Attachment Aversion Ignorance


We cling to ourselves time and again. When we miss someone who is dear
 
to us there is sadness and this is conditioned by clinging to our own
 
pleasant feeling, the feeling we derive from being in the company of that
 
person. When we realize more often our many moments of clinging, it is the
 
beginning of right understanding and this is beneficial. It is better to know
 
ourselves than to be ignorant our whole life.
 
 
Most people do not like to have dosa, because it is accompanied by
 
unpleasant feeling and one dislikes unpleasant feeling. However, we should
 
not forget that it is our clinging to pleasant objects which conditions dosa.
 
When we have experienced ourselves that attachment leads to sorrow it
 
will help us to see its disadvantage.
 
 
Moha, ignorance, is dangerous. It arises with each akusala citta. Ignorance
 
blinds us. Because of ignorance we do not see realities as they are, we do
 
not see what is right and what is wrong. Because of ignorance we take for
 
beneficial what in reality is harmful. It is because of ignorance that we do not
 
realize that clinging is harmful. 
 
 

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