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  1. Release of Desires

  2. Give Up Desire

  3. Immovable Liberation

  4. Hentai

  5. Four Noble Truths: Path Leading Away From Suffering

  6. Contentment

  7. Kama - Desire Wish Longing


Release of Desires

 guǎ yù
 keyoku
Release of Desires Scroll

寡欲 is a Buddhist word meaning unselfishness, wanting little, giving up desires, or achieving a reduction of desires in one's life.

When one achieves this, one has a more content and happy life.

Give Up Desire

 shě yù
 shayoku
Give Up Desire Scroll

捨欲 is a Buddhist term that means to give up desire or the act of cutting off desire.

In Buddhism, our attachments, greed, and/or desires are the root of our suffering. Release them and live a happy life!

Immovable Liberation

 bù dòng jiě tuō
 fudō gedatsu
Immovable Liberation Scroll

不動解脫 is a Buddhist term that refers to liberation from being disturbed by the illusions of life.

In short, this can be called “immovable liberation.”

This allows one to remain unaffected by the impermanent things such as emotions, attachments, desires, and greed of the world.

 hen tai
Hentai Scroll

変態 is a Japanese word that originally meant transformation, metamorphosis, abnormality, or pervert.

In English, this has come to be the name for a genre of Japanese anime and manga pornography. However, in Japan, it remains a short word to describe any perverse or bizarre sexual desires or acts.

Four Noble Truths: Path Leading Away From Suffering

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 dào dì
 doutai
Four Noble Truths: Path Leading Away From Suffering Scroll

道諦 is the idea that once you have dealt with your desires and left all desire and attachment behind, only then are you on the path away from suffering (and on your way to enlightenment).

道諦 is also called the path to liberation in some English texts on Buddhism.


This term is exclusively used by devout Buddhists. It is not a common term, and is remains an unknown concept to most Chinese, Japanese and Korean people.


See Also:  Buddhism | Enlightenment

 zhī zú
 chisoku
Contentment Scroll

知足 means content with one's situation or to know contentment (hence happiness).

From the Zen Buddhist context, Chisoku or 知足 (knowing what’s enough) means always to know and be satisfied with one’s lot.

Human pain and suffering are born of greed, and that greed arises because we do not know what’s enough.

The Chinese philosopher, Menzi (372-289 BCE) said, “to nourish the mind, there is nothing better than to make the desires few.” This relays the idea that the best method to cultivate the mind is to have little desire.

Kama - Desire Wish Longing

 yù lè
 yokuraku
Kama - Desire Wish Longing Scroll

欲樂 is the Chinese and Japanese title representing the Buddhist and Jainist joys of the five desires.

Kama comes from the Pali/Sanskrit काम. The meaning is “desire, wish, longing.”

In Jainism, it can include sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and longing.

However, the Buddhist context refers more to any desire, wish, passion, longing, the pleasure of the senses, desire for, longing to and after, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, enjoyment of love is particularly with or without the enjoyment of sexual, sensual and erotic desire, and is often used without sexual connotations.


These search terms might be related to Desires:

Blessings and Good Wishes

Considerate of the Needs of Others

Longevity / Long Life Wishes

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Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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qíng
    qing2
ch`ing
    ching
 makoto
    まこと

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Passions / Feelings / Emotions
(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
(1) feelings; emotion; sentiment; (2) compassion; sympathy; (3) passion; affection; love; (4) the way things really are; the actual situation; (personal name) Makoto
The feelings, passions, desires, affections, sensations; sentient; affinities; affairs, facts. Particular affections, duties, or affairs.

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    yu4

 yoku
    よく
to wish for; to desire; variant of 慾|欲[yu4]
greed; craving; desire; avarice; wants; (surname) Yoku
rājas, passion. Also kāma, desire, love. The Chinese word means to breathe after, aspire to, desire, and is also used as 慾 for lust, passion; it is inter alia intp. as 染愛塵 tainted with the dust (or dirt) of love, or lust. The three desires are for beauty, demeanour, and softness; the five are those of the five physical senses.

仙人

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xiān rén
    xian1 ren2
hsien jen
 sennin
    せんにん

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Sennin
Daoist immortal; celestial being
(1) immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit); (2) one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men; (surname, given name) Sennin
seer

寡欲

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guǎ yù
    gua3 yu4
kua yü
 keyoku
    かよく

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Release of Desires
(noun or adjectival noun) unselfishness; wanting little
reduction of desires

情欲

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qíng yù
    qing2 yu4
ch`ing yü
    ching yü
 jōyoku
    じょうよく

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Lust / Desire / Passion
(noun - becomes adjective with の) passions; sexual desire; lust
The passions, desires.

欲樂


欲乐

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yù lè
    yu4 le4
yü le
 yokuraku

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Kama - Desire Wish Longing
The joys of the five desires.


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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).


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xiǎn
    xian3
hsien
 sen
to hunt in autumn (archaic)
markaṭa, 獮猴 a monkey, typical of the mind of illusion, pictured as trying to pluck the moon out of the water; also of the five desires; of foolishness; of restlessness.

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jīn
    jin1
chin
 eri
    えり
lapel; overlap of Chinese gown; fig. bosom (the seat of emotions); to cherish (ambition, desires, honorable intentions etc) in one's bosom
(1) collar; lapel; neckband; neck; (2) nape of the neck; scruff of the neck; (female given name) Eri


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tān
    tan1
t`an
    tan
 tan; ton; don
    たん; とん; どん
to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy; corrupt
(1) coveting; (2) {Buddh} (usu. とん) raga (desire)
rāga; colouring, dyeing, tint, red; affection, passion, vehement longing or desire; cf. M. W. In Chinese: cupidity, desire; intp. tainted by and in bondage to the five desires; it is the first in order of the 五鈍使 pañca-kleśa q. v., and means hankering after, desire for, greed, which causes clinging to earthly life and things, therefore reincarnation.

