Three poisons

As human beings with the power of divine choice, we can be subject to unproductive habits.

The most serious and detrimental ones being greed, anger and ignorance. These unproductive habits stem from our emotional desire driven attachments to the concept of having an individual and permanent self in conjunction with a lack of understanding of humanities true place in the universe and the relationships with all others who inhabit the universe with us. This lack of understanding can be called spiritual ignorance of the way of things and phenomenon — having wrong views and incomplete knowledge, lacking correct/complete transcendental and mundane perceptions usually rooted in fear driven or conditioned greed, anger and spritual ignorance.

Ignorance manifests fear and fear is the catalyst that manifests/precedes anger and greed - fear is the catalyst that nurtures greed and anger as it spews forth through our being because we do not fully understand... our view is incomplete and lacking penetrating insight to inform it - being ignorant/uninformed of true reality and the singular aspect inherent in all things animate and inanimate. We are attached to self-importance, our conditioned view of who we are, to the conditioned concept of "I and body".

Greed, desirous clinging or craving, arises from the mistaken idea that we can obtain and hold on to possessions, to ideas, and even to other people.
Greed arises from selfishness, from the misconception that our bodies are who we are. Our greed and attachments tie us to perpetual unhappiness in varying degrees. Desirous clinging or craving leads us to manifest harmful behavior, detrimentally affecting the world and its modalities that support all life and us.

Because of greed, we become angry at what others have, or if they acquire something we want and desire. Anger so often arises when our greed, desirous clinging or craving is unrestrained; because of ignorance of the way things are and operate. Greed gives rise to anger when we do not get what we want and desire, or because others reject our ideas or obtain what we had wanted for ourselves - or when what we have or desire is taken from us, or those we love are lost to us.

The ways that greed and attachments can overwhelm and eclipse our intrinsically complete self thus leading us to anger are endless. The perceived pain and loss increases our separation form the real, as a consequence, our suffering has the momentum to be infinite… and by extension we cause others to suffer also.

Anger in all its forms, ranging from frustration to resentment, animosity, and even cruelty, is one of our greatest problems in this day and age of “shock and awe”. Anger arises before we even realize what is happening. Somebody says or does something and, in a flash, we are angry. Why do we so easily become angry?

When "my" conditioned concept of "I and body" is threatened and challenged, "I and body" very often will strike out in defense with anger and violence overtly and/or covertly, mentally and/or physically - trying to protect and defend that which is finite, ignorant of the divine sacred essence that is common in all of us... for we all breathe not of our own choosing and will.

How can we penetrate and eliminate the three poisons?
Letting go and giving offsets greed.
Patience, tolerance and loving-kindness dissapates and aborts anger while reconciling hatred with Prajna / Transcendental apperception/Wisdom, which is the stuff of our true nature which counters and dispels ignorance.