Mada (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: ''gyakpa '') is a

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term translated as "self-satisfaction", "self-infatuation", or "mental inflation". It is identified as one of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana

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teachings. In this context, it is defined as having excessive pride or vanity based on attachment to one's own good fortune, such as possessing youth, good health, or material wealth.Guenther (1975), Kindle Locations 923-924.Kunsang (2004), p. 28.

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states: :What is ''mada''? It is joy and rapture associated with attachment (

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) because one sees as excellences the prospect of a long life and other fragile good things by trusting one's youth and good health. Its function is to provide a basis for all basic and proximate emotions. Herbert Guenther explains: :It is an inflated mind which is full of joy and rapture in view of health, abundance of pleasure, etc. It is the root of unconcern (

pramāda Pramāda (Sanskrit; Pāli: pamada; Tibetan phonetic: ''bakmepa'') is a Buddhist term that is translated as "heedlessness", "carelessness", etc. In the Mahayana tradition, ''pramāda'' is defined to not apply oneself earnestly and carefully to adop ...

) by generating all other emotions.

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states: :Mada is to have excessive pride or vanity due to any kind of fascination with or attachment towards any kind of conditioned prosperity possessed by oneself, such as good health and youthfulness. It forms a support for the six root unwholesome mental factors and twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors. Alexander Berzin explains: :Smugness or conceit (rgyags-pa) is a part of longing desire (

). From seeing signs of a long life or of any other samsaric glory, based on being healthy, young, wealthy, and so on, smugness is a puffed-up mind that feels happy about and takes pleasure in this.Berzin (2006)

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* Berzin, Alexander (2006)
''Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors''
* Goleman, Daniel (2008). ''Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama''. Bantam. Kindle Edition. * Guenther, Herbert V. & Leslie S. Kawamura (1975), ''Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding"''. Dharma Publishing. Kindle Edition. * Kunsang, Erik Pema (translator) (2004). ''Gateway to Knowledge, Vol. 1''. North Atlantic Books.

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Ranjung Yeshe wiki entry for ''rgyags_pa''
Unwholesome factors in Buddhism Sanskrit words and phrases

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