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  2. Training Your Cynical Voices
     … You have to learn how to apply the cynics to your greed or your aversion or your delusion or any other unskillful attitude that comes up in the mind. Those are things you really have to question. So a lot of the training lies in learning when to use the cynics and when not. Laziness is a big problem that you have to be … 
  3. How Right Mindfulness Leads to Right Concentration
     … To begin with, you remain focused on the body in and of itself —in this case it can be the breath—ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. All those factors are essential for getting the mind to settle down in concentration in a way that you can actually give rise to insight. The breath in and … 
  4. Renunciation
     … This particular person had a lot of greed. Having been used to living with someone who didn’t have any greed, I found it very difficult to make the adjustment. I got a very strong sense of what a gift it is to the world to not be a greedy person, not having to feed on other people emotionally, to be content with little … 
  5. Training Your Minds
     … You can’t say, “Well, I’m just going to deal with greed as one big defilement and take care of all forms of greed all at once.” Greed comes in many different guises. Anger comes in many different guises. Delusion comes in many different forms. And you’re going to have to learn how to deal with them all. After a while, in … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. Indecision
     … If we can get rid of our greed, aversion, and delusion, we benefit and the other people around us don’t have to be victims of our greed, aversion, and delusion. This is why this is the important point on which he focused. He explained that this suffering comes from our three forms of craving, and these forms of craving can be uprooted. We … 
  9. Home Schooling Your Inner Children
     … But an important part of the meditation is learning how to sit with the mind regardless of what shape it’s in, so that you can understand it—so that when there’s greed in the mind you understand the greed, when there’s anger you understand the anger. Ajaan Suwat said that when he first went to stay with Ajaan Mun, his mind … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. Learning Through Healing
     … If you notice there’s greed, you ask yourself, “What are you going to gain from that greed?” Notice all the different hindrances bothering your meditation. If sensual desire comes up, how are you going to deal with it in a way that allows you to get back to the breath? Ill will for somebody comes up: How are you going to deal with … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. Magha Puja
     … When you’re not taking that much care about what you’re doing, it’s obvious that greed, aversion, and delusion are going to slip in. It’s when you gather the mind together: That’s when you begin to see, “Oh, this is the state of my mind right now.” Some people say they can’t meditate because their minds are too scattered … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. Abandoning Effluents (2)
     … Who’s doing the looking? Greed? Aversion? Or discernment? You want your discernment to do the looking so that it can see things in terms of a causal pattern. If you look at things with the purpose of trying to find something you like, it’s going to aggravate your greed or your lust. You’ve probably noticed how you go through a crowd … 
  17. Three Virtues for the Mind
     … Once you to have that solidity inside, then you find that the issue of observing that precept for the mind, that virtue for the mind of avoiding excessive greed, gets a lot easier. If you look at greed, you can ask yourself: What do you gain from it? Mostly suffering. It pulls you to more and more things, but the things mean less and … 
  18. Making an Effort
     … You see greed come, you watch it, and it goes away. And that’s it. You don’t have to do anything. Sometimes anger is that way, or fear, lust, passion. Some defilements go away simply through your watching them. You have the ability to step back from them a little bit and just note the fact, “Oh, there’s greed,” and once you … 
  19. Worlds Inside & Out
    The classic phrase for establishing mindfulness in the body is that you “stay focused on the body in and of itself, ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” That last phrase is interesting: “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” They don’t have definite or indefinite articles, they don’t have an “a … 
  20. Mindfulness Gets Intimate
     … The way we approach the present, as it’s defined in the first stage of mindfulness practice, is to focus, say, on the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Notice the two activities there: keeping focused on the body, in this case the breath, and then putting aside greed and distress with … 
  21. 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 … 
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