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The first four of these are [[antidotes]] to [[laziness]]: | The first four of these are [[antidotes]] to [[laziness]]: | ||
#[[Aspiration]], or [[interest]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མོས་པ་]]}}, ''[[möpa]]'') | #[[Aspiration]], or [[interest]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མོས་པ་]]}}, ''[[möpa]]'') | ||
| − | # | + | #Exertion (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྩོལ་བ་]]}}, ''[[tsolwa]]'') |
#[[Faith]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དད་པ་]]}}, ''[[dépa]]'') | #[[Faith]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དད་པ་]]}}, ''[[dépa]]'') | ||
#[[Pliancy]], or [[flexibility]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤིན་སྦྱངས་]]}}, ''[[shinjang]]'') | #[[Pliancy]], or [[flexibility]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤིན་སྦྱངས་]]}}, ''[[shinjang]]'') | ||
#The [[fifth antidote]], which is the antidote to the second fault, {{Wiki|forgetting}} the instructions or the [[object]] of focus, is [[mindfulness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དྲན་པ་]]}}, ''[[drenpa]]''). | #The [[fifth antidote]], which is the antidote to the second fault, {{Wiki|forgetting}} the instructions or the [[object]] of focus, is [[mindfulness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དྲན་པ་]]}}, ''[[drenpa]]''). | ||
#The [[sixth antidote]], which is the antidote to [[dullness]] and [[agitation]], is [[awareness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤེས་བཞིན་]]}}, ''[[shé shyin]]''). | #The [[sixth antidote]], which is the antidote to [[dullness]] and [[agitation]], is [[awareness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤེས་བཞིན་]]}}, ''[[shé shyin]]''). | ||
| − | #The [[seventh antidote]], which is the antidote to the fourth fault, | + | #The [[seventh antidote]], which is the antidote to the fourth fault, under-application, is [[attention]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སེམས་པ་]]}}, ''[[sempa]]''). |
| − | #The [[eighth antidote]], which is the antidote to the fifth fault, | + | #The [[eighth antidote]], which is the antidote to the fifth fault, over-application, is [[equanimity]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བཏང་སྙོམས་]]}}, ''[[tang nyom]]''). |
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Revision as of 17:16, 20 March 2014
Eight antidotes or remedies (Skt. aṣṭapratipakṣasaṃskāra; Tib. འདུ་བྱེད་བརྒྱད་, du ché gyé; Wyl. 'du byed brgyad) — the antidotes to the five faults or obstacles to shamatha meditation.
The first four of these are antidotes to laziness:
- Aspiration, or interest (Tib. མོས་པ་, möpa)
- Exertion (Tib. རྩོལ་བ་, tsolwa)
- Faith (Tib. དད་པ་, dépa)
- Pliancy, or flexibility (Tib. ཤིན་སྦྱངས་, shinjang)
- The fifth antidote, which is the antidote to the second fault, forgetting the instructions or the object of focus, is mindfulness (Tib. དྲན་པ་, drenpa).
- The sixth antidote, which is the antidote to dullness and agitation, is awareness (Tib. ཤེས་བཞིན་, shé shyin).
- The seventh antidote, which is the antidote to the fourth fault, under-application, is attention (Tib. སེམས་པ་, sempa).
- The eighth antidote, which is the antidote to the fifth fault, over-application, is equanimity (Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་, tang nyom).
