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Klesha; Klesa (Sanskrit); "trouble, defilement, passion" (Pali, kilesa); refers to all the properties that dull the mind and are the basis for all unwholesome (akushala) actions and thus bind people to the cycle of rebirth (samsara).  The attainment of arhathood (arhat) signifies the extinction of all kleshas.

The Kleshas are subject to very different analyses.  In the Visudahi magga ten kleshas are enumerated: desire or craving (trishna), hate, delusion, pride, false views (drishti), doubt (vichikitsa), rigidity, excitability, shamelessness, lack of conscience.  The division into mulakesha and upaklesha is also often found.  By mulaklesha is understood desire, hate, delusion, pride, doubt, false views (for example, belief in an ego, etermalism, nihilism, denial of the law of karma, persistance in these false views, and the belief that false views can lead to liberation).  Upakleshas are the passions that are bound up with the mulakleshas.  Sometimes the five hindrances (nivarana) are also included with them.

The false views can be eliminated merely by insight (darshana); the other passions that are based on desire, hate and similar emotional factors and are not, like the false views, intellectual in nature take longer and are more difficult to eliminate.  One can get rid of them through regular meditation practice (bhavana), such as that of dhyana, samapatti, and concentration (samadhi).
From: The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen

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Are Kleshas Obstacles or Opportunities for Enlightenment? - Introduction by Barry Boyce, by Guy Armstrong, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, & Zenkei Blanche Hartman
http://archive.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2006/spring/forum-kleshas.html


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Bringing Obstacles to the Path by Thrangu Rinpoche
http://www.purifymind.com/ObstaclesPath.htm


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Cause of Suffering: The Kleshas
http://www.yogabasics.com/learn/the-cause-of-suffering-the-kleshas.html

Clashing With KleashasClashing With Kleashas by Mark Epstein
http://buddhagrams.blogspot.com/2010/08/clashing-with-kleshas.html

 

Confused Mind, Clear Mind by Reverend Eshin
http://www.buddhistdoor.com/OldWeb/passissue/9611/sources/clearmind.htm


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Destructive Emotions - Rigpa Shedra
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Kleshas


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Eliminating the KleshasEliminating the Kleshas from Medicine Buddha Sanga
http://medicinebuddhasangha.org/teachings/eliminating_kleshas.html

 

 


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Five Kleshas - International Nath Order
http://www.nathorder.org/wiki/Five_Kleshas


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Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change by Mark Epstein - book - Can you remember the childhood feeling of living happily moment to moment, without intrusive aims or fears? Psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott called it the state of "going on being." Bestselling author Mark Epstein sees a similarity with the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, of just watching the mind and body without holding on or pushing away. Epstein excels at finding the similarities between Buddhist meditation and psychotherapy, and he is in top form in Going On Being. Offering an autobiographical account of his own gradual discovery of this nexus, Epstein tells of his encounters with such luminaries as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield, ruminating on them and then showing how his insights shed light on his work as a psychoanalyst. Ultimately, he finds that psychoanalysis can function as a kind of interpersonal meditation, helping the patient see aspects of the self that are hidden behind habitual ways of reacting to the world. Going On Being shows that, if done well, psychotherapy can offer some of the same benefits as Buddhist meditation. Eureka! --Brian Bruya


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Klesha - New World Encyclopedia
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Klesha

Klesa - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilesa

Kleshas - The following excerpt is from Mark Epstein's book, Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change, a Positive Psychology for the West. The suggested writing exercises are by Kimbeley Snow.
http://www.quietspaces.com/kleshas.html

Kleshas (afflictions of mind) according to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~bnikolic/klesa.html


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On Monkeys and Kleshas - Swami Anandakumar Saraswati - Yoga Magazine
http://www.yogamag.net/archives/2005/fjune05/monkey.shtml


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Signs of Spiritual Progress by Pema Chodron
http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2284


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