Difference between revisions of "Mrakśa"

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Mrakśa (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: chabpa) is a Buddhist term translated as "concealment" or "slyness-concealment". It is defined as concealing or covering up one's faults or uncommendable actions, from either oneself or others. It is one of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome Mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings.

What is slyness-concealment? It is to perpetuate a state of unresolvedness because of its association with dullness and stubbornness gti-ruug when one is urged towards something positive. Slyness-concealment has the function of preventing one from making it clean break with it and feeling relieved.

Alan Wallace states: "Concealment from one's own vices is a type of delusion that stems from ignorance. This includes self-concealment."

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 The [[Abhidharma-samuccaya]] states:
-:    What is [[slyness-concealment]]? It is to perpetuate a state of unresolvedness because of its association with [[dullness]] and stubbornness [gti-ruug] when one is urged towards something positive. [[Slyness-concealment]] has the [[function]] of preventing one from making it clean break with it and [[feeling]] relieved.
+:    What is [[slyness-concealment]]? It is to perpetuate a state of unresolvedness because of its association with [[dullness]] and [[stubbornness]] [[gti-ruug]] when one is urged towards something positive. [[Slyness-concealment]] has the [[function]] of preventing one from making it clean break with it and [[feeling]] relieved.
-{{Wiki|Alan Wallace}} states: "[[Concealment]] from one's own vices is a type of [[delusion]] that stems from [[ignorance]]. This includes self-concealment."
+{{Wiki|Alan Wallace}} states: "[[Concealment]] from one's own [[vices]] is a type of [[delusion]] that stems from [[ignorance]]. This includes [[self]]-[[concealment]]."
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