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- Persistence… Anything that comes out of the mind based on greed, aversion, or delusion is going to be unskillful. Anything based on absence of greed, aversion, or delusion will be skillful. That means with your effort you have to notice when something comes up in the mind, where is it coming from? Then you have to decide what to do. The realization that you have …
- Study & Practice… The frames of reference are the body in and of itself, like we’re doing right now focusing on the breath; feelings in and of themselves, i.e., feelings of pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain; mind-states in and of themselves, noticing, say, whether the mind is overcome by passion or is free of passion, overcome by aversion or free of aversion or …
- Dedicating Goodness, Spreading Goodwill… And as for the people you choose to give to, the Buddha says the most skillful recipients to look for are people who are free of greed, aversion, and delusion, or people who are practicing trying to get rid of greed, aversion, and delusion, because they’ll probably make the best use of the gift. And as for the recipients, the Buddha said that …
- Behind the Scenes… the way greed, aversion, and delusion go into the creation of a mind state, and how they disguise themselves as something else. And there’s the question: How is it that we’re both the creator of these mind states and the observer of the mind states, and yet we fall for them? How is it that we cover things up? It’s like …
- Love Me, Love My Defilements… We identify ourselves with our greed, our aversion, our delusions. We identify with our defilements, but we don’t like to recognize them as such. We speak of them in other ways. “This is my identity,” we say. “This is my inner nature, my background; this is the way I’ve been brought up; this is how I’ve learned how to function in …
- In Training… Even though acting on greed, aversion, and delusion is not pleasant in and of itself, still it can lead to other sensual pleasures in the short-run, other kinds of pleasures that last for at least a little while. The same with skillful actions: Sometimes they’re difficult. The fact that you’re acting on a skillful intention is pleasant in and of itself …
- Craving & Clinging… This is why the Buddha says that to comprehend suffering, you have to abandon not only passion for it, but also your aversion and your delusion around it. That’s what it means to comprehend. You understand it to the point where there’s no more passion, no more aversion, no more delusion, because you see what you’re doing. With craving, you’re …
- 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 Kindness of Body Contemplation… Why are your perceptions so arbitrary? What’s hiding behind the fact that you choose one perception over another—that this is attractive, that’s not attractive? Your perceptions are driven by your greed, aversion, and delusion. And if you can’t see that, you’ll never be free from your greed, aversion, and delusion because they’ll be parading these perceptions in front …
- Looking After Yourself… It means simply that if you notice that the way you look at something is giving rise to greed, aversion and delusion, you’ve got to look in another way. The same with your listening and all the other senses. Think about your motivation for why you’re looking at something. Is it to excite greed? Is it to excite anger? It’s not …
- The Dhamma Protects… That’s not lighting up with insight, it’s lighting up with fires of passion, aversion, delusion. They’re blinding. I was talking the other day to a couple, and the wife was saying that she’d returned from Thailand and she was really angry at her husband. She turned to her husband and said, “That’s why I didn’t see you when …
- Time to Heal… All those little times offer lots of little entryways for greed, aversion, and delusion to slip into the mind and to infect it. So here we want to have some time to sit down and be quiet and heal the mind. The breath helps. It feels good coming in, feels good going out. If it doesn’t feel good coming in and coming out …
- Delight & Beyond Delight… As for your mind that’s so good at advertising greed, aversion, and delusion, get it to advertise the path to itself: how good it is that you can wake up early in the morning and have nothing else to do but sit and meditate. Think of all the people in the world who don’t have that opportunity. Think of the fact that …
- Equanimity… In other words, certain kinds of greed, aversion, or delusion come up, and when you recognize them for what they are, it’s as if they get embarrassed and they just go away. There are other instances, though, where they’re not embarrassed at all. When you look at them, they stare right back. They’re firmly entrenched. They’re armed with lots of …
- Guarding Against Trouble… If you find that you’re thinking about things or looking at things or listening to things in a way that gives rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, you try to stop. Either you change the way you look or listen, or you just don’t look at or listen to those things at all. You don’t have to go around with blinders …
- All Winners, No Losers… And when you meditate, you’re gaining some control of your aversion and delusion, which means that other people don’t have to be victims of your greed, aversion, or delusion. So you’re looking for happiness the way that doesn’t have any boundaries. It’s not a case where you win and somebody else loses. Everybody wins. This is not like the …
- Reflect on Your Actions… We’ve got our greed, aversion, and delusion in the background. If you put all your energy into focusing on your project, the greed, aversion, and delusion get to run rampant. They might stay within the bounds of the project that needs to be done, but as soon as the project is accomplished or you feel that you can let up a little bit …
- The Gift of Meditation… If you’re able to say No to your greed, aversion, and delusion, then other people don’t have to be exposed to your greed, aversion, and delusion, either. All of the goodness we do in the practice—in terms of generosity, virtue, concentration, discernment—is the kind of goodness, the kind of happiness that spreads around, that doesn’t have clear boundaries—which …
- Skillful Fear… I’ve had a number of psychotherapists ask me: “Why did the Buddha say unskillful thinking comes from greed, aversion, and delusion? Where is fear in the list?” Fear is not in the list because fear is not necessarily unskillful. There are things that are good to be afraid of. The fear gets unskillful when it’s combined with greed or with aversion or …
- The Kamma of Meditation… Actions done under the influence of unskillful intentions, based on greed, aversion, and delusion, tend to lead to suffering. Actions done without the influence of greed, aversion and delusion tend to lead to happiness. Right there is where the Buddha’s teachings are important, different even from those who did teach kamma in the past. There were groups of people who said that your …
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