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1. Play AudioBecause the Mind Is Purposeful
    … That’s one way in which desire gives rise to aversion. There’s another in which you realize that when you get averse to something and you act on that aversion, other people give in to you. So you’ve learned that aversion equals power. This is another way in which desire gives rise to aversion. You want something to be done and you … 
2. Play AudioSuccess by Approximation
    … And even though we’re here to get rid of aversion, there has to be a certain amount of aversion, too. To begin with, you have to be averse toward the results of unskillful behavior. That aversion will eventually have to get honed down. But just because it’s there doesn’t mean that you’re going in the wrong direction. You’re learning … 
3. Play AudioDualities
    … greed, aversion, and delusion. We don’t like to hear the word “defilement” applied to our minds. It’s as if we’re being harshly judged. But the Buddha’s like someone coming into your house and telling you that the walls of your house could be cleaner. And certainly, it’s when you realize that, yeah, there is soot on the walls and … 
4. Play AudioDefilements Are Real
    … But the problem with that is if you say that the defilements like greed, aversion, and delusion aren’t real, that they’re not even defilements, it’s like saying that when there’s dirt in your house, it’s not really dirt. It’s just a natural part of the floor and a natural part of the wall, so you’re just going … 
5. Play AudioThe Good Fight
    … How did you place yourself in this position of danger to begin with? How can you get yourself out? You realize that you got in there because of your own greed, aversion, and delusion. Those are the things you’ve got to fight. But you fight using skill, and you convert the mind into a mind that doesn’t want the greed, aversion, and … 
6. Play AudioThe Lotus in the Mud
    … You watch to see when there’s greed or no greed, aversion or no aversion, delusion and no delusion. You do this not as an end in and of itself, but so that you can notice what comes and goes along with them. You realize that they’re not necessarily part of the innate nature of the mind. They’re just events that come … 
7. Play AudioA Flammable Mind
    … The traditional definition of restraint of the senses is that you don’t focus on the details that would set you on fire, the details that—if you left your senses unguarded—would give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion. Again, it’s not the case that greed, aversion, and delusion are coming in from outside. The potential is always there in the mind … 
8. Play AudioLessons in Happiness
    … Notice that the dispassion comes not out of anger or aversion, but out of the understanding that comes from mastery, from having really developed these things. That’s when you allow things to follow their way into cessation, and then you return everything back to where it came from. You relinquish it. In this way, the relinquishing comes not from aversion or from a … 
9. Play AudioIndecision
    … The other way of harming yourself is engaging in something that’s going to give rise to greed, aversion, or delusion, or passion, aversion, or delusion in your own mind. If you have those qualities in the mind, they’ll lead you to act in ways that are unskillful. Delusion, particularly, will make it difficult to see what’s skillful or not. You harm … 
10. Play AudioMindfulness, the Gatekeeper
    You look at the problems of the world, the things that cause a lot of suffering to the human race and the animals, and you can see that they all come down to greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s because of these three things that we cause ourselves to suffer and we cause others to suffer. So if we’re going to do anything … 
11. Play AudioOne Person
     … Basically it meant that you inspired them to observe the precepts, to try to develop their minds so that they could get rid of passion, aversion, and delusion. That’s not an easy thing to do. So it’s no wonder he said he would rank those who were able to assist themselves—i.e. those who did practice the precepts themselves and were … 
12. Play AudioThe Best Place to Practice
     … If you’re involved in a livelihood that requires that you develop greed, aversion, and delusion in yourself—or that you’re provoking greed, aversion, and delusion in other people—you do your best to get out. And there are those occupations. I saw a cartoon a while back, showing a hobo holding a sign saying, “Will work for food.” And right next to … 
13. Play AudioTraining Your Cynical Voices
     … Be skeptical about your cynical voices, as you should be skeptical about your greed, aversion, and delusion. There’s a fair amount of aversion in the skepticism and the cynicism. And there’s a lot of delusion, thinking that you’d be better off not doing the practice, or resting, not driving yourself so hard. What this comes down to is that you’ve … 
14. Play AudioSpecifically
     … When you get down to the details when you’re angry—when you’re feeling averse to someone, and when you’re feeling averse to pain—exactly what are you doing that leads to that sense of aversion? How are you assembling your experience of pain? After all, it is something we assemble, Now, it’s not that we simply make it up. If … 
15. Play AudioA Valuable Gift
     … The extent to which you can get rid of greed, aversion, and delusion inside yourself means that there’s less greed, aversion, and delusion to inflict on other people. And you’re setting a good example: True happiness is found not by going out and trying to straighten out other people. It’s found by straightening out your own mind, because the source of … 
16. Play AudioStay
     … Here the animals you’re looking for are your greed, aversion, and delusion. Sometimes they come up very quickly, sometimes not so quickly. All too often, though, they slip in, so you don’t recognize them as anything alien. They’re part of you: They’re your thoughts, your greed, your aversion, your anger—although you don’t usually think of them in those … 
17. Play AudioEverybody Benefits
     … As for the recipient, the recipient either has to be free of greed, aversion, and delusion or on the path to be free of greed, aversion, and delusion. When you look at it in one way, of the six characteristics, the three that apply to the donor are the donor’s responsibility and the three that apply to the recipient are the recipient’s … 
18. Play AudioNurturing Your Inner Adult
     … They’re curious about the fact that when the Buddha lists the roots of unskillful behavior, there’s greed, aversion, delusion—or passion, aversion, and delusion. But where’s the fear? For so many of them, fear is the unskillful emotion. Well, that’s not necessarily the case. Actually, there are some good things to be afraid of. Be afraid that you’re going … 
19. Play AudioTo Comprehend Food
     … Of course, “comprehend” here means understanding it to the point of dispassion, where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around it. So how do you go about comprehending food? First, there’s that reflection we often have about how you eat simply for the sake of maintaining the body so that you can practice. It’s not for beautification, not for putting on … 
20. Play AudioLook After Yourself with Ease
     … As the Buddha said, to act for your own benefit, one, you try to overcome your passion, aversion, and delusion; and, two, you observe the precepts. It’s interesting: We tend to think of the precepts as ways of protecting others from our unskillful habits, and that is true, but the real protection of the precepts comes to us. When we don’t do … 
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