Affliction’, used especially for mendicants, who have to overcome the 22 traditional afflictions or hardships that could shake their commitment:
- hunger
- thirst
- cold
- heat
- biting insects
- nudity
- displeasure
- women
- wandering
- erratic life
- lodging
- abuses
- strikes and blows
- begging
- not getting alms
- disease
- pricks and itching
- dirt
- good treatment
- knowledge
- ignorance
- faith