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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. Judging Mindfulness & Concentration
     … The other activity is putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. What that means is that any thoughts about the world, what you want out of it, or what you’re disappointed in the world about: Just put them aside. Don’t let them come barging in right now. The qualities of mind that you bring to these two activities are … 
  12. Worlds to Watch Out For
     … They like their slavery to greed or aversion or delusion. So they put on blinders. They pretend that the Buddha never gained awakening. The Dhamma’s not there. The Sangha, they pretend, has not been here all along to show us the good example, to show that it’s not just somebody 2,500 years ago—but it’s a path that is still … 
  13. Independent of the World
     … The discernment that allows you to let go of your greed, aversion, and delusion is the highest form of relinquishment. And, of course, the calm, the satisfaction, the sense of peace and security that come with attaining nibbana is the highest noble calm. So we desire these things. But in desiring them, we don’t just wait for them to come at the end … 
  14. Guardian Meditations
     … If you really have goodwill for yourself, would you let yourself get bound up, say, in lust or anger, greed or jealousy, or whatever the unskillful state maybe? When you find yourself able to kindle some thoughts of goodwill for yourself, some genuine goodwill for yourself, then it’s a lot easier to feel goodwill for the people around you—the ones who are … 
  15. From Dependence to Independence
     … In other words, if something comes up in the mind, you don’t have to follow its current, as they say—the current of greed, or the current of anger, or the current of delusion. There are also good currents in the mind. There is a current of goodwill, compassion; these are things you can follow. So you want to be particular about which … 
  16. Different Minds, Different Bodies
     … Is it lust? Is it anger? Is it greed? Regret? Discouragement? There are lots of different emotions that can come and get in the way. Then use whatever antidote there is for that particular emotion, that particular defilement of the mind. We have that chant on the 32 parts the body to help you with lust and the chant on goodwill to deal with … 
  17. Not Swept Away
     … But even before you reach that footing near the further shore, you’ve got this island in the middle of the river, the island that comes from developing mindfulness, being with the body in and of itself, abandoning greed and distress with reference to the world, i.e., the world that’s swept away down the river. This is where you can stay for … 
  18. Four Bases of Success
     … Ask yourself, “How am I breathing right now? Is it aggravating things so that it makes the mind want to wander off?” Or if anger, greed, or fear has taken hold of the mind, what have they done to the breath? Can you consciously get it back? If they’ve kidnapped your breath, you can seize it back. As for verbal fabrication, how are … 
  19. A Passion for the Path
     … What he means is that greed, aversion, and delusion cease. Your passion for fabrication cease at that point, because it’s done the work it needs to do. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing left. There is the awareness of awakening, and when you hit it, you realize that it really is the end of suffering. At that point you’ve thrown … 
  20. The Allure of Sensuality
     … The one thing that can do that is your greed, aversion, and delusion. You may ask yourself, “Why do I keep siding with those?” Think of that image in the Dhamma summaries, about the world being a slave to craving. That goes together with an image in the sutta it’s drawn from. It’s about a king who’s got everything he really … 
  21. The Message of Mindfulness
     … You need food in order to fight off the enemy—in other words, your defilements of greed, aversion, and delusion. Your mindfulness needs food, too. Your mindfulness is the gatekeeper of the fortress, watching whoever might want to try to come into the fortress, remembering who’s a friend and who’s a foe. Mindfulness, you know, doesn’t just sit there and watch … 
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