Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c9.s3.29

c9.s3.29

Of emotions we have merely popular classifications especially the threefold divisions into appetite (lobha), with its congeners, greed, lust, passion, &c.; aversion (dosa) with its congeners, anger, hate, malevolence, &c.; and delusion (moha), which is regarded as ignorance or confused consciousness. In the usual schematic fashion there are opposed to these disinterestedness (alobha), amity (adosa), and intelligence (amoha),² the last being sometimes treated as equivalent to intuition (paññā). But more importance attaches as part of the exercises of the path of salvation to the generation of feelings of friendship or love (mettā), of sympathy with suffering (karuṇā), and of sympathy with happiness (muditā).³ But these again are treated as ethical elements, not psychologically.