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- The Size of Your Eyes… And when you come to sit and meditate and focus on the breath, the greed and the anger and the aversion – all these other distracting things – are going to be in charge. And then it’s going to be a big battle. This doesn’t mean it’s going to be impossible to settle down, but you’re just making it that much more …
- Looking for Essence in the Wilderness… We get the mind still so that we can see the actions of the mind as it’s creating passion or aversion around something. If we get the mind really still and very alert, we can start seeing our delusions as well, and realize that whatever we create out of those things is simply going to fall apart. Your sense of you, who you …
- Heedful, Attentive, Mindful… The dangers multiply out from those three—you get greed, aversion, delusion; passion, aversion, delusion—all the long lists of defilements that the Buddha gives. These are things that cause suffering. To have appropriate attention, you focus inside—where the main dangers are, although the Buddha does recognize there are dangers from outside. But they’re not the ones you might ordinarily expect. It …
- One Thing Clear Through… When you see yourself clearly this way, then your greed, aversion, and delusion get weaker and you’re releasing less greed and aversion and delusion out to disturb the neighborhood. Finally, when you get really clear on what’s going on in the mind, really clear on how you’re constructing your present moment—each present moment—you arrive at something that’s totally …
- Straightening Out the World… That’s the beginning of aversion. When you don’t see what’s happening, that’s delusion. Now, you can’t cut the cycle between the action and the result. You can’t do something with unskillful motives and hope that it’s going to give a happy result. Action and result are firmly connected. But you can begin to cut things between the …
- Normalcy… There may be a strong but subtle sense of aversion underlying it, or a strong but subtle sense of passion. It’s not the way of the path. Those passions and aversions are the things you’ve got to learn how to see and uproot. So when you find your mind leaning in those directions, remind yourself that this is not the path. You …
- Adbusting the Mind… Of course, the same principle applies to your greed, aversion, and delusion. They try to distract you, and because you’re distracted, you give in to them. You don’t think things all the way through and you don’t notice what’s actually going on in the mind. Your attention is diverted someplace else. So you can think of meditation as a defiant …
- Disenchantment & Dispassion… Your ear is on fire, your nose, tongue, body, mind are all on fire—with the fires of passion, aversion, delusion, aging, illness, and death. Some people think that when the Buddha’s being very precise and philosophical, that’s his genuine teaching, and that his other, more metaphorical teachings—like the fires in your senses —are simply there to stir up your enthusiasm …
- In the Land of Wrong View… Your greed gets in the way, your aversion gets in the way, your delusion gets in the way. You start asking the wrong questions. Voices of others don’t stay outside. They come inside. And they’re sloshing around in your head right now. Now, the sources of right view are the voices of another—in other words, someone saying something that’s going …
- Noble Ardency… When there’s less greed, aversion, and delusion coming out of your mind into your actions, then there’s less of your greed, aversion, and delusion for other people to suffer from. So these questions of discernment that ask about the level of stress and whether it’s necessary and what you can do to put an end to that stress: They all come …
- How & Why We Meditate… Part of the mind will complain because, of course, the mind still has its greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s not the case that you sit down, close your eyes, and they all go away. They hide out for a while, but they’re going to come up again. And they’re going to complain: They’d rather do this, think that, go here …
- Balanced Concentration… There’s going to be an element of aversion. As soon as your mindfulness slips a little bit, the aversion pops you out anyplace else but here. So you want to be on good terms with the breath. You want to be on good terms with your awareness in the present moment. This is going to take time. In some cases, people find it …
- Defilements as Not-self… You latch on to greed, aversion, and delusion as yours, but as Ajaan Lee says, they come in and they possess you. Seeing them as somebody else is a useful exercise in not-self. These are identities you’ve identified with for a long time, and they’ve held power in your mind for a long time. How would you deal with them if …
- The Desire to Be Free from Desire… As for unskillful qualities based on greed, aversion, and delusion, you see that if you follow them they take you in a direction you don’t want to go. So if they’re there, you want to abandon them. If they’re not there, you want to prevent them from arising. So desire is an important part of the path. And this faculty of …
- Open Are the Doors to the Deathless… You can enjoy them and they don’t excite, greed, aversion, or delusion. Others are not okay. So you have to judge the pleasures against another standard, which is: What impact do they have on the mind? The same with pain: As he noted, some people have to practice a painful path, which can mean two things. One is that getting the mind still …
- How to Straighten Out the World… Because they’re doing this out of ignorance, there’s usually greed and aversion involved in their ways of deciding how they want to straighten out the world. They often end up just inflicting other people with their greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s not really helpful. What’s really helpful to others is that you straighten out the greed, aversion, and delusion in …
- Large-hearted Equanimity… When I was in France, there were people who asked, “If the Buddha really had goodwill for the world, why didn’t he keep coming back?” The answer is that he wanted to teach by example, that by straightening out your mind so that you’re not giving in to greed, aversion, and delusion, you’re not causing any suffering to anybody. That’s …
- Defilements… There’s greed, aversion, and delusion, and they work themselves out into all kinds of other things. There’s spite and malice and hypocrisy and envy. I can’t remember the whole list: about fifteen all together, what they call the upakkilesas. But you notice these things best if you have the mind in concentration and you try to maintain that sense of center …
- The Cool Fire of Jhana… As he says, unlike the hot fires of your greed, aversion, and delusion, or passion, aversion, and delusion, it doesn’t wear out your nerves. It’s actually good for the body, good for the mind, and it brings light into areas of the mind that have long been dark. You can read your mind because the flame is steady. Of course, it’s …
- Fangs in the Static… Let’s look inside and see what’s actually there.” In other words, you’re training the mind how not to fool itself, or not to be fooled by its greed, aversion, and delusion. You learn how to see the tricks of greed, aversion, and delusion—how they make you think that something’s going to be really good when it’s not, or …
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