七魄

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qī pò
    qi1 po4
ch`i p`o
    chi po
seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires; contrasted with 三魂 three immortal souls

三愛


三爱

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sān ài
    san1 ai4
san ai
 miyoshi
    みよし
(1) koto, alcohol and poetry; the three loves; (2) {Buddh} the three desires of the realms of existence; (male given name) Miyoshi
three kinds of attachment

三欲

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sān yù
    san1 yu4
san yü
 sanyoku
three lusts, i. e. for 形貌 form, 姿態 carriage or beauty, and 細觸refinement, or softness to the touch.

二行

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èr xíng
    er4 xing2
erh hsing
 nigyō
Two classes of conduct: following wrong views; following wrong desires, or emotions. There are other pairs.

五情

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wǔ qíng
    wu3 qing2
wu ch`ing
    wu ching
 gojou / gojo
    ごじょう
the five passions (anger, joy, hatred, desire and grief)
The feelings, or passions, which are stirred by the 五根 five senses.

五欲

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wǔ yù
    wu3 yu4
wu yü
 goyoku
The five desires, arising from the objects of the five senses, things seen, heard, smelt, tasted, or touched. Also, the five desires of wealth, sex, foodand-drink, fame, and sleep.

五箭

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wǔ jiàn
    wu3 jian4
wu chien
 go sen
The five arrows, i. e. the five desires 五欲.

人欲

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 jinyoku
    じんよく
human desires; human passions

俗念

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 zokunen
    ぞくねん
worldliness; worldly ambition; unholy desires

僊人


仙人

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 sennin
    せんにん
(1) immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit); (2) person not bound by earthly desires

六欲

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liù yù
    liu4 yu4
liu yü
 rokuyoku
The six sexual attractions arising from color; form; carriage; voice (or speech); softness (or smoothness); and features.

六色

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liù sè
    liu4 se4
liu se
 roku shiki
six desires [of a woman]

凡情

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fán qíng
    fan2 qing2
fan ch`ing
    fan ching
 bonjō
Desires or passions of the unconverted.

十力

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shí lì
    shi2 li4
shih li
 jūriki
Daśabala. The ten powers of Buddha, giving complete knowledge of: (1) what is right or wrong in every condition; (2) what is the karma of every being, past, present, and future; (3) all stages of dhyāna liberation, and samādhi; (4) the powers and faculties of all beings; (5) the desires, or moral direction of every being; (6) the actual condition of every individual; (7) the direction and consequence of all laws; (8) all causes of mortality and of good and evil in their reality; (9) the end of all beings and nirvāṇa; (10) the destruction of all illusion of every kind. See the 智度論 25 and the 倶舍論 29.

受欲

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shòu yù
    shou4 yu4
shou yü
 juyoku
to indulge in desires

四欲

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sì yù
    si4 yu4
ssu yü
 shiyoku
The four desires or passions: 情 sexual love; 色 sexual beauty or attractiveness; 食 food; 婬 lust.

四流

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sì liú
    si4 liu2
ssu liu
 shiru
The four currents (that carry the unthinking along): i. e. the illusions of 見 seeing things as they seem, not as they really are; 欲 desires; 有 existence, life; 無明 ignorance, or an unenlightened condition.

四苑

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sì yuàn
    si4 yuan4
ssu yüan
 shion
The pleasure grounds outside 善見城 Sudarśana, the heavenly city of Indra: E. 衆車苑 Caitrarathavana, the park of chariots; S. 麤惡苑 Parūṣakavana, the war park; W. 雜林苑 Miśrakāvana, intp. as the park where all desires are fulfilled; N. 喜林苑 Nandanavana, the park of all delights. Also 四園.

四蛇

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sì shé
    si4 she2
ssu she
 shida
idem 四毒蛇. The Fanyimingyi under this heading gives the parable of a man who fled from the two bewildering forms of life and death, and climbed down a rope (of life) 命根, into the well of impermanence 無常, where two mice, night and day, gnawed the rattan rope; on the four sides four snakes 四蛇 sought to poison him, i. e. the 四大 or four elements of his physical nature); below were three dragons 三毒龍 breathing fire and trying to seize him. On looking up he saw that two 象 elephants (darkness and light) had come to the mouth of the well; he was in despair, when a bee flew by and dropped some honey (the five desires 五欲) into his mouth, which he ate and entirely forgot his peril.

塵欲


尘欲

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chén yù
    chen2 yu4
ch`en yü
    chen yü
 jinyoku
The desires connected with the six guṇas.

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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Release of Desires寡欲keyokuguǎ yù / gua3 yu4 / gua yu / guayukua yü / kuayü
Give Up Desire捨欲
舍欲
shayokushě yù / she3 yu4 / she yu / sheyushe yü / sheyü
Immovable Liberation不動解脫
不动解脱
fudō gedatsu
fudōgedatsu
bù dòng jiě tuō
bu4 dong4 jie3 tuo1
bu dong jie tuo
budongjietuo
pu tung chieh t`o
putungchiehto
pu tung chieh to
Hentai変態hen tai / hentai
Four Noble Truths: Path Leading Away From Suffering道諦
道谛
doutai / dotaidào dì / dao4 di4 / dao di / daoditao ti / taoti
Contentment知足chisokuzhī zú / zhi1 zu2 / zhi zu / zhizuchih tsu / chihtsu
Kama - Desire Wish Longing欲樂
欲乐
yokurakuyù lè / yu4 le4 / yu le / yuleyü le / yüle
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.


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