Quotes About Unwholesome

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

The last of the ten unwholesome actions is wrong view, basic misperceptions that become the cause of difficulty and suffering in our lives.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

That is why we do not hold an understanding of karma in a narrow way.  It is an extremely vast vision of life.  If at a given moment we experience the fruits of a past action, whether wholesome or unwholesome, our experience is the experience of all beings.  If we see an experience happening outside ourselves, we understand that this also is our experience,as in a dream when every character is some reflection of our own mind.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Goodness knows what Maxwell would make of our current relish for watching people indulging in histrionic self-exposure on television. He would certainly have a wry smile at the irony of the fact that his own electromagnetic theory provides the means of bringing such unwholesome displays into our homes.

Unwholesome action, hurting self, comes easily. Wholesome action, healing self, takes effort.

In the world, few people are on the wholesome path. Those on the unwholesome path are many. Look into the truth in order to understand how nirv??a is the most secure abode.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

Sometimes, we are compelled by circumstances to interact with people who are unwholesome. Some of these people are extremely pessimistic or depressive. Although they may not be particularly negative towards you, the constant emission of pessimistic or depressive energy from them can contaminate you.

insalubrious, if not downright

Its eyes locked onto Yoakum, shining with an unwholesome hunger.

Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray...