(FOX Carolina News) Communities across the country are gathering for National Day of Prayer celebrated on May 2, 2024. FOX Carolina's Myra Ruiz is in Pickens County ahead of their prayer service. Like Zorakpoints his anjali mudra (prayer hands) towards the heavenly deity Space Ghost, many supplicate, petition, and beg a god for favors. Is that really the best way to pray? Not by a long shot. There's a far better way revealed below.
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Pray a better way: The Isaiah Effect
Isaiah Effect: Decoding Lost Science of Prayer
Sadly, prayer as we are taught in Judeo-Christian America is a fool's errand, doing the opposite of what we want it to. We use the word as a synonym for "petition," telling the universe what we don't have and getting it. But getting what? Getting what we say, and what we say is "I don't have" (in the form of "I want" or "Give me"). The Universe surely hears it and responds, "Okay." Ask and it is given. Just as we say, "I don't have," we do not have. Case closed. Order fulfilled. This is what happens. This is the opposite of what we intended. We intended to say, "Give me that" but even if we said it that way, we would get just what we have. What do we have? Not what we want. We want something else.
The Wisdom Codes
So to get it, it might be good to learn what researcher Gregg Braden discovered: the ancient wisdom of another form of prayer he dubbed "The Isaiah Effect" (The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy). It is based on ancient biblical principles and that of other ancient traditions which have been revived as New Age teachings. The "new" form of prayer is old, very old. A version of it is described on a copper plate housed in Israel's most futuristic and advanced museum, protected in such a way that it can survive a direct nuclear attack. What could be so important? This is what Braden asked, and he presents his answers in his classic book.
They chant, but do Buddhists pray?
Yes, Buddhists pray, but not in the way the West understands the term, not as petitionary prayer to "Buddha" nor to the many deities recognized in Buddhism, which is a nontheistic (nontheistic) teaching. CONTINUED
Bedazzled | Peter Cook | Dudley Moore | Raquel Welch | UK cult classic film
(Retro TV) July 1, 2022. Bedazzled: Stanley Moon (Moore) is infatuated with Wimpy Burger co-worker Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron), the statuesque waitress who works with him in London. He meets George Spiggott (a.k.a. the devil) and sells him his soul for seven wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist.
As each wish fails, being outwitted by the devil, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.
Director: Stanley Donen. Writers: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Larry Gelbart. Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch (as the deadly sin "Lillian Lust, the Babe with the Bust").
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(Wiki) Bedazzledis a 1967 British comedy (in DeLuxe Color), a fantasy, romantic black comedy film directed and produced by Stanley Donen in Panavision format.
It was written by brilliant British comedian Peter Cook and starred both Cook and his comedy partner Dudley Moore.
It is a comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in the swinging London of the 1960s. The Devil (Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Dudley Moore as a short order cook at Wimpy Burgers, Stanley Moon) seven wishes in return for his soul.
But he twists the spirit of the wishes and only follows the letter of what has been wished for to frustrate the man's hopes. Poor "Faust," tricked by a devil far too smart for him. More
The Secret: The Law of VIBRATION | Bob Proctor | Law of Attraction Coaching
(Law of Attraction Coaching) 👈 Click the link to sign up for a 30-Day Law of Attraction Coaching Course. Bob Proctor explains the less well-known Law of Vibration and how it is directly tied to the widely misunderstood Law of Attraction.
The farm isn't going well. I just want to be rich, Bob. How do I do it?
Whatever vibration we are in is what we are attracting into our lives. Want different results in life? Then we have to change our vibration. How do we do that? Let the Proctor give a brief overview. Somone loved this video so much that s/he had to share it.
Attraction and vibration are real and "laws" (natural orders or impersonal mechanisms) in life. We can learn and use these laws to our advantage or deny they exist and float through life with little to no control.
What do we really want? Do we know? Have we let all the big dreams we had as kids slip away? Why? What if there is a way to still achieve those dreams in life? Sounds too good to be true, right? "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is." Is this saying always true? It is most of the time, but not all. This IS real. After being introduced to Bob Proctor’s works, one can no longer go through life and say we never had a chance at something better.
I can say this because I took the chance even though I had failed so many times at so many different courses and businesses. There is no “probably” with Proctor. He is the best I have ever seen or been around. He is real and cares about us. Watch this video a few times and really take in what he is sharing.
Please note that this is Bob Proctor's video and I claim no right to it whatsoever. I am merely sharing it for other's enjoyment and benefit.
