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<noinclude>The '''five ever-present mental states''' (Skt. ''sarvatraga''; Tib. [[ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''kun ‘gro lnga'') are a set of five mental states among the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because they always accompany the [[main mind]]. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are:
<noinclude>The '''five ever-present mental states''' (Skt. ''sarvatraga''; Tib. [[ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''kun ‘gro lnga'') are a set of five mental states among the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because they always accompany the [[main mind]]. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are:


</noinclude>#[[Sensation]] (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]], Wyl. ''tshor ba'')
</noinclude>#[[Sensation]] (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]])
#[[Perception]] (Skt. ''saṃjña''; Tib. [[འདུ་ཤེས་]], Wyl. ''‘du shes'')
#[[Perception]] (Skt. ''saṃjña''; Tib. [[འདུ་ཤེས་]])
#[[Intention]] (Skt. ''cetanā''; Tib. [[སེམས་པ་]], Wyl. ''sems pa'')
#[[Intention]] (Skt. ''cetanā''; Tib. [[སེམས་པ་]])
#[[Contact]] (Skt. ''sparśa''; Tib. རེག་པ་ or [[རེག་བྱ་]], Wyl. ''reg pa, reg bya'')  
#[[Contact]] (Skt. ''sparśa''; Tib. རེག་པ་ or [[རེག་བྱ་]])
#[[Attention]] (Skt. ''manaskāra''; Tib. [[ཡིད་བྱེད་]], Wyl. ''yid byed'')<noinclude>
#[[Attention]] (Skt. ''manaskāra''; Tib. [[ཡིད་བྱེད་]])<noinclude>


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Revision as of 12:20, 20 June 2016

The five ever-present mental states (Skt. sarvatraga; Tib. ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་, Wyl. kun ‘gro lnga) are a set of five mental states among the fifty-one mental states, so-called because they always accompany the main mind. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are:

  1. Sensation (Skt. vedanā; Tib. ཚོར་བ་)
  2. Perception (Skt. saṃjña; Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་)
  3. Intention (Skt. cetanā; Tib. སེམས་པ་)
  4. Contact (Skt. sparśa; Tib. རེག་པ་ or རེག་བྱ་)
  5. Attention (Skt. manaskāra; Tib. ཡིད་བྱེད་)

Alternative Translations

  • ever-functioning subsidiary awarenesses (Alexander Berzin)
  1. feeling; feeling a level of happiness (Berzin)
  2. discernment or recognition (Berzin)
  3. an urge (Berzin)
  4. contacting awareness (Berzin)
  5. mental engagement; paying attention or taking to mind (Berzin)
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