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  2. Family Ties
     … We’re all sloshing around in our greed, aversion, and delusion. And there’s nothing you can really do about other people’s greed, aversion, and delusion—especially if you haven’t dealt with your own. So you focus here where the work can be done and, at the very least, you can be a good example to others to show that it is … 
  3. Strategies for Generosity
     … Then beyond that there’s the gift of learning how to overcome your own greed, anger, and delusion—because those are things that place huge limits on the mind and cause suffering not only for yourself, but for all the people around you. So you work on using your meditation to see into how greed, anger, and delusion arise—and how you don’t … 
  4. The Rewards of Cleanliness
     … If you notice any greed, anger, or delusion coming in, you try to keep it away, keep it away, trying to clean it up, clean it up. Then the next morning, something new comes in, and you notice it right away. Because it’s not just part of the normal flow of the mind, you see it in contrast to the mind when it … 
  5. Fear of Others
     … Fear becomes unskillful when it’s tied up in greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s the kind of fear you want to get past. The fear that comes from knowing that your mind has unskillful habits and the conditions could come about where those unskillful habits might take over: That’s something legitimately to be feared. You want to train your mind so that … 
  6. The Bridge to Concentration
     … You begin to see certain ways that you relate to sounds and sights, etc., that give rise to greed, anger, and delusion in the mind. So you’ve got to learn how to relate in different ways. If you don’t, these things take root in the mind and then grow. Every time you look in those unskillful ways again, it’s like adding … 
  7. Strengthening Conviction
     … There’s a lot in Western culture, that feeds on our greed, aversion, and delusion, that encourages our greed, aversion, and delusion. Like that cartoon in The New Yorker several years ago: A man is standing in front of a magazine rack, and the names of the magazines are all the seven deadly sins. Or like the billboard that used to be on I … 
  8. On Denying Defilement
     … At the same time, of course, our economy depends on greed, aversion, and delusion to keep going, and so the media keep encouraging those states of mind, saying that you should be proud of your greed, proud of your anger and delusion—basically, proud of your defilements. Of course, that means not seeing them as defilements, but if you don’t want to admit … 
  9. Compassion for People on Fire
     … on fire with the fires of passion, aversion, delusion, running around setting fire to everything they touched. He felt compassion and goodwill, based on saṁvega, seeing that beings were already suffering from birth, aging, illness and death, and if that weren’t enough, all the added sufferings that come from greed, aversion and delusion. So when we think about the Buddha’s goodwill for … 
  10. Stay
     … Here the animals you’re looking for are your greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes they come up very quickly, sometimes not so quickly. All too often, though, they slip in, so you don’t recognize them as anything alien. They’re part of you: They’re your thoughts, your greed, your aversion, your anger—although you don’t usually think of them in those … 
  11. A Happiness Without Boundaries
     … And you also produce less greed, less anger, and less delusion, so the people around you are less subject to your greed, anger, and delusion. So the idea that we’re sitting here meditating just for our own sake is not really true. We’re here for the sake of happiness without any limitations as to whose happiness that might be. We get focused … 
  12. Unraveling the Present
     … So if you want to cut away self-delusion, try to keep things as direct and as simple as possible. How’s your breath going? How is your mind dealing with unpleasant things as they arise? If you keep your mind on these two things, you can cut through an awful lot of room for self-delusion. This is why the Buddha’s teachings … 
  13. Fear of Letting Go
     … As for delusion, we don’t recognize it as delusion. **But we do sometimes recognize that if we’re jealous, we think we can hold on to some people. Or if we’re envious, we think that we can drag other people down. Still, what position is your hand taking as you try to drag people down or hold on to people? That represents … 
  14. The Dhamma Without Price
     … After all, the Buddha says that to be an object of someone else’s generosity, the ideal object of generosity either is free of passion, aversion, and delusion, or is practicing for the sake of freeing him- or herself from passion, aversion, and delusion. This is how you keep the Sangha alive. You make that your goal. Passion arises: What can you do to … 
  15. Protection
     … If it weren’t for our own greed, anger, and delusion, the greed, anger and delusion in the outside world wouldn’t touch us. It’s because we have these problems inside that the mind gets aggravated by things outside. So you have to watch out. The skills you learn as you’re meditating here are your protection. To begin with, you’re giving … 
  16. Remarkable Qualities
     … We look at what a mess the world is in because of human greed, anger, and delusion. And we realize that greed, anger, and delusion lie not only out there in other people, but also in our own minds as well. All you have to do is look at your life, and see the times when these defilements have taken over and ruined lots … 
  17. Be Observant
     … This is how we overcome our delusion, this tendency to that we have to skim over things that we think are unimportant and yet really reveal a lot about the mind’s attitudes, about its powers of mindfulness, alertness, and all the other qualities we’re trying to develop as we meditate. So it’s important, as you go through the day, that you … 
  18. Shame & Compunction
    There’s a famous passage in the Kālāma Sutta where the Buddha says that if you see somebody acting on greed, aversion, and delusion, breaking the precepts, you know that it leads to harm—harm for them or harm for others. You notice that it’s criticized by the wise. So you should abandon that kind of behavior in yourself. There are three things … 
  19. Anchored by Skillful Roots
     … The unskillful roots are greed, anger, and delusion. The skillful ones are lack of greed, lack of anger, lack of delusion. Unskillful roots are like rotten roots. They don’t hold your tree up and they don’t give you much nourishment. So those are not the roots you want to depend on. The roots you want to send out are roots based on … 
  20. The Evening News
     … Yet if we want to be free from delusion, we’ve got to pay attention to the backstage activity. How are things fabricated? When you’re primed to look at things as fabrication processes, then you can calm the fabrications down. This is a pattern you see throughout the Buddha’s teachings on breath meditation. In each of the four tetrads—the ones related … 
  21. To See What You’re Doing
     … Basically, if you’re acting under the power of greed, aversion, or delusion, suffering will follow. If you act on the power of a mind free from greed, free from aversion, free from delusion, that leads to the end of suffering. The big problem there is your delusion: All too often, you don’t really know what you’re doing, and you don’t … 
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