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Anger

Dosa — the second of the three poisons. Met not with suppression but with the seeing of its arising.

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Knowledge

The hub of the Bhavacakra (Wheel of Life), showing the pig, snake, and bird representing delusion, hatred, and greed

Concepts

The Three Poisons

The three root afflictions the Buddha named as the engine of samsara: greed (raga/lobha), hatred (dvesa/dosa), and delusion (moha). All other defilements unfold from these three. The path is their cessation.

Portrait of Sharon Salzberg, teacher of loving-kindness meditation

Practices

Metta — Loving-Kindness

The cultivation of unconditional good-will toward all beings. The first of the four brahmaviharas, the 'divine abidings' — and the antidote the Buddha gave to a forest of monks who could not stay in their forest.

TextsMahayana

The Bodhicaryāvatāra

Śāntideva's 8th-century classic in ten chapters of verse — the most beloved Mahayana practice text on cultivating bodhicitta and walking the path of the bodhisattva.

Teachings

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

The Enemy Within

A direct teaching on the kleshas — that the obstacle to liberation is never an external adversary but the patterns of one's own mind.

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