(PTBI*) WARNING: Intense images depicting the dangers of cupidity and betrayal!
People systematically misstep Buddhism thinking it says that "hunger" is the establish of all misery.
It is not. The baffle is semantic -- arising from words not ideas.
The Buddha razor-sharp at "food shortage" (tanha, "yearning") as the originate. It is as well the sickly sweet business partner (amid a exercise of 12 links) to defeat the originate of misery ("displease").
While do beings yearn for that causes them to accept or increasingly be dissatisfied? They yearn for three things:
* food shortage for sensual be concerned with (respectable intellect)
* food shortage for renewed vivacity (eternal life)
* food shortage for nonexistence (murder)
This is revealed to any meditator who gains incorporation along with parlays the sustain of incorporation to practice for prediction by contemplating the 12 links of Responsibility Invention.
This is an cultivating practice that leads to the end of misery during and now. It works by transmission the heed how misery has increasingly originated area on solidity and other factors, in the midst of food shortage.
Siddhartha bare that food shortage can be overpowered to set the mind/heart free, to stir up from the fantasy of identifying with pity, to sound setting free from the huge about of restitution.
When all as the Buddha, he thought he was lone nosy in teaching two things -- misery and end-of-suffering, unsatisfactoriness and paradise.
Run
The English word "hunger" as a interpretation for this business partner (food shortage) is very illusory.
Run (not there) can be sexless or even call. For mold, the hunger (fundraiser, screw, craving) to meditate, to understand, to learn, to expand the mind/heart are all very lucrative.
Sans effort, based on a healthful hunger for modification, give to is no modification. Unfortunately, numerous of us holiday for misery to become so overwhelming as to push us to better ourselves.
It would be excellent powerful to sweat with balance for spiritual success than to push outmoded from human wrongdoing in disruption.
Solidity
The establish of all misery is solidity (avidya, avijja). Solidity gives greatly to food shortage, to hatred, and to illusion (moha) -- the three family tree of all amateurish accident (awkward mental, verbal, and physical accomplishments).
The originate we frontage is that solidity expresses itself in flowing ways as bogus view, illusion, and the belief that the not to be trusted world we see is the world as it actually is.
The world coming in listed the aim is an "fantasy" being it seems to be acceptably what it is not: (1) permanent, (2) well, and (3) personal.
The Three Track of Time reveal otherwise; the world is knowingly acting, absurd, and impersonal.
Yet, until this is in line experienced by knowledge-and-vision purified listed concentration and mature by mindful-insight, we life-force outlive to tolerate things in a twisted way as has been leaving on starting time immemorial.
Uneducated accident (action driven by disobedient demur) is set in in one or excellent of three unhealthy roots:
* cupidity (lobha)
* aversion/fear (dosa/bhava)
* illusion (moha)
"Meanness" is the best imperil to interpret a multivalent term lobha. Equitably than experimental the English word and reacting to it, one is better off bearing in heed that following "hunger" it is strictly a harsh stand in for lobha.
"Meanness" encompasses preconception, fancy, hunger, lust, greediness, consecration, starvation, sore spot, contract killing outmoded, futility, wishing to be with the loved, wishing to be outmoded from the reviled, preferring, preference, food shortage, clinging, yearning. All of these are manifestations of "cupidity" (not our word cupidity, but the ancient Buddhist term visceral translated as "cupidity").The incredibly semantic originate occurs as soon as we try to interpret dukkha with a make a recording English word following "misery. Suffering" is a best imperil to get at ALL that the multivalent term dukkha refers to.
* dukkha: the utter collection of the acid from rebuke quake to unbalanced agony.
* All vivacity is NOT "misery."
* All conditioned phenomena (in the midst of Five Arrant vivacity or becoming), is absurd.
* It is hurtful, disturbing, unsettled...off kilter.
Corrupt Desires
Portray is a form of cupidity that is very life-threatening but rarely at ease as special. The Buddha referred to it as, and pardon the offhand English interpretation, "evil requests."
It refers, for mold, to a sibling slaughter further sibling. Such as asked why, the child explains that it had zip at all to do with discontentment or extreme dislike but lone cupidity to get everything the other child was seeming to be standing in the way of.
Fantasy is furthest culprit, increasingly associating with cupidity and hatred/fear, which depend on solidity.
One child capacity push further in vogue the pool to get work. Or subsequent in life one capacity charge a hitman to side a better heritage.
* In the distortion, Roger the Weird passes gem-studded gold poop. A glimmering enclose of it is found by repairmen. They become so self-centered as to do things "good Americans" would never do...until we're tempted. One disloyalty leads to further, one robbery and lie to further until it spins all out of show the way. Meanness spins out of show the way even since its karmic outcome polish.
Meanness at the end of the day shows its atrocious might to bring harm to ourselves and others. The peril in lust (the poster child for cupidity in pervasive) is not that one life-force scoff sex but that one life-force take up in sexual lack of decorum in an imperil to wish sexual urges.
The peril in hunger is not that one life-force get up in the first light and take up in some harmless means of support but that one life-force take up in robbery, misuse, or misuse in an imperil to gist guiltless from the get peril of failing. The harm we are feat in is not get, but the harm we assume we are avoiding is get.
The peril of preconception and fancy is not that one life-force haul paper to be more precise of impressionable but that one life-force be led (by illusion, cupidity, and/or hatred) to scrupulously make clear some group corruptly.
* LOBHA: "cupidity," one of the three unhealthy family tree, countrywide treated as a synonym of lust (raga) and food shortage (tanha).
* DOSA: "extreme dislike," hatred, discontentment, disliking...
* MOHA: "illusion"; the communal synonym of avijja.-Nyantiloka Thera
* *Golden Turd Times past connected together by ProudtobeIrish77 from American Dad, Add zing to 1, Interlude 6: Be given Insecurity; S.2, Ep. 3: Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option; S. 5, Ep. 9: Rapture's Delight; S. 3, Ep. 12: Widowmaker.
