The Three Biggest Poisons of Happiness and Contentment

Dissatisfaction and unhappiness in our life mainly comes due to three types of poisons.

According to the Buddha, the person who frees his mind from desire, anger, and ignorance attains ultimate happiness and peace.

The Buddha is saying that the person who has known the good and bad consequences of desire and transcended it, Know the consequences of what happens to anger and transcend it. And erased his ignorance by taking knowledge and with discretion.

If observed carefully, it is the ignorant person who gets trapped in the canal of emotions like desires and anger. That is why the Buddha said that "one who frees his mind from desire, anger, and ignorance attains supreme happiness and peace".

Now we will try to understand one by one why Buddha said this

The first poison is desire:

There is no end point of our desires, desires are endless. Whenever something new comes to us, we immediately start desiring to get something else, one desire is fulfilled then another desire then third.

Desires are exactly the same as if a person is thirsty and he keeps on drinking salty water, will it ever be quenched, rather his thirst will increase even more. These desires are just like that.

We think that if we get some object, we will be satisfied, we will be happy, just like that salt water, but if we understand this, then we come to know that our desires only give rise to the feeling of dissatisfaction in the end, And dissatisfaction makes us sad.

The second poison is anger:

Everyone knows this, does anyone really know what happens because of this? Hate or hatred due to anger, lack of compassion, there is no compassion within, aggression (getting angry)All of these start cropping up. 

Desire makes us eager to get something, but anger works just the opposite. 

Understand with an example 

Many times we get angry when some person or people of any caste touch us. Because of which a feeling of hatred arises within us. But if we understand this feeling of hatred born inside us, then we will come to know that there is no basis for a feeling, there is no reason, and this feeling is irrational.

By thinking and meditating in this way, we will be able to leave anger and hatred. Nowadays it is seen that if a person gets angry then either he will express it immediately or will try to suppress that anger inside.

Both these situations are very dangerous, when a person expresses anger immediately, it leads to violence and hatred. Wars are taking place because of anger and hatred. And if someone is suppressing that anger within himself, he is also not doing right

As we keep on filling air in a tube, there comes a time after which the tube bursts. Always suppressing anger, a time will come when you will not be able to hold on to it anymore, and when it comes out, it will become even more violent and harmful.

That's why Buddha's teachings say that we should see anger coming from where it comes, what is the reason for it; try to understand the situation by thinking slowly and not reacting immediately.

After some time we will be able to deal with an emotion like anger. We will be able to reach the root cause behind anger.

The third poison is ignorance:

If we try to understand this, we will see that ignorance is the reason for our sorrows.

Instead of understanding the thing as it is, we understand it the other way around, due to which we make wrong assumptions. Buddha says that it is because of ignorance that a person keeps wrong thoughts, remains deprived of right concepts, becomes arrogant and starts doing wrong things.

This is very important thing because if your beliefs are wrong then it will take you on the wrong path and the result will also be wrong.

So ignorance means lack of understanding and knowledge. As if you didn't understand someone's words correctly and understood them the other way around and got angry. Sacrifice animals for wealth and crops. Blindly following any religion, all this happens because of ignorance.

What to do to get rid of ignorance?

To get rid of ignorance, we should get information. To remove your doubt or doubt, you should ask yourself questions, meditate on those questions and try to find their answers.