I don't know what wise aversion is called in Pali, but here are some examples of it: I don't like getting drunk, I'm not going to get drunk, I don't want to associate with people who are drunk. Okay, that's wise aversion. I have aversion to it. Aversion simply means I don't like it, I don't want to be around it, I don't agree with it. Wise aversion can be towards things like getting drunk. It can be towards things like robbing. It can be towards things like killing. I'm against killing. I have wise aversion to people who kill, people who abuse and perform other harmful acts. As to wise aversion to your own mental states, try to develop aversion to getting unwise aversion. What we're really talking about goes into renunciation: renouncing the attachment to unwise aversion.
How often do you get angry when it really wasn't anything important? Rosemary's probably giving an example of this type of situation right now in her talk in the other hall: you walk into the meditation hall and somebody's sitting in your sitting spot. Now, let's take that a little further to another situation that has also happened here: somebody's not only sitting in your sitting spot, they're sitting on your mat in your sitting spot. For a lot of people, the reaction is "Huh, How could they! They're even on my mat, aghh!" Their reaction is like this, but they're just having aversion towards a sight. Get that? They are just having aversion towards a sight. Interesting. Can you renounce that sort of aversion? Can you have wise aversion towards having unwise aversion towards a sight? This is playing on words here, but it's interesting that we don't want unwise aversion, so wise aversion is to go away from unwise aversion, to say, "I don't want anything that is actually unwise, whether it is unwise aversion or unwise desire."
Imagine that you see somebody who is greedy in the breakfast line and you're at the end of the line. You're getting close to the table and you have some of your own desires going on: the pineapple was yummy yesterday and you want some today. You look ahead to the fruit tray and somebody is taking four pieces of pineapple. Your aversion goes berserk. Okay, we have aversion towards them doing something that's unskillful. That's one type of aversion. That's a wise aversion. But if we have aversion towards them taking "my" pineapple, that's different. We're only missing out on a bit of pineapple - no big deal. But we actually do need to have aversion towards a person who's greedy; that's different and that would be wise aversion. So even within the exact same example - you see a sight, a person taking pineapple - we can have two different types of aversion arising, one that's wise and one that's unwise. That's interesting to look at.