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'''Jealousy''' (Skt. īrṣyā; Tib. '' | '''Jealousy''' (Skt. ''īrṣyā''; Tib. [[ཕྲག་དོག་]], ''trakdok'', [[Wyl.]] ''phrag dog'') — one of the [[five poisons|five main]] [[destructive emotions]]. It is a combination of attachment and aggression. | ||
Jealousy is also counted as one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature and belongs to the subgroup of the [[twenty subsidiary destructive emotions]], according to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]''. | |||
==Definitions== | |||
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says: | |||
*Tib. ཕྲག་དོག་ནི་ཁོང་ཁྲོའི་ཆར་གཏོགས་པ། རང་རྙེད་བཀུར་སོགས་ལ་ཆགས་ནས་གཞན་གྱི་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ལ་མི་བཟོད་པར་སེམས་ཁོང་ནས་འཁྲུགས་པ། ཡིད་མི་བདེ་ཞིང་སེམས་རྣལ་དུ་མི་གནས་ལ་ཉེས་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའོ། | |||
*Envy is a mental state that is deeply disturbed by the desire to obtain such things such as honour and gain for oneself, and by the inability to bear others’ excellence. It causes one to be unhappy and prevents the mind from resting naturally, and thus it supports negative actions. It belongs to the category of anger. ([[Rigpa Translations]]) | |||
*Envy belongs to the category of anger. It is a mental state that is deeply disturbed by the desire to obtain honor and gain for oneself, and by the inability to bear the excellence of others. It forms the support for unhappiness, for the mind's inability to rest in naturalness, and for negative actions. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | |||
==Alternative Translations== | |||
*Envy | |||
==Teachings on How to Overcome Jealousy Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha== | |||
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Haileybury, UK, 5 April 2010 | |||
*Sogyal Rinpoche, [[Dharma Mati]], Germany 5 June 2011 | |||
==External Links== | |||
*[http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/x/nav/group.html_1279432040.html 'Strategies for Deconstructing Jealousy' by Alexander Berzin] | |||
[[Category:Destructive Emotions]] | [[Category:Destructive Emotions]] | ||
[[Category:Abhidharma]] | |||
[[Category:Fifty-one mental states]] | |||
[[Category:Twenty subsidiary destructive emotions]] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:59, 13 December 2020
Jealousy (Skt. īrṣyā; Tib. ཕྲག་དོག་, trakdok, Wyl. phrag dog) — one of the five main destructive emotions. It is a combination of attachment and aggression.
Jealousy is also counted as one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature and belongs to the subgroup of the twenty subsidiary destructive emotions, according to the Compendium of Abhidharma.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. ཕྲག་དོག་ནི་ཁོང་ཁྲོའི་ཆར་གཏོགས་པ། རང་རྙེད་བཀུར་སོགས་ལ་ཆགས་ནས་གཞན་གྱི་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ལ་མི་བཟོད་པར་སེམས་ཁོང་ནས་འཁྲུགས་པ། ཡིད་མི་བདེ་ཞིང་སེམས་རྣལ་དུ་མི་གནས་ལ་ཉེས་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའོ།
- Envy is a mental state that is deeply disturbed by the desire to obtain such things such as honour and gain for oneself, and by the inability to bear others’ excellence. It causes one to be unhappy and prevents the mind from resting naturally, and thus it supports negative actions. It belongs to the category of anger. (Rigpa Translations)
- Envy belongs to the category of anger. It is a mental state that is deeply disturbed by the desire to obtain honor and gain for oneself, and by the inability to bear the excellence of others. It forms the support for unhappiness, for the mind's inability to rest in naturalness, and for negative actions. (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Alternative Translations
- Envy
Teachings on How to Overcome Jealousy Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Haileybury, UK, 5 April 2010
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Dharma Mati, Germany 5 June 2011