191: Unwholesome Mental Factors (Part 1) The Four that Darken the Mind

In this episode, we begin exploring the second group of mental factors — the unwholesome (akusala) mental factors, which consist of fourteen states that give rise to unwholesome consciousness. This talk focuses on the first subgroup of four, which always arise together with every unwholesome mind: delusion (moha), moral shamelessness (ahirika), moral fearlessness (anottappa), and restlessness (uddhacca). We learn how delusion blinds us from seeing the truth, how shamelessness and fearlessness...