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- The Power of Intention… It’s when you can admit to yourself, “This is why I like greed, this is why I like anger, this is why I like delusion,” at the same time that you see that these things have definite drawbacks: That’s when you get past them. And notice the word the Buddha uses there. It’s not so much that you kill them—you …
- Reclaiming the Breath… Don’t let your greed, aversion, delusion, or fears take them away from you. If they have, this is how you reclaim them: Move into the body gradually. Get to know its various energies and how you can take advantage of it—the moving energies; the still energies; the movements of the mind; the still parts of the mind. Try to make a survey …
- Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge… Greed, aversion, and delusion don’t come along only while you’re sitting and meditating. They come up all the time and, in fact, they’re more likely to come up while you’re not meditating. And they can do a lot of damage. So you have to be prepared to watch out for these things all the time. This is why we practice …
- Nuclear Thinking… thoughts that pull you off into greed, anger, and delusion, thoughts that stir up any of the unskillful potentials in your mind. So this particular step in the meditation — once the breath gets comfortable, start spreading your awareness to fill the whole body and then allow that comfortable breath to fill the whole body as well — is an extremely important part of the meditation …
- Worldly Equanimity & Its Uses… The awakening itself isn’t equanimity—it’s the highest happiness—but when you reflect on your mind afterward, seeing that it is now freed of greed, aversion, and delusion, you can either feel joy, rapture, or equanimity. That kind of equanimity, you don’t create. It just happens. The other two kinds of equanimity you have to fabricate. Notice that the first one …
- Protection… But if you give into greed, aversion, and delusion, and you kill somebody else, that could pull you down. So the main dangers are inside. When you have conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, all the other strengths follow, if you’re heedful. You realize that you have to do what you can to abandon unskillful qualities in your mind, because that’s where …
- Antidotes for Clinging… When we bring in reality like this, it helps cut through a lot of our delusions around sensuality, a lot of our attachment to sensual designs, sensual plans, sensual dreams. Or you can contemplate the body, in all its parts. You can think of a beautiful body, but when you think of the parts inside, you say wuuh. Just a few micrometers below the …
- To Escape the Prison of Time… We give them trust because the basic principle they teach is that actions based on greed, aversion, and delusion will lead to suffering. Actions based on an absence of those mental qualities will lead in the direction of happiness. So we have to look at the intentions in our minds, and the motivations for why we’re acting. That’s where we’ll find …
- In Line with the Truth… Even though our greed, anger, and delusion may have other ideas about where true happiness might be found, we’ve followed them long enough. We’ve associated with them long enough. We’ve listened to them, followed them, and where do they take us? Just back to more and more suffering, again and again and again. And yet we never seem to learn. Now …
- Friends Inside & Out… So you want to look for someone who would not make false claims to knowledge out of greed, aversion, or delusion, or would recommend to other people that they do things that are in those people’s not best interests. Now, to know that sort of thing about someone, you have to watch that person carefully. You have to be careful about who you …
- Habits of Perception… There’s no greed, anger, or delusion to muck up the works. As the Buddha said, the problem all comes down to ignorance. Ignorance of what? Ignorance of the four noble truths — and he’s not talking about not having read about the four noble truths. All of us here have read about them and thought about them. Ignorance means not seeing things in …
- Choosing Freedom… It puts you in a better mood to see where there’s greed or aversion or delusion, and not feel threatened by these things, not feeling that you have to stamp them out or deny them. They’re there, but you don’t have to get involved. This is a really important skill. This is the first step in how we learn how to …
- Protection Through Mindfulness Practice… This is how these three qualities keep spinning around the mind and the body, working to give you the protection you need from things like lust, aversion, delusion, greed—all the unskillful things that come welling up inside, that you’ve been so good at creating and that create so many dangers for yourself. This is why, when Ajaan Lee was writing about the …
- Perfecting the Mind in an Imperfect World… Greed, anger, and delusion are in charge. But they don’t really have any clear plan for you. Each thought, each emotion has a little bit of a plan for what might lead to happiness, but they’re not really organized. This is why you need discernment to point things out to your various desires to make them understand things. Each desire does have …
- Avoidance… We like our greed, aversion, and delusion—and that’s disconcerting. We prefer to think that the problems in the mind simply come from the fact that you’re out there in society dealing with all kinds of crazy people, and if you just get away from them for a while, distancing yourself from your social conditioning, the mind will settle down and it …
- It’s up to You… You follow that, and you finally get the mind to where it sees that its greed, aversion, and delusion are the problem. They’re disturbing you. You let go of those. Then you stop your fabrication of the present moment. And as you stop that fabrication, something opens up inside: total freedom, totally unrestricted by space or time. That’s the direction we’re …
- The Dhamma Eye… Often we like them, we identify with them, but then we learn to realize that our greed, anger, and delusion are defiling the mind, they’re standing in the way of experience of the deathless, they’re the dust in our eyes, they keep us from seeing the deathless, so we work on the qualities of alertness and mindfulness that allow us to see …
- Fear of Concentration… Otherwise, you’re going into what they call “delusion concentration,” where you just zone out. Here it’s helpful to have the perception in mind that there’s breath energy filling the body, and if the body needs any energy in any part at all, in terms of breath energy, it’ll come. It doesn’t have to come through the nose. It can …
- Respect for the Precepts… How can I get around that without misrepresenting the truth?” As the Buddha said, if telling the whole truth would lead to the arising of greed, aversion, and delusion, either in yourself or in the person listening, you don’t say it. Now that doesn’t mean you lie. In other words, what you do say is not a misrepresentation of the facts. You …
- The Buddha’s Eight Principles… After all, you’re dealing with your own personal illnesses—the illnesses of greed, aversion, and delusion—and that’s your personal work, nobody else’s. It’s something you have to take responsibility for, and then you’ll know the goodness of the results inside. You can’t show them to other people. If you talk about them, it actually seems to take …
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