Pradāśa
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pradāśa (T. 'tshig pa འཚིག་པ།) is translated as "spite," "spitefulness," "malice," etc. It is defined as an attitude based on fury/indignation (krodha) and resentment (upanāha) in which one is unable or unwilling to forgive; it causes one to utter harsh words.[1][2]
Pradāśa is identified as:
- one of the twenty secondary unwholesome factors in the Abhidharma-samuccaya
- one of the ten minor unwholesome factors within the Abhidharma-kosa
Definitions
The Khenjuk states:
- Spite (pradāśa) causes one to be unforgiving and utter harsh words out of fury or resentment.[2]
The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:
- What is spite (pradāśa)? It is a vindictive attitude preceded by fury/indignation (krodha) and resentment (upanāha)–forming part of anger–and its function is to become the basis for harsh and strong words, to increase what is not meritorious, and not to allow one to feel happy.[1]
The Necklace of Clear Understanding states:
- It is the urge to use harsh words of disagreement due to anger and resentment when others raise one's shortcomings, because one has no intention to make a clean break with evil and get it out of one's system.
- Concerning this, the Pañcaskandhaprakaraṇa explains 'revile by harsh words' to mean 'to ridicule'. But the mdzod 'grel (Abhidharmakośa-vyākhyā)[3] explains that spite originates from believing vice to be virtuous and from over-evaluating ideas. By these one plunges into many evil actions such as speaking harsh words. Many non-meritorious situations are generated so that in this life one cannot feel happy and, in the next one, unpleasant results are brought about.[1]
Chim Jampaiyang states:
- Spite (pradāsa) craves immorality [or misdeeds]. Treatise on the Five Aggregates notes:
- What is spite? It is disturbing the mind with abrasive words.
- Therefore it is logical to explain it to be disturbing another’s mind with abrasive words through a wrathful mind and that it is associated with aversion. Its function is to generate negative action, prevent attainment of happiness, and to increase demerit. Therefore Master Sthiramati explains:
- It is difficult to associate with a person who possesses it.[4]
According to Daniel Goleman, spite (pradāśa) is a derivative of anger/aggression (pratigha).[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yeshe Gyeltsen 1975, s.v. Spite ['tshig-pa].
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mipham Rinpoche 2004, s.v. line 1.77.
- ↑ Note: Toh Sze Gee (2006) translates this title as Abhidharmakosabhashya.
- ↑ Chim Jampaiyang 2019, Chapter 8, section "Specific Afflicted Mental States".
- ↑ Goleman 2008, Kindle Locations 2475.
Sources
Chim Jampaiyang (2019), Jinpa, Thupten, ed., Ornament of Abhidharma: A Commentary on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa, translated by Coghlan, Ian James (Apple Books ed.), Library of Tibetan Classics- Goleman, Daniel (2008), Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Bantam, Kindle Edition
- Mipham Rinpoche (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications
- Yeshe Gyeltsen (1975), Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding", translated by Guenther, Herbert V.; Kawamura, Leslie S., Dharma Publishing
External links
'tshig_pa, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors, StudyBuddhism
Pradāśa, Wikipedia
