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  2. Strength for Your Goodness
     … If they’re based on unskillful mental states like greed, aversion, and delusion, they lead to pain. And it is possible through your efforts to find an end to suffering. In other words, the potentials you have in your actions are quite large. If you believe that your actions do make a major difference, then you have the strength to act in ways that … 
  3. The Seven Treasures
     … When greed, anger and delusion come, when lust and fear come, you don’t believe them. You realize that these defilements focus on only a very narrow picture, a very narrow slice of life, and they almost willfully block out everything else, so that whatever you desire looks really good or whatever you hate looks really bad. But discernment is a quality that opens … 
  4. You Are Not a Textbook
     … It’s what they call delusion concentration, where things are still but you don’t know quite where you are. That’s because the mind’s not active enough. So you try to activate it. You become more conscious in thinking about the different parts of the body and how the breath relates to different parts of the body and how you can breathe … 
  5. Harmless & Clearheaded
     … Our greed, anger, delusion, distraction, or pain all get in the way. These are obstacles or hindrances. So we have to do our best to overcome them and not get discouraged when we see them. I don’t know how many people give up their meditation and say: “I can’t meditate. My mind is too distracted.” It’s like saying, “I can’t … 
  6. Constructing & Deconstructing
     … That means understanding how you cling to them until you arrive at the point where there’s no passion, aversion or delusion around them. Your duty with regard to the craving that would lead you to be passionate about these things is to abandon it. As for anything that’s good, that’s helpful in the path, that’s something you try to develop … 
  7. Actualizing Your Potentials
     … When you keep that sense of distance, you can deal with setbacks a lot more effectively, remembering that the most important thing is to learn and act in a skillful way, i.e., with a minimum amount of greed, anger, and delusion, trying to be as harmless as possible. After all, whatever responsibilities we take on, whatever jobs we take on, there’s a … 
  8. Breath Teaches the Bramaviharas
     … When you’re more centered inside, other people are less subject to your greed, aversion, and delusion. When you’re more solid inside, people can rely on you more. At the same time, you begin to realize there are opportunities for well-being that you may not have thought of before. For me, Ajaan Lee’s method of breath meditation was very different from … 
  9. Multi-Dimensional Dhamma
     … That’s because we all tend to view our unskillful qualities as our friends—we like our greed, aversion, and delusion—and only by developing dispassion for them can we see through that supposed friendship. The second inner attitude is contentment with the physical conditions surrounding you. Contentment fits in with being unburdensome and finding seclusion. You learn to be content with the food … 
  10. One Point, Two Points, Many Points
     … As for the other leaves, if they’re not helpful for your disease, why bother with them right now? The mind has this disease of ignorance, craving, greed, anger and delusion. And if we don’t take care of it, it’s going to fester, going to cause a lot of suffering for a long time to come. So focus on the leaves that … 
  11. A Sense of Yourself
     … You can’t just give in to your greed, aversion, and delusion. You need to have a sense that you are competent to take them on. You have the tools you need. If you don’t have the tools you need, you’re going to work on them. This is where having a sense of yourself comes in: knowing what inner tools you have … 
  12. Practicing on Your Own
     … So when you’re looking at something, ask yourself, “Who’s doing the looking here?” Is it you or is it your greed or your anger or your delusion? What’s the purpose in the looking? What are you looking for? Are you looking for trouble? If you see the mind is giving free rein to its unskillful attitudes, learn how to look at … 
  13. Persistence
     … The ease may continue for a while, but as it gets very fuzzy you get into a state called delusion concentration, where you’re sitting here very still but not really alert. Sometimes, when you come out of it, you’re not even sure whether you were asleep or awake. It’s hard to tell. That’s not the kind of concentration that leads … 
  14. Establishing Priorities
     … Is it greed, anger, delusion, lust, fear, jealousy? What are the things that spark these emotions? You see the defilements in real-time. If you’re able to do this, then the next time you sit down it’s going to be a lot easier to stay with the breath more continuously. But if you develop the habit of throwing away your concentration as … 
  15. Setbacks
     … Otherwise it all gets too facile—you know this and you know that—but do you really know it? Have you ever been in the middle of trying to figure out your greed or figure out your anger or figure out your delusion? Have you really wrestled with these things? It’s only when you wrestle with them that you learn what their weak … 
  16. Catch Yourself Lying to Yourself
     … So when there are times, as he says, that telling the truth would give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, either in your mind or the other person’s mind, so you avoid talking about those things. In avoiding them, you sometimes have to avoid them in a way that the other person doesn’t catch you avoiding them, because then they’ll know … 
  17. Introduction
     … As Ajaan Lee once said, “When you practice, the first thing you learn to see is your own defilements”—your own greed, your own anger, your own delusion, all the unskillful qualities in your mind that you don’t like to see. You have to learn how not to get discouraged by them. Remember that everyone meets up with these things in their meditation … 
  18. Birth Is Suffering
     … We’re really good at falling for the traps laid out by greed, aversion, and delusion. What we’ve got to learn now is to get good at renunciation, goodwill, and compassion even when they’re really difficult. What’s going to be more difficult than death? If you can’t master these things in the relative difficulties of life, when the difficulties of … 
  19. Learning from Desire
     … So as soon as there’s a sense of ease and well-being, we wallow in it and we get drowsy or we drift into delusion concentration. So there’s the desire there—the desire not to have to deal with anything. That, too, leads to a state of becoming. Then of course there are the more obvious states of becoming where you think … 
  20. Sorting Yourselves Out
     … That way, when greed, aversion, and delusion do come up, your allegiances are more on the side of the quiet, the stillness, the concentration, the mindfulness. The Buddha does give you lots of tools to deal with these seeming friends inside, but the important factor always is that you try to identify with the parts of the mind that really do want the tools … 
  21. The Middle Way
     … As Ajaan Suwat would often point out, once the mind really gets still with that sense of well-being, then the idea of running after the kind of pleasure you used to get out of greed and aversion and delusion just loses its appeal. You can see that it’s pointless effort. This put you in the right frame of mind to look in … 
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