Appamāda
Apramāda (Sanskrit; Pali: "appamāda"; Tibetan Wylie: "bag yod pa") is a Buddhist term translated as "conscientious" or "concern". It is defined as taking great care concerning what should be adopted and what should be avoided. In the Pāli Canon, a collection of the Buddha's earliest teachings, the term appamāda is quite significant and the essence of the meaning cannot be captured with one English word. "Heedfulness", "diligence", and "conscientiousness", are all words that capture some aspects of appamāda. It is identified as one of the eleven virtuous mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. Etymology. The word  is a negation of pamāda, which means "negligent" or "lax." Appamāda, therefore, means non-negligence, or non-laxity, non-intoxication, non-deluded correctly translated as "heedfulness", or whichever word fully captures the mood of the term. "Heedfulness", "diligence", and "conscientiousness", all captures certain aspects of the word. Explanation. The Abhidharma-samuccaya states: Alexander Berzin states: Robert Thurman emphasizes the high degree of apramāda of someone who has realized emptiness (a.k.a. "voidness"): This term is described at length in chapter four of the Bodhicharyavatara.