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Karmic Law and Mutual Aid: Insights from Buddhism and Anarchism

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The Three Poisons of Ignorance

The three unwholesome karmic roots called the three poisons include greed, hatred, and delusion. These mental factors arise and pass away with incredible rapidity. The Buddha describes just how rare and precious it is to find oneself born in the human realm as he asks his listener to imagine a world totally covered with water on which a yoke with a single hole floats  in that discourse.

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