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  2. Remarkable Qualities
     … We look at what a mess the world is in because of human greed, anger, and delusion. And we realize that greed, anger, and delusion lie not only out there in other people, but also in our own minds as well. All you have to do is look at your life, and see the times when these defilements have taken over and ruined lots … 
  3. Nurturing Your Inner Adult
     … All too often when greed, aversion, delusion, fear, jealousy, any unpleasant or unskillful emotion comes into the mind, the way you breathe is going to change. In fact, the strength of the emotion is very frequently directly related to the extent to which that particular emotion has hijacked your breath energy. This is why, when you try to reason with that particular emotion, it … 
  4. Mindfulness Aims at Concentration
     … It’s basically describing how you get the mind into concentration. “Keep track of the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” That’s taking the body as your frame of reference. You can also do the same with feelings in and of themselves, mind states in and of themselves, and mental qualities … 
  5. Shame & Compunction
    There’s a famous passage in the Kālāma Sutta where the Buddha says that if you see somebody acting on greed, aversion, and delusion, breaking the precepts, you know that it leads to harm—harm for them or harm for others. You notice that it’s criticized by the wise. So you should abandon that kind of behavior in yourself. There are three things … 
  6. Anchored by Skillful Roots
     … The unskillful roots are greed, anger, and delusion. The skillful ones are lack of greed, lack of anger, lack of delusion. Unskillful roots are like rotten roots. They don’t hold your tree up and they don’t give you much nourishment. So those are not the roots you want to depend on. The roots you want to send out are roots based on … 
  7. To See What You’re Doing
     … Basically, if you’re acting under the power of greed, aversion, or delusion, suffering will follow. If you act on the power of a mind free from greed, free from aversion, free from delusion, that leads to the end of suffering. The big problem there is your delusion: All too often, you don’t really know what you’re doing, and you don’t … 
  8. The Four-in-One Establishing of Mindfulness
     … As for dhammas, the Buddha said in part of that formula for right mindfulness—for example with the body, “keeping focused on the body in and of itself, ardent, alert and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world”—when you’re putting aside greed and distress, you’re looking on with equanimity. That, the Buddha says, is a dhamma. It … 
  9. The Inner Monitor
     … But that kind of fear is usually related to greed, anger, delusion of some kind. Those are the unskillful emotions. So when fear arises, you have to ask in some cases, is it a reasonable fear or is it an unreasonable fear? If it’s tainted with greed, anger, or delusion, those are things you’ve got to deal with. After all, the fear … 
  10. Mindfulness: The Whole Formula
     … You focus on the body in and of itself, ardent, alert, mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Then you do the same with feelings in and of themselves, theh mind in and of itself, mental qualities in and of themselves. But then when the Buddha discusses the formula, he doesn’t explain the whole thing. He explains only one … 
  11. Your World to Practice In
     … We’re trying to get rid of greed, aversion, and delusion as we meditate, so have the same values as you go around outside. When you look at something, when you listen to something, ask yourself: Why am I looking? Why am I listening? Who’s looking? Who’s listening? Is it greed looking? Is anger listening? **Ajaan Lee and the other forest masters … 
  12. Putting Aside the World
     … The formula the Buddha has is, “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” Many times the world can be really heavy, weighing heavily on you. Just the idea of the world: It’s huge. You’re not Atlas. You can’t hold the whole globe on your shoulders. And yet we try to. That’s where we go wrong. We have … 
  13. The Size of Your Eyes
     … You have to ask yourself, who’s doing the looking? Is greed doing the looking? Is anger doing the looking? If they are, then you’ve got a problem. You want your mindfulness to be doing the looking; you want your alertness to be doing the looking. Try to develop your discernment to do the looking. The same holds true for you listening and … 
  14. Right Livelihood
     … 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 the greed that it inspires in some people—it’s not right livelihood. That’s the question of right and wrong livelihood outside. But then there’s the whole question of how you support your mind. In other words … 
  15. Practicing on Your Own
     … You could look at a picture, and greed could go out or anger could go out to feed on it. The picture itself may be relatively neutral, but if your greed goes out after the picture or your anger goes out after the picture, it’s going to leave a big imprint on the mind. So when you’re looking at something, ask yourself … 
  16. Train Hopping
     … It maybe greed. Look at greed. What does greed lead to? All the corruption that we hate in the world comes from greed. If you don’t like it in other people, why do you want to let it take over your own actions? Or lust. We tend to really like lust. But remember, all kinds of horrible things happen as a result of … 
  17. More than a Sliver of Mindfulness
     … You keep track of the body, in and of itself—ardent, alert, and mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. You keep track of feelings, in and of themselves. You keep track of mind states, in and of themselves. You keep track of mental qualities, in and of itselves—ardent, alert, and mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference … 
  18. Balancing Effort & Patience
     … But then there’s the skillful patience that has to come into play when the greed won’t just go right away. You have to work at it, and sometimes the techniques that work, that actually get rid of the greed, or the anger, or delusion, take time. It’s easy enough to give similes for this: Proper effort is like when you’re … 
  19. Four Virtues
     … When you look at things and listen to things, what do you bring into the mind? Often you bring in greed, anger, and delusion, because those are the things that direct your looking to begin with. If you let them direct your looking, they begin to take over. They bring in more and more of their friends. So when you look at something that … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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