Thursday, October 6, 2011

What are the 12 Detrimental Kinds of Consciousness?

What are the 12 Detrimental Kinds of Consciousness?



Rooted in Greed (Lobha):

1: Unprompted consciousness joined with joy and false view.
Example: Greedy & careless one spontaneously enjoys sense pleasure.
2: Prompted consciousness joined with joy and false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one urged by others enjoys sense pleasure.
3: Unprompted consciousness with joy, but not with false view.
Ex: Greedy, yet not careless, one spontaneously enjoys sense pleasure.
4: Prompted consciousness joined with joy, but not with false view.
Ex: Greedy, though not careless, one incited enjoys sense pleasure.
5: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity and false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one spontaneously and indifferent takes pleasure.
6: Prompted consciousness joined with equanimity & false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one, urged on, still indifferent takes pleasure.
7: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity, but not with false view.
Ex: Greedy, yet not careless, one spontaneously & bored takes pleasure.
8: Prompted consciousness with equanimity, but not with false view.
Ex: Greedy, yet not careless, one urged on takes pleasure indifferently.

The common false view is here: There is no danger in sense pleasure!
Addicted to sensing beings have been drawn back into birth & death
billions of times & thus killed by this sense pleasure billions of times!
Therefore is this clinging to sense pleasure as detrimental as it comes...

Rooted in Hate (Dosa):
9: Unprompted consciousness joined with sorrow and aversion.
Example: Angry and frustrated one spontaneously harms or kills.
10: Prompted consciousness joined with sorrow and aversion.
Example: Angry and frustrated one, urged on by others, harms or kills.

Rooted in Ignorance (Moha):
11: Consciousness joined with indifference, doubt and uncertainty.
Example: Confused one cannot make up one's mind, nor take any decision.
12: Consciousness joined with indifference, and restless agitation.
Example: Confused one remains distracted, scattered & mentally unsettled.

These are the 12 kinds of Disadvantageous & detrimental Consciousness of
the
Sensuous Sphere (lower worlds). The delayed effect of all these is Pain!
There are in total 89 kinds of Consciousness. They are all mapped here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/table1.htm

Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Blissful is being without passions in this world!
Blissful is being harmless towards all sentient beings...
Udana II, 1

More on the folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_of_the_Flesch_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happiness_of_the_Flesh_and_Beyond.htm



Source: The Path of Purification XIV 81ff:
Visuddhimagga by Ariya Buddhaghosa from the 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100


The Visuddhimagga is Online free here:
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/zips/vism.zip
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/PathofPurification2011.pdf



Ignorance is not knowing & not understanding the 4 Noble Truths!

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