1. Sensory desire: the particular type of wanting that seeks for happiness through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling.

2. Ill-will: all kinds of thought related to wanting to reject; feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness.

3. Sloth-and-torpor: heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and thick depression.

4. Restlessness-and-worry: the inability to calm the mind.

5. Doubt: lack of conviction or trust.

The Insight Meditation tradition teaches the RAIN formula for...