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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:

  • One of the eleven virtuous mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings.
  • One of the eight antidotes applied to overcome obstacles in Samatha meditation within the Mahayana tradition.
  • 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

    Prasrabhi Wikipedia