Some boys just never grow up, like Hank and his pack of hoodlums (King of the Hill)
I want magic powers. - Shut up, Charles Brown.
Answer: More of the same? A better feeling state to continue on to healing (from despair to anger)? Why would anyone play this music? Hey, we're not all lotus buds and rosewood malas around here. Let's explore the flipside of manifestation. Do we sometimes attract exactly what we don't want more of?
There are spiritual dark dimensions. There must be. Dimmu Borgir says so. There are other routes traveled by the angry -- those frustrated in their desires. They didn't get what they want, or got exactly what they didn't want, and are now complaining bitterly about it, usually in another world, another dimension. But these fine boys are here in this mostly pleasant dimension, and listen to them wail. Are they kidding? Putting up a front of toughness for the other boys to see, to gain what they want, fame and/or notoriety? Who can say, who can say? Das kapital, and das rock 'n roll.
Here you go, Chucky!
We spin in rounds of greed, hatred, and delusion (attraction, aversion, and confusion). This is samsara, the endless round of suffering and rebirth. But there is a way to transcend it, to abandon our habits of attraction, revulsion, and confusion when we meet with the pleasant, unpleasant, and (boring) neutral.
Let's listen in on their said tales (lyrics) of woe. What has it gotten them? Well, for one thing a concert at the Art Colony in Pomona (featuring Carnifex, Spite, Let Them Suffer, and Crown Magnetstar), at a venue known as The Glass House. Don't throw stones, guys.
LYRICS: "Die Without Hope" by Carnifex
I have never felt so f*cking numb/ In front of the mirror with a loaded gun/ Every word you read is stained in blood/ This gets sick cause I'm mind-f*cked/ I've died and my body turned to rust/ An empty carcass left to rot back to dust/ Like a casket in a shallow grave/ Out of sight, but I promise it will never go away/ These words may sound all the same/ I have bled to death on every page/ Watch as my heart turns to stone/ Watch me die without hope/ I don't want to break your heart with mine/ Everything I know about life is a lie/ This is what I feared the most/ Wanting love but chasing ghosts/ And it won't matter when I forget your name/ You know exactly what I am, and you know I love the pain/ Remember my words but forget my face/ Every f*cking scar screams your name...
LYRICS: "Caved In" by Spite
Oppressed by the tyrants/ Either shut the f*ck up or join the calamity/ Sign away your f*cking lives/ The path they paved with gold is the road to f*cking suicide/ Pulled apart in all directions/ Drawn and quartered/ Follow me in insurrection/ Follow me as we take over control/ Move/ Bite off the hand that feeds/ I am the true king/ I bow to nothing/ I won't fall in line/ Become a victim to your code/ No I won't/ Now say it/ True hatred reigns supreme/ Wrath/ Gut the suit and ties/ I won't live a lie/ I am the true king/ I bow to nothing/ I won't fall in linе/ Become a victim to your code/ No I won't/ Now say it/ I won't livе a lie/ I am the true king/ I bow to nothing/ Bow to nothing/ It's blood for blood/ Ensured all debts will be paid/ Rolled around in shards of glass/ Uproot your world to dust and ash/ F*ck you, you yuppy b*tch-made ugly f*cking cowards/ Hell hath no fury like my wrath-driven power/ Gut the suit and ties/ Retrieve their f*cking heads/ Hail, to your new-crowned kings/ Hail, true f*cking hatred reigns supreme/ Glory be to the serpentine sovereign/ Money can't buy the devil in me/ Hail, to your-new crowned kings/ Hail, true f*cking hatred reigns supreme
Ancient Asian proverb says, "What you do on the first day of the year you'll be doing the rest of the year," according to my very superstitious Chinese-Vietnamese girlfriend. There are lots of things you should avoid on this day, and likewise some things you should make sure to do: Meditate, visit a temple, ask a Wise Teacher a question, stay clean, be happy, give generously, let go. You get the idea.
It's not superstition. It's real!
Wisdom Quarterly covered Chinese customs surrounding New Year's Day, like what color to wear and not to wear, whether to do spring cleaning or not (the Chinese calendar, like most traditional calendars on the planet recognizes that the New Year begins when the Earth renews herself in the verdant spring). Look it up.
Los Angeles has a new option. The Los Angeles Buddhist Vihara (Sri Lankan) today moved from Pasadena to Covina, deep in the San Gabriel Valley, to a massive former Protestant church compound, making it the second biggest temple in the area.
