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- Skills for Awakening… Where exactly is the allure of this particular instance of greed, aversion, or delusion? You may not be able to foresee the particulars of a particular defilement, but you can learn the basic principles of how to approach a problem skillfully. You look for the allure. And you look for the drawbacks. You look to see, when something comes up in the mind, why …
- Timeless Practice… That means understanding to the point where you have no passion, aversion, and delusion about it. The duty with regard to craving, the cause of suffering, is to abandon it. You abandon the cause. The cessation of suffering, the third truth, is basically the act of abandoning the cause and realizinig that suffering stops. And the way you do that is to follow the …
- Training Your Minds… Then when the thought comes that you might want to do something based on greed, aversion, or delusion, you say, “Why bother? It’s needless suffering. Why bother with it?” You’ve got something better. This is how you train the mind: You develop good qualities that lead to knowledge and you also develop a sense of well-being that can sustain you. That …
- Virtuous Beginnings… When you look at something, do you let your eyes focus on things that give rise to greed? Or do you hold them in check? Do you let them focus on things that give rise to anger? Delusion? Any of the defilements? Or do you hold them in check? Holding them in check doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t look at anything …
- The Dhamma Wheel… At the same time, as you’re working on reducing your own greed, aversion, and delusion, these qualities don’t go out and pester the neighbors. So you’re looking for happiness in a responsible way. When the Buddha taught this to the five brethren, he said this was the beginning of his Dhamma. This Dhamma wheel, he said, is now set in motion …
- Hold on to Your Frame of Reference… Sometimes it’s because of greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of going back to your old surroundings, and all the associations from those old surroundings begin to take over. So one of the main qualities we’re developing as we meditate is this ability to keep something in mind. The word for “meditation” in Pali, bhavana, actually means to …
- An Auspicious Night… We know that to comprehend suffering, you try to overcome any passion, aversion, and delusion around the suffering. Abandoning craving requires that you develop dispassion for craving. The cessation of suffering is dispassion in and of itself. But then the path requires passion; it requires desire. To solve that paradox, learn how to think strategically. Notice where the passages in the Canon seem to …
- Discipline… When the world takes over, the greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind take over as well, because those are the values of the world. So when you leave the monastery, you need to have a sense of self-discipline. While you’re here, the environment helps subdue a lot of thoughts because they’re not in your face. When you go out there …
- An Environment for Practice… Otherwise, as you wade through the water, it just brushes up against your leg underwater, and you have a vague idea that there may be some greed, anger, and delusion in there, but you don’t see the actual instance of how it arises, how strong it can get, and the ways it can argue its case that in the past you’ve so …
- Broad, Tall, & Deep… You can actually feel sorry for those people if they’re simply speaking out of greed, aversion, or delusion. If what they have to say is actually true, if you’ve actually done something wrong, then by lifting your mind to a higher plane, you’re in a better position to admit your mistake and to learn from it. So this ability to depersonalize …
- Outside of the Box… either from the realization that your outside issues are never going to get settled, or that to the extent that those issues can be alleviated, the right actions will have to come from a clear mind, a mind that’s not operating under the cloud of delusion, the cloud of ignorance, or the simple inability to think straight, to think things through. So, either …
- The World Is Swept Away… Is there anger motivating your thoughts, words, and deeds? Is there greed? Delusion? If there are these things, don’t act on them. Keep your focus right here. This way the process of change in your life becomes something you can manage more and more skillfully. Don’t lose sight of what’s right here, because everything you need to know to attain true …
- In Training… Something 2,600 years ago still applies to our greed, aversion, and delusion, to our fears, to our jealousies, the processes by which we create these things right now. Those processes haven’t changed. The details of what we create may be very different. You look at literature. The literature of that time is very different from our literature now. That’s the product …
- Audacious & Undaunted… If you can comprehend the suffering to the point where you go beyond any passion, aversion, and delusion around it, and if you can abandon the craving, that’s the end of suffering. That was the third noble truth. The fourth noble truth is what you do. Everything from right view to right concentration boils down to virtue, concentration, and discernment. These are the …
- Feeding on Right Resolve… As an unlimited attitude, how is it restrained? It’s restrained in that it restrains our greed, aversion, and delusion. And it requires patience, because people will behave in lots of ways that are not in line with what we want. That, of course, brings in equanimity, because even though our goodwill may be unlimited, we have limitations in terms of our energy, how …
- Do Jhana… You probably know the image of the flames of passion, aversion, and delusion. That image uses a different verb. Those are the flames that leap up, the flames you can’t read by because they’re so erratic, whereas jhayati is the verb they use for the flame of an oil lamp, burning steadily enough that you can read by it and see things …
- Watching Over Time… If it were impossible to develop skills, then we wouldn’t really know, when we act, whether we’re really acting through our own will, or if something is acting through us, or really, if there’s action happening anyway at all, or if it’s just all a delusion. All those questions would be really up in the air. But the fact that …
- Gaining the Dhamma Eye… This is why it’s important to find somebody that you really trust, someone whose behavior is inspiring, who you can trust not to make false claims of knowledge on the basis of greed, aversion, or delusion; and someone who can show you the path—because they suggest to you what’s possible in human life. This is why the Buddha once said that …
- Kamma & Rebirth—A Handful of Leaves… One is that if you do something with a skillful intention—i.e., one free from greed, aversion, and delusion—the result is going to be happy. If you do something with an unskillful intention, the result is going to be miserable. And there are gradations. And because you’re doing things all the time, you’ve got lots of kamma. Another thing he …
- Ask the Right Questions… I have to learn how to be nice to my anger, nice to my greed, nice to my delusion. Otherwise I won’t be accepting of the way things are.” The Buddha never had you just accept the way things are. That’s not one of your duties. You have to learn how to comprehend the way things are, and where there’s suffering …
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