Three Poisons destroy one’s view of one’s own nature and one lives blindly and meaninglessly
The three poisons destroy one's view of one's own nature and one lives blindly and meaninglessly.
- Greed
- Hate
- Ignorance
Contemplation - Three Poisons
- My father gave me perspective and meditation for sustenance, so I never experienced worldly perceptions.
- My mother let me drink the mother's milk of the teachings so that my practice never suffered from starvation.
- My brother, King of Knowledge, gave me the sword of method and wisdom so that I could cut through misconceptions about external and internal phenomena.
- My sister, Shining Torch, showed me how to polish the mirror of one's own mind so that the rust of habit never took hold.
- My sister, Shining Faith, untied my stingy knot and I was never stingy with what little I had.
- My friend, the self-existing primal consciousness, and I are inseparable, but we have never argued.
- My only son, child of awareness, is an heir of the victorious; I never raised snotty kids.
Father and mother appear as external circumstances, one's own universal consciousness appears inwardly and in between one attains a pure human body. That is not how one is reborn in the three bad states of existence.
On the outside the perception of birth and death appears, on the inside trust and the turning away from the cycle of existence arise and in between one remembers the teachings of the saints and wise men. In this way, home and friends do not become fatal.
The master appears as an external circumstance, internally one develops one's own faculty of cognition, and in between there is understanding based on trust. That way we have no doubts.
Wisdom
The beings of the six forms of existence appear on the outside and compassion arises on the inside and in between one remembers to keep one's meditative experiences alive. That way compassion doesn't atrophy to abstract wishful thinking.
On the outside one experiences the self-liberation of the three worlds, on the inside one experiences the self-existing primal consciousness and in between one has the certainty of knowledge. In this way one is without fear of evil.
Outside appear the five desirable objects of sense and inside appears wisdom, free from attachments and in between one practices the same taste of experiences. In this way there is no dualistic attachment to happiness and suffering.
Outwardly one gives up one's preoccupations, inwardly one has neither hope nor fear, and in between one is free from the sickness of ambition. In this way there is no dualistic attachment to virtue and vice.
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