People find themselves forced to "afflictive" methods which stand in no relation with the realities of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of the Child] Reference

Now he's a creepy symbol of the afflictive nature of fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why America’s Point Man On China Is Running Into a Wall] Reference

His was no official common-place about "afflictive dispensations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

The circumstances of his death, too, seemed to her peculiarly afflictive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

His death was sad and afflictive enough -- more than it seemed I could bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference

There were many good people staggered by that stern and afflictive vicissitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference

It is built by actions karma that are under the influence of afflictive emotions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference

The term klesha in Sanskrit is sometimes translated as “afflictive emotions.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Examining Karma Immediately after 9/11 ��� Session One: Karmic Bingo] Reference

This verse addresses how to combat these defilements or afflictive emotions and thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Training the Mind: Verse 3] Reference

Thy very afflictive providences have met my wishes, and been so many answers to my prayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference

If these are exploited for the sake of afflictive emotions, there are negative consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference

The disease, respecting which the present inquiry is made, is of a nature highly afflictive.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference

The Chinese prayer has been translated: May the three types of afflictive emotions be dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principle Path to Enlightenment] Reference

The Refuge of the Believer amidst all the afflictive dispensations of providence, is that the Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 - 18 March 1776] Reference

For them, repulsion and aversion to the body are disturbing emotions (nyon-mongs, afflictive emotions).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana] Reference

Disturbing emotions and attitudes (nyon-mongs, Skt. klesha, afflictive emotions), and their tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Basic Presentation] Reference

"The very purpose of meditation," he insists, "is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lama To The Globe] Reference

There is no dispensation, though afflictive, but either in it, or after it, I find that I could not be without it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference

He says their presentation of emptiness does not fulfil its purpose, which is to eliminate the afflictive emotions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shantideva's Wisdom Chapter] Reference

It is guilt alone that gives what is materially evil and afflictive the formal nature of punishment, and nothing else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

That the Redeemer may ever preserve the Town from such like melancholy Events, and sanctify their present afflictive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference

These afflictive emotions in turn pollute actions of body, speech, and mind, perpetuating the process of cyclic existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference

“Tainted” means that they arise from disturbing emotions and attitudes (nyon-mongs, Skt. klesha, afflictive emotions).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sixteen Aspects and Sixteen Distorted Ways of Embracing the Four Noble Truths] Reference

(Lu 7: 40-47), that he had been healed by the Saviour of some afflictive disease, and made this feast to show his gratitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

Unawareness (ma-rig-pa, ignorance) of the voidness of all phenomena is a disturbing emotion (nyon-mongs, afflictive emotion).    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Features of the Gelug Tradition] Reference

This fills them with afflictive perturbations of mind, with dread and terror, consternation and humbling of their souls thereon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

Once you are intent on the fineries of this life, your afflictive emotions increase, which in turn necessarily bring about more bad deeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference

Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

The Buddhist path first emphasizes clearing away gross obstacles to the proper view: the kleshas or afflictive mental states (anger, jealousy, pride and so forth).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference

There is in it a real trouble and disquietment of mind: for sorrow is an afflictive passion; it is contrary to that composure which the mind would constantly be at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect] Reference

Indeed, you have become accustomed to afflictive emotions throughout your beginningless cyclic existence, but now you have added on the very practice of superficiality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference

But now, when a story that hath in it nothing that is troubling and afflictive treats of great and heroic enterprises with a potency and grace of style such as we find in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

He knew that afflictive brouhahas could occur in choirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paula's House of Toast] Reference

Thought for Today: "The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS 4: World News Videos] Reference

That involved the possibility of consequences which could not even be named, so afflictive was the mere prospect to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference