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  2. Victory
     … You didn’t harm yourself by breaking any of the precepts, by stirring up greed, aversion, delusion. And you didn’t harm any others by trying to get them to break the precepts or intentionally trying to stir up their greed, aversion, or delusion. There are other motivations for justice besides anger, and you want to focus on those. But again, this is a … 
  3. Fear & Conviction
     … If it’s combined with greed or aversion or delusion, then it is unskillful. But the Buddha listed two kinds of fear that are actually helpful in the practice. One is simply the quality of heedfulness, *appamada, *realizing that your actions make a difference and you could very easily do something really unskillful, so you have to be careful. The second is a quality … 
  4. The Dhamma Channel
     … our own greed, aversion, delusion, our own desires, our own craving. We broadcast out, looking for satisfaction for our wants, satisfaction for the needs we have, and it’s just I, I, I like the little traffic cone in the article in The Onion: I, I, I important! I, I, I want this; I, I, I need this. All you hear are the rays … 
  5. The Humane Quality of the Path
     … You find there’s a lot more greed, anger, and delusion in your mind than you would like to think. So you have to develop a humane attitude to yourself as well. When you see that there are parts of your mind that you don’t like, instead of being very judgmental or harsh on yourself, or trying to say that it’s okay … 
  6. Borrowed Wealth
     … There’s a goodness that you share with people around you, added to the fact that you need to feed on them less and less, and you’re subjecting them less and less to your greed, aversion and delusion. But there’s also goodness for beings you can’t see. Ajaan Funn one time was talking about how beings filled space the same way … 
  7. Borrowed Goods
     … You get rid of craving, but with the clinging-aggregates you’ve got to know them, really understand them, to the point where there’s no more passion, no more aversion, no more delusion around them. The delusion is the big problem; you don’t know them well. So how do you get to know them? Think about Ajaan Lee’s comment. He often … 
  8. Leaving Meditation
     … You may be able to keep your greed, anger, and delusion under control while you’re sitting here with your eyes closed, but if they go running wild when your eyes are open, then you’ve lost the benefits. And sometimes the concentration makes it even worse. Your mind gets stronger as it sits here and rests in concentration, but if you go out … 
  9. A Skillful Heart
     … As he said, they were burning with the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion. He knew the way out, he could teach them the way out, so that’s what he decided to do. You look at the four noble truths: The whole idea of focusing a teaching on the problem of suffering has to be motivated by goodwill. You look at all of … 
  10. In Earnest
     … He saw all the beings of the world on fire with the fevers of passion, aversion, and delusion. The goal of his teaching was to help people put those fires out. It’s an image that recurs again and again in his teaching. He says you want to practice as if your head or your turban were on fire. In other words, you don … 
  11. The Cost of Happiness
     … He talked about how, after his awakening, he surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha and he saw everyone on fire with greed, anger, delusion; passion, aversion, and delusion. And what were the people doing? They were searching for happiness. Yet the way they were searching for happiness was setting them on fire. This is why, in his very first sermon, this … 
  12. Taking Risks
     … He starts out by saying, “Try to avoid acting on unskillful intentions.” How do you know if an intention is skillful? If there’s obviously any greed or anger or delusion in there, you don’t act on it. If you expect that it will cause harm, you don’t act on it. But many times you don’t see. Especially if it’s … 
  13. Happiness – Yours & Others’
     … One is trying to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in other people. The other is to get them to break the precepts. In other words, you take seriously the principle that each of us is suffering because of our own actions, and each of us will find happiness because of our own actions. But that doesn’t mean we just leave others … 
  14. Truths That Are Noble
     … Give up your passion, aversion, and delusion around your clinging. That’s a tall order, but the people who take it on are the ones who are being responsible. This is one of the reasons why we don’t have Buddhists out on the street corners, preaching to people, because what the Buddha’s asking is that *you *take responsibility. As he says, all … 
  15. The World Is Aflame
     … All six senses, the Buddha said, are burning with aging, illness, and death; passion, aversion, delusion. And those six senses are both his definition of the world and his definition of old kamma. It’s not a very life-affirming or world-affirming view, but it does affirm something else: that if you’re going to look for happiness here, you’re looking in … 
  16. The Pleasure of the Middle Way
     … Any sensual pleasure that requires that you break the precepts or aggravates greed, aversion, or delusion in the mind is a pleasure you’ve got to avoid. Then there’s a gray range in between. With certain pleasures, if some people enjoy them they don’t have any bad effect on their minds, but if other people indulge them, they do develop bad effects … 
  17. The Veils of Delusion
    We’re familiar with the world outside us, but the world inside for most of us is a big mystery. It’s like those old maps in the 16th century. They’d have the coastlines in a lot of detail, but the interior was a big white space. No idea what was in there. If it were just a white space, that would be … 
  18. Dhamma Medicine
     … It cures our diseases of greed, aversion, and delusion. In fact, the practice as a whole is medicine. The Buddha often compared himself to a doctor, and to get the full implications of that image, you have to think about what old-fashioned medicine was like. To begin with, the doctor didn’t give you a shot. The doctor would tell you the medicine … 
  19. Conspiracies in the Mind
     … If greed, aversion, and delusion can dress themselves up as wisdom, as Dhamma, they can fool you very easily. So you have to be very careful. As for conspiracy theories outside, there probably are some conspiracies going on. As someone once said, just the fact that you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that people aren’t really conspiring against you. But even if there … 
  20. Making an Effort
     … The effort lies in breaking an old habit and appreciating the sense of well-being that comes from restraint or from counteracting our greed, anger, and delusion, our lust and our aversion. The well-being that comes from counteracting these things is much more lasting, goes much deeper. Often you hear people saying that the Buddha’s analysis is that we’re always looking … 
  21. Concentration & Renunciation
     … And then, where are they going? If the pleasure aggravates more passion, more aversion, more delusion, or inspires you to inflict your passion, aversion, and delusion on others, that also isn’t in accordance with the Dhamma. So that’s how we look at pleasure: both in terms of where it comes from and where it’s going to go. Now, to put the … 
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