negative emotions: the root of all problems. a buddhist approach to mental health
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Explanation of the inner enemy, the deluded states of mind which make our lives misery. Based on presentations found in the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim chenmo) by Tibetan Saint Lama Tsong Khapa. This presentation was given at FPMT UK Buddhist groups in 2013. See more: www.joyous-effort.com/afflictions-the-inner-enemyTRANSCRIPT
- 1. Jamyang London, January 2013
2. o Identificationo Order in which they arise o Causeso Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes 3. So we can get angry after all? 4. So we can get angry after all? Anger at the afflictions Attachment for the antidotes 5. IDENTIFICATIONTo eliminate afflictions, you must know the afflictions faults, their characteristics, their remedies, and the causes for their arising. Gon-ba-wa, LRCM 1, pg. 302 6. IDENTIFICATIONWhen it is produced it disturbs the mind. How to identify youhave anaffliction running? Face changes Losing your common sense / intelligence Mind is heavy/thick/unclear/ excited Caught in loops of thinking you cant get out of (over-thinking) 7. IDENTIFICATION 8. IDENTIFICATIONList your own afflictions... Depression: The voices Symptoms Causes 8 worldly dharmas, attachment to comfort? Effects No energy, stops me doing anything positive, forget others, impels me into unskilful actions 9. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causeso Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes 10. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causeso Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes 11. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causeso Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes 12. At first it completely afflicts your mind 13. Causing you to err with regard to what you are observing 14. Reinforcing you propensities, and causing the same sort of affliction to recur 15. It may harm you others or both 16. It leads to misdeeds in this life, future lives or both 17. It creates experiences of pain and anguish, as well as the sufferings of birth and the like 18. It takes you far from nirvana 19. Your virtue is destroyed and your resources depleted 20. In society you feel apprehensive, joyless and devoid of confidence 21. Your notoriety spreads in all directions, and excellent persons such as teachers and protectors rebuke you 22. You die with regret, your aims unfulfilled 23. And after death you are reborn into a miserable realm 24. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causeso Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes 25. Do we want to have high IQS? 26. Do we want to have high IQS?Identify Quickly stop the thinking Strongly apply the antidote 27. It is an impermanent mental event, occurring in an everchanging mental continuum, of an entity that is merely labelled I. Geshe Tashi Tsering, FBT course book 28. Through that way, we develop some kind of attitude, all afflictive emotions [are] our inner enemy. And the supreme leader of that enemy is ignorance. So all our combat, effort, fighting, [is] with our inner enemy. 29. Compiled by Kerry Prest, January 2013 [email protected] Music: A.K 1974 the bamboo hat