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- 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 …
- The Language of the Heart (1)… In other words, you’ve allowed your greed, aversion, and delusion to drive you for who knows how long. They get you to do things that are not in your own interest. And in Ajaan Lee’s image, they get you to do these things and then, when the police come to catch you, they run away. You’re the one left to deal …
- Questioning the Hindrances… The last three are more related to delusion one way or another. The only way you’re going to get past these things is to understand them, because in each case we tend to fall in with a hindrance. We believe it. We get fooled by it. That’s why we get ensnared in it. You start thinking about things you like—sights, sounds …
- Mindful Judgment… The more delusion we have about what’s good and what’s bad, the harder it is to figure out what needs to be developed and what needs to be abandoned. So we need to develop this quality of learning how to ferret out what’s skillful and what’s not. On the one hand, we can benefit from gaining instruction from outside to …
- Fabricated Path, Unfabricated Goal… So we’re here to catch the animals that are greed, aversion, and delusion in their many forms. You can’t get them to make appointments as to who will come when. You deal with whatever is coming up and disturbing your concentration. And if you can deal with it, undercut it, understand it, drop the cause, then that amount of concentration was enough …
- The First Noble Truth… In other words, you’ve been driven around by greed, aversion, and delusion for who knows how long, and there’s a part of you that says, “Enough!” Nourish that part. Keep it strong. Make it a larger voice in your decisions as to when to meditate, when to read the Dhamma, when to turn off the TV, when to turn off the Internet …
- Meditation Prep… When you’re looking at greed, anger, and delusion in the mind in this way, it helps to loosen some of the sense of identity around them. Another way to loosen that sense of identity is to think of the mind as a committee. The committee contains all kinds of members who propose all kinds of things. Just because somebody in the committee has …
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