What does greed mean?

Greed, anger and delusion are three poisons, also known as three evils and three fires.

1 greed

If you are greedy for love in the realm of obedience, you must get it. Otherwise you will be unwilling, unwilling. Greed refers to the psychological activity of being contaminated with color, sound, fragrance, taste and touching five desires.

2. Chen

Hate adversity, lose your temper if you are not satisfied, be irrational and impulsive. Also known as anger, resentment, etc. Hatred, resentment and psychological harm to others, or slander and discredit other religions, etc.

Step 3 be crazy

Ignorant, right and wrong are indistinguishable, good and evil are indistinguishable, right and wrong are reversed, and evil is endless. And ignorant. Of a dark mind, ignorant.

Extended data

Buddha believes that people's pains (such as troubles and struggles) mainly come from their own greed, anger and delusion, which are called "three poisons". It is the root of all evil deeds of human body, mouth and heart. Greed is a spiritual function that does not satisfy personal interests such as fame and fortune.

Anger is a spiritual function of hating one's own meaning, which makes people restless. Stupidity refers to a spiritual function of ignorance and irrationality. The expansion of these spiritual functions makes human beings compete with each other and hate each other, so that they never know where the real way out of suffering is.

The Buddha taught us to "practice diligently to stop greed and ignorance", that is, to ask people to eliminate greed and ignorance and purify their hearts through the method of abstinence from wisdom and self-cultivation. In practice, people should use charity to change greed, sympathy to change anger and wisdom to change stupidity.

The Buddha believes that "all laws are born in the mind, and all laws are destroyed in the mind" (Mahayana Belief), saying: "Bodhisattva wants pure land and should be pure. With its pure heart, the Buddha is pure. " .

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