The confusion and aversion are the unskillful elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom from Fear by Thanissaro Bhikkhu] Reference

It was drawn by an unskillful surgeon in a mistake, from one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference

He was fond of a game of cards, but an unskillful and careless player.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

An unskillful thought is one connected with greed, hatred, or delusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dharma: Skillful vs Unskillful] Reference

In this way we not only overcome the factor that makes fear unskillful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom from Fear by Thanissaro Bhikkhu] Reference

This is expressed in no unskillful manner by St. Augustine, in his Retractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference

The Order would not decline as long as monks avoided such unskillful pursuits as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha]

They are unskillful in the sense that they lead you away from the goal of Liberation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dharma: Skillful vs Unskillful] Reference

Such states of mind are “unskillful” be­cause they make us more selfish than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha]

Such unskillful methods bring only more problems, and the root of it all is our selfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overview of the Lam-rim Graded Pathways of Mind] Reference

Even I was surprised at how unskillful he was, at watching his sword fly onto the hard clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

Mollie and Betty, the two best skaters, rather hung back, letting the more unskillful Amy and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats] Reference

There is, therefore, nothing either "skillful" or "unskillful" about experiencing such a feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe] Reference

The spiritual infant who still partakes mil is unskillful or inexperienced in the word of righteousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference

Those that are not well-meaning, are generally uninformed, misinformed, or unskillful in their thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 14th Banker: Year-End Perspective on Corruption] Reference

May we recognize and transform our unskillful ways, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elisha Goldstein - Can Mindful Eating Change Your Life?] Reference

But the other class, which springs out of a faulty and unskillful abstraction, is intricate and deeply rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

His montage is so unskillful that you won't be able to remember what happened in the previous shot or sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Check This Out: New and Improved Megatron from Transformers 2 « FirstShowing.net] Reference

A player may be unskillful, and yet very valuable as a general helper if he possesses the qualities for coöperation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

Thus we see that unskillful endeavours to solve difficulties, only raise fresh ones, and make confusion worse confounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theologico-Political Treatise] Reference

But to discourage those who need meds to function well enough to meditate is, to put it in Buddhist terms, unskillful speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Sigman: Meditation or Medication? Or Both?] Reference

They represented him as an unfaithful, or unskillful laborer in the gospel, and as one who was not a subject of divine grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference

The sinner, then, is like an unskillful archer who misses his aim could this be the real meaning of Zen and the Art of Archery?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe] Reference

People unused to the world have babbling countenances; and are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Here was an unlimited supply of fertile lands which lent themselves readily to the unskillful and exhausting methods of slave labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

It is unskillful, because the slave cannot be educated; and, therefore, having once learned one thing, he must be kept at that for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"Bereglo" was a word typically Paonese, applied to an unskillful slaughter-house worker, or a creature which worries and gnaws its victim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Languages of Pao]

They are skillful in the sense that they may be used as specific remedies for unskillful thoughts, and thus can assist you toward Liberation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dharma: Skillful vs Unskillful] Reference

They painted by others as ‘unskillful’, ‘reservation fellows’, ‘black’, ‘ugly’, ‘non meritorious’ and ‘mannerless people’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Their unskillful mind is telling them differently; they believe what they are doing is coming from a higher power when it is actually a delusion of the ego.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed and Deb Shapiro: What Buddha Might Say To George Bush (And Us)] Reference

The ocean itself has yielded its dark secret to the perseverance of mankind, and the humble but not unskillful efforts which it has been my privilege to conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Recognizing: Noticing with objective equanimity a familiar stimulus—like harsh words—that pushes a hot button for you, triggering an unskillful retaliatory response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lama Surya Das: Six Steps to Anger Management] Reference

I am very glad that you begin to feel the good effects of the climate where you are; I know it saved my life, in 1741, when both the skillful and the unskillful gave me over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference