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Here is an excerpt from “D is for Delusion”

Buddha used fire as a metaphor for the emotional impulses that drive us to suffer. All of the myriad emotional states that disturb our peace of mind and burn up our happiness, he said, can be boiled down to three basic types: delusion, greed, and hatred. Greed and hatred in turn are said to erupt out of delusion. “Delusion” refers to a fundamental misperception of the world we live in, such that we mistakenly believe that it can grant us happiness, is reliably stable, and that the world and our experience of it are substantially real. The Buddha’s contention was that if we look carefully, this world is actually unsatisfying, unreliable because it is constantly changing, and that there is no substantial bedrock of “self” to be found beneath its fleeting surfaces.