BUD510 MW2 Modes/Mental Events Ch 7a Six Root Afflictions

Question 1

Six Root Afflictions SRA

Answer 1

SIX ROOT AFFLICTIONS (मूलक्लेश རྩ་ཉོན་)
संस्कृत དབུ་ཅན་
1 १ ༡ राग rāga འདོད་ཆགས་ ‘dod chags desire
2 २ ༢ प्रतिघ pratigha ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ khong khro anger
3 ३ ༣ मान māna རྒ་རྒྱལ་ rga rgyal pride
4 ४ ༤ अविद्या avidyā མ་རིག་པ་ ma rig pa ignorance
5 ५ ༥ विछिकित्सा vichikitsā ཐེ་ཚོམ་ the tshom doubt
6 ६ ༦ दृग् dṛg ལྟ་བ་ lta ba afflicted view

Question 2

SRA

Desire

Answer 2

1 १ ༡ राग rāga འདོད་ཆགས་ ‘dod chags desire
Clinging to the places, bodies, and enjoyments of the three realms.

Like oil soaked cotton hard to get out; like drinking salt water, never satisfies, simply increase thirst तृष्णा

8th of 12 nidāna

Question 3

SRA

Anger

Answer 3

2 २ ༢ प्रतिघ pratigha ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ khong khro anger
A completely hostile intention focusing on the harmer, a sentient being; the harm, suffering; or the harming conditions of poison, weapons and so on.

Likened to a fire that burns and consumes

Question 4

SRA

Pride

Answer 4

3 ३ ༣ मान māna རྒ་རྒྱལ་ rga rgyal pride
A haughty attitude having the aspect of arrogance based upon the views of the transitory collections.

The water of good qualities cannot stay on the balloon of pride. 
Tibetan Saying (balloon is puffed up and hollow)

Seven Types of Pride

1. Pride
2. Excessive pride
3. Pride beyond pride
4. Pride of thinking “I”
5. Conceited pride
6. Pride of slight inferiority
7. Wrong pride

Question 5

SRA

Ignorance

Answer 5

4 ४ ༤ अविद्या avidyā མ་རིག་པ་ ma rig pa ignorance
Being obscured about the meaning of the four truths and of suchness.

Beginning of 12 nidāna निदान

Question 6

SRA

Doubt

Answer 6

5 ५ ༥ विछिकित्सा vichikitsā ཐེ་ཚོམ་ the tshom doubt

Indecision concerning the truths and cause and result.

Question 7

SRA

Afflicted View

Answer 7

6 ६ ༦ दृग् dṛg ལྟ་བ་ lta ba afflicted view
Afflicted supreme knowledge.

Five Types of Afflicted View

1. transitory collection (clinging to impermanence, many parts as self)
2. holds to an extreme (permanence and nihilism)
3. holds wrong types of ethics and modes of discipline as supreme
4. holds a wrong view as supreme
5. wrong views