Five Buddhist teachers share practices to clear away the poisons that cause suffering and obscure your natural enlightenment.
What Are the Three Poisons?
The three poisons are the energy of ego’s three basic attitudes—for me, against me, and don’t care.
When the late Stephen Hawking warned that one of Buddhism’s “Three Poisons” threatened us all
The brilliant physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, inspiration and author of so many important works, died today at 76.
Compassion Has No Enemy
In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, Buddhist teacher Guo Gu explored human violence through the lens of the three poisons.
A Buddhist psychoanalyst puts our divided country on the couch
Psychoanalyst Robert Langan traces the current climate of demonization to the three poisons: greed, aversion, and the ignorance of self-righteous certainty.
Stephen Hawking: One of Buddhism’s Three Poisons threatens us all
Stephen Hawking. Photo by Chris Boland.Physicist Stephen Hawking has identified humanity’s aggression as one of the greatest threats to humanity itself.