Five hindrances

The five nivarana ( Pali: pañca nīvaraṇāni; German: five inhibitions, five barriers or five obstacles ) are an important concept of the Buddhist mind training, which in the founding texts of the Pali canon several times (AN I 2, AN IX 64) is treated as well as the methods to suppress these obstacles to the exercise of mindfulness and meditation temporarily or completely overcome (see Satipatthana Sutta, DN 22, MN 10 and AN IX 40).

Mental states

The nivarana represent negative mental states that pursue the Buddhist doctrine of a successful meditation and ultimately from the Enlightenment. " Inhibition " refers to the harmony of the mind. Each of the five disturbs a special factor of the mind, hinders the " insight" ( vipassana ), thus preventing the knowledge of reality. This is not true reflection of reality in the mind is the brahmana Vagga ( AN V 193) pictorially as the failure to recognize one's own mirror image portrayed in water.

The obstacles are:

Notes

The sensual desire is towards renunciation. Sensual desire is to the satisfaction of the losing oneself in, or the safety features of something pleasant, something attracts and fascinates the mind and obscured its radiance. It's like red color that poured into clear water, the water takes its clarity, so you can not see the things at the bottom.

The ill-will is opposed to the benevolence. A spirit of ill-will is sicklied of trouble, and which expresses itself in the form of rejection, denial, dissatisfaction, distaste, irritability and similar such adverse conditions. In the state of ill-will ' cook ' the mind and is therefore not clear like water when it is not cooked longer clear, and the one lying on the ground can not see things any longer.

Dullness is opposed to the perception of light. She is here synonymous with apathy, sleepiness and boredom. The Spirit, who is overwhelmed by this obstacle, its rays lose just as pure water loses its clarity when there is so permeated and overgrown with algae that you can no longer see things at the bottom.

The restlessness is against the steadfastness and balance. Uddhacca ie break forth, spread, disperse. It is about spreading ideas as a result of excessive interest in something or someone. Kukkucca are worried or self- uncomfortable -feeling. The Spirit, who is overwhelmed, agitated or shaken by these two components is deprived of its clarity as well, as in aufgepeitschtem prevent wind from the many water waves that can be seen lying on the ground things.