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- Conviction & Confidence… He was able to put an end to greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s why he’s a Worthy One. That right there really merits conviction because it reminds us that it is possible through human effort to put an end to suffering. It is possible through human effort to cleanse the mind. Sometimes you hear the idea that the ego is so corrupt …
- Pride in Your Craft… land of wrong view, where people tend to be careless about the way they look at things, listen to things, and allow their minds to give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s very easy for you to go along with the general trend. But there is no safety in numbers. Just because lots of people are doing it doesn’t mean that …
- Remembering Ajaan Lee… That’s where you use your focused powers of ardency to look at the defilement, whether it’s greed or lust or aversion or delusion or whatever the defilement is. If it’s really insistent, if it keeps coming back, you’ve got to look at it and figure out, well, why does the mind like this? And also look at what its drawbacks …
- Perceptions of Self & Not-Self… There’s a duty with regard to that truth, which is to comprehend it—in other words, to understand it to the point of having no more passion, aversion, or delusion around suffering. The second noble truth, the cause or the origination of suffering, consists of three kinds of craving: craving for sensuality, for becoming, for not becoming. The duty there is to abandon …
- Deconstruct Your Emotions… There’s an element of intention and, in many cases, the intentions have become so habitual that they seem automatic, because of the strength of the perceptions and the strength of the breath or that particular way of breathing around greed or aversion or delusion. You tend to think, “Well, this is what I really feel.” But it’s just a habit, and as …
- Dwellings… empty of greed, aversion, and delusion. But it’s not really a dwelling, because again and again the texts say that the enlightened person is everywhere released, fixated nowhere. The image they give is a light beam that doesn’t land anywhere. Look up in the sky at night. It looks dark to us, but there are lots of light beams going back and …
- How to Use the Teaching on Kamma… In this way, you can learn to be more skillful and not be a slave to your passion, aversion, or delusion. The same goes for lust and greed. As Ajaan Fuang once said, when you really desire a sensual pleasure of some kind, it’s a sign that you enjoyed it in the past. You’ve had it already. Then he’d say, “Think …
- Reflections on Kamma… This is how you get past delusion. We were talking the other day about it’s easy to see when you’re angry, it’s easy to see when you’re greedy, but when you’re deluded you can’t see because you’re deluded. The way around that double bind is to learn by observing your actions. So this is that second quality …
- The Buddha’s Questions… Is this the sort of person who would tell a falsehood, pretending to know something he didn’t know because of greed, aversion, or delusion? Would he try to get someone to do something that wasn’t in that person’s best interest? You’ve got to check out the teacher first, realizing you can’t just trust anybody you come across, no matter …
- Mindful of Death… Then you ask yourself, “Okay, what unfinished business do I have? Are there still unskillful thoughts in my mind?” If you notice that there are attitudes of greed, aversion, delusion, or any of the reasons why you might fear death, he says to work on them as quickly and with the same sense of urgency and mindfulness that a person whose head was on …
- The Same but Different, but the Same… So regardless of your nationality, regardless of the type of mental illness you suffer from—greed, anger, delusion are all different forms of mental illness—the basic structure of the problem and the basic structure of the path to its solution are the same across the board. The difficulty lies in taking that large structure and applying it to your own particular sufferings, your …
- Right View Tells You What to Do… The descriptions in the texts are there to tell you about what it should be ideally, but first you’re going to have to grub around in some of your own greed, aversion, and delusion. Because it’s one thing to be able to see the mind forming another thought, and realizing it’s not all that interesting to begin with, and so you …
- The Choice Not to Suffer… When there’s greed, aversion, or delusion, you recognize them as unskillful thoughts. You’re seeing them simply as events, part of a process. You’re not concerned about how well they’re representing the world to you, or whether they’re telling you something you need to get worked up about. For the time being, you’re not involved. It’s just, “That …
- Anupassana… You have to ask yourself, “What is it that I’m trying to get out of this?” Especially when it’s something like greed, aversion, or delusion: Why do you like it even though part of you knows it’s wrong? Then you compare the allure with the drawbacks, but as long as you don’t quite see what the real allure is, why …
- The Fourth Noble Truth… And you can use that level of involvement in the concentration to help peel away a lot of really gross defilements, because as you leave concentration, and the mind picks up greed or aversion or delusion, you see how gross those things are. The mind inclines to not go for them because it’s got a better point of view, a better perspective, coming …
- Sensitivity & Strength… Comprehending means understanding it to the point where you lose all passion, aversion, and delusion around it. With the cause of stress, the skill is learning how to let it go. With the cessation of stress, the skill is learning how to realize it; and with the path to the cessation, the skill is learning how to develop it. There are things you have …
- The Reality of Your Thoughts… The ones that really stir-up a lot of greed, aversion, delusion, fear, jealousy, grief: They seem real because they have such a lasting impact in the body. But the Buddha has you regard these, as well, as processes. And again the question is: Where do these things lead? Most of us never think about them in those terms. As with grief: We don …
- The Role of Attachment… It gives you a sense of well-being deep down inside so that when you come across other things that ordinarily would have tempted you to react with greed or anger, delusion or fear, you don’t see the need to react in those ways. You’ve got something better right here. You know that if you let go of it, you might lose …
- Adjusting the Flame… This is when delusion concentration sets in. This is when drowsiness sets in. To counteract that, you’ve got to give the mind work to do. Try some very detailed work through the bones of the body, the breath around the bones. How does the breath around your spinal column feel right now? How does the breath around your ribs feel right now? What …
- Be Bigger Than Your Pains… When you’re free of greed, aversion, and delusion, you’re no one’s debt at all, which means that everything you do, say, and think is a gift. That would be a really nice position to be in, instead of the way we are right now, constantly piling up karmic debts. We’re beholden to this person for food, that person for shelter …
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