What is the cause of envy and ill-will ?what is the cause that we must remove in order to be free from them ? One of Deva ( SAKKA )asked this question from The Buddha .
The Buddha answered : well, Kind of devas! Envy and ill-will are caused by objects of love and hatred. If there were no such objects, there would be no envy and no ill-will.
The buddhist way to the end of suffering is to remove its cause.It is like the treatment of a disease by a competent physician who seeks its cause and eliminate it.The buddha points out love and hatred as the cause of mankind"s unhappiness.
Objects of love are living and no-living and no-living objects that please us such as men,women,sight,sound,etc,and objects of hatred are those which displease us.We envy a person who we dislike but who owns valuable objects.Ill-will plagues us when wish to deny to others the objects of out attachment.So envy and ill-will have their roots in hated persons and cherished object.The object of our envy is usually one whom we hate .If person who excels us happens to be our beloved one,it is a cause not for envy but for joy.A boy who outshines his parents does not excite envy in them.on the contrary they will pride themselves on his superior qualities.
The man who has ill-will (miserliness)wants to deny to others the kind of wealth that he has,the use is goods and association with his friends.So the jealous men and women from on their spouses who have close relationship with members of the opposite sex or even engage in friendly conversation.In short,ill-will (miserliness)is the desire to be excessively possessive,to oppose close contact between one's cherished objects and other people and so it is rooted in love and hatred.
Desire and preference are the cause of love and hatred
Sakka Deva ( god of Heaven ) asked the Buddha about the cause of love and hatred buddha said that the cause of love and hatred is Disire. Here the desire the buddha referred to is not purely wholesome desire but the desire that is associated with pleasure and craving .
Kind of desire
1 The insatiable desire to seek sensual objects, this desire is the driving , force behind men's ceaseless activities until death in every existence.
2 The insatiable desire to acquire sensual object.When one desire is fulfilled,there arises another desire, example you brought a bike ,after while using it your mind said if got car mean good than bike ,its slowly change your thought .one day that thought become action.,, so in this way the acquisitive desire never comes to an end .No wonder that even millionaires crave for more wealth and money instead of being content with what they have.
3.The insatible desire to consume various sensual objects and material goods. Human who like shows,songs ,entertainment, never tire of enjoying them.
4 The insatiable desire to store gold,silver ,land,ect or to hoard money in any from to be used in case of n emergency in future.
5 The desire of some people to give money to their followers,employees,
This five kinds of desire give rise to love and hatred.Objects and living beings that help to fulfill the desire causes love while those that obstruct the desire cause hatred .
Sakka (God) then asked the Buddha about the origin of desire .the Buddha answered that desire is caused by Vitakka Or discursive thinking.According to the buddhist literature vitakka means thinking and deciding .This characteristic of Vitakka is of two kinds.one is based on desire while the other has its origin in belief.In other words, you think and decide when you regard a sense -object as a pleasant,desirable object or when you regard a living object as a person or a being. Thus if you are not mindful at the moment of seeing ,hearing, ect you think and decide and this mental act leads to craving and attachment.
After that ,Sakka ( god) asked the buddha about the cause of Vitakka .The buddha replied that vitakka is due to perception that tends to expand or diffuse .There are three of such perception,craving,conceit,and belief.An unmindful person usually falls a prey to one of these agents of expansion. He or she expands every sense-object that he or she perceives and remembers because of his or her attachment,conceit or ego-belief.like a small photograph that can be enlarged ,every mental image or thought lends itself to expansion.
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