- 忍
- (sa) kṣānti, [lang id =1028]羼提 (or [lang id =1028]羼底); patience, endurance, (a) in adverse circumstances, (b) in the religious state. There are groups of two, three, four, five, six, ten, and fourteen, indicating various forms of patience, equanimity, repression, forbearance, endurance, constancy, or "perseverance of the saints," both in mundane and spiritual things.* * *忍者忍耐, 忍耐違逆之境而不起嗔心;又安忍也, 安住於道理而不動心也。 《瑜伽師地論》曰: ‘云何名忍, 自無憤勃, 不報他怨, 故名忍。’ 《成唯識論》卷九曰: ‘忍, 以無嗔精進審慧及彼所起三業處性。’ 《三藏法數》五曰: ‘忍, 即忍耐, 亦安忍也。’* * *1.忍耐的意思, 忍耐不如意的環境而不生瞋恚的心。 2.安忍的意思, 即心安住於理而不動搖。
Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.