a zen buddhist monk's blog about things almost zen and telling it the way it is - zen or not (yet)

October 24, 2008

anger, greed, delusion/ignorance

the 3 poisons - oh how they accompany me still!

today i received an email to which my initial reaction was visceral - i got angry because someone had done something with which i didn't agree and was asking me to pay for it (greed) - "what?" was my reaction, "you must be joking?".
after talking it through with the person involved i found out that it had not been their idea (delusion/ignorance) but that they had been cajoled into it!

why did i have such an immediate and unnecessary reaction?

well, i was just too quick to judge and to imagine the imaginary - take time, think carefully, nothing is as it seems, everything is
illusion and not everyone acts out of malice

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