Hatred (Buddhism, Zen)

In Hinayana Buddhism, Hate is the means by which associated states hate, it is hatred itself or it is the act of hating. Hate has the characteristic of savageness, of flying into anger like a snake when provoked. Its function is to spread like poison or to burn up that on which it depends, the body or the heart-basis, like fire in a forest. It manifests as persecution or injuring of its object. The proximate cause is the grounds for vexation or annoyance.

One of the formations aggregate (mental coefficients) of Hinayana Buddhism, being listed among the constant states which appear in their true nature, and as unprofitable secondary (sometimes present in any unprofitable or unprofitable-resultant consciousness). Also, as hate, anger and aggression, one of the three poisons – sandoku – of Zen.