The Five Diseases of the Mind

1. ANGER: MENTAL CANCER, MOST DEADLY DISEASE.

Symptoms:

1. Thinking ill of others
   
2. Taking offense easily
   
3. Criticizing the actions of others
   
4. Lecturing or discoursing on the mistakes of others; either to the person Themselves or to others about Them
   
5. Chronic fault-finding or pointing out the defects of character or conduct of others; making them out to be really bad.
   
6. Scolding, nagging or harassing others.
   
7. Habitually blaming others for all that goes wrong.
   
8. Vile abuse and cursing others
   
9. Actual fighting, quarreling or trying to inflict injury on others.

ANGER IS ONE DISEASE THAT NO DOCTOR CAN CURE...IT HAS TO BE CURED BY THE PATIENT.

2.LUST: ALL DESIRES WHICH RUN INTO ABNORMAL DEMAND

Symptoms:

1. Alcohol
   
2. Drugs
   
3. Tobacco
   
4. Gluttony
   
5. Talk habit, dirty stories
   
6. Sex books, pornography
   
7. Useless games, laziness, idleness and useless conversation
   
8. Self indulgence, sensuality

3.GREED: BINDS MIND TO MATERIAL THINGS AND TIES US TO BASER THINGS.

Symptoms:

1. Miserliness
   
2. Falsehood
   
3. Hypocrisy
   
4. Perjury
   
5. Misrepresentation
   
6. Robbery
   
7. Bribery
   
8. Trickery of all sorts

4. ATTACHMENTS:

Symptoms:

1. Delusive attachment
   
2. Infatuation, blind to relative values of your surroundings and associations, so that you set a false evaluation of them. You will have no time for anything else; it is the king of procrastination.

5. VANITY:

Symptoms:

1. Egotism,
   
2. Abnormal exaggeration of faculty of mind which gives us the power of awareness of the self,
   
3. Self-differentiation, the "I"ness. Destroys Sense of humor, distorts viewpoints. "Brays like an ass and imagines itself singing in a grand opera." It cannot see itself because it sees nothing but self...a peacock with cabbage leaves for feathers. IT SEES ALL OF ITS SHORTCOMINGS REFLECTED IN OTHERS, WHILE IT IMAGINES ITSELF PERFECT, SELF-SATISFIED, SUPERSTITIOUS, CREEDS.

More Symptoms:

1. Bigotry
   
2. Self assertion
   
3. Obtrusive show of wealth and power, bossy, fault finding
   
4. Interrupts others while talking
   
5. Public speeches
   
6. Loves titles and honors
   
7. Exhibits recurring " I " ad nauseam

REMEDIES

(Write what you think is the remedy or solution.)

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