Mahayana tradition or the three unwholesome roots (Sanskrit: akuśala-mūla; Pāli: akusala-mūla), in the Theravada tradition are a Buddhist term that refers...

(lobha dosa moha) are known as the "unwholesome roots" (akusala-mūla or the root of akusala); and, their opposites (alobha adosa amoha) are the three...

being. Good, skilful deeds (Pāli: kusala) and bad, unskilful deeds (Pāli: akusala) produce "seeds" in the unconscious receptacle (ālaya) that mature later...

lower realms is considered to be the result of relatively unwholesome (akuśala/akusala), or bad (pāpa) karma, while rebirth in the higher realms the result...

stands for strenuous and sustained effort to overcome unskillful ways (akusala dhamma), such as indulging in sensuality, ill will and harmfulness (see...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

(kusala) karma, which leads to a good result, and avoiding unwholesome (akusala) karma. A common list of good karmas taught by the Buddha is the list of...

(to act) The unwholesome mental factors (akusala cetasikas) accompany the unwholesome consciousnesses (akusala citta). The fourteen unwholesome mental...

(the hook). The eighteen mūlapadas consist of nine Kusala and nine akusala. Akusala: Tanhā (craving), avijja (Ignorance), Lobha (greed), Dosa (Hatred)...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

5 skandhāh The 4 āryasatyāni The 22 indriyāni the 7 bodhyaṅgāni the 3 akuśala-mūlani the 3 kuśala-mūlani the 4 mahābhūtāni the upāsakaha (its 5 samvarāh)...

Then recklessness does not fear the danger of akusala, it does not care about the consequences of akusala. The Abhidharma-samuccaya states: What is anapatrapya...

and spiritual path. These ten actions are described as akusala ('unwholesome'; Sanskrit: akuśala), and when abstaining from them it is called kusala ('wholesome';...

bahulīkāro) to the following states (dhammā): wholesome and unwholesome (kusalā-akusalā); blameable and blameless (sāvajjā-anavajjā); inferior and superior (hīna-paṇītā);...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

leads to the goal of existence, and they are normally deemed unskilled (akusala) and cannot lead to the goal of Nirvana. Buddha condemned killing or harming...

that might conduce to the harm of both; this deed of body is unskilled (akusala), its yield is anguish, its result is anguish. Gavitt, Loren Nichols (1991)...

but different threefold enumeration: wholesome (kusalā), unwholesome (akusalā) and indefinite (avyākatā) (Rhys Davids & Stede, 1921–25, ibid). See, for...

lower realms is considered to be the result of relatively unwholesome (akuśala/akusala), or bad (pāpa) karma, while rebirth in the higher realms the result...

the faculty of energy." What constitutes "unskillful" or "unwholesome" (akusala) and "skillful" or "wholesome" (kusala) qualities is taken up in the Abhidhamma...

Then recklessness does not fear the danger of akusala, it does not care about the consequences of akusala. The Abhidharma-samuccaya states: What is shamelessness...

and perfect them. This is called right effort. The unwholesome states (akusala) are described in the Buddhist texts are related to thoughts, emotions...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

the highest happiness. This perspective sees immoral acts as unskillful (akusala) in our quest for happiness, and hence it is pragmatic to do good. The...

(mental factors) First jhāna Second jhāna Third jhāna Fourth jhāna Kāma / Akusala dhamma (sensuality / unskillful qualities) secluded from; withdrawn does...

But the function of 'willing' is only in moral (kusala) and immoral (akusala) states...It has directing as manifestation. It arises directing associated...

other cetasikas it arises together with. There is no balance of mind when akusala citta arises, when we are cross, greedy, avaricious or ignorant. Whereas...

(vipāka), refers strictly to the results of kusala and akusala cittas and are thus neither kusala nor akusala. They are also said to be rootless because they...