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#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 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 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 | #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''). | #The eighth antidote, which is the antidote to the fifth fault, [[over-application]], is [[equanimity]] (Tib. [[བཏང་སྙོམས་]], ''tang nyom''). | ||
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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.