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苦は楽の種

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 kuharakunotane
    くはらくのたね

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There is no pleasure without pain
(expression) (proverb) (See 楽は苦の種、苦は楽の種) one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain


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shě
    she3
she
 sha
    しゃ
to give up; to abandon; to give alms
{Buddh} equanimity; upeksa; upekkha
upekṣā, neglect, indifference, abandoning, M.W. To relinquish, renounce, abandon, reject, give. One of the chief Buddhist virtues, that of renunciation, leading to a state of "indifference without pleasure or pain" (Keith), or independence of both. v. 舍. It is defined as the mind 平等 in equilibrium, i.e. above the distinction of things or persons, of self or others; indifferent, having abandoned the world and all things and having no affections or desires. One of the seven bodhyaṅgas. Translit. sa, śa, s(r).

三受

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sān shòu
    san1 shou4
san shou
 sanju
The three states of Vedanā, i. e. sensation, are divided into painful, pleasurable, and freedom from both 苦, 樂, 捨. When things are opposed to desire, pain arises; when accordant, there is pleasure and a desire for their continuance; when neither, one is detached or free. 倶舍論 1.

二受

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èr shòu
    er4 shou4
erh shou
 niju
The dual receptivity or karma of pleasure and pain, the physical and the mental, i.e. 身 and 心.

二因

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èr yīn
    er4 yin1
erh yin
 niin / nin
    にいん
{Buddh} two causes
Two causes, of which there are various definitions: (1) 生因 The producing cause (of all good things); and 了因 the revealing or illuminating cause i.e. knowledge, or wisdom. (2) 能生因 The 8th 識 q. v.: the cause that is able to produce all sense and perceptions, also all good and evil; and 方便因 the environmental or adaptive cause, which aids the 8th 識, as water or earth does the seed, etc. (3) 習因 or 同類因 Practice or habit as cause e. g. desire causing desire; and 報因 or 果熟因 the rewarding cause, or fruit-ripening cause, e. g. pleasure or pain caused by good or evil deeds. (4) 正因 Correct or direct cause i.e. the Buddha-nature of all beings; and 緣因 the contributory cause, or enlightenment (see 了因 above) which evolves the 正因 or Buddha-nature by good works. (5) 近因 Immediate or direct cause and 遠因 distant or indirect cause or causes.

二果

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èr guǒ
    er4 guo3
erh kuo
 nika
Sakṛdāgāmin; v. 裟 and 斯. The second "fruit" of the four kinds of Hīnayāna arhats, who have only once more to return to mortality. Also the two kinds of fruit or karma: (a) 習氣果 The good or evil characteristics resulting from habit or practice in a former existence; (b) 報果the pain or pleasure resulting (in this life) from the practices of a previous life.

五受

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wǔ shòu
    wu3 shou4
wu shou
 goju
The five vedanas, or sensations; i. e. of sorrow, ofjoy; of pain, of pleasure; of freedom from them all; the first two are limited to mental emotions, the two next are of the senses, and the fifth of both; v. 唯識論 5.

五果

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wǔ guǒ
    wu3 guo3
wu kuo
 goka
    ごか
(1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life
The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods.

五識


五识

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wǔ shì
    wu3 shi4
wu shih
 goshiki
The five parijñānas, perceptions or cognitions; ordinarily those arising from the five senses, i. e. of form-and-color, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The 起信論 Awakening of Faith has a different set of five steps in the history of cognition; (1) 業識 initial functioning of mind under the influence of the original 無明 unenlightenment or state of ignorance; (2) 轉識 the act of turning towards the apparent object for its observation; (3) 現識 observation of the object as it appears; (4) 知識 the deductions derived from its appearance; (5) 相續識 the consequent feelings of like or dislike, pleasure or pain, from which arise the delusions and incarnations.

六麤


六粗

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liù cū
    liu4 cu1
liu ts`u
    liu tsu
 rokuso
The six 'coarser' stages arising from the 三細 or three finer stages which in turn are produced by original 無明, the unenlightened condition of ignorance; v. Awakening of Faith 起信論. They are the states of (1) 智相 knowledge or consciousness of like and dislike arising from mental conditions; (2) 相續相 consciousness of pain and pleasure resulting from the first, causing continuous responsive memory; (3) 執取相 attachment or clinging, arising from the last; (4) 計名字相 assigning names according to the seeming and unreal with fixation of ideas); (5) 起業 the consequent activity with all the variety of deeds; (6) 業繋苦相 the suffering resulting from being tied to deeds and their karma consequences.

