The Wheel of Life illustrates in a popular way the essence of the Buddhist teachings, the Four Truths, the existence of earthly suffering, its origin and cause, the ending or prevention of misery and the practice path to liberation from suffering.
The Three Poisons
Three Poisons
The center of the wheel represents the three poisons. They are desire or attachment, anger or aggression, ignorance. Desire is passion, one of the three principal destructive .