Transforming The Three Poisons: Craving, Anger, and Ignorance

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Transforming The Three Poisons: Craving, Anger, and Ignorance - Quiz

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What are The Three Poisons? *

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Irritation, Disappointment, and Ignorance

Greed, Joy, and Delusion

Craving/Greed, Anger/Hatred, and Ignorance/Delusion/Unknowing of True Reality

Frustation, Happiness, and Stupidity

What are other ways of referring to The Three Poisons? *

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The Three Unwholesome Roots

The Three Fires

The Defilements

All of the above

The Three Poisons are the root cause of all unwholesome Kamma? *

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True

False

How would you describe the poison of craving/greed? *

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Feeling hungry before its time to eat.

Craving is a burning desire, a never ending thirst, yearning, and longing; we want the objects of our desire to provide us with lasting satisfaction so we feel fulfilled, whole, and complete.

Needing to be a millionaire.

Always wanting money and wealth.

The poison of craving or greed __________? *

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is the easiest one to eliminate.

is that the mind will want more, want bigger and better, want to fulfill our unquenchable inner hunger and thirst.

is too hard to eliminate so we just need to live with it.

All of the above.

How would you describe the poison of anger/hatred? *

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It is everyone else's fault that I am angry and if they would not make me angry I could be peaceful.

It is impossible to eliminate anger and hatred, I can never get any better than I am right now.

The symptoms of anger can show up as hatred, hostility, aggression, aversion, resentment or ill will; wishing harm or suffering upon another person

All of the above.

The poison of anger/hatred affects us in that we cannot benefit from openness to all people and situations that could potentially be helpful in our life journey. We sabotage ourselves through the unwholesome mental state of anger and hatred caused by our own attachments. *

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True

False

How would you describe the poison of ignorance/delusion? *

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There are ignorant people everywhere around and I just wish they would educate themselves.

Ignorance is our wrong understanding or wrong views of reality. Ignorance is our misperception and misunderstanding of the way the world works; our inability to understand the nature of things exactly as they are, free of perceptual distortions.

Ignorance is too difficult to eliminate so we should not talk about it.

All of the above

Affected by the poison of ignorance, which arises from ignorance of our true nature, we do not understand the interdependent and impermanent nature of life. Thus, we are constantly looking outside of ourselves for contentedness, satisfaction, and solutions to our problems. *

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True

False

Gotama Buddha taught us that the poisons of craving, anger, and ignorance, which cause so much discontentedness, can indeed be purified and transformed. *

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True

False

Gotama Buddha’s Teachings tell us that Enlightenment is our true nature, and will naturally shine forth through the purified mind. Therefore, the goal of our life practice is to liberate ourselves from the defilements that obscure the natural clarity, radiance, and joy of our Enlightenment. *

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True

False

The Three Poisons are in ___________? *

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the body

the mind

the stomach

All of the above

What are the solutions, antidotes, or remedies for The Three Poisons? *

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Meditation

Chanting

Practice Generosity, Loving Kindness, and Wisdom

Pray

To antidote and overcome craving, we learn to practice Breathing Mindfulness Meditation and generosity. If we are experiencing craving/desire/attachment, we need to let it go, we can reflect on the impermanence or the disadvantages of the objects of our desire. *

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True

False

To antidote and overcome anger, we learn to practice Loving-kindness Meditation and have a well developed practice of loving-kindness in daily life which will gradually transform the mind developing deep feelings and interest to see all beings be well. *

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True

False

To antidote and overcome ignorance, we cultivate wisdom, insight, and “Right View” through learning, reflecting, and practicing The Teachings of The Buddha to discover The Natural Laws of Existence. *

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True

False

By studying The Teachings and applying The Teachings properly in our lives through a “life practice”, we will gradually wear away even the most stubborn habitual behaviors, fully liberating the mind from stress, discontentedness, and suffering. Gotama Buddha calls this the “taintless liberation of the mind.” *

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True

False

The Three Poisons need to be eliminated 100% to attain Enlightenment? *

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True

False

It is impossible to fully eliminate The Three Poisons. *

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True

False

It is our goal, through these Teachings, to eliminate these three poisons through practice of non-craving or generosity, non-anger or loving-kindness, and non-ignorance or wisdom. *

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True

False

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