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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.

Nonlocality describes the apparent ability of objects to instantaneously know about each other’s state, even when separated by large distances (potentially even billions of light years), almost as if the universe at large instantaneously arranges its particles in anticipation of future events.
Thus, in the quantum world, despite what Einstein had established about the speed of light being the maximum speed for anything in the universe, instantaneous action or transfer of information does appear to be possible. This is in direct contravention of the “principle of locality”, the idea that distant objects cannot have a direct influence on one another and that an object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings, an idea on which almost all of physics is predicated.
Nonlocality suggests that the universe is in fact profoundly different from our habitual understanding of it and that the “separate” parts of the universe are actually potentially connected in an intimate and immediate way.
An entangled pair of particles can be seen to have complementary properties when measured.
Nonlocality occurs due to the phenomenon of entanglement, whereby particles that interact with each other become permanently correlated, or dependent on each other’s states and properties, to the extent that they effectively lose their individuality and in many ways behave as a single entity. The two concepts of nonlocality and entanglement go very much hand in hand, and, peculiar though they may be, they are facts of quantum systems which have been repeatedly demonstrated in laboratory experiments.
For example, if a pair of electrons are created together, one will have a clockwise spin and the other will have an anticlockwise spin (spin is a particular property of particles whose details need not concern us here, the salient point being that there are two possible states and that the total spin of a quantum system must always cancel out to zero). However, under quantum theory, a superposition is also possible, so that the two electrons can be considered to simultaneously have spins of clockwise-anticlockwise and anticlockwise-clockwise respectively. If the pair are then separated by any distance (without observing and thereby decohering them) and then later checked, the second particle can be seen to instantaneously take the opposite spin to the first, so that the pair maintains its zero total spins, no matter how far apart they may be, and in total violation of the speed of light law. https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/