There is the giant Hsi Lai Temple south of it, the great Dhammakaya temple in Azusa (Thai), the Progressive Buddhist Association (Burmese) and the Parami Temple of La Puente (Burmese) in Azusa, the Lankarama Institute of La Puente/City of Industry (Sri Lankan), the University of the West Buddhist in Rosemead (Taiwanese), and so on. There are an as yet uncounted number of Buddhist temples and meditation centers in Los Angeles, including some Tibetan gompas.
The calmness competition? "OH YEAH! First to reach enlightenment... Right here, people! WOOOO BABY! Eat my dust, ladies!" (Phil./"The Rut." 2009/bigeyedeer.wordpress.com)
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Happiness is desired and wished for by people in the world. Suffering (disappointment) is undesirable and unwished for. Nirvana is beyond wishing and unwishing. Do you understand?
There is no wishing involved [once] in nirvana. Wanting to get happiness, wanting to be free of suffering, wanting to transcend happiness and suffering -- there are none of these things. Nirvana is peace [cooling, quenching, calming].
As I see it, realizing the [liberating ultimate] truth does not happen by relying on others. We should understand that all doubts will be resolved only by our own efforts, by continuous, energetic practice.
We won’t get free of doubt by asking others. We will only end doubt through our own unrelenting efforts.
Remember this. It’s an important principle in practice. The actual doing is what will instruct you. You will come to know all right and wrong.
Desiring and wishing won't help, even for...
"The Brahmin shall reach the exhaustion of doubt through unceasing practice." It doesn’t matter wherever we go -- everything can be resolved through our own ceaseless efforts.
But we can’t stick with it. We can’t bear the difficulties we meet. We find it hard to face up to our suffering without running away from it. If we do face it and bear with it, then we gain knowledge, and the practice starts instructing us automatically, teaching us about right and wrong and the way things really are.
Our practice will show us the faults and woeful results of wrong thinking. It really happens like this. But it’s hard to find people who can see it through.
Everyone wants instant awakening. Rushing here and there following your impulses, you only end up worse off for it. Be careful about this. [Look down at your running shoes, andjust do it, but very be careful not to fall into this common trap of wishing for and demanding instant results.]
John Lennon and Yoko Ono "Instant Karma" (We All Shine On)
Insight meditation (vipassana) in a yoga studio? Probably not. Unless one went to the former Insight Yoga of Pasadena or visits the current Insight Yoga Institute (sarahpowers.com/iyi) in Corte Madera, California.
Western Yoga studios stem out of the Brahminical tradition of the Buddha's day, the very ancient Vedic books, and modern traditions organized as "Hinduism" by Shankara echoing the work of Patanjali.
Shankara: Lord Buddha's wrong.
Buddhism is not a branch or form of Hinduism, as many (including many Hindus and Mahayana Buddhists) believe. Shankara noted the main difference that makes them almost opposite traditions, in spite of their many superficial similarities and common themes:
Shankara explained the key difference between Hinduism and Buddhism, stating that Hinduism [like almost every other religion in the world has ever known] asserts that "atman(soul, self) exists," whereas Buddhism asserts that -- ultimately speaking -- there is "no soul, no self" (an insight and teaching unique to buddhas called anatta in Pali or an-atman in Sanskrit).
The ultimate truth is subtle, counterintuitive.
The Buddha said as much when he explained the reason other dharmas (teachings) did not produce and could not produce what Buddhism defines as enlightened/liberated arhats.
Without the key insight of the impersonal nature of the basic phenomena we cling to (which is the core of the Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra), even the first stage of Buddhist enlightenment, known as "stream entry," is not yet possible.
But anattais not an idea or position to try to figure out and then believe or not believe. It must be realized, which is possible by gaining jhana to momentarily purify the mind, emerging, then practicing the insight meditation of systematically contemplating Dependent Origination. These things would not be possible without a buddha first realizing then making this ennobling Dharma known.
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"I'm not sure I believe Buddha"
Come see for yourself. Realize what I have realized. Be free as I am free. Here is the Path.
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What did the Enlightened One realize?
If it doesn't make "[common] sense," welcome to the club.
"But I'm not sure I believe Buddha! [Descartes and I are pretty sure there's a self," you say? We say, this is not a faith; it is a path-of-practice that gives rise to wisdom, to directly knowing-and-seeing, to enlightenment.
