Afflictions are not to be accumulated, otherwise it will gradually increase in strength or become great suffering when faced with tough challenges.

How to prevent accumulating afflictions and instead, tame them?

■ Use the right mindfulness to weaken afflictions at any time
■ be alert of afflictions from the time we awake in the morning
■ Take refuge and sincerely supplicate to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,

"For the whole of today, I must not carry out non-virtuous deeds that increase my afflictions, because that will lead to enduring the fruits of suffering in the future."