Casual discussion amongst spiritual friends.
by Element » Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:36 pm
A Buddhist way is the weigh up the benefits, dangers and any skilful methods to avoid the costs or dangers.
These are called the
assāda,
ādīnava and
nissaraṇa.
In the modern world, this is called
cost-benefit analysis.
If, when touched by a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain, one discerns, as it actually is present, the origination, passing away, allure (assāda), drawback (ādīnava) & escape (nissaraṇa) from that feeling.
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