Relieving Unwholesome Roots with Five Balas
Kitti Kittisaro
SSRN Electronic Journal 2018 preprint DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3226619 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that greed, hatred, and delusion are the roots of unhappiness and that relieving them is essential to a happy life. Contends that practitioners of Satipatthana who balance the Five Balas — confidence, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom — can control their physical, verbal, and mental actions, find peace, and bring happiness to themselves and others. |
Abstract
Not having greed, hatred and delusion is living a life with the real happiness. Unwholesome or greed, hatred and delusion, destroys the happiness in life. To relieve the unwholesome roots is significant. Those who cannot relieve the unwholesome roots have to live stressful and sorrowful, and cannot find the find the way to meet the bright side of life. The practitioners in Satipatthana consisting of Five Balas; Confidence, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom, can find the peace and happiness without unwholesome, and can improve their lives. The practitioners in Satipatthana accomplished with the balance of Five Balas will be mindful, careful, able to find a good way in living a life, and able to analyze what is advantage and disadvantage to life. They can control their physical action, verbal action, and mental action from unwholesome roots, and can bring happiness to themselves and others.