Slyness - Concealment
SLYNESS - CONCEALMENT
['chab pa]
What is slyness - Concealment? It is to perpetuate a state
of unresolvedness [kha na ma tho ba] because of its association with dullness
and stubborness [gti mug] when one is urged towards something positive.
Slyness-concealment has the function of preventing one from making a clean
break with it and feeling relieved.
-Abhidharmasamuccaya
It is the intention to cover up one's evil through stubbornness when one's
spiritual friends or others, in their desire to help one, raise the point
of one's evil.
By concealing one's evil and not admitting it, evil, however small,
will grow bigger and bigger and will provide a cause for not allowing one
to make a clean break with it and feel relieved. It will throw one
into evil forms of existence later on.