Underlying tendencies

anusaya

Mind & theory Building on it Stage 5 of 8

Seven dormant tendencies (among them sensual desire, aversion, views, doubt, conceit and ignorance) that lie beneath the surface of experience and wake up at contact.

On the path: 5 · Hindrances and mental development — What prevents clarity, and what conditions encourage it? The roots, the hindrances, the underlying tendencies, right effort, the faculties and powers. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of seven · Abandoning · DN 33 · dn33:2.3.45

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Interest, choice and not grasping — cetanā and chanda in the web of conditions Theravāda Abhidhamma · study record · cetanā, chanda & gotrabhū

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Passages where anusaya occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Kangyur · Unraveling the Intent · English

This is one of the synonyms for the subliminal mind ( ; ālayavijñāna ) as explained in chapter 5. See chapters 5 and 6 on the latent disposition of the mind through karmic seeds in the sense of conventions. which are saturated with designations, become confined to such designations and predisposed ; anuśaya . In the sense of “adhering/sticking” and “being latent/inclined” here (see Schmithausen 2014, p. 687). toward them. On this basis, they wrongly conceive ; abhiniviśanti . See Edgerton 1953, p. 53.
Śaivism · lalitaasahasranaama · Sanskrit

thāmārūḍhaiḥ sarvairāyudhaiḥ pariṣkṛtālaṅkṛtā yuddhakāle devī | rathasamīpe devyāḥ sarvāṇyāyudhāni cakrarājarathe paripūrya sthāpitāni santītyarthaḥ | yadvā cakrarājaṃ śrīcakrameva rathastamārūḍhāni yāni sarvāyudhāni sarvāṇyātmajñānasādhanāni tairityādi | yajñāyudhāni sambharatītyādau sādhane prāyudhaśabdaprayogadarśanāt | āṇavopāya- śāktopāya-śāmbhavopāyādayaḥ śaivaśāstroktasādhanaviśeṣā yogaśāstroktāśca te śrīcakrānna bhidyanta ityarthaḥ | tathā ca sūtram- 'nāsikāntamadhyasaṃyamātkimatra savyāpasavyasauṣumye'ṣviti | cakrasiddhau satyāṃ yogamārge kimapi nāvaśiṣyata ityarthaḥ | athavā cakrarāj
Pāli commentaries · pāthikavaggaṭṭhakathā · Pāli

saññāsu asubhānupassanāñāṇe saññā asubhasaññā| ādīnavānupassanāñāṇe saññā ādīnavasaññā nāma| sesā heṭṭhā vuttā eva| balasattakaviññāṇaṭṭhitisattakapuggalasattakāni vuttanayāneva | appahīnaṭṭhena anusayantīti anusayā| thāmagato kāmarāgo kāmarāgānusayo| esa nayo sabbattha| saṃyojanasattakaṃ uttānatthameva| adhikaraṇasamathasattakavaṇṇanā

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