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They '''function''' to prevent liberation from [[samsara]].
They '''function''' to prevent liberation from [[samsara]].


See also [[cognitive obscurations]].
==The Elimination of the Emotional Obscurations==
According to [[Mipham Rinpoche]], the emotional obscurations are overcome in their imputation (''kun btags'') aspect at the [[path of seeing]] and in their innate (''lhan skyes'') aspect on the [[path of meditation]], during the first seven bhumis, the so-called '[[impure bhumis]]'.
 
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*See also [[cognitive obscurations]].


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Revision as of 08:26, 23 September 2007

Emotional obscurations (Tib. nyön drip; nyon sgrib) are defined according to their essence, cause and function.

In essence, they are the opposite of the six paramitas, as described in the Gyü Lama:

"Thoughts such as avarice and so on,
These are the emotional obscurations."

Their cause is grasping at a personal ego, or the “self of the individual”.

They function to prevent liberation from samsara.

The Elimination of the Emotional Obscurations

According to Mipham Rinpoche, the emotional obscurations are overcome in their imputation (kun btags) aspect at the path of seeing and in their innate (lhan skyes) aspect on the path of meditation, during the first seven bhumis, the so-called 'impure bhumis'.

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