The Third Aspect of Restraint

In the Abhidharma or the Buddhist psychology, one of the words used for defilements is outflows. And it's a very descriptive word of how the defilements work. It's an outflow of the mind, through desire, through anger, through hatred,. Through wanting, through greed, through grasping. If we can restrain those outflows and settle back into the simple and easy and spacious awareness of things arising and passing away, we begin to experience directly the impermanence and the insubstantiality of phenomena.