mind
     … We all have diseases in our minds—not necessarily the really heavy kinds of diseases that they put you in an institution for, but we do suffer from greed, aversion, and delusion. We suffer from the hindrances, the fetters. There are long, long lists of the problems of the mind. So we want to make sure we take the right medicine. When we think … 
  20. Seeing the Stillness
     … Learn how to use these things in a way that turns your objects of delusion and suffering into the path. Once the path has done its job, then you let it go. But first you have to learn where to hold onto. You can’t let go of everything all at once. You let go in stages until the path’s work is completed … 
  21. What Am I Becoming?
     … In other words, you’ve got the sufferings that come from the aggregates, you’ve got the sufferings that come from the six sense spheres, you’ve got the sufferings from your greed, aversion, and delusion. These things are going to harass and plunder you as much as they can as long as you’re on this shore. The only safe course of action … 
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