Appreciation
Appreciation (Skt. adhimokṣa; Tib. མོས་པ་, Wyl. mos pa) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the Five object-determining mental states.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. མོས་པ་ནི་ངེས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ་འཛིན་པ་མི་འཕྲོག་པའི་བྱེད་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
- Interest means apprehending a determined entity as it is. Its function is not to lose the object. (Rigpa Translations)
- Interest means holding on to the certain form of a determined object. Its function is to not lose the object. (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Alternative Translations
- Interest (David Karma Choepel)
- Resolve (Gyurme Dorje)
- Interest or adherence (Tony duff[1])
Notes
- ↑ Tony duff: It is defined as having the function of keeping the attention on just the thing desired, seen as suitable, so that it is not sidetracked to some other object. There is no specific term with this definition in English so many different terms have been used for the translation.