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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. Healing Skills
     … our greed, our aversion, our delusion. So what we’re doing as we meditate is that we’re giving medicine to the mind, at the same time that we’re giving medicine to the body. They’re often two sides of the same coin. The breath energy in the body is often a reflection of what’s going on in the mind, and what … 
  18. Delusion
     … When you’re angry, you usually know when you’re angry; when you’re feeling passion or greed, you know you’re feeling those things; but when you’re deluded, by definition you don’t know. You think you know. It’s not as if you live in a fog and have no idea of anything at all—you can have lots of knowledge … 
  19. Opportunities Everywhere
     … After all, you don’t want to have to wait until greed, aversion, and delusion are really big and have moved in and claimed their space in your mind before you do something about them. You want to catch them when they’re just little tiny seeds, little tiny weeds, and uproot them right then and there. Like those burr plants we have around … 
  20. Practicing from Gratitude
     … the roots of what’s causing all this trouble inside: what the Buddha called asava, and we can translate as effluents. These are things that come flowing out of the mind: greed, aversion, delusion, flowing out of the mind. Our desire to be this or that: That comes flowing out of the mind. Discernment, when it’s fully developed, as the Buddha says, can … 
  21. Is ‘I Am’ the Problem?
     … The mind is overcome with greed on one hand and annoyance on the other hand. That’s how it suffers. So the trick there is to learn how not to focus on what you like about these things. But here again, it’s not simply a matter of telling yourself not to like them. That gets very, very dry, very quickly. Instead, the Buddha … 
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