Unwholesomeness, (akuśala) is mentally toxic, morally harmful, and produces distressing actions; is created by the erroneous view of the Self. Unwholesome consciousness (akusalacitta) is consciousness accompanied by one or more of three unwholesome roots—greed, hatred, and delusion. Greed has the characteristic of always desiring more and the dissatisfaction of never having enough; Hatred has the characteristic of revulsion, contempt, anger, and disgust; and Delusion has the characteristic of an unyielding abnormal belief. The resulting five principal kleshas, or poisons to these are attachment, aversion, ignorance, pride, and jealousy. These unwholesome processes not only describe what we perceive but also determine our responses.
People continuously generate an interior narrative about their identity, their ‘self’, to which they are deeply attached. The construction and defense of this self-image is an ongoing activity of the basic drive the Buddha named “thirst” (tṛṣṇā). With the accompanying distortions, egoistic yearning and defilements are created. The delusion manifested is of the self-image as a stable, objectively valid reality, rather than as a temporary, conditioned mental construction. Once this belief is established and maintained, there is no need for any further justification to establish the intrinsically toxic nature of the unwholesomeness or (akuśala). They are mental qualities that are an illusion (false belief) to have.
They are called defilements since they are, by their nature, to-be-abandoned to end the toxicity they create. They are aggressive and defensive projections of the imagined needs of the constructed self: They are egotistical cravings (“want, desire”), self-protecting fears (“aversion, repulsion”), and avoidance of unpleasant realities that appear to threaten the integrity of the self-image (“delusion”).
In fact, once the delusion of the Self is realized, the orientation of the person is the opposite. What was once formulated negatively, the three wholesome roots now signify positive traits: Non-greed — unselfishness, liberality, generosity; thoughts and actions of caring and sharing; renunciation, dispassion. Non-hatred — loving-kindness, compassion, sympathy, friendliness, forgiveness, forbearance, impartiality, equanimity. Non-delusion — wisdom, insight, knowledge, understanding, intelligence, sagacity, discrimination.
These experiments confirmed that trees are indeed communicating with each other and sharing nutrients through their roots and that trees have their own sort of nervous system that is capable of facilitating tree communication, memory, and learning. Harvard University by Valentina Lagomarsino
Steven Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose. According to their calculations, time and space had a finite beginning that corresponded to the origin of matter and energy.”3 The singularity didn’t appear in space; rather, space began inside of the singularity. Prior to the singularity, nothing existed, not space, time, matter, or energy – nothing. So where and in what did the singularity appear if not in space? We don’t know. We don’t know where it came from, why it’s here, or even where it is. All we really know is that we are inside of it and at one time it didn’t exist and neither did we. There was no explosion; there was (and continues to be) an expansion. Rather than imagining a balloon popping and releasing its contents, imagine a balloon expanding: an infinitesimally small balloon expanding to the size of our current universe. anonymous
This science certainly confirms the Mystics’ intuition that all is not only interconnected but One.
We are all Interconnected even with the Universe 