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Five particular aspects of lifespan that indicate the degenerate nature of a given age. They are the impurities of views, of afflictions, of sentient beings, of life, and of time.

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The Five Impurities - List

The bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha presented the Bhagavān with offerings, then prostrated at the feet of the Bhagavān and supplicated him with these words: “Venerable Bhagavān, in this afflicted buddhafield stained by the five impurities, beings are deluded due to the great darkness of ignorance. How can those beings be benefited, so as to bring about their enlightenment?”
The Bhagavān replied: “It is thus, son of noble family: The sky is neither bound nor liberated. It is not afflicted, nor deluded, and is naturally pristine. The wind scatters particles of dust in the sky, and tosses them around. Thus, the sky appears impure, as dark as night. Then water makes the particles fall and renders the sky stainless and completely pristine. In this case, if the stars, the planets, the sun, and the moon are not visible, then the seconds, minutes, hours, days, nights, seasons, and years will be imperceptible as well.

The Five Impurities

1. Impurities of views or thought.

Impurity of thought, or impurity of view, is the prevalence of wrong views such as the five false views;
(1) Though the mind and body are no more than a temporary union of the five components, one regards them as possessing a self that is absolute; and though nothing in the universe can belong to an individual, one views one’s mind and body as one’s own possession; (2) the belief in one of two extremes concerning existence: that life ends with death, or that life persists after death in some eternal and unchanging form; (3) denial of the law of cause and effect; (4) adhering to misconceptions and viewing them as truth, while regarding inferior views as superior; and (5) viewing erroneous practices or precepts as the correct way to enlightenment.

2. Impurities of of afflictions.

The impurity of desire is the tendency to be ruled by the five delusive inclinations, i.e., greed, anger, foolishness, arrogance, and doubt.
By the blessing of the sacred Dharma,
The supreme nectar of reality,
May suffering caused by enemies and afflictions
Be pacified, and may good fortune be present, day and night.

3. Impurities of sentient beings.

Though your Conqueror's body has no impurity, I offer this bath to your body to cleanse the physical impurities of sentient beings; may their obscuration's of body be cleansed.
Though your Conqueror's speech has no impediment, I offer this bath to your speech to purify the verbal impurities of sentient beings; may their obscuration's of speech be purified.
Though your Conqueror's speech has no impediment, I offer this bath to your speech to purify the verbal impurities of sentient beings; may their obscuration's of speech be purified.

4. Impurities of life.

This world is so called because there are many people influenced by the three impurities of life avarice, anger and stupidity, and we must endure hardships so as to attain absolute happiness.

5. Impurities of time.

Impurity of the age includes repeated disruptions of the social or natural environment.

Synonyms/tags: pañcakaṣāya, the five degenerations,




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