Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this brief 4-minute excerpt, Geshe Pema Tsering singles out anger as uniquely destructive among all negative mental states. While acknowledging that attachment, jealousy, and resentment each erode one’s root of merit, he argues that anger — especially anger paired with wrong view — stands alone as having no redeeming quality from any angle. Other afflictions carry some residual upside: attachment can motivate offerings and virtuous action; jealousy and resentment occasionally leave room for something positive. Anger, by contrast, undermines virtue at the causal phase and produces only suffering in the result. The session closes with a dedication prayer before a question is completed, making this a compact but pointed doctrinal moment within the larger Bodhisattva Deeds series.
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File: 08 BD 2002 02 14.mp3
Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering
Collection: Bodhisattva Deeds (Geshe Pema Tsering)
Date: 2002-02-14
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~347
In fact, also, other negative states of mind, negative mental factors such as attachment, jealousy, resentment, hatred, and so forth. All of these also affect one’s root of merit. But the main one, the main culprit is anger itself. It’s especially anger conjoined with wrong view. Anger conjoined with wrong view together have the capacity to actually destroy the root of merit itself.
And also anger. When one looks at the function of anger in its as a cause, in its results and so forth, there’s nothing there’s nothing good that can be said about it in any in any way from any perspective. Because when it’s generated, it it tends to undermine all the other virtues in one’s continuum. And then in the result phase, also, it produces nothing but unhappiness. So in the causal phase, it’s it’s very destructive.
In the result phase, also, it’s very destructive. And so no matter which way one looks at it, there’s nothing good that can be said for it. Yeah. On the other hand, other types of non virtuous mental factor, there can be something set up for them on the positive side Because out of attachment, one can do positive actions. One can make offerings and so forth.
And also, in terms of other other things like resentment or jealousy and so on. There are at times, they can be something some residue of something positive can be said about them, but anger is not like that. What? This name is extraordinary. Sorry?
This oh, sorry. I had a question about Oh, that’s. So we’ll just do the dedication prayer. Yeah.