There are many nuns and monks who go forth to meditate to gain this precious insight never experienced in the long, long course of "continued wandering on" (samsara).
We have all been reborn countless times (not "us" actually but the identity stream we cling to as me, myself, and I). We have all lived in heaven(s), suffered horrors unutterable in hells, wandered along as devas, humans, creatures of all kinds.
Had we understood -- had we fathomed Dependent Origination, the Buddha tells us, we would not have suffered this long round. Even now we "suffer" (i.e., are dissatisfied, disappointed, unfulfilled, longing for sensual pleasures, searching for meaning), and still we do not realized the Truth that would set us free.
Meditate and it will be possible to see the true nature of reality for oneself without resorting to the word of any teacher or prophet, any God or authority. You will see for yourself that the Buddha was right, and being at least a stream enterer, that certainty (not faith) will be unshakeable. And "you" will be free.
The "Devil" (played by Elizabeth Hurley) gives advice to the dimwit (Brendan Fraser) in the American remake of "Bedazzled."
The premise is that Elliot makes a Faustian bargain -- sells his soul for seven wishes then tries every form of hedonism to find happiness. What will happen? Do sensual pleasures lead to joy and fulfillment? Sure they do, says the devil as a charming tempter Lucifer/Cupid figure (Mara Devaputra). The thing to be is a bad boy, arock star!
The Devil's never been so hot or hilarious Fraser is a hapless, love-starved computer technician who falls prey to sinfully sexy Elizabeth Hurley when he agrees to sell her his soul in exchange for seven wishes. But the sly Princess of Darkness has more than a few tricks up her sleeve. And before you can say "Julie Andrews!" Oh, wait, that was the original British cult version with real comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
In the remake hopeless dweeb Elliot Richards is granted seven wishes by the Satan-girl to snare Allison, the woman of his dreams, in exchange for his soul (his atta or atman, the noncorporeal aspects of his Five Aggregates in Buddhism, which paradoxically teaches anatta for liberation and enlightenment).
In this hidden scene, which parallels the original, Elliot becomes a rock star. Allison loves him. What can go wrong? (In the remake, it was replaced with a nonsensical time travel snippet to Lincoln at the theatre. Here the devil has tricked him into wishing to be a rock star to win the love of his life and thereby expend another wish. Cue the funnier British original.
(Bedazzled 1967) In the scene the devil (Peter Cook) upstages Stanley (Dudley Moore) to steal his girl, a moment after Stanley had her affection by performing a lyrical "Love Me" song.
(PTBI*) WARNING: Violent images depicting the dangers of greed and betrayal!
People often misunderstand Buddhism thinking it says that "desire" is the root of all suffering.
It is not. The mistake is semantic -- arising from words not ideas.
The Buddha pointed at "craving" (tanha, "thirst") as the problem. It is also the weak link (among a chain of 12 links) to solve the problem of suffering ("disappointment").
What do beings crave that causes them to suffer or always be dissatisfied? They crave three things:
craving for sensual pleasure (pleasant sensation)
craving for renewed existence (eternal life)
craving for nonexistence (annihilation)
This is revealed to any meditator who gains absorption then parlays the benefits of absorption to practice for insight by contemplating the 12 links of Dependent Origination.
This is an enlightening practice that leads to the end of suffering here and now. It works by showing the mind how suffering has always originated dependent on ignorance and other factors, including craving.
Siddhartha discovered that craving can be overcome to set the mind/heart free, to awaken from the illusion of identifying with misery, to gain liberation from the endless cycle of rebirth.
After all as the Buddha, he said he was only interested in teaching two things -- suffering and end-of-suffering, unsatisfactoriness and nirvana. Desire The English word "desire" as a translation for this link (craving) is very misleading.
Desire (wanting) can be neutral or even positive. For example, the desire (motivation, interest, eagerness) to meditate, to understand, to learn, to cultivate the mind/heart are all very profitable.
Without effort, based on a beneficial desire for improvement, there is no improvement. Unfortunately, many of us wait for suffering to become so overwhelming as to push us to better ourselves.
It would be more fruitful to strive with balance for spiritual success than to push away from worldly failure in desperation. Ignorance The root of all suffering is ignorance (avidyā, avijjā). Ignorance gives rise to craving, to aversion, and to delusion (moha) -- the three roots of all unskillful karma (regrettable mental, verbal, and physical deeds).
