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- To Know the Noble Truths… The truth of suffering is to be comprehended, and comprehension means that you really understand it to the point where you have no more passion, aversion, and delusion around suffering. You might say, “I’m not passionate about my suffering,” but there’s a lot that we don’t understand about why we suffer. That’s what we’ve got to comprehend. The duty …
- A Victory that Matters… This is why the Buddha said that it’s better to focus on the battles inside, battles over your own defilements, greed, aversion, and delusion. Those are the battles that can be won, and when you win, you don’t create any bad kamma. As for whether the people outside will acknowledge your victory, that doesn’t really matter. In fact, as Ajaan Lee …
- Head, Heart, & Gut… Actions based on greed, aversion, and delusion are going to cause suffering. Actions based on the lack of greed, lack of aversion, lack of delusion can lead away from suffering. That’s one of the basic principles of causality. In fact, causality is so central to the Buddha’s awakening that when he gave the very shortest description of what he awakened to, it …
- Stand Your Ground… Either something is out of balance in the body, or greed, aversion, and delusion have arisen in the mind. The first reaction should be to open it up again—breathe in a way that opens the spot. Then look at your mind. What happened in the mind? What did you just do? Or what did somebody else do that you reacted to? What can …
- Your World to Practice In… We’re trying to get rid of greed, aversion, and delusion as we meditate, so have the same values as you go around outside. When you look at something, when you listen to something, ask yourself: Why am I looking? Why am I listening? Who’s looking? Who’s listening? Is it greed looking? Is anger listening? **Ajaan Lee and the other forest masters …
- Damming & Diverting… In other words, greed, aversion, and delusion don’t start from things outside. It’s not the case that we’re just sitting here perfectly fine—passive and placid—and then something comes along and stirs us up. All too often we’re out there looking for trouble. The mind goes flowing out, looking for things that it can desire, looking for things that …
- A Greater Happiness… Bias in terms of liking—people you do like and you’re willing to break the precepts for their sake; bias in terms of aversion, where you mistreat certain people because you don’t like them; bias based on confusion and delusion; and the big one is the fourth one, bias based on fear. Ultimately, fear comes down to fear of death. To protect …
- Perplexity… Or when your passion or aversion are intended to give rise to passion or aversion in other people, that’s causing harm to yourself and to others. But if you notice that your thinking would lead to harm, then you have to keep it in check. You can’t just watch things come and go. Watching things like that come and go: They call …
- The Airplane Mechanic… And you realize that having aversion for the thoughts is not going to help. Again, it’s like that problem of trying to be too quick or too slow. If the aversion just tries to chase the thought away, that’s the kind of thinking that ends up in denial, creating more tension and more frustration. Then, of course, the unskillful thought is going …
- What to Tolerate, What Not… Greed, aversion and delusion come in: You don’t want to tolerate them. But to deal with them effectively, you have to study them. You can’t just push them out and pretend they’re not there. Otherwise, they’ll turn into The Thing. They go underground and come shooting up someplace else in strange shapes. This is why the Buddha made the distinction …
- Lessons for New Monks… All too often we let greed, aversion, and delusion have free rein as we look at things and listen to things. Our looking and listening is pretty much determined by what we like, so we’re feeding our likes. But then, as the Buddha pointed out, so many of the things that we like are actually suffering or the cause of suffering in and …
- The Art of Right Speech… The Buddha said that if certain things, when you say them, give rise to greed, aversion, delusion in you or in the person you’re speaking to, or if your intention is to give rise to greed, aversion, delusion, you shouldn’t say them. Of course, you can’t be totally responsible for the other person’s response. But if you’re anticipating that …
- Help Others, Help Your Mind… You do what you can not to provoke greed, aversion, delusion in yourself, and you don’t try to provoke greed, aversion, and delusion in others. As you do that, you develop qualities that will help you on your path, train both your heart and your mind to the point where you see that they really are part of the same thing, and that …
- Paying Off Your Debts… And you realize that by not getting them to break the precepts, or actually getting them to observe the precepts, and getting them to overcome as much as they can any greed, aversion, and delusion in their minds, that’s when you’re really being helpful. This is a gift of the Dhamma. Sometimes we think of the gift of the Dhamma simply as …
- Lust… Try to think about the ways in which lust, aversion, and delusion are really not your friends. You might think of them as pets you keep around the house. But they’re the kind of pets, like snakes and wildcats, that if you’re not careful are going to turn around, bite you, and eat you up. So it’s important to think about …
- Perfection in an Imperfect World… He started out with greed, aversion, and delusion just like ours. But he was able to find qualities in his mind that he could develop: the resolution, ardency, and heedfulness that allowed him to get past those defilements. Now, we have those qualities in ourselves to some extent. Heedfulness is when you see the dangers that can come when you act in unskillful ways …
- Trust in Heedfulness… Some people might say that trying to get out of this suffering is being aversive to life, but it’s being realistic. And it’s being true to our hearts. We don’t want to go through all that needless suffering. And the Buddha says there’s a way out. When there’s a way out, that means that trying to find the way …
- Conviction in Charge… And are you sticking with that original intention to find that true happiness, or are you wandering off someplace else? And who’s in charge? Is your conviction in charge? Or is your greed, aversion, or delusion in charge—or somebody else’s greed, aversion, or delusion in charge? Because the mind is complex. It’s like a committee. It’s got lots of …
- The Dhamma Wheel… Comprehending, we learn from another sutta in the Canon, means comprehending to the point of having no more passion, aversion, and delusion around it. Ordinarily we wouldn’t think that we’d have any passion for suffering. But remember, the Buddha’s definition of suffering is clinging to the five aggregates. We’re pretty passionate about that clinging. We cling to these things—form …
- Inner Negotiating Skills… Your greed, aversion, and delusion want to pull you off in different directions away from the path. So you need a healthy set of ego functions—in other words, internal skills for negotiating—so that you can get everybody on the same page. After all, every voice in your mind wants happiness—it’s just that they have very different notions of what that …
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