捨受


舍受

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shě shòu
    she3 shou4
she shou
 shaju
The state of renunciation, or indifference to sensation.

異熟


异熟

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yì shóu
    yi4 shou2
i shou
 ijuku
vipāka, different when cooked, or matured, i.e. the effect differing from the cause, e. g. pleasure differing from goodness its cause, and pain from evil. Also, maturing or producing its effects in another life.

紫磨

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zǐ mó
    zi3 mo2
tzu mo
 shima
Pure gold, hence 紫磨金; also 紫磨忍辱 the Buddha's image in attitude of calmness and indifference to pleasure or pain.

苦楽

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 kuraku
    くらく
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows

苦樂


苦乐

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kǔ lè
    ku3 le4
k`u le
    ku le
 kuraku
pain and pleasure

三受業


三受业

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sān shòu yè
    san1 shou4 ye4
san shou yeh
 sanjū gō
The karma or results arising from the pursuit of courses that produce pain, pleasure, or freedom from both.

六染心

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liù rǎn xīn
    liu4 ran3 xin1
liu jan hsin
 roku zenshin
The six mental 'taints' of the Awakening of Faith 起心論. Though mind-essence is by nature pure and without stain, the condition of 無明 ignorance, or innocence, permits of taint or defilement corresponding to the following six phases: (1) 執相應染 the taint interrelated to attachment, or holding the seeming for the real; it is the state of 執取相 and 名字相 which is cut off in the final pratyeka and śrāvaka stage and the bodhisattva 十住 of faith; (2) 不斷相應染 the taint interrelated to the persisting attraction of the causes of pain and pleasure; it is the 相續相 finally eradicated in the bodhisattva 初地 stage of purity; (3) 分別智相應染 the taint interrelated to the 'particularizing intelligence' which discerns things within and without this world; it is the first 智相, cut off in the bodhisattva 七地 stage of spirituality; (4) 現色不相應染 the non-interrelated or primary taint, i. e. of the 'ignorant' mind as yet hardly discerning subject from object, of accepting an external world; the third 現相 cut of in the bodhisattva 八地 stage of emancipation from the material; (5) 能見心不相應染 the non-interrelated or primary taint of accepting a perceptive mind, the second 轉相, cut of in the bodhisattva 九地 of intuition, or emancipation from mental effort; (6) 根本業不相應染 the non-interrelated or primary taint of accepting the idea of primal action or activity in the absolute; it is the first 業相, and cut of in the 十地 highest bodhisattva stage, entering on Buddhahood. See Suzuki's translation, 80-1.

受苦樂


受苦乐

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shòu kǔ lè
    shou4 ku3 le4
shou k`u le
    shou ku le
 jukuraku
experience pain and pleasure

憂畢叉


忧毕叉

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yōu bì chā
    you1 bi4 cha1
yu pi ch`a
    yu pi cha
 upisha
upekṣā, cf. 優 indifference attained in abstraction, i.e. 'indifference to pain or pleasure, equanimity, resignation, stoicism'. Childers. 'Looking on, hedonic neutrality or indifference, zero point between joy and sorrow, disinterestedness, neutral feeling, equanimity.' Pali Text Society's Dictionary.

異熟因


异熟因

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yì shóu yīn
    yi4 shou2 yin1
i shou yin
 ijuku in
vipāka-hetu heterogeneous cause, i.e. a cause producing a different effect, known as 無記 neutral, or not ethical, e.g. goodness resulting in pleasure, evil in pain.

第四禪


第四禅

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dì sì chán
    di4 si4 chan2
ti ssu ch`an
    ti ssu chan
 daishi zen
The fourth dhyāna, a degree of contemplation when the mind becomes indifferent to pleasure and pain; also the last eight rūpa heavens.

苦樂覺


苦乐觉

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kǔ lè jué
    ku3 le4 jue2
k`u le chüeh
    ku le chüeh
 kuraku kaku
awareness of pain and pleasure

不動無爲


不动无为

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bù dòng wú wéi
    bu4 dong4 wu2 wei2
pu tung wu wei
 fudō mui
One of the six 無爲 kinds of inaction, or laissez aIIer, the state of being unmoved by pleasure or pain.

