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How can mental actions be transformed into verbal and physical actions? Because our minds consume those phenomena thousands of times until they can no longer be contained and must be released as verbal and physical actions. The end result is the completion of the three components, not the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. But, rather, they are the physical actions, the verbal actions, and the mental actions. Therefore, when unwholesomeness or anger emerges and we are aware, and we can extinguish the anger, our mind that will consume the unwholesome actions will be diminished. Our mind that will experience sufferings will also be reduced. When the lives of the phenomena are short, the misery of our bad deeds will be diminished. This is a way to control one’s kamma or to extinguish the kamma. This is not the same as extinguishing the misery of our bad deeds. It means to extinguish the possibility of creating new kamma. We stop our mental formations—as we begin to think, we extinguish the thoughts.
When we are angry, are we happy or are we suffering? We are suffering, correct? How do we extinguish suffering? If we trace everything back to the beginning—when anger emerges, it causes us sufferings. Although we know that, we experience sufferings every time we are angry but we still like to be angry. Then you ask your masters: “Why am I so inclined to anger?” Nobody can answer that question. A better question would
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