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- Conspiracies in the Mind… If greed, aversion, and delusion can dress themselves up as wisdom, as Dhamma, they can fool you very easily. So you have to be very careful. As for conspiracy theories outside, there probably are some conspiracies going on. As someone once said, just the fact that you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that people aren’t really conspiring against you. But even if there …
- Talking Among Your Selves… If you want to get rid of your self when it’s unskillful, there’s usually a lot of aversion behind that desire—and that creates more problems. So, to solve the problem, you have to train the way you talk to yourself. It may feel unnatural at first to have a different kind of conversation inside. Your old conversations, your old ways of …
- Strong-hearted… If you have less greed, aversion, and delusion, then less greed, aversion, and delusion will come out in your actions to bother the neighborhood. So it’s not as if you’re being selfish as you focus inside. You’re taking care of what you’re responsible for. As the Buddha once said, that’s the sign of a wise person: knowing what you …
- Concentration & Renunciation… And then, where are they going? If the pleasure aggravates more passion, more aversion, more delusion, or inspires you to inflict your passion, aversion, and delusion on others, that also isn’t in accordance with the Dhamma. So that’s how we look at pleasure: both in terms of where it comes from and where it’s going to go. Now, to put the …
- One Thing Clear Through… You’re looking for pleasure, and then you excrete—what? Greed, aversion, delusion. We’re trying to change that exchange here as we practice. Look at the Buddha’s graduated discourse, his analysis of the steps of the path leading up to being ready for the four noble truths. They start with giving. The Buddha talks about the pleasures that come from giving, the …
- Responsible… Other people are less subject to your greed, aversion, and delusion. And would these people not want you to look for happiness? What are they looking for? They have their idea of what the world should be like, and they’ll be happy only if the world is a certain way and if you fit into their view of the world. But there’s …
- Rooted in Heedful Desire… When you take care of greed, aversion, and delusion in their blatant forms, they can come back in their subtle forms. And so you just want to watch, watch, watch what’s going on. That patience in watching is one of the most important weapons the soldier has. It’s a part of discernment. As long as you have the desire not to come …
- If These Walls Could Talk… It’s showing aversion.” Well, there are times when you have to be averse to things that are unskillful. If you let unskillful qualities stay, they’re going to take over. And you’re missing out on the basic principles of right effort: If something unskillful has arisen, you try to get rid of it. Then you try to prevent it from arising again …
- Contemplation of the Body… If you do it wrong and develop a sense of aversion like the monks in the story, then — as the Buddha advised them — go back to the breath. That will help dispel the aversion in the same way that the first rains of the rainy season dispel all the dust that has filled the air during the hot season. But that doesn’t mean …
- When You Care… Years back, a psychotherapist asked me, “Why is it when the Buddha talks about the roots of unskillful action, he talks only about greed, aversion, and delusion. Why doesn’t he mention fear?” The reason is that not all fear is bad. Lots of our fears do lead us to do unskillful things, but that’s because they’re tied up with greed or …
- Guardian Meditations… Passion has its reasons; aversion has its reasons; delusion has its reasons. The thing is that their reasons don’t stand up to much scrutiny. When the mind is really clear and you’re really on top of these things and you can actually see them as the Buddha says, “as something separate,” then you can see how weak their reasoning is. So of …
- Spread Goodness Around… You want to give to people who are free of greed, aversion, and delusion, or working on getting rid of their greed, aversion, and delusion.” In addition, you give in a way that you’re not harming anyone. In other words, you don’t steal something to give. You don’t give gifts to people who are actually going to be harmed by using …
- Fabricating with Awareness… In other words, you learn how to use these processes of bodily, verbal, and mental fabrications with knowledge to counteract the greed, aversion, and delusion of the mind—its different ways of craving and clinging. These are your tools, and it’s good to know your tools so that you can have them at hand if something unskillful comes up in the mind. Sometimes …
- Fears… You have to analyze fear not as a single, solid thing, but as a compound of many different factors, to see which part of the fear is dependent on the greed or passion, which part is dependent on the aversion, and which part is dependent on the delusion. Then, when you’ve taken care of the underlying emotions, you’ve taken care of the …
- Imperturbable… These things burn away at the mind as long as there’s greed, aversion, and delusion. Until you take care of the greed, aversion, and delusion, your thoughts of past and future tend to do nothing more than add more fuel to the fire. Then you can remind yourself with the chants on the brahma-viharas, that you do really want true happiness, a …
- Maybe the Buddha Knew Something… Which part of human nature do you trust? Do you trust the greed, the aversion, or the delusion? The traditions of the noble ones are free of greed, aversion, and delusion. So they’re things that we should give a try. They start out with three principles in being content: being content with whatever food you get, whatever clothing you get, whatever shelter you …
- Friends & Enemies… greed, aversion, and delusion. Those are our real enemies. Enemies outside are nothing compared to the ones inside. The ones outside can harm your body and can harm your material possessions. But the internal enemies can harm your heart and mind, and the harm they do to the mind and the heart can last for a long time, even beyond death. So do what …
- Protection Through the Practice… So you have to train your mind to free it from the greed, aversion, and delusion that would allow it to be easily influenced by other people’s unskillful ideas. Here again, the protection has to lie inside. You start off by trying to find wise people to give you an idea of how to deal with your own inner dangers. Then you carry …
- Grace & Dignity… We have greed, aversion, and delusion, and there are parts of our minds that really like greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s a danger. As the Buddha once said, the mind is capable of almost anything. Think of all the animals in the animal kingdom—all the different shapes and sizes and classifications. He said the mind is more variegated than that. The mind …
- Victory in Battle… Look into your own greed, your own aversion, your own delusion. Use the tools of the path. Create the sense of well-being inside that allows you to do work comfortably here in the present moment, and realize that the victory over every little defilement in the mind is really worth it. I was talking with someone the other day who was saying that …
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