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- 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 …
- Right Livelihood… If you’re trying to inspire passion, aversion, and delusion in people through your acting, then when you die, you go to the hell of laughter, i.e., they’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you. So if your livelihood involves inspiring greed, anger, and delusion either in yourself as you do it or in other people—think about advertising, all …
- 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 …
- What to Tolerate, What Not… When greed comes, what is it like? When anger comes, what is it like? When delusion comes, how do you recognize that it’s delusion? When you’re clinging to something, you have to watch that: What is the clinging here? Why? This is why we work on developing our mindfulness and alertness: so that we can see these things and deal with them …
- The Right Place to Look… It burns us because our greed, aversion, and delusion try to hold on to the results of our past kamma. And, of course, those results going to slip through our fingers. They often may not be what we want, but we can’t go back and change our past kamma. So the problem is not with the world. The problem is with our greed …
- The Fortress… Just because there’s some mindfulness and alertness and ardency getting started here doesn’t mean that your greed and aversion and delusion can’t come in and destroy them. This is why you have to develop qualities to protect them. The Buddha makes a comparison. He says as you’re practicing, it’s like building a fortress on the frontier. You’ve got …
- Is the Buddha’s Wisdom Selfish?… To work for your own benefit is to observe the precepts and to try get rid of any greed, aversion, and delusion in your mind. To benefit others is to get them to observe the precepts and to get rid of their own greed, aversion, and delusion. In other words, you respect the fact that they have their own karma. They’re agents. They …
- The Awful Truth… So we each have to turn inside and say, “Okay, where are the roots of these unskillful conditionings?” They lie in the greed, anger, and delusion in our own minds. These are the things that cause us to act unskillfully, so that we cause ourselves suffering, and we cause suffering for the people around us. If these things can be uprooted, we’re not …
- Eeeels… Often our problem is that greed, anger, and delusion take over the mind before we’ve even realized that there’s anything going on. In other words, we’ve already capitulated to them before we realize, “Hey, somebody else is in power.” Actually, the mind has its warning signals before greed, anger, or delusion takes over. They arise in very weak ways. There are …
- A Mind Without Inertia… On the one hand, he saw how everyone was aflame with passion, aversion, and delusion, burning from these things, and he felt compassion. But then he reflected on the Dhamma he had discovered. He was struck by how much it went against what people would want to hear, how subtle it was, how hard it would be for them to understand. He almost gave …
- Courage… He had greed, aversion, and delusion just like us. He had impatience. His practice had its ups and downs. But he didn’t let the downs get him down, even after six years of austerities, when he had pushed the limits of what a human being can do in terms of denying himself any kind of pleasure at all. At that point, he looked …
- Great Expectations… When greed, aversion, and delusion arise, the Buddha would call them defilements. Modern psychology calls them us. There’s a big break right there. When greed comes up, when lust comes up, it’s not necessarily something we have to identify with. When anger comes up, we don’t have to identify with it. And in not expressing it, in learning restraint around these …
- The Energy You Broadcast… Send out a lot of anger, a lot of delusion: That’s what gets reflected back. So you’ve got to be very careful about what kind of energy you’re creating and transmitting right now. This is why we try to develop thoughts of goodwill, and all the things that are associated with merit: thoughts of generosity, thoughts of gratitude, thoughts of virtue …
- Food, Shelter & Work… And the mind gets to know itself a lot better because greed, aversion, and delusion, when they first come, come in subtle forms. If you want to see why the mind goes for them, you’ve got to see them right as they arise. And being with the breath is a good place to position yourself so as to see that. So any little …
- 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 …
- Accepting the Buddha’s Standards… greed, anger, and delusion along with their justifications. People say, “If we didn’t have greed, society wouldn’t develop. The economy would collapse. If we didn’t have anger, we couldn’t bring about justice. We couldn’t stand up for our rights.” And even though there’s no conscious defense of delusion, people are constantly defending the idea that we need a …
- The Heart to Keep Going… But what keeps the soldier going is that firm determination—a firm desire not to be fooled by greed, aversion, or delusion ever again. That’s your motivation. That’s you right now. And the more you can make that “you” identify with all the thoughts that cluster around that identity, the easier it’ll be to let go of the other identities that …
- Right Resolve & Right Concentration… When you’ve got the mind in right concentration, you’re working with the breath, which is usually the part of you that gets hijacked by your greed, aversion, and delusion. These emotions can start getting you to breathe in unskillful ways—you can even have panic attacks—that just squeeze the mind, squeeze your nerves as they say in Thai, to the point …
- A Safe Home… Greed, anger and delusion: Those are the big ones. Sometimes we seem to think that greed is sparked by something outside, or anger is sparked by something outside, but there are often times when the mind is simply in the mood to be greedy and then it goes looking for something worthy of its greed. Sometimes it wants to be angry and so it …
- The Uses of Concentration… And, of course, once you have mindfulness and alertness, you can protect that sense of well-being so that it doesn’t turn into sleepiness—or into delusion concentration. So those two purposes for concentration go together. You want to give rise to that sense of well-being but you don’t want it to overcome the mind, so you give the mind work …
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