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- Solidly Here… The best way to deal with delusion is to act on what you think is the best option and then see what actually happens as a result. Over time, you learn more and more about where you’re deluded about what causes what. All of this requires that you be able to see things over time as the process plays itself out—which means …
- Greed & Distress with Reference to the World… When you think about all the minds out there that are churning out greed, aversion, and delusion right now: They talk about how the frequency of the electric current that goes through the United States can be detected even out in outer space. I’m pretty sure that the frequency of the minds churning out greed, aversion, and delusion right now can probably be …
- The Bureaucracy of the Defilements… the bureaucracy of your defilements—things like greed, aversion, and delusion, which cloud the mind and get in the way of genuine discernment. Our mind is very complex. It’s like a large organization, making all kinds of decisions all the time, and we have a tendency to delegate a lot of our decisions to our old habits. There are a lot of little …
- Sowing Good Seeds… Either you wander off to what is called delusion concentration, where the mind is still but doesn’t really know quite where it is. Or else you fall into an air pocket, kind of drop out of sight for a minute, and come back up again. That’s a sign the breath has gotten too refined, more refined than you can follow. So the …
- Conserving Your Strength… making sure that your actions are not done under the influence of the defilement, under the influence of greed or aversion or delusion. That’s where the real battlefield is. So make that your top priority. Some people may say it’s selfish, but hey, if you can reduce the amount of greed and aversion and delusion in your actions, that’s a real …
- The Four Biases… You’re safe from the things that you might do under the influence of desire, aversion, delusion, or fear. As King Pasenadi Kosala once remarked to the Buddha, that’s the greatest security there is*—*knowing that you can trust yourself. At the same time, you give security to others. They’re not subject to your desire, aversion, delusion, or fear. So it’s …
- Heedfulness & Confidence… Because even in good intentions there can be some delusion. There’s no magic formula for erasing delusion aside from those instructions that the Buddha gave to Rahula: Act on good intentions and see the results, and if they don’t come out well, go back and reflect on your intentions again. Maybe there was something in there that you missed. So the process …
- On Human Nature… If you can uproot your aversion and delusion, nobody has to suffer from your aversion and delusion. That right there is a huge gift. It’s in this way that your desire for happiness can be turned into something that’s wise, pure, and compassionate. As you’re sitting here struggling with the breath, it may not seem it’s anywhere near, but at …
- A Happiness Based Inside… But you’ve got to be consciously making the comparisons and seeing the areas where you can focus on things outside in certain ways so that your center is not disturbed by other ways of focusing, i.e., involving greed, anger, delusion, and all the other unskillful mental qualities that knock your center off kilter. This requires discernment: comparing things, seeing connections, and seeing …
- Just-Right Concentration… Either you’re going into delusion concentration, where things are pleasant and kind of like a mist, but you’re not really sure about what you’re focused on or where you are. You come out of it wondering, “Was I awake? Well, not really. Was I asleep? Not really.” That’s not right concentration. Another way of being too still is when you …
- Clear of Defilement… the mind when it’s clear, when it’s not involved with greed, anger, or delusion. That’s normalcy for her. When the mind is simply observant, watching what’s going on, when it can see cause and effect clearly: That’s the state of normalcy you’re trying to move toward. That’s the state of equilibrium you’re trying to establish. Learn …
- Of Essential Worth… When I first read the teachings about people going past greed, aversion, and delusion, it sounded like some sort of dried-out husk. Who would want to go in that direction? But there were a lot of good things in the Buddha’s teachings as well, so I was willing to put that question aside for the time being. But it always there in …
- Full-Body Breath… If your focus is too small, it’s very easy to slip off into the past, slip off into the future, or slip off into what Ajaan Lee called delusion concentration, where the mind is still but it’s got a very limited sense of where it is. You come out of delusion concentration and say, “Where was I? What was I focused on …
- Right Speech… The Buddha himself said that he would not tell the truth in areas where it would give rise to greed, anger, and delusion. That doesn’t mean he would lie, simply that he would avoid those topics. So you’ve got to figure out skillful ways of avoiding issues without letting the other person know you’re avoiding them. Suppose someone comes up and …
- Alone & Together… They had delusion—we have delusion. Some of the details may be different, but the basic patterns are all the same. As Ajaan Mun once said, “People are all the same, but they’re different. But when you come right down to it, they’re all the same.” He said that to Ajaan Fuang one time, and Ajaan Fuang said he had to take …
- Kindness in the Light of Karma… When the Buddha talks about harming yourself, it’s basically breaking the precepts or trying to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in your mind—or if they’re already there, encouraging them further. If you want to harm others, again you get them to break the precepts or encourage them to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in their minds. The …
- Moral Intelligence… Emotional intelligence he aligns with discernment—in other words, seeing what motives you have for your thinking, and seeing where different emotions lead, and in particular, motions of passion, aversion and delusion, which, as the sutta we just chanted pointed out, are like fires burning everything you look at and listen to, smell, taste, touch, think about. The discernment in seeing these emotions as …
- The Guarantee of Concentration… All the voices of greed, anger, and delusion can sneak in on the mind because there’s a background noise or there are background noises. The only way you get to see them when they’re still small, when they’re just getting started, is to make sure the inner background noise gets as quiet as possible. This is why concentration practice is so …
- Magha Puja… When you’re not taking that much care about what you’re doing, it’s obvious that greed, aversion, and delusion are going to slip in. It’s when you gather the mind together: That’s when you begin to see, “Oh, this is the state of my mind right now.” Some people say they can’t meditate because their minds are too scattered …
- 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 …
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