6/18/2023 0 Comments We need to go deeper afflictions![]() This is one of the reasons why, when you’re doing retreat, why you come to a quiet place to do retreat, because when you’re at home you have contact with all the objects that give rise to your attachment, to your anger, to your jealousy, to your arrogance, to all these kinds of things. Today I didn’t smell them, no attachment. You may be going along, completely fine, but as soon as you smell those chocolate chip cookies attachment arises. What are those cooperative conditions? One is the object: contact with the object, specifically. What this means is as long as we have the seeds of the different afflictions in our mindstream then we need to be very careful because any kind of cooperative condition can provoke them and then they become manifest. That seed is part of the afflictive obscurations that we want to get rid of. When it’s not manifest it goes into the form of a potency, and then when it’s triggered later it comes up as manifest. What is it that connects (the first anger) with (the second anger)? You have the seed of the anger. ![]() You can have manifest anger, then you can have a period of no anger, and then something triggers it and you have manifest anger again. Right now, let’s say, you’re not angry, but that doesn’t mean that anger is gone from your mindstream altogether. What the “seed of the affliction” is is it’s a potency for the affliction to arise. One of the factors that causes them is we have the predisposition, or the seed, of the affliction. We’re talking about the gross afflictions that we succumb to all the time. What causes afflictions to be manifest in our mind so that they take control of our mind and pull us here, pull us there and make us create karma. Here what we’re talking about is the manifest afflictions. The lamrim talks about six factors which cause the arising of the afflictions. Also to eliminate we need to know what causes them. In order to reduce them we have to know what causes them. And before we eliminate them we have to reduce them. Before we can even work on the cognitive obscurations that prevent omniscience we have to reduce the afflictions. To tame our mindstream we have to reduce our afflictions. The best discipline is taming your mindstream. Wisdom of the Kadam Masters: The six causes of the afflictions, Part 1 ( download) Reducing contact to the objects of our afflictions.What causes the afflictions to become manifest in our minds.
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