The problem we face is that ignorance expresses itself in subtle ways as wrong view, delusion, and the belief that the illusory world we see is the world as it actually is.
The world coming in through the senses is an "illusion" because it seems to be exactly what it is not: (1) permanent, (2) satisfactory, and (3) personal.
However, until this is directly experienced by knowledge-and-vision purified through concentration and developed by mindful-insight, we will continue to perceive things in a distorted way as has been going on since time immemorial.
Unskillful karma (action prompted by harmful intention) is rooted in one or more of three unwholesome roots:
greed (lobha)
aversion/fear (dosa/bhava)
delusion (moha)
"Greed" is the best attempt to translate a multivalent term lobha. Rather than hearing the English word and reacting to it, one is better off bearing in mind that like "desire" it is simply a poor stand in for lobha.
"Greed" encompasses bias, prejudice, desire, lust, cupidity, attachment, hankering, pining, wasting away, narcissism, wishing to be with the loved, wishing to be away from the unloved, preferring, liking, craving, clinging, thirst. All of these are manifestations of "greed" (not our word greed, but the ancient Buddhist term being translated as "greed").
The same semantic problem occurs when we try to translate dukkha with a single English word like "suffering." "Suffering" is a best attempt to get at ALL that the multivalent term dukkha refers to.
dukkha:the entire range of the unpleasant from slight agitation to severe agony.
All existence is NOT "suffering."
All conditioned phenomena (including Five Aggregate existence or becoming), is unsatisfactory.
It is disappointing, distressing, unsettled...off kilter.
Evil Wishes There is a form of greed that is very dangerous but rarely appreciated as special. The Buddha referred to it as, and forgive the makeshift English translation, "evil wishes."
It refers, for example, to a sibling killing another sibling. When asked why, the child explains that it had nothing whatsoever to do with anger or hatred but only greed to get something the other child was perceived to be standing in the way of.
Delusion is greatest culprit, always associating with greed and hatred/fear, which depend on ignorance.
One child might push another into the pool to get attention. Or later in life one might hire a hitman to collect a bigger inheritance.
In the cartoon, Roger the Alien passes gem-studded gold poop. A glimmering pile of it is found by repairmen. They become so avaricious as to do things "good Americans" would never do...until we're tempted. One betrayal leads to another, one theft and lie to another until it spins all out of control. Greed spins out of control even before its karmic results ripen.
Greed eventually shows its horrific potential to bring harm to ourselves and others. The danger in lust (the poster child for greed in general) is not that one will have sex but that one will engage in sexual misconduct in an attempt to satisfy sexual urges.
The danger in desire is not that one will get up in the morning and engage in some harmless livelihood but that one will engage in theft, fraud, or misappropriation in an attempt to feel safe from the clear danger of insufficiency. The harm we are getting in is not clear, but the harm we think we are avoiding is clear.
The danger of bias and prejudice is not that one will choose paper instead of plastic but that one will be led (by delusion, greed, and/or aversion) to systematically treat some group unfairly.
lobha: "greed," one of the three unwholesome roots, generally treated as a synonym of lust (rāga) and craving (tanhā).
dosa: "hatred," aversion, anger, disliking...
moha: "delusion"; the known synonym of avijjā.-Nyantiloka Thera
*Golden Turd Saga tied together by ProudtobeIrish77from American Dad, Season 1, Episode 6: Homeland Insecurity; S.2, Ep. 3: Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option; S. 5, Ep. 9: Rapture's Delight; S. 3, Ep. 12: Widowmaker.
(PTBI*) WARNING: Graphic images depicting the dangers of greed and betrayal!
People often misunderstand Buddhism thinking it says that "desire" is the root of all suffering.
It is not. The mistake is semantic -- arising from words not ideas.
The Buddha pointed at "craving" (tanha, "thirst") as the problem. It is also the weak link (among a chain of 12 links) to solve the problem of suffering ("disappointment").
What do beings crave that causes them to suffer or always be dissatisfied? They crave three things:
craving for sensual pleasure (pleasant sensation)
craving for renewed existence (eternal life)
craving for nonexistence (annihilation)
This is revealed to any meditator who gains absorption then parlays the benefits of absorption to practice for insight by contemplating the 12 links of Dependent Origination.
This is an enlightening practice that leads to the end of suffering here and now. It works by showing the mind how suffering has always originated dependent on ignorance and other factors, including craving.
Siddhartha discovered that craving can be overcome to set the mind/heart free, to awaken from the illusion of identifying with misery, to gain liberation from the endless cycle of rebirth.
