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  2. Developing Discernment
     … Sometimes you can understand a particular defilement—a particular case of greed, aversion, or delusion—simply by watching it and seeing, “Oh, this is how it comes; this is how it goes.” Because you never watched it before, the ability to observe it can cut through what you hadn’t noticed before. Other times, though, the defilements are not that easy to deal with … 
  3. Sensitive in Seven Ways
     … When greed, aversion, and delusion come in, with their tender, sweet voices—how do you deal with them? When they come with their harsh voices—they’re yelling at you and, as the Thais say, they’re squeezing your nerves: What do you do? You need to have techniques for recognizing different groups of defilements and dealing with them effectively. Then finally, which voices … 
  4. Lessons in Fabrication
     … the day. And when you know how to create them, you also know how to take them apart. This is important, because we can get ourselves into some pretty negative states: greed, anger, delusion, fear, anxiety. These are all things we put together by the way we breathe, by the way we talk to ourselves, by the perceptions we hold in mind and the … 
  5. Dealing with Limitations
     … totally passive life and simply become a victim of events. In other words, you say, “Well, my mind is the way it is. There’s no way I can change it. Greed, anger, and delusion are natural; I just have to accept them if I want to be happy.” That’s totally giving in. Your raft on the ocean gets tossed wherever the currents … 
  6. Slowing Down to Look
     … staying focused on the body in and of itself—ardent, alert and mindful—putting aside greed and distress with the world. That’s one of the four frames of reference. You develop that in such a way that you also develop concentration, unification of the mind, stability, steadiness. That state of the mind is the goose that lays the golden eggs. Or to follow … 
  7. The Sublime Attitudes
     … The three roots of unskillfulness — greed, aversion, and delusion — can branch out into five hindrances, seven obsessions, ten fetters, 108 forms of craving. They grow exponentially. No one skillful quality can take them all on. Each skillful quality has to be strengthened by others to be effective, to play its part in the training of the whole mind. At the same time, each has … 
  8. Tranquility & Insight
     … Okay, what’s the origination of this thought? What sparks this thought? Is it greed? Aversion? Delusion? Is there a perception that sparks it? What’s the origination? How does this come about? The Pali word for origination, samudaya, literally means arising together. What arises together with the thought? Then you look at it go away. When the cause goes away, then the thought … 
  9. The Breath All the Way
     … Having this safe inner space is an act of kindness for others as well, because when you’re coming from a comfortable spot here, a comfortable sensation here in the body, you’re less likely to act on greed, aversion, delusion, or any of the other ways of being unskillful with others. That way, other people will suffer less from your defilements. This is … 
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