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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Doing the Practice… how things like greed, anger, and delusion get started, how they grow, how they take over, how they can be dropped, what happens if you don’t drop them, what happens if you do. You may have some general ideas about this, but if you want to see really clearly so that these things don’t overcome you, you want to stop and watch …
- Inner Civil War… Are you really going to die if you have to fend off greed or fend off lust or fend off anger? No. So what are you afraid of? Even in cases where it would kill you to stick to the skillful line, what do you gain in the long run by giving in to what’s unskillful? Nothing of any value. So don’t …
- Believe in Your Actions… At the same time, it’s easy not to believe that the quality of your intention is going to determine the results of your actions, because you see a lot of people acting out of greed, hatred, and delusion, and yet they seem to be pretty happy, in the short term at least. So it is a matter of belief. And the Buddha’s …
- Motivation… Even though you may not be able to uproot all your greed, aversion, and delusion, the fact that they’re lighter, less forceful, means that the people around you are going to be less victimized by them. So if the mind says, “You’re being selfish, just looking after yourself,” you can reply that looking after your mind is not a selfish activity. The …
- Good Fences All Around You… They want you to think that this is your greed, your aversion, your delusion, your way of looking at things. This is what you feel in your bones. They get into your bones this way, through the breath. That’s one of the reasons why we stay with the breath not only while we’re sitting here with our eyes closed, but also as …
- The Pleasure Principle Made Noble… Who’s doing the looking? Are you doing the looking, or is greed doing the looking? Or anger? In other words, what has sparked your interest in looking at something, or in listening, or any of the other ways of engaging the senses? You’re looking at where the impulse is coming from. Is it the kind of impulse you want to encourage? This …
- With Reference to the World… As the Buddha said in the basic formula for right mindfulness, staying with our frame of reference involves subduing greed and distress with reference to the world. It’s not simply the case that these thought-worlds arise. Lots of emotions, lots of reactions arise along with them. That’s what gets us involved in them. We want something; we get upset about something …
- 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 …
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