” Whatever is rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion brings harm and bondage—abandon it; bow not to tradition, scripture, authority, or ritual, but only to what you have known to bring harm or to bring inner peace. “

( and this is my understanding of the saying, after much pondering )

Well, this saying was a tough one for me to understand and I didn’t know how to approach it so I have been pondering for a while. Yes, the saying clearly states to abandon whatever that arises from greed , hatred and delusion and we all have experienced greed and hatred in one way or another so they both are easy to understand but how to understand what a delusion is ? because only if I understand what it is, I’ll then be able to identify it and then eventually able to abandon it. So how to identify a Delusional thought ?

So firstly, I wanted to dig deeper to understand and identify what a delusion is and secondly, I wanted to revisit what I identified to make sure that am indeed abandoning the right thing, which is very crucial for my goal. And this is what I learnt……

A delusion can be as simple as possessing a wrong belief and continuing to be confident about the certainty of it without enough clarity or enough understanding and unwilling to revise the said belief to validate it appropriately. but how to identify such a delusion internally? I think maybe if we pay close attention to certain emotions that arise and deflate, we can clearly see that sometimes our minds either confused, or agitated or regretting of certain actions.  maybe that could be our wake up call to just pay close attention to it and then we need to be able to determine how to act on it, I suppose ? are you with me ?

But then I wonder how to detach from such  agitation?, and how not to regret the act?, and how do I become so sure that am identifying and abandoning the right act ? 

Am actually lost at how to determine am abandoning the right regret ? and how do I successfully identify it consistently ? 

And this is my analysis , what’s yours ?