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  2. One Thing Clear Through
     … You’re looking for pleasure, and then you excrete—what? Greed, aversion, delusion. We’re trying to change that exchange here as we practice. Look at the Buddha’s graduated discourse, his analysis of the steps of the path leading up to being ready for the four noble truths. They start with giving. The Buddha talks about the pleasures that come from giving, the … 
  3. The Five Hindrances
     … The last three hindrances that derive from delusion. There’s sloth and torpor, a type of delusion that comes when your energy level is too low; restlessness and anxiety, the delusion that comes when you energy level is too high; and then, uncertainty. Ajaan Lee has an interesting analysis of uncertainty. He says this is what happens when you’re not really true in … 
  4. Resources for Endurance
     … If you’ve done something, even though it was with good intentions, but you see that the results were harmful, you go back and have a look at your intention again, because maybe the intention was based on delusion. Even though it may have been a good intention, it wasn’t skillful. Skillful intentions have to be free from delusion. To get past delusion … 
  5. The Purity of Your Intentions
     … Or delusion. Or fear. That’s it: likes, dislikes, delusions, fear. These four things lead people to do all kinds of horrible things. So when information is hard to come by, you have to fall back on your intention not to fall for these four, what the Buddha calls wrong courses, and you fall back on the purity of your own intentions instead. This … 
  6. Heedfulness is the Path
     … The most disconcerting of all the qualities in the own mind is our own delusion, our tendency to lie to ourselves and to believe our lies. This is not an issue of being deluded about truths that are far away. It concerns very simple things, things close at hand. Many times we’re out of touch with our own intentions. We’re out of … 
  7. Taking Your Own Medicine
     … This is where it’s important that you use the mindfulness and alertness you develop while sitting here to watch the ways in which you wound yourself throughout the day when you allow greed to take over, lust to take over, anger to take over, or delusion to take over. Or in terms of the hindrances, when sensual desire, ill will, torpor and lethargy … 
  8. Start with Yourself
     … If you can’t trust other people to behave well in difficult situations, how are you any different? How can you trust yourself? As long as you have greed, anger, and delusion inside the mind, especially delusion, you can’t trust yourself at all. This is why the Buddha’s way of improving the world starts from inside. You’ve got to start with … 
  9. Responsible
     … Other people are less subject to your greed, aversion, and delusion. And would these people not want you to look for happiness? What are they looking for? They have their idea of what the world should be like, and they’ll be happy only if the world is a certain way and if you fit into their view of the world. But there’s … 
  10. Rooted in Heedful Desire
     … When you take care of greed, aversion, and delusion in their blatant forms, they can come back in their subtle forms. And so you just want to watch, watch, watch what’s going on. That patience in watching is one of the most important weapons the soldier has. It’s a part of discernment. As long as you have the desire not to come … 
  11. Four Noble Questions
    Ignorance is a very particular kind of delusion. Delusion in general is simply having wrong ideas about things: thinking that what’s right is wrong or what’s wrong is right. That can be very general. The ignorance that the Buddha says is the cause of suffering is a particular kind of delusion, in that it’s focused on the issues of suffering: not … 
  12. When You Care
     … Years back, a psychotherapist asked me, “Why is it when the Buddha talks about the roots of unskillful action, he talks only about greed, aversion, and delusion. Why doesn’t he mention fear?” The reason is that not all fear is bad. Lots of our fears do lead us to do unskillful things, but that’s because they’re tied up with greed or … 
  13. Your Game Leg
     … What’s motivating your contact—motivating your desire to go out and look and listen—and what happens to the mind as a result? If you find that you’re aggravating your greed or your lust or delusion, learn how to look in different ways. This is one of the reasons why we have the contemplation of the body. If you see something beautiful … 
  14. On Not Twisting the Cow’s Horn
     … This is how you get into delusion concentration, where things are all fuzzy. When the delusion concentration is strong enough, you come out of it and wonder, “Where was I? Was I awake? Was I asleep? What was I focused on?” You can’t really say for sure. It’s just a very vague but pleasant sense of being very still. That’s not … 
  15. What Are You Bringing?
     … And we live with minds that are affected by greed, anger, and delusion, so they color our perceptions of what’s going to work and what’s not going to work. So it’s good that there has been someone who went through all the effort to find a way of training the mind so that it’s not colored by those things. That … 
  16. Spread Goodness Around
     … You want to give to people who are free of greed, aversion, and delusion, or working on getting rid of their greed, aversion, and delusion.” In addition, you give in a way that you’re not harming anyone. In other words, you don’t steal something to give. You don’t give gifts to people who are actually going to be harmed by using … 
  17. A Gift of Strength
     … greed, anger, and delusion. You want to do what you can undercut them. Again, this requires more meditation. In particular, you develop mindfulness, concentration, and discernment, which are the other strengths. Mindfulness doesn’t mean simply being aware of the present moment. It means keeping certain things in mind—and especially, the whole issue why you want to focus on being skillful, where you … 
  18. Recovery Skills
     … You try to start out with good intentions, but then you learn that sometimes your good intentions are not good enough—at least, not skillful enough because they contain some delusion inside them. The only way you can get past your delusion is to look at your actions, look at your intentions, and see what actually happens as a result when you act on … 
  19. Putting Out the Fires
     … The first thing that struck him was that people’s minds are on fire—on fire with greed, aversion, delusion, lust, fear. These things are constantly smoldering away in the mind and then they flare up. This is why one of the images of the goal that he teaches, nibbana, actually means is the extinguishing of fires. Back in those days, there was the … 
  20. Centered on Concentration
     … Greed, anger, and delusion take it over, and they can destroy all kinds of things. Having respect for the training means that we have to have respect for the training over and above our own preferences. After all, our own preferences come from this untrained mind. We have to learn how to look past them. And it’s interesting that of a three main … 
  21. Body Contemplation Is Compassionate
     … It comes from delusion of some of the worst sort, thinking that somehow your lust can be justified by affection. That’s where the violence is: It’s in the delusion around the lust. So learn how to take apart the fantasies you have in your mind. Try to figure out: Where is the lust located? Where is the craving located? Is it in … 
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