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Verse 13 of 30 Layer 3: Senses

The secondary afflictions

誑諂與害憍　無慚及無愧 掉舉與昏沈　不信並懈怠

deceit, guile, harmfulness, arrogance, shamelessness and lack of embarrassment, restlessness and torpor, non-faith and indolence,

Triṃśikā, verse 13 · from Xuanzang's Chinese · tr. Claude (Anthropic), 2026

The secondary afflictions (upakleśa) catalog continues from verse 12. These are derivatives of the six root afflictions — more granular and more situational. This verse holds the middle block: deceit, guile, harmfulness, arrogance, shamelessness, lack of embarrassment, restlessness, torpor, non-faith, indolence. Reading the list straight feels like reading a bug tracker.

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The Distributed Systems Engineer

DSE

Treats alaya as an append-only log, manas as a hot cache, the six senses as consumers.

Twenty secondary afflictions across three verses, each a specific surface symptom of one or more root afflictions. The block in this verse clusters by failure-type:

  • Dispositional: deceit (śāṭhya), guile (māyā), harmfulness (vihiṃsā), arrogance (mada) — chronic patterns of relating
  • Failures of restraint: shamelessness (āhrīkya), lack of embarrassment (anapatrāpya) — the inverse of the wholesome pair in verse 11
  • Arousal dysregulation: restlessness (auddhatya), torpor (styāna) — too aroused, too dampened
  • Failures of engagement: non-faith (āśraddhya), indolence (kausīdya)

The taxonomy treats all of these on the same architectural footing as wrath and envy. From an attention-budget standpoint, they all are pathologies of how the runtime allocates resources.

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The Cynefin Practitioner

CYN

Maps each verse to Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, or Confused.

The secondary afflictions are attractor pathologies — states the system falls into and then has trouble leaving. Restlessness and torpor are not events but stuck modes; shamelessness is a settled posture, not an act. The Cynefin response is matched to the kind of stuckness: chaotic stuckness needs immediate action, complex stuckness needs probing, complicated stuckness needs analysis.

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The Cognitive Scientist

COG

Reads through predictive processing, Bayesian inference, and self-model theory.

Direct correlates in clinical and occupational psychology: trait-level dispositions (deceit, guile), arousal dysregulation (restlessness, torpor), epistemic dysfunction (non-faith), motivational dysfunction (indolence). The catalog covers the standard failure modes of an attention-and-evaluation system. Verse 14 will continue with the attentional dysfunctions.

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The Process Philosopher

PRO

Whitehead, Heraclitus, Bergson — reality as flow, not substance.

These are styles of being-in-time. To be deceitful is not to have a deceit-content; it is to hold one’s stream of action in a particular mode. To be torpid is a temporal style, not a missing item.

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The Skeptic

SKP

Mandatory on every verse. Names where the metaphors break.

Twenty terms across three verses, with fifteen centuries of commentarial dispute. Don’t treat the list as a fixed taxonomy; treat it as a working catalog that has been refined and re-organized across generations of practitioners. The Sthiramati line that Connelly translates differs in places from the Xuanzang / Cheng Wei-shih Lun line behind the Chinese source of the English used here.

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