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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. Defiant Like the Buddha
     … Greed, aversion, delusion: With these kinds of things, the Buddha said, “Put them out.” But there’s one negative mind state where he says, “Allow yourself to express it as long as you feel that something is accomplished”—and that’s grief. That one, he says, actually can be converted into something skilful. As he says at one point, it’s because of our … 
  12. The Self-correcting Mind
     … We have to learn how to look inside to see what strengths we have and learn how to utilize them, realizing that one of our problems is delusion. This is why we need the teachings from outside from someone else to alert us to what might go wrong. We also need to be self-correcting. That chant just now of the world being swept … 
  13. A Post by the Ocean
     … Those things can pull you away — because it’s not just gross manifestations of greed, anger and delusion that pull us away. Your misinformed sense of responsibility can also pull you away: that sense of, “Well, I’ve really got to think about this. I’ve got to prepare for that. I’ve got all these other responsibilities out there in the world, things … 
  14. We All Start with an Impure Heart
     … Did the Buddha really know what he was talking about? Is this just an Indian religion, or just for Asians? Is it a bunch of delusions? There will be that voice in the mind, and you’ve got to learn how to live with it, but not let it take over. Even when you’re confident that that voice will never come back, you … 
  15. Generating Power
     … And if our discernment is going to have the strength it needs to penetrate all the veils of delusion we’ve put up in the mind, it’s going to require good strong concentration, good committed concentration to do the work that leads to release.
  16. Possessiveness
     … The Buddha then took that as an opportunity to call the monks together and tell them what was needed to keep the community together, to make sure there wasn’t going to be an easy prey to the forces of greed, aversion, and delusion. So the story starts with a sense of the fragility of the Dhamma. Once the Buddha passes away, it could … 
  17. Samvega & Pasada
     … pleasure based on greed, pleasure based on aversion, pleasure based on delusion. That can be very chastening as well. There’s a word in Pali, samvega, which is very difficult to translate into English. Part of it is a sense of dismay: looking at your life realizing, “I’ve been spending a lot of time pursuing mirages.” And not only that, but also causing … 
  18. Developed in Body & Mind
     … And either they lose concentration or else they go into a state called “delusion concentration,” where the mind is still and it’s pleasant but very unfocused and very un-alert. Why is that? Because you drop the perception of the breath. You were overcome by pleasure. What we’re trying to do here is to give rise to a sense of pleasure, let … 
  19. Purity
     … greed, aversion, and delusion; sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety, doubt about what you’re doing. Get those things cleared out. Then there are subtler defilements—just the little wanderings of the mind. You clean those out. The question is, what do you clean out of the mind? Whatever is obviously not a good thing to have there, you clean … 
  20. The Story behind Impatience
     … If there’s any greed, anger, or delusion in the intention, you’re going to see it only in the present moment. After it’s passed, that intention is just a memory — and you know how memory tends to color things depending on what you want to see, how it fits into a good or bad narrative about yourself. But it’s just a … 
  21. Full, Focused Attention
     … It may be leaning a little bit toward desire, or leaning towards irritation or delusion. You want to notice that. Then there are the mental qualities you bring to this. You may notice the hindrances. If sensual desire comes up and pulls you away from the breath, note that fact. Remind yourself that you don’t have to go with that desire. You’ve … 
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