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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Goodwill Without Limits… You also help them by encouraging them to overcome their passion, their aversion, their delusion. So those are the things you’re willing to do based on your goodwill. Now, they’ll be times when you can’t help them, in which case you have to develop equanimity. But the underlying motive is always there: goodwill. So it’s good to practice making it …
- Making an Effort… Greed, anger, and delusion: Even though they come from within the mind, they’re alien in the sense that they can cause all kinds of trouble to the mind. We all want happiness and yet we let these things come in and take over our minds. We act under their power. That’s one of the big paradoxes in life. So in order to …
- Directing the Flow… Greed, anger, and delusion come in and make a mess of what you’ve done. We see this happening all over the world, and yet when it comes time to train our own minds, we resist. Because training means pointing it in a direction it otherwise might not want to go. So it becomes a battle of the wills. Part of you wants to …
- Cook Your Mind… We should comprehend that fact to the point where we have no more passion, aversion, or delusion around the aggregates or for the act of clinging itself. As for the cause of suffering, the duty is to abandon it. That means to develop dispassion for the craving along with the objects of craving. Then there’s the cessation of suffering. That, too, is dispassion …
- Suffering Starts Before Life… You reflect on what you did, where it might be wrong, where there was some delusion even in your good intentions. That’s how you learn. This is what the Buddha taught to Rāhula and it applies all the way along the path. That’s the kind of thing you need to know about karma. It’s the same with worlds. The Buddha lays …
- Over the Pass… So the sense of confinement that comes with restraint is for the purpose of freedom—because after all, what are you confining? You’re confining your greed, aversion, and delusion. Things that should be confined. You might make a comparison with being in a countryside that’s very desolate, and there’s a range of mountains between you and a land that’s pleasant …
- Get Real… The real dangers in the mind are our delusions, the things we make up, the things we use to cover up reality, the stories, the preconceived notions we impose on things. When we’re trying to live in those stories and notions, reality is threatening. It’s always exposing the cracks in our ideas, the cracks in our ignorance, the cracks in our desires …
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