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Kauśīdya
Kausidya (Sanskrit; Tibetan Wylie: ''le lo'') is a Buddhism, Buddhist term translated as "laziness" or "spiritual sloth". It is defined as clinging to unwholesome activities such as lying down and stretching out, and to procrastinate, and not being enthusiastic about or engaging in virtuous activity.Guenther (1975), Kindle Locations 967-968.Kunsang (2004), p. 25. It is identified as: * One of the Mental factors (Buddhism)#Twenty secondary unwholesome factors, twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. * One of the ''five faults'' or obstacles to shamatha, shamatha meditation within the Mahayana teachings. * Closely related to the Pali term ''Thīna, thina'', that is identified as one of the Mental_factors_(Buddhism)#Fourteen unwholesome mental factors, fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings Explanation Mipham Rinpoche states: :Laziness (''kausidya'') is to cling to unwholesome activities such as ly ...
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Mental Factors (Buddhism)
Mental factors ( sa, चैतसिक, caitasika or ''chitta samskara'' ; pi, cetasika; Tibetan: སེམས་བྱུང ''sems byung''), in Buddhism, are identified within the teachings of the Abhidhamma (Buddhist psychology). They are defined as aspects of the mind that apprehend the quality of an object, and that have the ability to color the mind. Within the Abhidhamma, the mental factors are categorized as formations ( sa, samskara) concurrent with mind ( sa, citta).Guenther (1975), Kindle Location 321.Kunsang (2004), p. 23.Geshe Tashi Tsering (2006), Kindle Location 456. Alternate translations for mental factors include "mental states", "mental events", and "concomitants of consciousness". Introduction Mental factors are aspects of the mind that apprehend the quality of an object and have the ability to color the mind. Geshe Tashi Tsering explains: :The Tibetan for mental factors, ''semlay jungwa chö'' (Skt. ''chaitasika dharma''), means phenomena arising from the ...
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