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- 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 …
- The Noble Truth of Suffering… But when the Buddha defined comprehending, he explained is as meaning understanding suffering to the point where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around it. We might not think we have passion for our suffering, but remember that definition: clinging. We cling to things we desire. We cling to things we have passion for. We feed off of these things. In fact, that …
- Modest in Manner, but Not in Goals… After all, if you’re not acting on greed, aversion, or delusion, you’re not harming anyone. You’re setting a good example. And sometimes just being around you will calm people down. So this is your responsibility right here, directly, which is one of the reasons why the Buddha says that modesty is a virtue on the path. We’re not doing this …
- Don’t Objectify… Your old friends—greed, aversion, and delusion—can come knocking on the door, and you’re not as interested in them as you used to be. You’ve got new friends. You’ve got directed thought and evaluation, you’ve got pleasure, you’ve got rapture or refreshment, singleness of mind. These are much more interesting friends and they’re much more reliable. So …
- Better to Give than to Consume… Ultimately, you’ll be giving up your greed, aversion, and delusion, giving up even your sense of self or your many senses of self. First you give up your unskillful selves as you develop the skillful ones, but then after you’ve worked so hard on developing the skillful ones, the Buddha said you’ve got to give those up, too, for the sake …
- Sensitive to the Mind… They’re still suffering from greed, aversion, and delusion—and the way to solve those problems was found a long time ago. So that’s a tradition that’s worth maintaining. So look at your mind: When the Buddha talks about the steps of breath meditation that deal with the mind, the very first one is to be sensitive to the mind as you …
- Do, Maintain, Use… Things like greed, aversion, delusion, fear, impatience, boredom—how do they come to be? What are the steps in the process? To what extent are you contributing to them? And that means, to what extent can you stop contributing? See what happens then. Insight has to be reflective like this. It’s not a matter of seeing the world outside as being inconstant, stressful …
- Right Speech, Inside & Out… Your friendship with your greed, with your aversion, with your delusion: Those are friendships you want to break. So here again, you have to be very discerning in how you apply this principle. The same with harsh speech: You don’t want to beat yourself down; you don’t want to discourage yourself and say that you’re hopeless. But there are times when …
- The Adventure in the Present… You peel away these layers of delusion, these layers of ignorance, and then the mind will begin to open up to something special. And you know exactly how it happens. You know exactly what you did to get that result. When you do have your first taste of the deathless, one of the things it confirms in you is an understanding of what human …
- Step Outside the World… all the clamoring and time spent in getting and spending, a society that conspires to take people who are blatantly selfish—filled with greed, anger, and delusion—and put them in power and praise them. Is this a society you really want to get sucked into? You step back even further to look at the whole human condition: Is this something you really want …
- Choices in the Present… You have battles to be fought here, in particular battling your greed, anger, and delusion. You’re battling your tendency to create unnecessary stress and suffering. As with any battle or with any warrior, you have to decide which battles should be taken up right now, which ones you’re ready for, and which ones you want to put off to the side. Putting …
- Concentration Work… If there’s still greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind, what are you going to do? They have to be dealt with, and you need concentration in order to deal with them. Otherwise, they’ll come on strong and overwhelm you. When they’re clever, you won’t even realize that you’ve been overwhelmed. So to get past these things, you’ve …
- Here to Learn… If you induce people to have greed, aversion, and delusion on purpose, okay, that’s harm. If you induce them to break the precepts, that’s harm. But if you hurt their feelings, sometimes it’s skillful and sometimes it’s not. So learn how to make distinctions like this. Learn how to develop the quality that the Buddha calls patibhana. It’s a …
- Compassionate Duties… You have greed, aversion, and delusion. They’re causing harm to you; they’re causing harm to others. Those are your responsibilities, so you focus on what you’re responsible for. Remember, one of the Buddha’s definitions on the difference between a fool and a wise person: A fool takes up duties that don’t fall to him or her. A wise person …
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