After all as the Buddha, he said he was only interested in teaching two things -- suffering and end-of-suffering, unsatisfactoriness and nirvana. Desire The English word "desire" as a translation for this link (craving) is very misleading.
Desire (wanting) can be neutral or even positive. For example, the desire (motivation, interest, eagerness) to meditate, to understand, to learn, to cultivate the mind/heart are all very profitable.
Without effort, based on a beneficial desire for improvement, there is no improvement. Unfortunately, many of us wait for suffering to become so overwhelming as to push us to better ourselves.
It would be more fruitful to strive with balance for spiritual success than to push away from worldly failure in desperation. Ignorance The root of all suffering is ignorance (avidyā, avijjā). Ignorance gives rise to craving, to aversion, and to delusion (moha) -- the three roots of all unskillful karma (regrettable mental, verbal, and physical deeds).
The problem we face is that ignorance expresses itself in subtle ways as wrong view, delusion, and the belief that the illusory world we see is the world as it actually is.
The world coming in through the senses is an "illusion" because it seems to be exactly what it is not: (1) permanent, (2) satisfactory, and (3) personal.
However, until this is directly experienced by knowledge-and-vision purified through concentration and developed by mindful-insight, we will continue to perceive things in a distorted way as has been going on since time immemorial.
Unskillful karma (action prompted by harmful intention) is rooted in one or more of three unwholesome roots:
greed (lobha)
aversion/fear (dosa/bhava)
delusion (moha)
"Greed" is the best attempt to translate a multivalent term lobha. Rather than hearing the English word and reacting to it, one is better off bearing in mind that like "desire" it is simply a poor stand in for lobha.
"Greed" encompasses bias, prejudice, desire, lust, cupidity, attachment, hankering, pining, wasting away, narcissism, wishing to be with the loved, wishing to be away from the unloved, preferring, liking, craving, clinging, thirst. All of these are manifestations of "greed" (not our word greed, but the ancient Buddhist term being translated as "greed").
The same semantic problem occurs when we try to translate dukkha with a single English word like "suffering." "Suffering" is a best attempt to get at ALL that the multivalent term dukkha refers to.
dukkha:the entire range of the unpleasant from slight agitation to severe agony.
All existence is NOT "suffering."
All conditioned phenomena (including Five Aggregate existence or becoming), is unsatisfactory.
It is disappointing, distressing, unsettled...off kilter.
Evil Wishes There is a form of greed that is very dangerous but rarely appreciated as special. The Buddha referred to it as, and forgive the makeshift English translation, "evil wishes."
It refers, for example, to a sibling killing another sibling. When asked why, the child explains that it had nothing whatsoever to do with anger or hatred but only greed to get something the other child was perceived to be standing in the way of.
Delusion is greatest culprit, always associating with greed and hatred/fear, which depend on ignorance.
One child might push another into the pool to get attention. Or later in life one might hire a hitman to collect a bigger inheritance.
In the cartoon, Roger the Alien passes gem-studded gold poop. A glimmering pile of it is found by repairmen. They become so avaricious as to do things "good Americans" would never do...until we're tempted. One betrayal leads to another, one theft and lie to another until it spins all out of control. Greed spins out of control even before its karmic results ripen.
Greed eventually shows its horrific potential to bring harm to ourselves and others. The danger in lust (the poster child for greed in general) is not that one will have sex but that one will engage in sexual misconduct in an attempt to satisfy sexual urges.
The danger in desire is not that one will get up in the morning and engage in some harmless livelihood but that one will engage in theft, fraud, or misappropriation in an attempt to feel safe from the clear danger of insufficiency. The harm we are getting in is not clear, but the harm we think we are avoiding is clear.
The danger of bias and prejudice is not that one will choose paper instead of plastic but that one will be led (by delusion, greed, and/or aversion) to systematically treat some group unfairly.
lobha: "greed," one of the three unwholesome roots, generally treated as a synonym of lust (rāga) and craving (tanhā).
dosa: "hatred," aversion, anger, disliking...
moha: "delusion"; the known synonym of avijjā.-Nyantiloka Thera
*Golden Turd Saga tied together by ProudtobeIrish77from American Dad, Season 1, Episode 6: Homeland Insecurity; S.2, Ep. 3: Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option; S. 5, Ep. 9: Rapture's Delight; S. 3, Ep. 12: Widowmaker.
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