{"id":15609,"date":"2024-09-12T01:58:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/?p=15609"},"modified":"2024-09-12T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:24:21","slug":"now-what-is-unskillful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/waxhawluke\/now-what-is-unskillful\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Now what is unskillful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waxhaw Luke<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Old-Kuti.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Old-Kuti-150x150.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Old-Kuti.gif\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><\/a> <\/p><h6>&#8220;Now what is unskillful? Taking life is unskillful, taking what is not given\u2026 sexual misconduct\u2026 lying\u2026 abusive speech\u2026 divisive tale-bearing\u2026 idle chatter is unskillful. Covetousness\u2026 ill will\u2026 wrong views are unskillful. These things are termed unskillful.<\/p>\n<p>And what are the roots of what is unskillful? Greed is a root of what is unskillful, aversion is a root of what is unskillful, delusion is a root of what is unskillful. These are termed the roots of what is unskillful.<\/p>\n<p>And what is skillful? Abstaining from taking life is skillful, abstaining from taking what is not given\u2026 from sexual misconduct\u2026 from lying\u2026 from abusive speech\u2026 from divisive talebearing\u2026 abstaining from idle chatter is skillful. Lack of covetousness\u2026 lack of ill will\u2026 right views are skillful. These things are termed skillful.<\/p>\n<p>And what are the roots of what is skillful? Lack of greed is a root of what is skillful, lack of aversion is a root of what is skillful, lack of delusion is a root of what is skillful. These are termed the roots of what is skillful.&#8221; \u2014MN 9<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:waxhawluke@yahoo.com\">Email<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\">URL<\/a><\/p><p>Views: 6<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waxhaw Luke &#8220;Now what is unskillful? Taking life is unskillful, taking what is not given\u2026 sexual misconduct\u2026 lying\u2026 abusive speech\u2026 divisive tale-bearing\u2026 idle chatter is unskillful. Covetousness\u2026 ill will\u2026 wrong views are unskillful. These things are termed unskillful. And what are the roots of what is unskillful? Greed is a root of what is unskillful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-15609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhamma-lesson","tag-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15628,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions\/15628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}