Unskillful

The opportunity to follow the path forward must not be sacrificed by well-intentioned impulses to ignore the unskillful stumbling of our elders.

This where you mention any place where you’ve been unskillful in your actions.

But these unskillful workers cannot hope to sell the result of their labor process at a higher price (as opposed to value) simply because they have spent more time than other workers producing the same kind of commodities.

Certainly, committing more skillful and fewer unskillful actions is beneficial.

The basic premise of kamma is simple—that skillful intentions lead to favorable results, and unskillful ones to unfavorable results—but the process by which those results work themselves out is so intricate that it cannot be fully mapped.

This perspective sees immoral acts as unskillful (akusala) in our quest for happiness, and hence it is pragmatic to do good.

Unskillful behavior in turn can strengthen the defilements, but following the Noble Eightfold Path can weaken or eradicate them.