In Buddhism, what are The Three Poisons?
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wickedwillie
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Greed, Anger and Delusion (Sometimes translated as Avarice, Anger and Ignorance).
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Greed represented by the cockerel Ignorance represented by the pig and Hatred or Anger represented by the snake.
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Although translations vary, I first learned the three poisons from a Tibetan former abbot of a Lhasa monastery. The three poisons as we learned them are desire, hatred & ignorance, with desire being too much liking; hatred being too much disliking; & ignorance being lack of knowledge of the real causes of happiness and suffering. In the qualifications above, you can learn a lot about Buddhism, which is not harsh, but careful in distinctions. Liking & not liking are not in themselves harmful, but when they are exaggerated into desire & hatred they control & confuse us. We are attached to the objects of our desire or hatred & cannot see clearly. Ignorance is the worst of the three poisons, because it means we do not understand that our propulsion toward what feels good and our aversion toward what is painful keep us from following the path of practice that leads to release from temporal causes and effects, to clarity, compassion, and real happiness.
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Ivy, Rat and Cyannide
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Desire (Lobha), Hatred (Dhvesha) and Ignorance (Moha) are considered the Three poisons in Buddhism.
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Lust, anger and ignorance, or desire, fear and assumption- It is stated many ways, but boils dopwn to attachment to concepts caused by liking, disliking, or habit. See http://www.orgsites.com/ca/buddhism/index.html
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