Nonattachment

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Nonattachment (Skt. alobha; Tib. མ་ཆགས་པ་, Wyl. ma chags 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 Eleven virtuous states.

Definitions

In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says (Tib. མ་ཆགས་པ་ནི་སྲིད་པ་དང་སྲིད་པའི་ཡོ་བྱད་ལ་མ་ཆགས་པ་སྟེ་ཉེས་སྤྱོད་ལ་མི་འཇུག་པར་བྱེད་པའོ།)

  • Non-attachment is the absence of desire towards [samsaric] existence or worldly things. It makes one not engage in negative actions. (▷RIGPA, Erik Pema Kunsang)