BUD510 MW2 Modes/Mental Events Ch 6 FCME & EPME

Question 1

Four Changeable Mental Factors FCMF

Answer 1

FOUR CHANGEABLE MENTAL EVENTS (उनियत གཞན་འགྱུར་)

संस्कृत དབུ་ཅན་

1 १ ༡ कौकृत्य kaukṛtya རྒྱོད་པ་ rgyod pa regret
2 २ ༢ मिद्ध middha གཉིད་ gnyid sleep
3 ३ ༣ वितर्क vitarka རྟོག་པ་ rtog pa coarse examination
4 ४ ༤ विचार vicāra དཔྱོད་པ་ dpyod pa subtle analysis

Question 2

FCMF

Regret

Answer 2

1 १ ༡ कौकृत्य kaukṛtya རྒྱོད་པ་ rgyod pa regret

Subsequently regretting actions done previously

Question 3

FCMF

Sleep

Answer 3

2 २ ༢ मिद्ध middha གཉིད་ gnyid sleep

The operational consciousness withdrawing inside.

Question 4

FCMF

Coarse Examination

Answer 4

3 ३ ༣ वितर्क vitarka རྟོག་པ་ rtog pa coarse examination

Engaging conditioned phenomena in a coarse way.

Question 5

FCMF

Subtle Analysis

Answer 5

4 ४ ༤ विचार vicāra དཔྱོད་པ་ dpyod pa subtle analysis

A mind engaging conditioned phenomena in a detailed way.

Question 6

Eleven Positive Mental Factors EPMF

Answer 6

ELEVEN POSITIVE MENTAL EVENTS (कुशल དགེ་བ་)
संस्कृत དབུ་ཅན་
1 १ ༡ श्रद्धा śraddhā དད་པ་ dad pa confidence
2 २ ༢ ह्री hrī ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་ ngo tsha shes conscience
3 ३ ༣ अपत्राप्य apatrāpya ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་ khrel yod pa shame
4 ४ ༤ अलोभ alobha མ་ཆགས་པ་ ma chags pa nonattachment
5 ५ ༥ अद्वेष adveṣa ཞེ་སྡང་མེད་པ་ zhe sdang med pa nonhatred
6 ६ ༦ अमोह amoha གཏི་མུག་མེད་པ་ gti mug med pa nonbewilderment

7 ७ ༧ वीर्य vīrya བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ brtson ‘grus joyous effort
8 ८ ༨ प्रश्रब्धि praśrabdhi ཤིན་སྦྱངས་ shin sbyangs suppleness
9 ९ ༩ अप्रमाद apramāda བག་ཡོད་ bag yod heedfulness
10 १० उपेक्ष upekṣa བཏང་སྙོམས་ btang snyoms equanimity
11 ११ अविहिंसा avihiṃsā རྣམ་པ་མི་འཚེ་བ་ rnam pa mi ‘tshe ba nonharm; compassion

वैराग्य vairāgya renunciation (of attachment within mind) could be considered as upekṣa (practice-wise)

Question 7

EPMF

Confidence

Answer 7

1 १ ༡ श्रद्धा śraddhā དད་པ་ dad pa confidence
Appreciation and conviction (adhimokṣa)

Feel moved, inspired, connected, appreciative

Three Types of Confidence

1. Certain
2. Inspired (clarifying, lucid)
3. Aspiring

Question 8

EPMF

Conscience

Answer 8

2 २ ༢ ह्री hrī ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་ ngo tsha shes conscience

Refraining from negative deeds out of consideration for oneself.

Question 9

EPMF

Shame

Answer 9

3 ३ ༣ अपत्राप्य apatrāpya ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་ khrel yod pa shame

Refraining from negative deeds out of consideration for others.

Question 10

EPMF

Nonattachment

Answer 10

4 ४ ༤ अलोभ alobha མ་ཆགས་པ་ ma chags pa nonattachment

Not clinging to the five perpetuating aggregates and the enjoyments of existence.

Question 11

EPMF

Nonhatred

Answer 11

5 ५ ༥ अद्वेष adveṣa ཞེ་སྡང་མེད་པ་ zhe sdang med pa nonhatred

Bearing no malice towards a potential object of hatred.

Question 12

EPMF

Nonbewilderment

Answer 12

6 ६ ༦ अमोह amoha གཏི་མུག་མེད་པ་ gti mug med pa nonbewilderment
Not being obscured about what to adopt and what to reject.

Question 13

EPMF

Joyous Effort

Answer 13

7 ७ ༧ वीर्य vīrya བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ brtson ‘grus joyous effort
Unabated delight in virtue.

Five Types of Joyous Effort

1. Effort of armour
2. Effort of application
3. Effort of no despondency
4. Effort of irreversibility
5. Effort of nonsatisfaction

Question 14

EPMF

Suppleness

Answer 14

8 ८ ༨ प्रश्रब्धि praśrabdhi ཤིན་སྦྱངས་ shin sbyangs suppleness
A mind that has been made serviceable with respect to its object of focus through workability of body and mind.

Question 15

EPMF

Heedfulness

Answer 15

9 ९ ༩ अप्रमाद apramāda བག་ཡོད་ bag yod heedfulness

Guarding the mind from defiled phenomena and cultivating virtuous phenomena.

Question 16

EPMF

Equanimity

Answer 16

10 १० उपेक्ष upekṣa བཏང་སྙོམས་ btang snyoms equanimity
Effortless engagement in equality without the faults of laxity, agitation, and so on when resting in equipoise.

Three Types of Equanimity

1. A type of feeling
2. One of the four immeasureables
3. Equanimity of conditioned existence

वैराग्य vairāgya (renunciation of attachment within mind) ≈ upekṣa (practice-wise)

Question 17

EPMF

Nonviolence

Answer 17

11 ११ अविहिंसा avihiṃsā རྣམ་པ་མི་འཚེ་བ་ rnam pa mi ‘tshe ba nonharm; compassion
Refraining from harming others out of compassion.