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The end of the evil conditions


What are evil states? Well, a Buddhist will answer differently
from a non-Buddhist, a young person will not answer like an older
one, a resident of a warm country will answer differently from
one from a cold region.


According to the sublime, however, evil states are the dark
inclinations, such as the inclination to aversion, or also the
inclinations to lust or desire.


The inclination to become or to appear, to conceit and ill-will,
to bad speech and to meanness, these also belong to the evil
circumstances according to the perfect. But especially the
inclination to the use of weapons, as well as the inclination to
cluelessness are evil conditions.


The tendency to discord and strife, quarreling and blasphemy,
these are also evil conditions, which Buddha denounced again and
again in his teachings.


Only a person who does not quarrel with anyone, does not seek
sensual pleasure, is not confused, has no sorrow, desires
nothing, wants nothing.


The perfect one sees because he sees, he has the special eye, he
pronounces the things that have meaning, he proclaims the way
that the teaching points out, he is the master, he has the
knowledge, he can explain, point out, instruct, so that the evil
conditions are ended.


The Exalted One shows how, through forms, there is an awareness
of our sight, through bodily contact there is an awareness of our
touch, through sounds there is an awareness of our hearing,
through tastes there is an awareness of our taste, through smells
there is an awareness of our smell, through the brain there is an
awareness of our thinking.


Any contact of our senses generates a consciousness, which one
perceives, and in the consequence something feels, about which
one thinks, which one can formulate further. From this people
then make their concepts, systems and values, through our mind a
mind consciousness is created. Everything that seems to be
experienceable with the mind becomes a bondage, beyond the
original source.


From the original contact follows a feeling, which causes a
perception, which makes thinking possible, whereby categories,
concepts and systems follow, which are explained further and
further, in order to be transformed by thinking then into danger.
But if at the beginning none of our senses is addressed, then
also the thinking will come to rest, no feelings will arise.


The evil states are all based on triggers which have to be
determined. When nothing is triggered here, nothing is found, no
sound is triggered, no images, no ideas, then the evil tendencies
come to a stop.


The exalted one instructed his followers to see this as when a
hungry person eats a honey cake, the seeker has to track down the
evil conditions, which is why this teaching achieved fame as the
honey cake teaching.


The way is also here the goal!





Owner Error Sees Itself Hard


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before
the year zero





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