The 7 Latent Tendencies ... !!!

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There are these seven Latent Tendencies (Anusaya):

The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these seven kinds of Latent Tendency. What seven?

1: The Latent Tendency to Sense-Pleasure...2: The Latent Tendency to Aversion & Ill-Will...3: The Latent Tendency to Speculative Views…4: The Latent Tendency to Skeptical Doubt…5: The Latent Tendency to Conceiving “I Am”…6: The Latent Tendency to Lust for Becoming…7: The Latent Tendency to Ignorance…

These are the seven kinds of Latent Tendency! The Noble 8-fold Way should be developed for the direct experience of these seven kinds of Latent Tendency, for the full understanding and elimination of them, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind…This Noble 8-fold Way is developed for the sake of the uprooting of all Latent Tendency!

Explanation:Latent Tendency towards Pleasurable Sights, sounds, smells, flavours, touches, & thoughts is fairly obvious…Latent Tendency to Aversion is all hate, anger, irritation, opposition, resistance, rigidity and stubbornness…Latent Tendency to Speculative Views is believing that no action has future effects & rituals are purifying…Latent Tendency to Skeptical Doubt is the lack of faith & conviction in the fact of Buddha’s Enlightenment…Latent Tendency to Conceiving “I Am” is assuming the hidden existence of a constant core identity: ‘I-Me’…Latent Tendency to Lust for Becoming is the hoping for a future existence as this or that kind of being…Latent Tendency to Ignorance is not seeing, not understanding, and not knowing the Four Noble Truths…Latent Tendency means lurking liability, hidden inclination, underlying readiness, a recurring dormant drive!

Buddha once emphasized:That a person, without eliminating the latent tendency to lust for any pleasant feeling, without abolishing the latent tendency to aversion towards any painful feeling, without uprooting the latent tendency to neglect and ignorance accompanying any neutral feeling, without extirpating ignorance & making clear understanding arise,should ever, here & now, in this very life, be able to cease suffering & awaken, that is indeed impossible…http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn148.html

 

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:60] section 45: The Way. 175: The 7 Latent Tendencies ... http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html.

 

 

 

 

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