David Roylance
Transforming The Three Poisons: Greed, Hatred, and Delusion - (Eliminate these!)
Transforming The Three Poisons: Greed, Hatred, and Delusion (Eliminate these!)
Gotama Buddha’s teachings to eliminate, greed, hatred, and delusion are known, for good reason, as The Three Poisons, The Three Unwholesome Roots, and The Three Fires. Also known as, craving, anger, and ignorance.
These are The Three Poisons that exist and are present in the mind as part of rebirth into the human realm. It is our goal, through these teachings, to eliminate these three poisons through practice of non-greed or generosity, non-hatred or loving-kindness, and non-delusion or wisdom. To attain Nibbana, one would need to completely eliminate The Three Poisons.
These metaphors suggest how dangerous afflictive thoughts and emotions can be if they are not understood and transformed. Greed (Craving) refers to our selfishness, misplaced desire, attachment, and grasping for contentedness and satisfaction outside of ourselves. Hatred (Anger) refers to our anger, our aversion and repulsion toward unpleasant people, circumstances, and even toward our own uncomfortable feelings. Delusion (Ignorance) refers to our dullness, bewilderment, and misperception; our unknowing or wrong views of reality.
The poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion — mask our true nature, the awakened mind of wisdom and compassion. These poisonous states of mind than motivate non-virtuous and unskillful intentions, speech, and actions, which produces unwholesome Kamma.
Greed, hatred, and delusion are deeply embedded in the conditioning of our personalities. Our behavior is habitually influenced and tainted by these three poisons, these unwholesome roots buried deep into the mind. Burning within us as craving/desire (greed), anger/resentment (hatred), and misunderstanding (delusion), these poisons lay to waste hearts, lives, hopes, and civilizations, driving us blind and thirsty through the seemingly endless round of birth and death (samsara).
Gotama Buddha describes these defilements as bonds, hindrances, and knots; the actual root cause of unwholesome Kamma and the entire spectrum of human discontentedness.
Although this teaching may appear negative or unpleasant, indeed, a wise understanding of the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion is ultimately positive and empowering. With this sublime understanding we can clearly see and feel the factors that are causing confusion, discontentedness, and suffering in our lives. And with this clarity and insight, we can make the choice to eliminate those factors!
The teaching of The Four Noble Truths clearly explains that when we embrace and understand the exact causes of our discontentedness, suffering and dissatisfaction, we can then take the necessary steps to extinguish those causes and liberate the mind. This is certainly positive and empowering.
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David Roylance is a dedicated practitioner and Teacher of Gotama Buddha’s teachings who has been part of the Thai community since 2001. He visited Thailand for the first time in 2002 and brought the Traditional Thai Healing Arts back to the United States of America to share with people in the Western World.
His Traditional Thai Healing Arts centers located in the Washington DC area provided traditional Thai healing arts to clients and educational opportunities to students to explore the Thai healing arts, Thai culture, and the teachings of Gotama Buddha. David is a published author with books on the topics of Traditional Thai Healing Arts and The Path That Leads to Nibbana.
David has taught Gotama Buddha’s teachings since 2005 in the United States of America. In 2015, he closed his businesses and relocated to Chiang Mai, Thailand to be closer to the Thai culture and the Thai community of Buddhist practitioners.
David shares Gotama Buddha’s teachings with Household Practitioners and Ordained Practitioners in Chiang Mai, Thailand and around the world through courses, retreats, and special events providing guidance to help people attain Enlightenment - a peaceful, calm, serene, and content mind with joy.
