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Kausidya (Sanskrit; Tibetan Wylie: ''le lo'') is a Buddhist term translated as "laziness" or "spiritual sloth". It is defined as clinging to unwholesome activities such as lying down and stretching out, and to procrastinate, and not being enthusiastic about or engaging in virtuous activity.〔Guenther (1975), Kindle Locations 967-968.〕〔Kunsang (2004), p. 25.〕 It is identified as: * One of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. * One of the ''five faults'' or obstacles to shamatha meditation within the Mahayana teachings. * Closely related to the Pali term ''thina'', that is identified as one of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings ==Explanation== Mipham Rinpoche states: :Laziness (''kausidya'') is to cling to unwholesome activities such as lying down, resting, or stretching out, and to procrastinate, without taking delight in and engaging in what is virtuous. It is the opponent of diligence (''vīrya'').〔 The Abhidharma-samuccaya states: :What is laziness (''kausidya'')? It is an unwilling mind, associated with bewilderment-erring, relying on the pleasures of drowsiness, lying down and not getting up. Its function is to obstruct and hinder one in applying himself to positive things.〔 Alan Wallace explains that ''kausidya'' (''lelo'' in Tibetan) refers to a very specific type of laziness, that is concerned only with virtuous activity. Wallace explains: :() ''lelo'' in Tibetan, is often translated as ‘laziness,’ but it is much more specific. If a person is working sixteen hours a day, hellbent on earning a whole lot of money with absolutely no concern for virtue, from a Buddhist perspective you could say that person is subject to ''lelo''. A workaholic is clearly not lazy, but such a person is seen as ''lelo'' in the sense of being completely lethargic and slothful with regard to the cultivation of virtue and purification of the mind. Our translation of this term is ‘spiritual sloth,’ which we have taken from the Christian tradition, where it is very comparable to the Buddhist notion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「kausidya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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