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  2. Appreciating Your Practice
     … When you see, say, that some greed you used to have is just not there anymore, or your tendency to get angry over things is getting weaker, then delight in the fact that you’re able to abandon those unskillful things. As for a sense of well-being inside, a sense of being more settled, learn how to delight in that, too, because this … 
  3. Your Breath, Your Territory
     … He says to contemplate, keeping track of the body in and of itself—in other words the body as you feel it from within—ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Anything that refers to anything outside of the body, any other contacts, you put it aside right now. Stay with just the body in and of … 
  4. Strength from Within
     … Regular culture is a culture of people with defilements shaped by greed, aversion, and delusion, whereas he wanted out of that culture. And the way out was to follow the customs of the noble ones. Ajaan Chah has a very interesting discussion where he talks about how controversial both Ajaan Sao and Ajaan Mun were for many years. People used to get into arguments … 
  5. Bigger than the World
     … xx The expression “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world” means any thought that’s going to pull you out of this. When you don’t think about yourself being in this world, and you’re inhabiting the present like this without any thoughts with reference to the world, you get closer to where the Buddha was on the night of … 
  6. Gratitude & Trust
     … If things were very comfortable, very easy, and very convenient, you’d have no test against which to measure your greed, aversion, and delusion. But the hardships aren’t so overwhelming that we can’t practice: That’s the whole point. So that was his intention for starting this place. That’s the meaning of this place. To keep maintaining the meaning of the … 
  7. Breath Meditation, Step by Step
     … Whatever attachments were causing suffering, whatever ignorance was causing the diseases of the mind—greed, anger, and delusion: That ignorance can be gone for good. That’s the good news of the Buddha’s teaching. Even though there are things in the world that change and are impermanent, the effect that the Dhamma can have on the mind when it’s used with precision … 
  8. Exercising the Mind
     … The battle of training the mind, winning out over greed, anger, and delusion, the qualities that get in the way of mindfulness, alertness and discernment: That’s the most important battle in life. So as you’re working with the breath, remind yourself that these are important skills you’re developing. And you never know how much time you have do it. You may … 
  9. Strengthening Your Goodness
     … You begin to recognize some of the excuses that greed gives or that lust or anger or delusion gives, and you begin to recognize their weak points. The more quickly you can recognize the weak points, the more quickly you can deal with them. This is the work of right effort together with discernment. When the Buddha was teaching mindfulness of breathing to his … 
  10. Study & Practice
     … It’s when you use some of the Buddha’s teachings to deal with your own greed, aversion, and delusion, and begin to gain a sense of what works: That’s when the Dhamma becomes your own. That’s when you really can say that you’re discerning. Otherwise, you just have the names of discernment, the ideas of discernment. But when you actually … 
  11. Guarding the Truth
     … We intend to focus on the breath—ardent, alert, mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s the formula. We’re trying to get the mind into a state of concentration. As it settles in, you begin to see what’s going on in the activity of concentration. There’s directed thought and evaluation. The Buddha calls that verbal … 
  12. Calming Mental Fabrication
    When the Buddha teaches concentration practice—breath meditation practice—he gives you a physical fabrication to focus on, i.e., the breath coming in, going out, and then he gives you a verbal fabrication, the instructions, “Keep track of the breath; remain focused on the breath—ardent, alert, mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” So you keep reminding yourself … 
  13. The Graduated Discourse
     … Can you imagine what the drawbacks of bad actions are? The drawbacks of acting on greed, aversion, and delusion? When you find the mind wandering off, try to think of these principles to re-establish your values or get them back in line with the four noble truths, so that you can actually apply the duties. These are not duties that are being imposed … 
  14. Making a Refuge
     … You’ve got to have protection from your own greed, aversion, and delusion because these things are a lot more dangerous than anything anyone else outside could do. Sometimes we have people coming here to the monastery, and they’re thrown off by the animals around: the coyotes, the snakes. I keep reminding them that the coyotes and snakes don’t do much to … 
  15. Angry
     … You try to train the mind to get rid of its greed, aversion, and delusion, because this practice is a way of showing goodwill to yourself and all other living beings. These are ways of finding happiness that harm no one. The problem is that even within the framework, no matter how much you do goodwill practice, there are times when anger comes up … 
  16. A Sense of Time & Place
     … What does it need right now? Which direction is it inclined? Toward greed, or toward anger? Is this energy level too scattered or is it too low? How do you bring it back into balance? That’s the internal level. On the outer level, you look at yourself as you interact with other people. What is your position with regard to them? What are … 
  17. Beyond Gratitude
     … Sometimes it’s anger, sometimes it’s delusion, sometimes it’s greed, sometimes it’s fear, sometimes it’s lust. Sometimes they’re heavy cases; sometimes they’re light. This means that you have to be ready for whatever comes up and deal with whatever comes up, learning how to recognize when a misunderstanding has come in and taken over the mind. You’ve … 
  18. The Karma of Self & Not-Self
     … But at the same time, the Buddha says, you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That means whatever is out in the world right now, you remind yourself, “It’s not-self. It’s not me. It’s not mine. I have more important things to focus on.” The same with discernment—and this is where the range of not … 
  19. The Need for a Purpose
     … The work of cleaning out your greed, aversion, and delusion is not a minor thing. And you’re not the only one who’s going to benefit. So, you learn how to tell yourself to be happy that you’ve got this seclusion. When the mind is beginning to settle down and part of it says, “Well, you’re not doing much thinking right … 
  20. Proactive with Pain
     … It can latch on to anger, it can latch on to greed, it can latch on to lust—it can latch on to all kinds of desires or worries. One of the worst things you can focus on as you’re facing death is worry: either worries about what’s going to happen to other people, or worries about what’s going to happen … 
  21. A Friend to the World, A Friend to Yourself
     … no inappropriate greed, no ill-will, and you try to keep your views straight—in other words, in line with right view. Here again, you set a good example, and you encourage others as best you can. But of course, encouragement is easiest when you’re setting that good example. This is where your well-being and the well-being of others come together … 
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