The Latent Defilements

In the discourses of the Buddha, the most pragmatic description of Nibbana is the mind that is free from greed, free from hatred, and free from delusion. We've all experienced many wholesome mind moments, you know, when the defilements are not present. Yet even though we've experienced these wholesome moments many times, we've also experienced the re-arising of the defilement in later moments when the conditions change. So this re-arise of the Defilements happens because of something which is called what are called the latent defilements. That is, mind-states that are not present in the moment but have the potential to arise when the