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torpor with water covered by mosses, restlessness and
brooding with agitated water whipped by the wind,
and sceptical doubt with turbid and muddy water. Just
as in such water one cannot perceive one’s own
reflection, so also in the presence of these five mental
hindrances, one cannot clearly discern one’s own
benefit, nor that of others, nor that of both.
7 Seven Anusayas (Seven Latent Defilements)
‘Anusaya’ means ‘to lie dormant’ or ‘to remain latent’. The seven
anusayas are the seeds or potentiality of defilements (kilesàs) that
lie dormant in the khandha-streams of beings life after life
throughout the long saüsàra. They are like the potentiality of a
tree to bear fruits; the potentiality cannot be found anywhere
within the tree, but we know it is there by seeing the fruits it
bears when the time is ripe.
Anusayas are nowhere to be seen. They do not have distinct
appearances, and they are not specified by such characteristics
as arising-existing-dissolving. But they remain ready to come
to the surface as real defilements at an apportune moment when
they are in contact with the corresponding sense-objects.
1 Kàmaràgànusaya – attachment to sense-objects; it is lobha
present in the 8 lobha-måla cittas.
2 Bhavaràgànusaya – attachment to råpa-jhànas, aråpajhànas,
and the existence in råpa- and aråpa-planes; it is
lobha in the 4 lobha-måla diññhi-vippayutta cittas.
3 Pañighànusaya – ill-will or hatred; it is dosa present in
the 2 dosa-måla-cittas.
4 Mànànusaya – pride; it is màna-cetasika present in the 4
lobha-måla diññhi-vippayutta cittas.