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Meaning of "defilements"

Defilements is a noun that refers to impurities, pollutants, or corrupting influences
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Defilements of the mind can be overcome.
And all its defilements proliferate.
We do not know what our minds and defilements are.
It is also a reflection on defilements that have been totally uprooted.
Our defilements are like fertilizer for our practice.
Can appear as a deity or as the personification of the defilements.
These are called the defilements that should be given up by seeing.
For them the constantly evolving mind is in possession of defilements.
It is in terms of separating from illusory defilements that bodhisattvas are defined.
This indicates that a liberated state of mind reflects no ignorance or defilements.
After that the evil or defilements will go form their minds.
Thus you should practise effacement that helps to reduce defilements.
They all give rise to defilements that burn like fire.
It arises as a consciousness realizing emptiness that counters the subtlest defilements.
Defilements encompass all mental defilements including both fetters and hindrances.

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Associated with defilements.
Any defilements which have arisen cease when their causes and conditions are finished.
Even the disciples themselves suffered the effects of satanic defilements.
Paradise they are free from the defilements and vices of a fallen race.
For them a primordially luminous mind can not be contaminated by adventitious defilements.
But thereafter comes the question of defilements in their service and walk.
This is how one purifies the mind of negativities and the defilements.
This verse addresses how to combat these defilements or afflictive emotions and thoughts.
The practice of meditation aimed at serenity and insight requires the stilling of the defilements.
Emotional love and desire are defilements and defilements result in birth and death.
The defilements which came to the Israelite by death must have been very frequent.
This will at least remove some of the mundane defilements and attachments.
This is how the defilements destroy all that is pure and virtuous in living beings.
So long as our minds are contaminated by mental defilements we can not see things clearly.
These imprints or defilements lead to tendencies that obstruct our awareness of our true nature.
They must also personally eradicate their mental defilements and develop all the great virtues.
The most vague rumors about some Jewish ancestry became irreparable defilements.
The water can be compared to defilements and the lotus leaf to the enlightened mind.
Our Nazariteship involves the most absolute separation from the defilements of this world.
The noble disciple has cut off the defilements which motivate transgressions of the precepts.
The Buddha and the Arahants are free from all traces of mental defilements.
It is to meet the defilements in the walk of the Christian.
To be honest in speech - this is also a tool for eradicating defilements.
What mental defilements are eradicated at that moment?
Here it is not indelible disqualifications, as in the last section, but passing defilements.
The defilements are like an army, you know.
At this point, his mind is quite free from all the defilements.
Then when you have defilements is it good or bad?
If defilements arise, you have to do something about them.
And there are two defilements to be eliminated,.
This body is impure, from which nine holes leak out defilements.
Thirty-six types of defilements are found in the realm of desire.
But, now, they have been entangled and overcome by the defilements of the world.
Therefore meet your defilements with a free and open glance!
If you centre your efforts on developing magga, it will continue to destroy the defilements.

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