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  2. Fabricating with Awareness
     … In other words, you learn how to use these processes of bodily, verbal, and mental fabrications with knowledge to counteract the greed, aversion, and delusion of the mind—its different ways of craving and clinging. These are your tools, and it’s good to know your tools so that you can have them at hand if something unskillful comes up in the mind. Sometimes … 
  3. Samsara
    When we look around outside of us, we see a lot of greed, anger, and delusion, a lot of foolishness. And it gets discouraging. The world doesn’t seem to be going in a better direction. It goes up and down. Up and down. Up and down. And seeing this, there are many times when you want to get out. But then, of course … 
  4. Nimble with Your Questions
     … Even though there are certain patterns that everyone has in common in terms of their greed, aversion, and delusion, still there are other aspects that are not quite the same. And you have to have to figure out what your problem is and come up with questions that are just right for you. We know the teachings of Dogen, the Zen master. So much … 
  5. Imperturbable
     … These things burn away at the mind as long as there’s greed, aversion, and delusion. Until you take care of the greed, aversion, and delusion, your thoughts of past and future tend to do nothing more than add more fuel to the fire. Then you can remind yourself with the chants on the brahma-viharas, that you do really want true happiness, a … 
  6. A Safe Place
     … Sometimes your greed, your aversion, your delusion can take very strange forms; forms you wouldn’t like anyone to see. You get to the point where you don’t want to see them yourself. So little messages get sent around in the mind, and you turn a blind eye to them. You’re like a teacher in a classroom where the kids are sending … 
  7. Dispassion & Delight
     … You try to comprehend suffering, and comprehension means that you understand it to the point where there’s no passion, aversion or delusion around it. You try to abandon the cause of suffering, which means that you develop dispassion for the cause. The third noble truth is when you succeed at developing dispassion for the cause. But, then, with the fourth noble truth, the … 
  8. Unskillful Thinking
     … The diseases here, of course, are greed, anger, and delusion; or passion, aversion, and delusion. If you learn how to develop your mindfulness, alertness, and discernment, you build up your resistance, so that when a sight comes into the eyes, you can see it for what it is. It’s just a very ephemeral kind of thing. It’s there for just an instant … 
  9. Protection Through the Practice
     … So you have to train your mind to free it from the greed, aversion, and delusion that would allow it to be easily influenced by other people’s unskillful ideas. Here again, the protection has to lie inside. You start off by trying to find wise people to give you an idea of how to deal with your own inner dangers. Then you carry … 
  10. Grace & Dignity
     … We have greed, aversion, and delusion, and there are parts of our minds that really like greed, aversion, and delusion. That’s a danger. As the Buddha once said, the mind is capable of almost anything. Think of all the animals in the animal kingdom—all the different shapes and sizes and classifications. He said the mind is more variegated than that. The mind … 
  11. Looking for Essence in the Wilderness
     … If we get the mind really still and very alert, we can start seeing our delusions as well, and realize that whatever we create out of those things is simply going to fall apart. Your sense of you, who you are, is created out of things that are going to fall apart. It’s not that there’s no you. You’ve created this … 
  12. Heedful, Attentive, Mindful
     … The dangers multiply out from those three—you get greed, aversion, delusion; passion, aversion, delusion—all the long lists of defilements that the Buddha gives. These are things that cause suffering. To have appropriate attention, you focus inside—where the main dangers are, although the Buddha does recognize there are dangers from outside. But they’re not the ones you might ordinarily expect. It … 
  13. One Thing Clear Through
     … When you see yourself clearly this way, then your greed, aversion, and delusion get weaker and you’re releasing less greed and aversion and delusion out to disturb the neighborhood. Finally, when you get really clear on what’s going on in the mind, really clear on how you’re constructing your present moment—each present moment—you arrive at something that’s totally … 
  14. Think Like a Thief
     … What we see, what we hear, is only what fits in with our own ideas, what fits in with our greed, anger, and delusion. In other words, there’s actually more coming out our ears and eyes than there is coming in, more in terms of suppositions, preconceptions, liking and disliking. Even when we try to be perfectly nonreactive, the fires of delusion come … 
  15. Straightening Out the World
     … When you don’t see what’s happening, that’s delusion. Now, you can’t cut the cycle between the action and the result. You can’t do something with unskillful motives and hope that it’s going to give a happy result. Action and result are firmly connected. But you can begin to cut things between the result and the defilement, or between … 
  16. Adbusting the Mind
     … Of course, the same principle applies to your greed, aversion, and delusion. They try to distract you, and because you’re distracted, you give in to them. You don’t think things all the way through and you don’t notice what’s actually going on in the mind. Your attention is diverted someplace else. So you can think of meditation as a defiant … 
  17. Safety
     … There’s greed, aversion, delusion, with all of their various permutations, and they can get us to do some very unskillful things. Yet they’re very appealing. We think we gain our happiness through being greedy. We get what we want done, sometimes, through anger. We even like our delusion. We don’t recognize it as delusion, but we like it. So he has … 
  18. Visakha Puja – True Homage
     … You yourself suffer less from your own greed, anger, and delusion; the people around you also suffer less from your greed, anger, and delusion. Everybody benefits. This way, as you make the Dhamma larger than yourself, it’s not that you really make it larger. You simply admit that the Dhamma is already larger than you are. It’s something you can really give … 
  19. A Matter of Life & Death
     … Then the Buddha adds, of course, that Sakka himself is subject to greed, anger, and delusion, so his standard was not all that reliable. For a meditator going out to the forest, it’s better to take the Triple Gem as your standard. That’s a much more reliable standard, because the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha are not subject to greed, anger, or … 
  20. Balancing Effort & Patience
     … You have to work at it, and sometimes the techniques that work, that actually get rid of the greed, or the anger, or delusion, take time. It’s easy enough to give similes for this: Proper effort is like when you’re growing a plant. On the one hand, you can’t just let it fend for itself; you’ve got to water it … 
  21. Noble Ardency
     … When there’s less greed, aversion, and delusion coming out of your mind into your actions, then there’s less of your greed, aversion, and delusion for other people to suffer from. So these questions of discernment that ask about the level of stress and whether it’s necessary and what you can do to put an end to that stress: They all come … 
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