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- Significance… As for the recipient, as the Buddha said, the best recipients are those who are free from greed, aversion, and delusion and those who are practicing for that purpose. Those are the people who will make the best use of the gift. But all this is optional. It’s up to you to decide how much skill you want to bring to the act …
- Customs of the Noble Ones… In fact, it becomes your sport, to see how you approach the issues of greed, anger, and delusion in the mind, all the various cravings in the mind, but not as someone who’s hungry. After all, that’s exactly what craving means. It’s a kind of hunger, a kind of thirst. If you see a craving arising, but you’re feeling full …
- Standing Outside Your Thoughts… Where is it going to take you? What kind of qualities is it developing in the mind as you pursue that line of thought? Which defilements? Greed? Aversion? Delusion? And what would it lead you to do if you were to think about it for a long period of time? Keep examining the thought in that way until you decide that you really don …
- Creativity & Play… You’re winning out over greed, anger and delusion. But in the meantime the important thing about playing is that what you’re doing isn’t drudgery. It’s fun. Researchers have found that people whose work doesn’t challenge them, doesn’t inspire them, are the ones most likely to get Alzheimer’s, because the brain isn’t engaged. Playing requires intelligence. It …
- Why the Breath… When there’s greed, when there’s anger, when there’s delusion, they’ll show up in the breath. You find, though, that not only does the breath reflect the mind, but you can also use the breath to have an effect on the mind as well. Say, when there’s anger, you consciously change the rhythm of your breathing. That will have an …
- In Search of What’s Skillful… Are these good results? Are these bad results? If there’s something that’s bad, try to figure out what went wrong. “Was it the intention? Was it the implementation of the intention? Was there any greed, anger, or delusion in the mind that I didn’t see?” When we start getting knowledge in this way, the next question is, “What do you do …
- Examine Your Happiness… If there’s any harm involved in what you’re doing—either harming yourself by breaking the precepts, trying to incite yourself to passion, aversion, and delusion, or harming others by getting them to do those things—then there’s something in your happiness that’s not pure. There’s also the issue of the effort you put into that happiness. Is it worth …
- Right View & Right Resolve… If you get distracted by the pleasure, it turns into what Ajaan Lee calls delusion concentration, moha samadhi, where you leave the breath and just wallow in the sense of ease. Things get very blurry and ill-defined. You’re quiet, but you don’t really know where you are. When you come out, you ask yourself, “Was I awake? Well, I wasn’t …
- Anxiety… Either that, or you lose your focus and get into what’s called delusion concentration. So you’ve got to do something with that comfort. The act of evaluation tries to figure out what that is. Mindfulness helps. You’ve heard the directions about spreading the comfort around. Think of the breath energies going down the spine, out the legs, down the arms, out …
- Dharma Medicine… But as long as the mind still has its suffering, still has its greed, anger, and delusions, it still needs medicine. He provides the medicine with some instructions on how to use it, but it’s up to us to figure out when it’s beneficial and when it’s timely and how to apply it to the specific diseases we’re suffering from …
- Smoothing It… A lot of them have to do with greed, aversion, and delusion. Our problem is that we delight in developing those things—the wrong things. We should learn how to delight in developing mindfulness—catching ourselves when the mind is about to go into something unskillful, and being able to say No. The developing and the abandoning go together there. Learn to see that …
- A Meditative Life… Be careful not to focus on things that will give rise to greed, anger, or delusion. If you’re careless in your looking, careless in your listening, it’s very difficult to be careful about your thoughts, because thoughts are so much more subtle. This doesn’t mean that you go around with blinders on your eyes or plugs in your ears; it simply …
- When Attacked by Distractions… There’s a part of it that’s always saying, “Am I getting what I want? Is this worth the effort?” A large part of meditation is learning how to be more objective and be more clear-seeing about, “Is it worth it?” This applies to greed, aversion, delusion, all the defilements that would pull you away—sleepiness, restlessness, and anxiety. We have ways …
- The Power of Truth… the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion. You learn how to ward them off by being true in your meditation. That’s the only way you’re going to know if what I said just now is true. But it’s good to know that that’s where the truth resides: in your own truthfulness. It doesn’t reside in someplace else, some other …
- Not-self, Not No Self… If they come from greed, aversion, and delusion, you can tell yourself, “If I act on these thoughts, if I follow through with them, it’s going to cause trouble. I don’t want that.” So it can say No to those thoughts. As for thoughts that’ll lead to true happiness, you want to identify with them for the time being. So when …
- Top Priorities… Nobody’s going to mind the fact that you have less greed, less aversion, less delusion. And it’s a job that really can come to an end. This is one of the reasons, I think, they talked about the paramis of the Buddha. There are lots of disagreement on what the word parami comes from, but one of the possibilities is that the …
- Alone with Your Mind… This is what he discovered after having fought the mind past greed, aversion, and delusion. We’re so fortunate that we have a teaching like that. You can think about his wisdom, you can think about his purity, you can think about his compassion and remind yourself that this is what a human being is capable of. That’s uplifting because you can look …
- All-around Eye… When the arguments for your greed, aversion, and delusion come in really strong, you can have a quick and effective response. One of the principles of his teachings on protection was that you have to protect yourself all around. All too often, you hear the teaching boiled down to a few short phrases: let go, accept, don’t be reactive. Even though simplifying your …
- Beyond Nature… After all, as the Buddha points out, even little babies have their greed, anger, and delusion. It’s just that their faculties and bodies aren’t strong enough to act on those defilements very powerfully. But they suffer powerfully: You can see that very clearly. As soon as a child comes out of the womb, it cries. A lot of the child’s early …
- Right Resolve in Real Life… Otherwise, your greed, aversion, and delusion hijack the breath and hold it hostage. They say, “Okay, we’re going to be making a lot of unpleasant feelings here in your body until you do something in line with what we want. And only then will we let it go.” That’s a pretty high price, because what they want you to do can often …
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