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eigensin

22 Feb 2023 - 13 Jan 2024
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    • A really base-level badness, the kind of thing that underlies so much misery and wrongness.
      • pride
      • anger
    • I'm sure I am reinventing some Buddhist list (the Christian seven deadlies are pretty good ones as well).
      • Yes, duh, that's the three beasts, the cock, the pig, and the snake...are snakes characteristically angry? Fuck what are those called. Kleshas (Buddhism) - Wikipedia No, I'm thinking of the three poisons (aka "root kleshas" which is EXACTLY what I was trying to get at with the term) Three poisons - Wikipedia
        • ok not quite, the buddhist trio is ignorance (pig) attachment (bird) aversion (snake). Perhaps "pride" is not that fundamental, it is composed out of attachment (to a view of self) and aversion (to insults to that view).
        • A helpful chart