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  1. Hindrances Based on Delusion
     … And then the remaining three come out of delusion: sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety, and uncertainty. Sloth and torpor and restlessness and anxiety: Basically the first one is delusion with a low energy level, and the second one is delusion with a very high energy level. And you often find yourself going back and forth between the two. In ancient times, they talked … 
  2. The Whole Story
     … passion, aversion, delusion, with delusion the big one. Passion and aversion gain their power from delusion, which is not simply a matter of not knowing, but often a matter of lying to yourself, of setting up walls in the mind. Learning how to take down those walls and really tell the truth to yourself is what strips these roots of their power. For example … 
  3. What Is Skillful?
     … You’ve chipped away a little bit at your delusion. Because these are the areas where delusion is most important: where we’re deluded about our intentions and about the results of our actions. It’s all too easy reading the texts to see that delusion is a matter of not seeing the four noble truths and it gets even bigger with delusion about … 
  4. Delusion
    Of the three roots of unskillful behavior, delusion is the hardest to recognize. When you’re angry, you usually know when you’re angry; when you’re feeling passion or greed, you know you’re feeling those things; but when you’re deluded, by definition you don’t know. You think you know. It’s not as if you live in a fog and … 
  5. In Line with the Dhamma
     … That’s our big delusion. It’s nothing far away, nothing abstract. It’s just the way the mind lies to itself all the time. But if you really don’t want to suffer, that desire should be your impetus to look carefully at your actions and their results. Don’t leave any room for delusion. The problem with living in delusion is that … 
  6. Everybody 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 … 
  7. Mindfulness, 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 … 
  8. Indecision
     … 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 … 
  9. Overcoming Delusion
     … greed, aversion, delusion. And of the three, delusion is the hardest, because by definition you don’t know when you’re deluded. It’s not that you don’t know anything at all. You have your ideas, but the ideas go against what’s actually happening. Fortunately, the problem isn’t that we’re deluded, say, about the cosmological constant or the meaning of … 
  10. Strong & Heedful
     … the delusion, the craving, and the aversion that make us latch on to things in the first place. So the problem lies inside, and we have to find the solution inside as well. And it’s useful to look at craving and delusion as forms of weakness, because the Buddha says the qualities that counteract them are strengths. The Pali word is bala, and … 
  11. Fears
     … And then there’s the whole area of delusion, of what you don’t know, of the great unknown out there. Fear based on delusion can range anywhere from fear of a ghost in the next room, or a strange person in this room, to general existential angst: a sense that something is required of you and you don’t know what it is … 
  12. Heedfulness
     … Because we do have this tendency to trust in our intentions. “We mean well,” we think. “What looks good to us must be good.” And yet we have that problem with delusion. We have to keep watch over that, because that’s what’s going to create a lot of trouble in our lives even when we mean well: our propensity for delusion. I … 
  13. Defilements 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 … 
  14. Kill Your Anger
     … Yes, this is something based on delusion. There’s delusion around the allure, delusion around the drawbacks, delusion around where it comes from and how it passes away. All four of those beginning steps on how to deal skillfully with unskillful mind states get obscured. This is why you have to fight against the anger so resolutely and keep in mind the Buddha’s … 
  15. Love Me, Love My Defilements
     … We identify ourselves with our greed, our aversion, our delusions. We identify with our defilements, but we don’t like to recognize them as such. We speak of them in other ways. “This is my identity,” we say. “This is my inner nature, my background; this is the way I’ve been brought up; this is how I’ve learned how to function in … 
  16. The Good Fight
     … So what is this arrow that causes us to want to fight? It comes down to the things we identify with, and we identify a lot of with greed, aversion, and delusion. This is a type of thinking the Buddha calls papañca. You start with the idea, “Well, this is me. This is who I am. I’m the thinker.” Then you decide, “These … 
  17. The 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 … 
  18. Death Is Normal
     … In the same way, when the mind is attached to greed, aversion, and delusion, it’s going to burn. But when it can let go, it’s freed. Notice: The greed and aversion and delusion don’t latch on to us. We’re the ones latching on to them. When we let go, that’s how we’re freed. When you think about this … 
  19. Emulating the Truth
     … When you see what needs to be done, when you check and are careful to look at your actions and the results of your actions, the care you take is an important part of the truth, because you really need to get around your delusion. We all know we start with delusion. We’ve got lots of delusion, in so many different areas, and … 
  20. A 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 … 
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