Friends
What actually
are the Disadvantageous Mental States?
Cut Short:
Mental states mixed or joined with any form of even diluted
hate
are
Disadvantageous!
Mental states mixed or joined with any form of even diluted
greed
are
Disadvantageous!
Mental states mixed or joined with any form of even diluted
ignorance
are
Disadvantageous!
In Detail:
At whatever occasion any disadvantageous thought pertaining to the sense
sphere,
accompanied by gladness & associated with knowledge, pointed to any sense
object,
such as a visible form, a sound, a smell, a taste, a touch, or a mental object,
then right
at that time arises momentarily: Contact, feeling, perception, intention, idea,
directed
thought, sustained thinking, joy, happiness, one-pointedness of the mind, the
ability of
faith, energy, awareness, concentration, understanding, the ability of mind &
gladness,
the ability of vitality, wrong view, wrong motivation, wrong effort, wrong
awareness, and
wrong concentration. There arise the powers of conviction, enthusiasm, acute
awareness,
focused concentration, understanding. There arise the evil powers of no-shame, of
no-fear
of the
consequences of wrong-doing! There arise greed, hatred, confusion,
& possessiveness.
There arises then wrong view, but neither shame, conscience nor any fear of
wrongdoing...
Calm, insight
and non-distraction is present. These & whatever formless immaterial mental
states these later causally
produce:
These are the Disadvantageous mental states...
Source:
The Classification of States. Dhammasanganī.
The 1st of the 7 Abhidhamma Books.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130622
http://www.amazon.com/dhammasangani-Enumeration-realities-Bibliotheca-Indo-Budhica/dp/8170306108/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204111405&sr=8-1
More on Disadvantageous
& Detrimental States (Akusala Dhammā):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evaporizing_Bad.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/akusala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Advantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Advantageous2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Disadvantageous_Subject.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Latent_Tendencies.htm
What is
Disadvantageous?
Updated:
25 October 2010 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Detrimental.htm