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- 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 …
- Focus on What’s Important… As the Buddha said, after he gained his awakening, he saw the beings of the world on fire with greed, aversion, and delusion. And it’s this handful of leaves—the information in his handful of leaves: That’s what puts the fire out. This is water for your fires. Once these fires are put out, then you can turn your attention to other …
- 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 …
- 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 …
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