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- The Dhamma Protects… Buddha’s not saying that you simply put up with everything. Again, there are things in the mind, he says, that you don’t want to just sit there and watch. Greed comes, aversion comes, lust, jealousy, fear: You don’t just sit there and watch them overcome the mind. If you can’t figure them out, you watch them for a while—but …
- When the Mind Is Still… You put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. So you decide with any other thought that comes up in the range of your awareness that you want to stop it in its tracks—like that game of whack-a-mole. When a thought appears, look for where in your sense of the breath and the body there’s a tightness or …
- Thinking & Evaluating… The same with anger, the same with greed, the same with any of the unskillful thoughts—even the seemingly skillful ones, like equality or justice. For right now, you just put them aside. Even our best values have to have their time and place. When, as right now, you’re trying to get the mind quiet, they’re not going to be helpful, because …
- The Right Time at the Right Place… Think about how much you use your eyes especially, now in this age of screens, taking in all kinds of harmful information—things that are designed to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion. Those nerves need to be rested. They need to be soothed. So here you have the chance to close your eyes, soothe those nerves, soothe all the different organs in …
- What You Can’t Change, What You Can… We take our greed, aversion, and delusion for granted. We take our normal everyday state of mind for granted, thinking that that’s the way things are. And yet that’s something that can be changed. So we have to stop and take stock: What are the things we can change, what are the things we can’t? The fact that things are inconstant …
- Overcoming Delusion… when you don’t have to. And a large part of the meditation is recognizing the qualities of mind that get in the way of being skillful. There are basically three: greed, aversion, delusion. And of the three, delusion is the hardest, because by definition you don’t know when you’re deluded. It’s not that you don’t know anything at all …
- New Feeding Habits for the Mind… You begin to look back upon thoughts of lust, thoughts of anger, thoughts of greed, and you begin to wonder: “Why did I ever want to feed on those? What kind of nourishment did they provide?” Nothing really solid, nothing really substantial, nothing really healthful at all. Once you learn how to let go of those things, you learn to stop feeding on things …
- Training in Happiness… Is this a reliable voice? Who’s speaking in here? Is it greed speaking? Is it laziness speaking? Or is it wisdom speaking? Wisdom looks at things in terms of long-term happiness. The basic question wisdom asks is, “What when I do it will lead to my long-term welfare and happiness?” So learn how to recognize that voice in your mind and …
- Addictive Thinking… Thoughts of greed, thoughts of aversion, thoughts of delusion—thoughts by which we harm ourselves—are addictive. You wouldn’t think that we’d develop these addictions, but we do. It’s partly out of force of habit and partly out of an inability to imagine ourselves doing anything anyway else, thinking anyway else, feeling anyway else. So in the meditation, we have to …
- Respect as a Sign of Intelligence… They’re trying to go straight for your greed, aversion, delusion. So you have to resist their message. This is why we try to keep the Buddha’s teachings in mind. He says true happiness is possible. Sometimes it comes by having to do without, but you gain a lot in return. There are greater happinesses and lesser happinesses in life, and the wise …
- Goodwill All Around… Because one of the big problems we run across in our meditation is thoughts of greed, anger and delusion. And one way to overcome them, or at least to keep them in check, is to remind yourself you’ve already wished happiness to these other beings. So why do you want to be greedy for their things? Why do you want to get angry …
- All Winners, No Losers… And when you meditate, you’re gaining some control of your aversion and delusion, which means that other people don’t have to be victims of your greed, aversion, or delusion. So you’re looking for happiness the way that doesn’t have any boundaries. It’s not a case where you win and somebody else loses. Everybody wins. This is not like the …
- The Value of Effort… And why the flavor of a text like the Dhammapada is the heroic flavor, because it takes heroic determination to face down your greed, aversion, and delusion. As you sit here meditating, you could be just allowing whatever comes to come and pass away, pass away, that’s it; or you could be actively trying to work on concentration. Nobody’s forcing you. The …
- Basic Intro… The mind, if it’s not trained, can get overcome by greed, anger, delusion, jealousy, all kinds of things that can make it miserable. So we train the mind to bring it more under control so that it doesn’t create unnecessary suffering for itself. And as we train the mind with the breath like this, we’re developing good qualities to help with …
- Secluded from Sensuality… So, if you’re mindful of things that are not relevant to staying focused on the body in and out itself, if you’re not mindful to put aside greed and distress with reference to the world, try to put these memories aside. Be mindful only of things that are relevant for what you’re trying to do right now, which is to get …
- Strength to Be Good… And you want to have that at your fingertips, so that when something bad comes up in the mind—greed, aversion, delusion—or something good comes up, such as rapture, you can remember how to handle it. If you’ve had experience in the past, then you apply what you’ve learned. The basic principle with regard to rapture is that whatever comes up …
- Breath Meditation – The Four Tetrads… To begin with, you have to clear away your distractions, what the Buddha calls greed and distress with reference to the world. Your sense of yourself in the world and what you want out of the world and whether you’re satisfied or dissatisfied with the world: All of these things are going to come barging in on your meditation if you’re not …
- Factors for Stream Entry… Does it give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion ? Then there’s something wrong. If it makes you difficult to maintain, if it makes you be burdensome on other people, then there’s something wrong. You look for a Dhamma that gives you good reasons to behave in skillful ways. Then when you’re heard the Dhamma, the next factor is appropiate attention. This …
- Seven Facets of Discernment… As they relate to greed, aversion, delusion. We have to learn these lessons by being observant. When you’ve learned something, figure out what’s the right time to apply it—because sometimes you can learn a lesson that will be good for some situations and not for others. We develop our powers of concentration, our powers of mindfulness, our powers of discernment so …
- Perspectives & Priorities… your greed, aversion, delusion, and your irritation, or your wisdom and compassion? You want to keep in mind what the Buddha had to say about these things. That’s how you train a wise inner critic. Then you want to be alert, watching what you’re actually doing, so that you can check to make sure that it is in line with the Buddha …
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