Mrakśa
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Mrakśa (T. 'chab pa) is 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.[1][2] It is identified as:
- One of the twenty secondary unwholesome factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings
Definition
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.[1]
Alan Wallace states: "Concealment from one's own vices is a type of delusion that stems from ignorance. This includes self-concealment."[3]
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guenther 1975, Kindle Locations 878-880.
- ↑ Kunsang 2004, p. 27.
- ↑ Goleman 2008, Kindle Locations 2480.
Sources
- Goleman, Daniel (2008), Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Bantam, Kindle Edition
- Guenther, Herbert V. (1975), Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding", Dharma Publishing, Kindle Edition
- Kunsang, Erik Pema (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, Vol. 1, North Atlantic Books
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