词条 | Middha |
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| fontsize=100% | title=Middha | pi= मिद्ध (middha) | sa= मिद्ध (middha) | en= torpor sleep drowsiness | km=មិទ្ឋៈ | km-Latn=mettheak | bo= གཉིད། | bo-Latn=Wylie: gnyid; THL: nyi | zh=睡眠 (T) / 睡眠 (S) 眠 (T) / 眠 (S) | ko=수면, 면 | ko-Latn=sumyeon, myeon }}Middha (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan phonetic: nyi) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "torpor", "drowsiness", "sleep", etc. In the Theravada tradition, middha is defined as a morbid state that is characterized by unwieldiness, lack of energy, and opposition to wholesome activity.[1] In the Mahayana tradition, middha is defined as a mental factor that causes the mind to draw inward, lose discrimination between wholesome and unwholesome activities, and drop out of activities altogether.[2][3] Middha is identified as:
ExplanationsTheravadaBhikkhu Bodhi explains: Torpor is the morbid state of the mental factors. Its characteristic is unwieldiness. Its function is to smother. It is manifested as drooping, or as nodding and sleepiness. Its proximate cause is the same as that of sloth (thina).[1] The Atthasālinī (II, Book I, Part IX, Chapter II, 255) states about sloth and torpor: “Absence of striving, difficulty through inability, is the meaning.” We then read the following definitions of sloth and torpor: The compound “sloth-torpor” is sloth plus torpor; of which sloth has absence of, or opposition to striving as characteristic, destruction of energy as function, sinking of associated states as manifestation; torpor has unwieldiness as characteristic, closing the doors of consciousness as function, shrinking in taking the object, or drowsiness as manifestation; and both have unsystematic thought, in not arousing oneself from discontent and laziness (or indulgence), as proximate cause.[4] Nina van Gorkom explains: When there are sloth and torpor there is no energy, no vigour to perform dāna, to observe sīla, to listen to Dhamma, to study the Dhamma or to develop calm, no energy to be mindful of the reality which appears now.[4] MahayanaThe Abhidharma-samuccaya states: What is drowsiness (middha)? By making the cause of drowsiness its point of departure, the mind is agreeable to the positive, negative, indifferent, timely, untimely, appropriate, and inappropriate. Drowsiness is related to bewilderment erring. Its function is to become the basis of slipping away from what must be done.[2] Mipham Rinpoche states: [Middha] causes the consciousness of the five sense doors to be withdrawn inwardly without any discrimination as to what is virtuous or unvirtuous, appropriate or inappropriate, or timely or untimely. It belongs to the category of delusion and forms the support for losing activities.[3] Alexander Berzin explains: Sleep (middha; Tibetan: gnyid) is a part of naivety (moha). Sleep is a withdrawal from sensory cognition, characterized by a physical feeling of heaviness, weakness, tiredness, and mental darkness. It causes us to drop our activities.[5] Alternate translations
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References1. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=ACrogsyJmoAC&q=vitakka#v=onepage&q=middha&f=false Bhikkhu Bodhi (2003), p. 84] 2. ^1 Guenther (1975), Kindle Locations 1009-1011. 3. ^1 Kunsang (2004), p. 28. 4. ^1 Gorkom (2010), Definition of Sloth, Torpor, and Doubt 5. ^Berzin (2006) Sources
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