二十二根

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èr shí èr gēn
    er4 shi2 er4 gen1
erh shih erh ken
 nijūni kon
The twenty-two roots, organs, or powers, v. 根. They are: (1) 眼根 eye, cakṣurindriya; (2) 耳 根 ear, śrotrendriya; (3) 鼻根 nose, ghrāṇendriya; (4) 舌根 tongue, jihvendriya; (5) 身根 body, kāyendriya; (6) 意根 mind, manaīndriya (the above are the 六根); (7) 女根 female organ, strīndriya; (8) 男根 male organ, puruṣendriya; (9) 命根 life, jīvitendriya; (10) 苦根 suffering (or pain), duḥkhendriya; (11) 樂根 pleasure, sukhendriya; (12) 憂根 sorrow, daurmanasyendriya; (13) 喜根 joy, saumanas-yendriya; (14) 捨根 abandoning, upekṣendriya (from 10 to 14 they are the 五受); (15) 信根 faith, śraddhendriya; (16) 精進根 zeal, vīryendriya; (17) 念根 memory, smṛtīndriya; (18) 定根 meditation, or trance, samādhīndriya; (19) 慧根 wisdom, prajñendriya (these are the 信等之五根); (20) 未知當知根 the power for learning (the Four Noble Truths) anājñātamājñāsyāmīndriya; (21) 巳知根 the power of having learned (them), ājñendriya; (22) 具知根 the power of perfect knowledge (of them), ājñātādvīndriya (these three are called the 無漏根) .

受用苦樂


受用苦乐

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shòu yòng kǔ lè
    shou4 yong4 ku3 le4
shou yung k`u le
    shou yung ku le
 juyū kuraku
experiences pain and pleasure

不動滅無爲


不动灭无为

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bú dòng miè wú wéi
    bu2 dong4 mie4 wu2 wei2
pu tung mieh wu wei
 fudō metsu mui
to state of being unmoved by pleasure or pain

不苦不樂受


不苦不乐受

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bù kǔ bù lè shòu
    bu4 ku3 bu4 le4 shou4
pu k`u pu le shou
    pu ku pu le shou
 fuku furaku ju
one of the 三受, the state of experiencing neither pain nor pleasure, i. e. above them. Also styled 捨受 the state in which one has abandoned both.

不苦不樂倶行


不苦不乐倶行

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bù kǔ bù lè jù xíng
    bu4 ku3 bu4 le4 ju4 xing2
pu k`u pu le chü hsing
    pu ku pu le chü hsing
 fuku furaku kugyō
accompanied by neither pleasure nor pain

如是領受苦樂


如是领受苦乐

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rú shì lǐng shòu kǔ lè
    ru2 shi4 ling3 shou4 ku3 le4
ju shih ling shou k`u le
    ju shih ling shou ku le
 nyoze ryōjukuraku
certain experiences of pleasure and pain

楽あれば苦あり

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 rakuarebakuari
    らくあればくあり
(expression) After pleasure comes pain; There is no pleasure without pain; There is no rose without a thorn; Take the good with the bad

楽有れば苦有り

see styles
 rakuarebakuari
    らくあればくあり
(expression) After pleasure comes pain; There is no pleasure without pain; There is no rose without a thorn; Take the good with the bad

順不苦不樂受業

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shùn bù kǔ bù lè shòu yè
    shun4 bu4 ku3 bu4 le4 shou4 ye4
shun pu k`u pu le shou yeh
    shun pu ku pu le shou yeh
karma that is received as the result of pursuit of behaviors that bring neither pleasure nor pain

楽は苦の種苦は楽の種

see styles
 rakuhakunotanekuharakunotane
    らくはくのたねくはらくのたね
(expression) one cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain

Variations:
楽あれば苦あり
楽有れば苦有り

see styles
 rakuarebakuari
    らくあればくあり
(expression) (proverb) after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad

Variations:
楽は苦の種苦は楽の種
楽は苦の種、苦は楽の種

see styles
 rakuhakunotanekuharakunotane
    らくはくのたねくはらくのたね
(expression) (proverb) there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain

Variations:
楽は苦の種、苦は楽の種
楽は苦の種苦は楽の種(sK)

see styles
 rakuhakunotane、kuharakunotane
    らくはくのたね、くはらくのたね
(expression) (proverb) there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain

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