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- Ripples Go Far… Is there lust? Is there passion? Is there aversion? Where do these things lead? What’s driving these thoughts? When you see the forces driving a thought, that’s when you begin to realize it’s not really worth getting involved in. Again, like watching a TV: What drove that TV show? There’s a lot of greed in the industry, and there’s …
- Refuge in the Dhamma… After all, you’ve got your own greed, aversion and delusion that you’ve got to protect yourself from. The Buddha says the mind is luminous, but that doesn’t mean that it’s innately good. It simply means that the mind has a quality of knowing. It can watch its own actions. It can watch the results of its actions. It can catch …
- Concentration Nurtured by Virtue… In other words, the images may be coming into your eyes, but your purpose in looking is going out your eyes, focusing on this detail, that detail, for the purpose of greed, aversion, or delusion. You’ve got to watch out for that. If you allow those things to take over your looking and listening, then they’re going to take over everything else …
- Home Schooling Your Inner Children… Otherwise, its greed, aversion, delusion, and ignorance will just take over, along with all the other members of the committee, and there will be nothing left of your meditation. Notice that not all of the members of the committee are adults. We do have some children. The Buddha’s is attitude is not that you pamper your inner child, although, as the one psychologist …
- Angry… You try to train the mind to get rid of its greed, aversion, and delusion, because this practice is a way of showing goodwill to yourself and all other living beings. These are ways of finding happiness that harm no one. The problem is that even within the framework, no matter how much you do goodwill practice, there are times when anger comes up …
- Working Hypotheses… Greed, aversion, are delusion are fires that burn away in the mind, and as we chanted just now, they set fire to our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, and to the things we know through the senses. It’s almost as if our minds are like flamethrowers, setting fire to everything that we fasten onto. Then the Buddha also compares the mind …
- Abandoning Effluents (2)… You’re very careful not to let the mind focus on anything in a way that would give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion. In other words, you look at the sensory process not as one in which you’re simply passive, reacting to things coming in at you. You realize you’re out there looking for something. And the question is: Who’s …
- Possessed by Emotions… All these things play a role in how we experience the present moment and all too often we let these activities in the present moment get possessed by greed, aversion, delusion—whatever. Then we complain about the results. You have to realize that you play a role in shaping them. If you want to accept something, accept the fact that you have a role …
- Knowledge over Fear… We have greed, aversion, and delusion in the basic list, but not fear. The Buddha does list fear as one of the causes for behaving in an unskillful way, but he doesn’t list it as a necessarily unskillful state in and of itself. Why? Because there are things that are worth being afraid of. Being unskillful, acting in a harmful way, the fact …
- Fear of Letting Go… If, for most our lives, we’ve been depending on greed, aversion, and delusion, those are our refuge. Lust, jealousy—all these things: We think that we’re going to find happiness by cultivating these mind states as we hold on to things, hold on to the desire for revenge if we feel we’ve been wronged, hold on to the desire for more …
- The Mind Comes First… So you want to bring the voice of knowledge, the voice of awareness—particularly awareness of the tricks that your greed, aversion, and delusion can play on you—to the discussion. As you’re focused on the breath, talking to yourself about the breath, your knowledge about these things will then get lodged in the breath. That will become your reminder. When unskillful thoughts …
- A Foundation for Restraint… The unhealthy use is what gives rise to greed, aversion, delusion—pride around the body, lust around the body. These things can create huge problems for the mind. Of course, the mind is what’s creating the problems. If we weren’t latched on here, the body would totally be a matter of indifference. But at the same time, you need the body in …
- Take Heart… That’s how insight is based, not on aversion, but on a sense of dispassion, which is different. Dispassion is when you’ve had enough of something. You’ve gained the benefits of a particular practice. You see that it’s good, but it can take you only so far. The Thai ajaans compare it to growing up. The games you used to play …
- Better to Give than to Consume… All too often we encounter talks about dana as thinly disguised requests for money, which is why some people have a real aversion to the topic. But the Buddha had an etiquette around this. There’s a story in the Canon of some monks who were building huts. They started getting into a contest with one another as to who could build the nicest …
- Don’t Underestimate Merit… The fact that you’re dealing with your greed, aversion, and delusion—trying to make them weaker, trying to make them less likely to burst out of their cages and go prowling around the neighborhood: That means that other people are going to benefit. They don’t have to be victims of your greed or your aversion or your delusion. So it’s good …
- The Buddha’s Safe Space… Even though he was freed of greed, aversion, and delusion, he didn’t look down on people who still had greed, aversion, and delusion. He felt sympathy for them, because he’d come from that place himself. He’d realized how ignorant he had been in the past, in spite of his desires for happiness. He realized that right view and right resolve are …
- Equanimity in Heart & Mind… Look for where there’s a state of greed, lust, aversion, or grief. What’s going on? When you’ve felt nourished, and the mind calms down like this, it’s a lot easier to be honest with yourself about what your mind is doing to create suffering around greed, aversion, and delusion. The mind doesn’t have to go outside to look for …
- 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 …
- Question Your Perceptions… That allows you to question the perceptions that give rise to greed, aversion, and delusion, and the perceptions that serve the purposes of greed, aversion, and delusion. As you call them into question, you find that you open up a lot of understanding inside. So perception is a good aggregate to focus on, because it’s key to a lot of our defilements. There …
- The Buddha’s Cost-Benefit Analysis… In other words, where in the mind do these thoughts come from? Where do these desires come from? What kinds of mind states? Imbued with passion, aversion, delusion, or free from those things? When you look at where these things are coming from, in philosophy they call that genealogy, in the same way that we talk about your genealogy in terms of where your …
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