The Impurities of the Heart-Mind

Ven. Nyanatiloka (Anton Gueth), Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Terms and Doctrines (upakkilesa and sotapanna) edited by Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

You stink of mental impurities! - I know, but I'm working on rooting them out. - That's great!

 

I should have kept my word about purifying.

In Buddhism the "impurities" (upakkilesas) or corruptions, imperfections, "defilements" (a word better reserved for translating the term kilesas) are 16 moral "impurities of the mind" mentioned and explained in MN 7 and MN 8. (See Wheel No. 61/62):

1. covetousness-greed (abhijjhā-visamalobha)
2. ill will (vyāpāda)
3. anger (kodha)
4. hostility (upanāha)
5. denigration (makkha)
6. domineering (palāsa)
7. envy (issā)
8. stinginess (macchariya)
9. hypocrisy (māyā)
10. fraud (sātheyya)
11. obstinacy (thambha)
12. presumption (sārambha)
13. conceit (māna)
14. arrogance (atimāna)
15. vanity (mada)
16. negligence (pamāda).

Some impurities pertain to meditation.

There are three groups of impurities pertaining to meditation:

 

(A) Nine mental imperfections occurring in "one devoted to higher mental training" (a sikkha devoted to adhi-citta);

• three coarse ones: harmful physical, verbal, and mental conduct in deeds, words, and thoughts;
• three medium ones: thoughts of sensual desire, thoughts of ill will, thoughts of cruelty;
• three subtle ones: thoughts about one's relatives, one's country, and one's reputation (A.III.100).

(B) Eighteen imperfections in the practice of mindfulness of breathing, mentioned in Pts.M., ānāpāna-kathā (translated in Ven. Ñānamoli Thera's Mindfulness of Breathing, p. 60, BPS.lk).

 

(C) Ten "imperfections of insight" (insight-meditation, vipassana-ūpakkilesa); see Visuddhi V.

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Why do the Irish have a reputation of telling the best stories? Is it possible we are eager to entertain and delight others to distract them from us? Is there a half-conscious motive to conceal ourselves?
 
Do we stay private as part of the aftermath of near annihilation by the British, whose atrocities and occupation continued for...? Some might say it still continues, and certainly the hegemony persists. So much so that it once drove the first European to ordain as a Buddhist monk in faraway Asia. (See video).

Irish-Americans have returned to the Emerald Isle with Buddhism. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Rhys Davids, I.B. Horner, Woodward, and the Pali Text Society (P.T.S.) with its influential Journal, and even more influential Dictionary of Buddhist-Language Terms, the Dharma arrived on Albion and the Continent more than a century ago.

The Lost Irish Buddhist

Who was the first European Buddhist monk? An adventurer, an Irish rebel, a hobo, an inner-freedom fighter, a world traveler,  and finally a famous Buddhist in Asia. He blazed a trail but died, it seems, is ignored by history. Why?
 
This enigmatic, free-thinking Dubliner used various aliases. As a monastic he was known as Ven. Dhammaloka ("Dharma Realm"), The Irish Buddhist. He converted to his adopted path-to-liberation about 1900. He came to be widely known throughout Asia and in the process managed to fall afoul of the colonial establishment and Christian missionaries.

Danu, wee people, bhumi-devas (amayodruid)

Uncovering Ven. Dhammaloka's unique story has taken inspired detective work on the part of UCC's Professor Brian Bocking and his colleagues. But their efforts have been fruitful.

The lost Irish Buddhist emerges after all these many years as one of the earliest Western Buddhist monks, pre-dating many others who claim the title. Prof. Bocking guides us through his amazing odyssey.

Now, with or without the Perks family, Wisdom Quarterly will represent Celtic Buddhism in Los Angeles at ScotsFest 2013.

This year will feature a Saturday Night Closing in the Nan Daley Highland Dance Pavilion with all three Grade 1 pipe bands: Dowco Triumph Street, Alberta Caledonia, and the LA Scots (and no closing massed band in the main arena).

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