Walk In Dry Places

Monday, 5 May 2014

There are six root delusions


Anger - highly disturbed aspect of mind that arises when we see something unpleasant - enemies, and so forth

Attachment - attachment to ego / self / others / things causes suffering (see attachment page)

Pride - is your inflated opinion of yourself and can manifest in relation to some good or bad object: your power, wealth, good qualities, family, wisdom, pure ethics - even your pleasant voice or physical prowess

Ignorance - not knowing, not seeing, not understanding, being unclear, and so forth. Ignorance is like 

blindness - not seeing the nature or mode of existence of something.Ignorance is the root of all delusions.

Doubt - directed towards the four truths, the Three Jewels, cause and effect

Deluded Views - there are 5

The view that equates the self with the perishable
Extreme Views - views such as the continuity of the 'I' as being discontinued at death
The view of holding aggregates to be supreme
Holding an ethic or mode of behaviour to be supreme
Wrong views - such as Three Jewels do not exist, cause and effect do not exist

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