Friends:
Nothing Emerges without a
Proximate Cause!
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!
Updated:
10 Sep 2010
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes.htm