How 5 become 10 ... !!!
Bhikkhu Samahita
Friends:
How do the 5 Mental Hindrances become 10?
The
Blessed Buddha once explained:
How, Bhikkhus, is the explanation of the five
mental hindrances becoming ten???
Own
sense-desire
for anything internal is a hindrance. Others sense-desire and
any
sense-desire
for anything external is a hindrance too. Sense-desire
is thus
twofold
by this explanation: Internal and external.
Own ill-will
opposing anything internal is a hindrance. Others ill-will
& any aversion
opposing anything external are hindrances too. A dual
ill-will
can thus be defined.
Any
lethargy
is a mental hindrance. Any laziness
is indeed also a mental hindrance.
Lethargy
and laziness
therefore, becomes an obstructing double mental hindrance.
All
restlessness
there is, is a mental hindrance. Whatever regret
there
is, is also
a hindrance. Therefore can restlessness
& regret
be explained as two hindrances.
Any
doubt and uncertainty about any internal personal
condition,
is a hindrance.
Any
doubt and uncertainty about any other external
condition,
is also a hindrance.
Thus
does doubt
and uncertainty
become explained, as a matched mirror pair.
On how to prevent the
mental hindrances see:
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm and
http://www.what-buddha-said.org/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm
Source
(edited extract):
The
Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:110]
section 46: The Links. 52: The Explanation...
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