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  2. Strong-hearted
     … If you have less greed, aversion, and delusion, then less greed, aversion, and delusion will come out in your actions to bother the neighborhood. So it’s not as if you’re being selfish as you focus inside. You’re taking care of what you’re responsible for. As the Buddha once said, that’s the sign of a wise person: knowing what you … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. Mindfulness 2.0
     … But as for the rest—being ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world: That gets left for other parts of the Canon. And yet the parts that are left out are what the practice is all about. Ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world: This is how you get the … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. Swept Downstream
     … We’ve got crazy people in power who think that war is a good thing, greed is a good thing, lying is okay. We even have monks telling us that the Buddha didn’t really mean that we should observe the precepts all the time, that there’s a time when killing and lying are moral duties. It’s insane. So look at the … 
  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. Freedom from Fear
    Part of the formula for right mindfulness, and the means for getting the mind into right concentration, is “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” In times when that’s hard, when you have anxieties about what’s going on in the world, fear about what’s going to happen, you have to learn how to get that fear under control … 
  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. Compassion for People on Fire
     … He felt compassion and goodwill, based on saṁvega, seeing that beings were already suffering from birth, aging, illness and death, and if that weren’t enough, all the added sufferings that come from greed, aversion and delusion. So when we think about the Buddha’s goodwill for the world, his compassion for the world, we have to remember that it’s tinged with samvega … 
  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. Worlds
     … In the Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness, you’re told at the first stage to subdue greed and distress with regard to the world: vineyya loke abhijjha-domanassam. In other words, you may not be able to stop these various worlds from happening in the present moment, but you can work at subduing any greed or distress with regard to them as they … 
  14. When Things Seem Dark
     … Because when greed and anger and frustration and fear and other defilements come, we tend to treat them as if they’re stains that won’t leave the mind. We tend to treat our minds as if they’re toilet paper—you wipe yourself once and that’s it. The stain is on the toilet paper forever. You might as well throw it away … 
  15. The Real World Isn’t for Real
     … Often their attitude is that “There’s nothing much you can do about those things, so buy our stuff.” They encourage your greed, encourage your anger, encourage your delusion—all which are going to be really bad for you. Society is bad for your health—your mental health—and your real issues don’t get addressed at all. So here at the monastery you … 
  16. The Return of Chickens from Hell
     … What are the raw materials that we turn into, say, greed, aversion, or delusion? What are the raw materials that we’re holding onto? And by looking at their arising, you catch sight of them before you’ve made much of them and you can begin to see that some things are actually eggs and some things are not eggs—they’re chicken shit … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. A Gift of Strength
     … The people around you who have been subject to your greed, anger, and delusion, subject your need to depend on them for your happiness, sense that you’re much less of a burden now. So think of this time—the time you meditate, the time you focus inside—not as something that you’re taking away from the people around you, but as a … 
  19. The Middle Way
     … You’ve got to come down hard sometimes on your complacency, on your pride, on your greed, your delusion, your anger. This is why discipline is such an important part of the path. It’s a part we don’t like to talk about. Look at how many books on American Buddhism deal with discipline: almost zero. Yet it’s an essential part of … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. Customs of the Noble Ones
     … When you look at something, when you listen, when you smell something, when you taste something, when you touch something, who’s doing the looking and the listening and so forth? In other words, are you doing it for the sake of greed, because of greed, or anger? If you do, you’re just infecting the mind. You can’t allow yourself to look … 
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