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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Endurance Made Easier… You don’t look for pain any more than you have to, but you realize that there are times when if you don’t put up with some pain or stress, then greed, anger, and delusion aren’t going to vacate your mind. The image the Buddha gives is of a fletcher, someone who makes arrows. The fletcher has to straighten the arrow shaft …
- Equanimity in Heart & Mind… What’s going on? When you’ve felt nourished, and the mind calms down like this, it’s a lot easier to be honest with yourself about what your mind is doing to create suffering around greed, aversion, and delusion. The mind doesn’t have to go outside to look for its happiness through the power of those things when it has a source …
- Look after Yourself with Ease… It’s not by just being nice and saying, “Okay, greed, aversion, and delusion, I want to be nice to you.” We’ve got to realize that these things cause you harm. They make it hard for you to look after yourself with any genuine skill. So learn to look after yourself with ease, skillfully, so that you can taste some of the higher …
- Skills for Dying Well… the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. You want to put out your confusion. **And you want to do this well. So at a time like that, you drop all your other thoughts, your concerns about other people, your concerns about your future, your regrets about the past. Tell yourself, “See? Here I’ve been meditating all this time, and here’s the test …
- Admirable Friendship, Inside & Out… That’s where the delusion begins to come in. This is where it’s important to have an admirable friend and to consult with that friend when you’re not really sure, or where you begin to suspect that maybe you’re lying to yourself or to other people. You look for an admirable friend because you want to do your best. If you …
- Unentangled Compassion… They’re not going to be subject to your greed, aversion, and delusion as they have been in the past. So the meditation is not just a gift to yourself. It’s a gift to everybody you encounter. And it’s a very independent kind of compassion. So try to keep these points in mind as you practice, until you reach the point where …
- The End of Karma… It’s an analogy, the difference being that when the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion go out in the mind and you’re freed from them. They don’t get lit again. The important part of the image is that you get freed by letting go. Just as the fire is not trapped in the fuel, it’s trapped by its own clinging …
- Training Your Moods… It’s your greed, aversion, and delusion doing the looking. As you use those things in the course of the day, you’re strengthening them. Whereas when you’re training the mind, and you’re really serious about the training, you have to weaken them. So when you’re looking, you ask yourself, “Why are you looking? What are you looking for?” When you …
- Culture Shock… The culture of ordinary people — no matter where in the world — is just to keep families going, to keep the human race surviving, to keep people clothed and fed, to try to sort out a balance among different peoples’ greed, anger, and delusion in such a way that things are relatively peaceful. But this always takes place within the context of what’s possible …
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