What causes Greed and Lust to arise?
Contacted by an attractive object, pleasurable feeling arises. If
unaware
and untrained, then pleasurable feeling instantly makes
craving towards
the object arise! This pleasant feeling thus causes greed and lust to
arise.
What causes Ill-Will and
Anger to arise?
Contacted by a repulsive object, painful feeling arises. If unaware
and
untrained, then the painful feeling instantly makes
craving away from the
object arise! This unpleasant feeling thus causes ill-will & anger to
arise.
What causes Delusion and
Ignorance to arise?
Contacted by a neither attractive, nor repulsive object, then a
neither
pleasurable, nor painful, neutral feeling arises. If unaware and
untrained,
then this neutral, neither pleasurable, nor painful feeling instantly
makes
craving for neglecting
the object arise... This neutral feeling thus causes
delusion and ignorance to arise.
What is the relationship
between the Mental Defilements and Craving?
Craving is the growth force and also media for the mental defilements:
Because of craving this state (e.g. wealth), aversion for the opposite
state
(e.g. poverty) arises. Possessiveness, envy and jealousy soon follows,
which
again enables violence & cruelty. Pain is the result of all such
defilements.
What is the relationship
between the Defilements & Self-Identification?
Self-Identification (egocentrism) is the
glue holding together all
mental
defilements. Eg: How to ever be possessive, if there is no ego or
owner? ;-)
What is the absolute
absence of all Greed, Hate and Ignorance?
The state Nibbāna
reached at the completion of the Noble 8-fold Way
is the absolute and irreversible absence of all greed, hate and
ignorance!
Beings causally create future states by intending them!
More on Causality:
Caused by What,
The_Proximate_Cause,
Causes of Emergence,
Profound_Causality,
Past_Cause_Present_Effect
Proximate Cause!
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