- shor sa/
- ID:
- T202890
- ཤོར་ས (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > shor sa/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > shorsa (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Places where one might get lost. This is often used in the metaphorical sense of “topics that cause one to get confused,” or “points about which one errs.”
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Chris Hatchell
David Higgins Lexicon of Tibetan Buddhist Topics and Terminology
- is a partial synonym of
- gol sgrib/
- English:
- place where one slips or makes a wrong turn
Passages
In this passage, 'Ba' ra ba essentially reproduces a section from Yang dgon pa's Ri chos kyi rnal 'byor bzhi pa (see the entry {115681:250}) occasionally elaborating on, and citing textual support for, the latter's presentation.
Yang dgon pa mentions four "slip ups" or "wrong turns" in meditation and then distinguishes between ever present wrong turns (ye shor), referring to our general confusion about what is, and incidental wrong turns ('phral shor), referring to how we go astray in how we experience or make use of what is (see under 'Ba' ra ba's Bka' 'bum {115551}). He also indicates how the ever-present wrong turn can be avoided. The four wrong turns are:
1. The wrong turn of taking no thingness as a knowable reality. [intellectual]
2. The wrong turn along the path of no thingness. [etiological]
3. The wrong turn of using no thingness as a counteragent
[emotional]
4. The wrong turn of trying to seal things with no thingess.
[dualistic]
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shor sa/ has 1 other term directly related to it, which is presented here.