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- The Four Biases… You’re safe from the things that you might do under the influence of desire, aversion, delusion, or fear. As King Pasenadi Kosala once remarked to the Buddha, that’s the greatest security there is*—*knowing that you can trust yourself. At the same time, you give security to others. They’re not subject to your desire, aversion, delusion, or fear. So it’s …
- On Human Nature… If you can uproot your aversion and delusion, nobody has to suffer from your aversion and delusion. That right there is a huge gift. It’s in this way that your desire for happiness can be turned into something that’s wise, pure, and compassionate. As you’re sitting here struggling with the breath, it may not seem it’s anywhere near, but at …
- Of Essential Worth… When I first read the teachings about people going past greed, aversion, and delusion, it sounded like some sort of dried-out husk. Who would want to go in that direction? But there were a lot of good things in the Buddha’s teachings as well, so I was willing to put that question aside for the time being. But it always there in …
- Alone & Together… They had aversion—we have aversion. They had delusion—we have delusion. Some of the details may be different, but the basic patterns are all the same. As Ajaan Mun once said, “People are all the same, but they’re different. But when you come right down to it, they’re all the same.” He said that to Ajaan Fuang one time, and Ajaan …
- Kindness in the Light of Karma… When the Buddha talks about harming yourself, it’s basically breaking the precepts or trying to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in your mind—or if they’re already there, encouraging them further. If you want to harm others, again you get them to break the precepts or encourage them to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in their minds. The …
- Moral Intelligence… Emotional intelligence he aligns with discernment—in other words, seeing what motives you have for your thinking, and seeing where different emotions lead, and in particular, motions of passion, aversion and delusion, which, as the sutta we just chanted pointed out, are like fires burning everything you look at and listen to, smell, taste, touch, think about. The discernment in seeing these emotions as …
- On Denying Defilement… The fact that greed, aversion, delusion defile the mind is a constant theme, as is the fact that the practice is all about cleansing the mind of those defilements, doing battle with the defilements, finding ways to not fall for their tricks. As Ajaan Lee says, “To study is to know the texts, but to practice is to know your defilements,” the purpose of …
- Overcoming Fear… All we have are greed, aversion, delusion. Where’s the fear? The answer is that fear is not always unskillful. It depends on what you’re afraid of. The Buddha lists five kinds of losses you can be afraid of: loss of health, loss of wealth, loss of your relatives, loss of your virtue, loss of your right view. The first three hurt a …
- Smart About Lust… I must admit that when I first learned about arahants having no passion, no aversion, and no delusion, their lives seemed awfully dry. But then I met Ajaan Fuang and other masters of the forest tradition, and the impression I came back with was totally different. These were the people who were really sharp. They had learned how to see that their lust, their …
- Victory… You didn’t harm yourself by breaking any of the precepts, by stirring up greed, aversion, delusion. And you didn’t harm any others by trying to get them to break the precepts or intentionally trying to stir up their greed, aversion, or delusion. There are other motivations for justice besides anger, and you want to focus on those. But again, this is a …
- Fear & Conviction… If it’s combined with greed or aversion or delusion, then it is unskillful. But the Buddha listed two kinds of fear that are actually helpful in the practice. One is simply the quality of heedfulness, *appamada, *realizing that your actions make a difference and you could very easily do something really unskillful, so you have to be careful. The second is a quality …
- Goodwill as Restraint… If any aversion comes up for anybody, the Buddha says to develop equanimity. They’re all very interesting pairings: especially the equanimity for aversion. We’re usually told that goodwill is the antidote for anger. But sometimes there are cases where someone has done something and it’s really hard to feel goodwill for that person. But at the very least you can say …
- Borrowed Wealth… There’s a goodness that you share with people around you, added to the fact that you need to feed on them less and less, and you’re subjecting them less and less to your greed, aversion and delusion. But there’s also goodness for beings you can’t see. Ajaan Funn one time was talking about how beings filled space the same way …
- You Can’t Clone Awakening… You’re going to run into greed, aversion, delusion—all the tricks the mind plays on itself. But if you don’t face up to them and learn how to deal with them, you’re never going to get past them. If you don’t really recognize them for what they are, that picture you have of awakening can get formed by greed, aversion …
- A Skillful Heart… As he said, they were burning with the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. He knew the way out, he could teach them the way out, so that’s what he decided to do. You look at the four noble truths: The whole idea of focusing a teaching on the problem of suffering has to be motivated by goodwill. You look at all of …
- Passion for Dispassion… We’re looking for happiness through our passion, through our aversion, through our delusion. In other words, we’re looking for happiness in the wrong places, and in the wrong way. So he had to teach us that there’s an alternative way of looking for happiness that actually does lead to a genuine happiness, a happiness that doesn’t change at all. A …
- In Earnest… He saw all the beings of the world on fire with the fevers of passion, aversion, and delusion. The goal of his teaching was to help people put those fires out. It’s an image that recurs again and again in his teaching. He says you want to practice as if your head or your turban were on fire. In other words, you don …
- Happiness – Yours & Others’… One is trying to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in other people. The other is to get them to break the precepts. In other words, you take seriously the principle that each of us is suffering because of our own actions, and each of us will find happiness because of our own actions. But that doesn’t mean we just leave others …
- The World Is Aflame… All six senses, the Buddha said, are burning with aging, illness, and death; passion, aversion, delusion. And those six senses are both his definition of the world and his definition of old kamma. It’s not a very life-affirming or world-affirming view, but it does affirm something else: that if you’re going to look for happiness here, you’re looking in …
- Dhamma Medicine… It cures our diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. In fact, the practice as a whole is medicine. The Buddha often compared himself to a doctor, and to get the full implications of that image, you have to think about what old-fashioned medicine was like. To begin with, the doctor didn’t give you a shot. The doctor would tell you the medicine …
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