Virāga

Dispassion, detachment, fading of desire — a key term in [[Pali]] Buddhist psychology. The cooling of mental attachment through seeing the drawbacks (ādīnava) of conditioned experience.

In the [[Noble Eightfold Path]], virāga represents the maturation of right view — the natural fading of craving as wisdom deepens. It is not aversion but the sober recognition that clinging inevitably leads to dukkha.

The [[Visuddhimagga]] describes it as the “path of purification” where consciousness, freed from grasping, turns toward liberation. Related to the Sanskrit vairagya but with a distinct [[Theravada]] flavor.