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-enemy
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Negative emotions: the root of all problems. A Buddhist approach to mental health.
- 1. Jamyang London, January 2013
- 2. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causes o 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. IDENTIFICATION “To 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. IDENTIFICATION “When it is produced it disturbs the mind.” • How to identify you have an affliction running? • Face changes • Losing your common sense / intelligence • Mind is heavy/thick/unclear/ • excited • Caught in loops of thinking you can’t get out of (over-thinking)
- 8. IDENTIFICATION List 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 Causes o Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes
- 10. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causes o Faults of the afflictions o Antidotes
- 11. o Identification o Order in which they arise o Causes o 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 Causes o 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
- 29. “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.”
- 30. Compiled by Kerry Prest, January 2013 kerrynprest@gmail.com Music: A.K 1974 – the bamboo hat
Editor's Notes
- 6 root afflictions (or listed as 10)20 secondary afflictionsThree zones – FBT module 3 (Buddhist epistemology)Abhidharma – vast presentation of afflictions and their characteristics (Vasubandhu & Asanga)Lorig – a more concise presentation
- Heavy/thick/unclearStuckLoss of intelligenceFace changes! Mind gets caught in loops it can’t let go off (over thinking)Can’t engage in normal mental activity
- Hopelessness/Laziness/DepressionThe voices: “want to give up”“I’ve had enough”“It’s not working”“too tired”“I can’t do anymore”“I’m sick of trying”“tired of fighting”Other symptoms:head sinksstuck still and can’t movefeel like I could spend hours looking at the wallwant to give up everythingCauses:Attachment to comfort/things in samsaraTherefore aversion to discomfort/not getting things in samsaraeight worldly dharmas Effects:Stops me engaging in virtue to actually destroy the attachment/aversionPropels me into seeking comfort and objects of attachment, maybe by engaging in breaking vows/rules of monastery
- Points to contemplateDon’t identify with the emotion. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE. Or an antidote can’t be applied. P303 notes in LRCM. These voices – are they yours?Don’t be fooled by thinking that the “voice” of this affliction is telling the truth. It always lies. That’s its nature.
- Points to contemplateDon’t identify with the emotion. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE. Or an antidote can’t be applied. P303 notes in LRCM. These voices – are they yours?Don’t be fooled by thinking that the “voice” of this affliction is telling the truth. It always lies. That’s its nature.
- GTT: Advice to counteract from FBT:
- Through that way, we develop some kind of attitude, all afflictive emotions is our inner enemy. And the supreme leader of that enemy is ignorance. So all our combat, effort, fighting, [is] with our inner enemy.
- Through that way, we develop some kind of attitude, all afflictive emotions is our inner enemy. And the supreme leader of that enemy is ignorance. So all our combat, effort, fighting, [is] with our inner enemy.