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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… We’re putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Any thoughts that relate to the world right now, just put them aside. If they come up again, you put them aside again. They come up again, you put them aside again. This is what the developing is all about. You’re changing your habits. You’re developing a new state of …
- The Brightness of Life… Nobody likes to look at his or her own greed or aversion, or the times when the mind is being dishonest with itself or keeps falling back on old habits that it knows are unskillful, but keeps going back anyhow. We don’t like to look at those things. But if we don’t look at them, we’re not going to be able …
- 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 …
- Full-Body Breath… Instead of looking so much at the content, he saw that skillful thoughts were motivated by lack of greed, lack of aversion, lack of delusion, or by renunciation, lack of ill will, lack of harmfulness. Those thoughts would give good results. Unskillful thoughts were the ones based on sensual passion. He used the word, sensuality, which in the Canon means your passion for your …
- How to Use the Three Perceptions… inconstant, I’ve gained an insight, what’s next?” That short circuits everything right there. If you’re going to apply the three perceptions to anything, apply them to your distractions. Greed comes up; anger comes up—sensual desire, ill will, sleepiness, sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety, doubt. Just tell yourself, “These things are inconstant. They come and they go. Why believe them …
- Mindfulness the Gatekeeper… You keep focused on the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, and mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. The “body in itself” here means the body simply as its sitting here right now. You don’t think about the body in the world, because that would give rise to other duties: Is your body attractive enough? Is it …
- Murderers, Vipers, & Floods, Oh My!… There’s that phrase where the Buddha talks about protecting your mindfulness by putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Okay, there are lots of things out there in the world that are going to pull you away saying, “This would be better; that would be better.” Or, “This is something you want to get upset about.” You have to learn …
- Customs of the Noble Ones… And as for seeing the greed go away, or the lust or the anger: Train yourself to delight in that as well. This, of course, connects with that factor in right effort of generating desire, learning to want to follow the practice. If something has to be abandoned, you learn how to delight in figuring out how to do it. As for qualities of …
- 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 …
- Wake Up from Addiction… And finally, as they say in the texts, you’re putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. In other words, you’re with the body in and of itself, and not the body in the context of the world or thinking about issues of the world. You’re right here with this sensation of the presence of the body. That’s …
- 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 …
- 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… And the second is putting aside greed and distress with reference the world. In other words, all your emotions around the world; concerning the world: You want to be able to put them aside, at least for the time being. You want to give the mind some space just to be with one object. One of the qualities of concentration is cittass’ek’aggata …
- Factors for Awakening… Right mindfulness means keeping in mind your resolve to stay with the body or with feelings or with mind states or with mental qualities, in and of themselves, as your primary frame of reference, at the same time that you put aside greed and distress with reference to the world. The word primary, here, is important, because there’s no way you’re going …
- Stay Principled… no excessive greed, no ill-will, no wrong views. So if anyone ever asks you what the Buddha’s basic teachings are, these two sets of teachings—the four noble truths, and the basic teachings on how to deal with what’s skillful and unskillful in thought, word, and deed—are the teachings that are true across the board. Particularly with respect to wrong …
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