defilement in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Only understanding ("praj" or "vipassana") eradicates the defilements completely.
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What accounts for the idling or non-active aspect of defilement when a given thought is of a virtuous or morally indeterminate nature?
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The store consciousness, while being originally immaculate in itself, contains a mysterious mixture of purity and defilement, good and evil.
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The "jhna" state can not by itself lead to enlightenment as it only suppresses the defilements.
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The level of defilement can be coarse, medium, and subtle.
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But in reality, those mental defilements are nothing more than taints that have afflicted the mind, creating suffering and stress.
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The high priest had to abstain from ritual defilement.
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In general, the unskillful states are the three defilements ("kilesa"): greed ("lobha"), hatred ("dosa") and delusion ("moha").
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Religious acts presuppose some degree of impurity or defilement for the practitioner, which must be overcome or neutralised before or during ritual procedures.
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The "savas" or taints are a classification of defilements considered in their role of sustaining the forward movement of the process of birth and death.
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