5 FIVE HINDERANCES - 'Obstacles' that could arise and come into the mind

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'Obstacles'
5 The Foods of Delusion.
The FIVE HINDERANCES - 'Obstacles'
 'Obstacles' that could possibly arise and come into the mind during an active meditation on Living or Sitting a silent practice session. Contemporary insight views the Five Hindrances as an indispensable part of Buddhism's Big Book: The 4 Noble Truths and The 8 Eightfold Path. 
Five Hindrances :: Pancha Nivarana the Food of Delusion.
In the Buddhist tradition, the five hindrances (Sanskrit: pañca nivāraṇa; Pali: pañca nīvaraṇāni) are identified as mental factors that hinder progress in meditation and in our daily lives.[1]
Samadhi -- In the Theravada tradition, these factors are identified specifically as obstacles to the jhānas ( stages of samatha trance concentration ) within meditation practice. In the Mahayana tradition, the five hindrances are identified as obstacles to Samadhi --samatha (tranquility) meditation.

The Five Hindrances are:
1.Sensory desire (kāmacchanda): the particular type of 'wanting' that seeks for happiness through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling -- thirsting, craving, yearning, hankering, hungering for...
2.Ill-will (vyāpāda; also spelled byāpāda): all kinds of thought related to wanting to reject, feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness. A hater
3.Sloth-torpor (thīna-middha): heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and depression.4.Restlessness-worry / agitation (uddhacca-kukkucca): the inability to calm the mind, can't be soothed,
5.Doubt (vicikicchā): lack of conviction or trust, skeptical

The 5 hindrances are presented differently within these different traditions, depending upon the way each tradition teaches the practice of meditation.
Contemporary Insight Meditation
" Fronsdal emphasizes that it is important not to see the hindrances as personal failings. All human beings have them. A big part of mindfulness meditation is to learn about these hindrances in order to become free of them. The goal is to not dismiss them, but to study them and understand them really well.[1]
Theravada scholar Nina van Gorkom states: "The hindrances are obstructions, overwhelming the mind, weakening insight. The hindrances obstruct the development of what is wholesome."[web 4]
The five hindrances are identified specifically as obstacles to the jhānas (stages of concentration) within meditation. Theravada teacher Ajahn Brahmavamso states:[web 1]
The deliberate idea of overcoming these five hindrances is important because it is the five hindrances that block the door to both the jhānas, and wisdom. It’s the five hindrances that fuel avijjā -- The Buddha said that they’re the unwholesome nutriments, the food of delusion.
Ajahn Brahmavamso emphasizes that any obstacle that arises in meditation can be identified as one of the five hindrances; he states:[web 2]
Any problem which arises in meditation will be one of these Five Hindrances, or a combination. So, if one experiences any difficulty, use the scheme of the Five Hindrances as a 'check list' to identify the main problem. Then you will know the appropriate remedy, apply it carefully, and go beyond the obstacle into deeper meditation. When the Five Hindrances are fully overcome, there is no barrier between the meditator and the bliss of Jhana. Therefore, the certain test that these Five Hindrances are really overcome is the ability to access Jhana.
Mahayana traditionThe five hindrances are typically identified as obstacles to samatha meditation (also referred to as tranquility meditation).[2]
Overcoming the hindrances - The hindrances are overcome by investigating and understanding them.  Ajahn Sumedho states:[web 5]
In meditation one develops an understanding of the Five Hindrances -- how, when one of them is present, you investigate it, you understand it, you accept its presence and you learn how to deal with it. Sometimes you can just tell it to go away and it goes; sometimes you just have to allow it to be there till it wears out.Gil Fronsdal emphasizes that to be a good student of the hindrances, you must be very patient with them and not be dismissive of them. When they arise, you must stop for them. Fronsdal states that a bumper sticker for this type of training could be “I stop for the hindrances.” You don’t indulge them, you become interested and study them.[1]
The Insight Meditation tradition teaches the RAIN formula for investigating the hindrances:[web 6][web 7]
R: Recognize it.
A: Accept it.
I: Investigate it, be curious. What is it like?
N: Non-identification. This is just a passing process that comes and goes, not who we are.

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