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What are the 12 Detrimental Kinds of Consciousness?

Rooted in Greed:
1: Unprompted consciousness joined with joy and false view.
Example: Greedy & careless one spontaneously enjoys sense pleasure.
2: Prompted consciousness joined with joy and false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one urged by others enjoys sense pleasure.
3: Unprompted consciousness with joy, but not false view.
Ex: Greedy, yet not careless one spontaneously enjoys sense pleasure.
4: Prompted consciousness joined with joy, but not false view.
Ex: Greedy, though not careless one urged on enjoys sense pleasure.
5: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity & false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one spontaneously indifferent takes pleasure.
6: Prompted consciousness joined with equanimity & false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one, urged on, yet indifferent takes pleasure.
7: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity, but no false view.
Ex: Greedy, not careless one spontaneously & bored takes pleasure.
8: Prompted consciousness with equanimity, but no false view.
Ex: Greedy, not careless, one urged on, takes pleasure not enjoying.
The common false view is here: There is no danger in sense pleasure!
Addicted to sensing beings have been drawn back into birth & death
billions of times & thus killed by this sense pleasure billions of times! 

Rooted in Hate:
9: Unprompted consciousness joined with sorrow and aversion.
Example: Angry & frustrated one spontaneously harms or kills.
10: Prompted consciousness joined with sorrow and aversion.
Ex: Angry & frustrated one, urged on by others, harms or kills.

Rooted in Confusion:
11: Consciousness joined with indifference, doubt and uncertainty.
Ex: Confused one cannot make up one's mind nor take any decision.
12: Consciousness joined with indifference, and restless agitation.
Ex: Confused one remains distracted, scattered and unsettled.

These are the 12 kinds of Disadvantageous Consciousness of the
Sensuous Sphere (lower worlds). Delayed effect of these is Pain!
There are in total 89 kinds of Consciousness, all mapped here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/table1.htm

Source:  The Path of Purification XIV 81ff:
Visuddhimagga by Ariya Buddhaghosa from the 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100

More on the folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm  
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_of_the_Flesch_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happiness_of_the_Flesh_and_Beyond.htm

Blissful is being without passions in this world,
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Udana II, 1


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