Apraṇihita
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apraṇihita (P. appaṇihita; T. smon pa med pa; C. wuyun 無願) is translated as "wishless," "wishlessness," etc.
Wishlessness (apraṇihita) is one of the three gateways to liberation, along with emptiness (sunyata) and signlessness (ānimitta).[1][2][3]
Generally understood, wishlessness is the absence of any conceptual goal one may be focused on achieving; it comes about from knowing that all composite phenomena create suffering.[2] Even the wish to attain buddhahood is absent.[2]
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism states:
- Once signlessness has exposed the dangers (ādīnava) inherent in sensory perception, the meditator loses all desire for the compounded (saṃskṛta) things of this world and adverts instead toward the uncompounded (asaṃskṛta), which is nirvāṇa. The wishless is produced through insight into suffering (duḥkha) and serves as the counteragent (pratipakṣa) to all the intentions (āśaya) and aspirations (praṇidhāna) one has toward any compounded dharma. Once the meditator has abandoned all such aspirations, he or she is then able to advert toward nirvāṇa, which has no relation to anything that can be desired (vairāgya).[3]
Notes
- ↑ Three doors to liberation, Samye Institute
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
smon pa med pa (84000 glossary definitions), Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. apraṇihita.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University- smon pa med pa, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- Three doors to liberation, Samye Institute