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A Buddha has no attachment to what he can see because he has rid himself of all emotional obscuration (nyon-sgrib).
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This is because individual mental continuums and the disturbing emotions and attitudes (nyon-mongs, Skt. klesha, “afflictive emotions”) on them have no beginning, but the disturbing emotions and attitudes can have an end when the mental continuum is purified of them and their tendencies.
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While focusing on the voidness of our ordinary bodies – the absolute absence of their existing in impossible manners – disturbing emotions and attitudes (nyon-mongs, Skt. klesha, afflictive emotions) cannot affect our minds.
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Moreover, because it is not a mental factor, it is not a disturbing emotion or attitude (nyon-mongs, Skt. klesha).
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Please note that liking chocolate and feeling like eating some are not disturbing emotions (nyon-mongs).
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Olives mix of niçoises, Sicilian, and green nyon: not particularly interesting, literally just a couple of olives in a small bowl, you could do this yourself at any gourmet store in town with the difference that you would have more olives for the money, but they would be in a larger plastic container.
restaurants 2008
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Olives mix of niçoises, Sicilian, and green nyon: not particularly interesting, literally just a couple of olives in a small bowl, you could do this yourself at any gourmet store in town with the difference that you would have more olives for the money, but they would be in a larger plastic container.
Augieland 2008
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Right effort serves as an antidote to rid the mind forever of the root disturbing emotions and attitudes (rtsa-nyon) that an accustoming pathway mind gets rid of, namely the automatically arising ones.
The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path) 2007
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With an accustoming pathway mind, these aryas accustom themselves to this nonconceptual cognition and, in so doing, gradually rid themselves of all automatically arising disturbing emotions and attitudes (nyon-mongs lhan-skyes).
The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path) 2007
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Right mindfulness serves as an antidote to rid the mind forever of the auxiliary disturbing emotions and attitudes (nye-nyon), such as flightiness of mind and mental dullness, that an accustoming pathway mind gets rid of, namely the automatically arising ones.
The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path) 2007
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