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- Seeing Through Your Defilements… What images are you holding in mind when anger comes? What images are you holding in the mind when the desire for revenge comes, when fear comes, when greed, lust? What is it about the lust, for example, that you find attractive? What about the anger do you find attractive? There are some emotions that you think you don’t find attractive at all …
- All Four Tetrads at Once… The Buddha himself relates this particular tetrad to the task of putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. And when he taught Rahula breath meditation, even before he started with the first step he had him contemplate various themes, one of which was inconstancy. This is where you use it. Suppose you suddenly think of something that happened years back. You …
- Stay… When there’s greed, when there’s lust, when there’s anger, you have different ways of breathing. You can learn how to read the breath and the mind in this way. You gain a better sense of when the mind is in a state where it can be relied on and when it can’t. Or if you know that you’re angry …
- 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 …
- Self-Correct… Then, the Buddha says, you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world: Any thoughts that have to do with the world, especially liking or disliking what’s going on in the world right now, you just put them aside. Right now it’s time for you to get to know your awareness here in the present moment, the breath on its …
- Where Perceptions Can Take You… Or if you have sensual desire for an object, contemplate the drawbacks of trying to acquire that object and holding on to it, and how much you’re a slave to things if you let greed take charge of your mind. The perception of ill will you counteract with the perception of goodwill, but also with perceptions of gratitude: realizing that we’re in …
- Less is More… When you’re looking for skillful intentions, you’re looking for intentions that aren’t founded on greed, aren’t founded on aversion, and aren’t founded on delusion. That’s what you’re working for. That means you have to start with something immediately present and really obvious—like the breath. Just be with the breath as it comes in; be with the …
- Perfecting the Mind in an Imperfect World… run rampant, with no one in charge. In the case of the mind, the practice actually offers you the possibility that you could take charge. Otherwise, your defilements are in charge. 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 …
- 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 …
- Training the Mind to Train the Mind… There’s a certain pleasure in greed. There’s a certain pleasure in anger. And it comes really easily. When you’re feeling starved, when the mind is feeling starved for some entertainment, for some diversion, if it doesn’t have anything good to focus on, it’ll go for whatever. So you want to give it something better than whatever, something good to …
- 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 …
- Even Animals Can Be Trained… You focus on the body in and of itself, and you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any thoughts about the world—what you want out of the world, how you’re upset about the state of the world right now: You’ve got to put those aside. He also says you have to keep the mind in its proper …
- The Kamma of Concentration… And you avoid greed, ill will, and the view that your actions don’t yield results, don’t make a difference. Those precepts are principles you don’t have to test. Just use them. But you find there are a lot of other things that you do have to test in practice. As you get more and more sensitive to the impact of your …
- Questioning & Conviction… The Buddha said, just look at the breath, look at the body in and of itself, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world—in other words, putting aside your old habits of thinking about the world out there. Put aside your old ways of using your eyes and ears and nose, tongue, body, and mind to focus on issues outside there …
- The Third Noble Truth… What is the price of your lust? What’s the price of your greed? What’s the price of your irritation over things that you don’t get or that, when you do get them, are not satisfying? Weigh things carefully: That’s how you develop disenchantment. From disenchantment comes viraga or dispassion. You begin to see that craving is something you’re manufacturing …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Fear & Anger… lots of different ideas, can come washing through the mind, and if you don’t have someplace outside of the mind where you can take your stance, you get washed away. Greed comes in. Anger comes in. Fear comes in. And they can be overwhelming if you don’t have a place to stand outside of them. So we focus on the breath as …
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