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