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'''Eight antidotes''' or '''remedies''' (Skt. ''aṣṭapratipakṣasaṃskāra''; Tib. [[འདུ་བྱེད་]]བརྒྱད་, ''du ché gyé''; [[Wyl.]] '' 'du byed brgyad'') — the antidotes to the [[five faults]] or obstacles to [[shamatha]] [[meditation]].

The first four of these are antidotes to [[laziness]]:
#[[Aspiration]], or [[interest]] (Tib. [[མོས་པ་]], ''möpa'')
#[[Exertion]] (Tib. [[རྩོལ་བ་]], ''tsolwa'')
#[[Faith]] (Tib. [[དད་པ་]], ''dépa'')
#[[Pliancy]], or [[flexibility]] (Tib. [[ཤིན་སྦྱངས་]], ''shinjang'')
#The fifth antidote, which is the antidote to the second fault, forgetting the instructions or the object of focus, is [[mindfulness]] (Tib. [[དྲན་པ་]], ''drenpa'').
#The sixth antidote, which is the antidote to [[dullness]] and [[agitation]], is [[awareness]] (Tib. [[ཤེས་བཞིན་]], ''shé shyin'').
#The seventh antidote, which is the antidote to the fourth fault, [[under-application]], is [[attention]] (Tib. [[སེམས་པ་]], ''sempa'').
#The eighth antidote, which is the antidote to the fifth fault, [[over-application]], is [[equanimity]] (Tib. [[བཏང་སྙོམས་]], ''tang nyom'').

==Further Reading==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], ''A Treasury of Dharma'' (Lodeve: Rigpa, 2005), pages 191-205.

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