Difference between revisions of "Four variables"
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| − | '''Four variables''' (Skt. ''[[aniyata]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gzhan ‘gyur bzhi]]'') — a set of four mental states which are part of the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because their nature (virtuous, non-virtuous or neutral) varies according to one's motivation and other accompanying mental states. They are: | + | '''[[Four variables]]''' (Skt. ''[[aniyata]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[gzhan ‘gyur bzhi]]'') — a set of four [[mental states]] which are part of the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because their [[nature]] ([[virtuous]], [[non-virtuous]] or [[neutral]]) varies according to one's [[motivation]] and other accompanying [[mental states]]. They are: |
| − | </noinclude>#sleep (Skt. ''[[middha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཉིད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gnyid]]'') | + | </noinclude>#[[sleep]] (Skt. ''[[middha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཉིད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[gnyid]]'') |
| − | #regret (Skt. ''[[kaukṛtya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[འགྱོད་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[‘gyod pa]]'') | + | #[[regret]] (Skt. ''[[kaukṛtya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[འགྱོད་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[‘gyod pa]]'') |
| − | #conception (Skt. ''[[vitarka]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྟོག་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[rtog pa]]'') | + | #{{Wiki|conception}} (Skt. ''[[vitarka]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྟོག་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rtog pa]]'') |
| − | #discernment (Skt. ''[[vicāra]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དཔྱོད་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[dpyod pa]]'') <noinclude> | + | #[[discernment]] (Skt. ''[[vicāra]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དཔྱོད་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[dpyod pa]]'') <noinclude> |
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
| − | *four changeable types of subsidiary awareness (Alexander Berzin) | + | *four changeable types of subsidiary [[awareness]] ([[Alexander Berzin]]) |
| − | *four changeable mental factors | + | *[[four changeable mental factors]] |
#. | #. | ||
| − | #remorse, contrition | + | #{{Wiki|remorse}}, contrition |
| − | #reasoning, investigation, examination | + | #{{Wiki|reasoning}}, [[investigation]], examination |
#analysis | #analysis | ||
Revision as of 04:11, 30 August 2014
Four variables (Skt. aniyata; Tib. གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་, Wyl. gzhan ‘gyur bzhi) — a set of four mental states which are part of the fifty-one mental states, so-called because their nature (virtuous, non-virtuous or neutral) varies according to one's motivation and other accompanying mental states. They are:
- sleep (Skt. middha; Tib. གཉིད་, Wyl. gnyid)
- regret (Skt. kaukṛtya; Tib. འགྱོད་པ་, Wyl. ‘gyod pa)
- conception (Skt. vitarka; Tib. རྟོག་པ་, Wyl. rtog pa)
- discernment (Skt. vicāra; Tib. དཔྱོད་པ་, Wyl. dpyod pa)
Alternative Translations
- four changeable types of subsidiary awareness (Alexander Berzin)
- four changeable mental factors
- .
- remorse, contrition
- reasoning, investigation, examination
- analysis
