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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. Suppressed Emotions
     … When fear, greed, anger, or delusion come up in the mind, it’s not necessarily helpful to express them outside because sometimes that makes it difficult to observe what’s going on, too. There has to be a middle way between the expression and the suppression. This is important. Often as you meditate you try to tell yourself, “Don’t react. Just be equanimous … 
  14. The Brahmaviharas Are Not Enough
     … You stay focused on the breath in and of itself, and you put aside any greed or distress with reference to the world. The quality of ardency is where the discernment starts coming in, as you try to do this skillfully and really analyze where the suffering is. This active part of meditation often gets overlooked. It involves both the observer, the more passive … 
  15. The Joy of Growing
     … We’re going to stay with the breath.” That requires that you be strict with any thoughts, as the Buddha said, dealing with greed and distress with reference to the world, and say Yes to the thoughts that will bring you to the breath. If you find yourself slipping off, you have to come back as quickly as you can—and be extra vigilant … 
  16. Established in Full
     … One, you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Two, you try to keep track of something here in the present moment. It can be the body in and of itself, feelings in and of themselves, mind states in and of themselves, but we usually start with the body and we don’t really leave it. When the Buddha talks about … 
  17. Do Jhana
     … We feed off our greed, aversion, and delusion: There are all kinds of things we feed on. The problem is that we don’t really exercise much discretion or discernment in what we eat. Our feeding habits tend to be pretty voracious and haphazard. What we’re trying to do as we get the mind into concentration is give it better food so that … 
  18. For the Survival of True Happiness
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion, start in the mind, they’re reflected in the way you breathe. As you focus on the breath, you’ll see yourself using perceptions to stay with the breath. Directed thought and evaluation to stay with the breath. This sensitizes you to these processes in the mind. There are a lot of Tibetan teachers who say, “Why focus on … 
  19. Treasures from the East
     … Some people ask, when the Buddha lists the different causes for unskillful behavior as greed, aversion, and delusion, why doesn’t he list fear? That’s because some kinds of fear are actually skillful. It’s good to be afraid of the power you have to do something wrong, to do something harmful. This is a kind of fear that comes not from a … 
  20. Defilements at the Door
     … What perceptions fuel your greed, anger, and delusion? What intentions fuel it? What ways of paying attention to things fuel these things? Look into those, because that’s where you can make a difference here in the present moment. You may not be able to choose who’s going to appear at your door or who wants to get into the fortress. But you … 
  21. Get Attached to Jhana
     … The more you can appreciate the breath, the easier it’s going to be to say No to sensual thinking, easier to say No to anger, lust, greed, jealousy, fear. So this is a skillful pleasure to get attached to. And don’t be afraid of getting attached. Don’t be afraid of this pleasure. Think of the Buddha after he had spent all … 
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