Objects of focus for cleansing oneself of disturbing emotions and attitudes

Of the four categories of objects of focus to employ in shamatha and vipashyana meditation, the focus on one of the following in order to eliminate the disturbing emotions and attitudes in oneself all together, not just specific ones: (1) objects of focus for merely weakening the tendencies (seeds) of the disturbing emotions and attitudes (nyon-mongs-kyi sa-bon nyams-smod-par byed-pa tsam) and (2) objects of focus for ridding oneself of the disturbing emotions and attitudes from their roots (nyon-mongs-kyi sa-bon rtsad-nas spong-ba).

Tibetan: ཉོན་མོངས་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བའི་དམིགས་པ། nyon-mongs-pa rnam-par sbyong-ba'i dmigs-pa

Other languages

Deutsch: Objekt der Ausrichtung, um sich selbst von störenden Emotionen und Geisteshaltungen zu reinigen

Español: Objecto de enfoque para limpiarse a uno mismo de emociones y actitudes perturbadoras

Related terms

Appearing object

Cognitively taking an object

Commonsense object

Conceptually implied object

Consciousness that takes objects and objects taken by consciousness

Conventional object

Desirable sensory objects

Focal object

Forms of physical phenomena that can become objects of experience of the eyes

Intentions to experience desirable objects

Involved object

Manner of cognitively taking an object

Mental object

Object clear light

Object exclusion specifying an individually characterized object

Object mental synthesis

Object to be gotten rid of

Object to be gotten rid of by a seeing pathway of mind

Object to be gotten rid of by an accustoming pathway mind

Object to be negated

Objective entities

Objects of focus for cleansing one’s behavior

Objects taken and minds that take them

Objects that indicate a safe direction

Pervasive objects of focus

Proponents of an equal number of cognized objects and cognizing consciousnesses

Referent object

Wake of an object to be negated having been negated