Pali passaddhi Chinese 輕安(T) / 轻安(S) | Sanskrit prasrabhi, praśrabdhi Korean 경안
(RR: gyeongan) | |
English pliancy,
alertness,
flexibility Tibetan ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ།
(Wylie: shin tu sbyang ba;
THL: shintu jangwa) |
Prasrabhi (Sanskrit; Tibetan: ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་, Tibetan Wylie: shin tu sbyang ba, Pali: passaddhi) is a Mahayana Buddhist term translated as "pliancy", "flexibility", or "alertness". It is defined as the ability to apply body and mind towards virtuous activity. Prasrabhi is identified as:
The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:
What is alertness? It is the pliability of body and mind in order to interrupt the continuity of the feeling of sluggishness in body and mind. Its function is to do away with all obscurations.References
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