Emotional obscurations

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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.

See also cognitive obscurations.