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The Five Hindrances and Their Elimination
The Five Hindrances and Their Elimination
The Five Hindrances (or nīvarana) are:
Sensual desire (kāmacchanda)
Ill will (vyāpāda)
Dullness and drowsiness (thina-middha)
Restlessness and remorse (uddhacca-kukkucca)
Doubt (vicikicchā)
The following table, entitled “The Five Hindrances and Their Elimination”, is offered as a PDF file. The table features six columns of information as follows:
- Hindrance
- Primary Condition
- Primary Antidote
- Other Remedies
- How Eradicated
- Similes
For a PDF copy of the table, please click The Five Hindrances and Their Elimination.
Source: Kind permission was granted to use the table here by the Noble Path Buddhist Education Fellowship (the source was Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi’s Lectures at Chuang Yen Monastery). http://www.noblepath.org/index.html
Noble Path Buddhist Education Fellowship is a not-for-profit religious organization incorporated in the State of New York of the United States in 2008 for the purpose of promoting non-denominational Buddhist education and the comprehensive approach to Buddhist study. Under the spiritual guidance of Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, they are a group of lay Buddhists inspired by the works of a Chinese scholar monk, the late Venerable Master Yinshun (1905-2006).
The Five Hindrances
The following table that is offered also covers the Five Hindrances. Seven columns feature:
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Hindrance
- Analogy
- Description
- Two Strategies
- A Reflection
- Classical Antidote
- Outside of Meditation Time
For a PDF copy of the table, please click The Five Hindrances – a Table.
For an MS Word copy of the table, please click The Five Hindrances – a Table.