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**enfoires** · 05-27-2012, 11:09 AM

All the definitions I can find of Pāpa include evil, however to me for somebody or something to be labelled "evil" the evil must be inherent rather than actions arising and passing away they must be rotten to the core and beyond redemption.

I googled several references that compared kusala/akusala and punna/papa, it's interesting that punna (wisdom) is setup as a dichotomy with papa as I wouldn't have thought wisdom was the opposite of evil rather the opposite of foolishness.

05-27-2012, 11:09 AM	#6
enfoires Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	All the definitions I can find of Pāpa include evil, however to me for somebody or something to be labelled "evil" the evil must be inherent rather than actions arising and passing away they must be rotten to the core and beyond redemption. I googled several references that compared kusala/akusala and punna/papa, it's interesting that punna (wisdom) is setup as a dichotomy with papa as I wouldn't have thought wisdom was the opposite of evil rather the opposite of foolishness.
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