defilements

In the same way, when mental defilements flare up in full strength, the power of such mental acts can spread to cause diseases in the body.

The Tathagata acts as he says and his actions do not differ. - Whatever is practised fully cuts off all [defilements].

This will help you to understand how the defilements affect you.

Whatever outlet any defilements tried to force open to overflow his mind, that he filled with the counter-force of mindfulness-and-wisdom.

Noble son, 'cessation' is called the cessation of the defilements ( kleshas), and is both permanent and impermanent.

Truly being a Noble one, is a matter of the mind, it cannot be seen but it really eliminates defilements.

We need to watch out for the presence of these defilements and not let them interrupt our practice.

Man possesses, within, the four great elements, an innumerable and unending number of defilements.

Nibbana translates as extinguishment, coolness ; our hearts are not hot because defilements have been extinguished and become cool.

This kind of peace is the concentration that eliminates the medium defilements, I would like to insist that I really know this.

I shall now thoroughly cut away the bonds of all defilements.

Those things that we called hindrances or defilements are more than just unpleasant mental habits.

Noble son, the Path eliminates the defilements (kleshas), and is both permanent and impermanent.

In practice, the crude defilements are greed, hatred and delusion, impurities, craving, clinging and intentional action.

Defilements are like sand bars or stumps in a river that will keep our boat from getting to shore.

The most immediate items to sacrifice, as encouraged by the Buddha, are our defilements of greed, hate and delusion.

According to the standard translations, kilesa means "defilements" , whereas tanha means "lust" or "passion" .

On giving ear to what I say, he will make away with the defilements.

But what are defilements? They are impurities and filth that have accumulated over time.

He has also shown that the primary danger in the defilements is their causal role in sustaining the round of rebirths .

Here Samana means one who has calmed and destroyed all defilements.

So there are many types of hungry ghosts ; their minds have accumulated heaps of various defilements.

Avoid the defilements of delusion and discrimination.

All other mental defilements are merely its twigs and branches.

It is based on karma, defilements, etc. , and all such seeds of the external category as plants and grass.

are no defilements. Bright means there is wisdom, seeing our minds, or life.

Clean means not dirty, because there are no defilements.

Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is defiled by incoming defilements.

The hindrances to obtaining these good qualities are the defilements such as hatred and so on.

He has to face that fact and know these defilements well in order to apply again and again the appropriate remedy of satipatthana.

Today still a layperson, tomorrow ordained, we call this a conventional monk because they can't yet let go of defilements.

The current of the water is the current of thought. Following defilements is easy, everyone is doing it already; and so we have suffering!

because they will not help us to understand the real nature of phenomena or remove any defilements