Faithlessness☁️ dark quality View in explorer

The Buddha outlines a ten-step causal chain revealing how foundational vices like shamelessness lead to suffering, and how cultivating moral prudence and diligence systematically eliminates the root defilements to achieve final liberation.

While a first point of ignorance is not discerned, it can be discerned that ignorance has a supporting condition. The Buddha explains the nutriments for ignorance and the nutriments for true knowledge and liberation, along with how they are fulfilled.

The Buddha distinguishes pleasant abidings in the here and now from the way of effacement leading upwards to complete quenching. Effacement is shown as the gradual chipping away of defilements through restraint, cultivation of the noble eightfold path, and diligent training, culminating in the complete freedom of Nibbāna.

The Buddha details seven distinct qualities through which beings inevitably bond by way of the elements, whether unwholesome or noble.

Exploring groups rooted in lack of faith, the Buddha shows how spiritual confidence or skepticism determines our companions over time.

Contrasting scattered minds with stillness, the Buddha shows that the distracted congregate with the distracted, whereas the collected, conscientious, and faithful naturally come together and associate with the wise.

Contrasting ethical failure with virtue, the Buddha demonstrates that the unprincipled inevitably band together with the unprincipled, whereas the virtuous and conscientious gather around wise and noble companions.

The Buddha explains seven principles that lead to the decline of a lay follower and seven principles that lead to non-decline.

The Buddha explains seven principles that lead to the misfortune of a lay follower and seven principles that lead to success.