 According to Buddhist “psychology”, love and hatred are two of the afflictions (kleśas) that befall human beings and that need to be removed in order to attain liberation. There are a number of sections in the Yogācāra-bhūmi, possibly written by either Asaṅga or Maitreya, that discuss these kleśas. The text provides several lists, most of which include love (rāga) and hatred or enmity (pratigha). Other kleśas are: satkāya-dṛṣṭi (false view with regard to the satkāya (five skandhas)), attachment to extreme views, attachment to unwholesome views, attachment to practices and observances, pride, ignorance and doubt. These kleśas could be associated with one or more of the five possible feelings: pleasant feeling (sukha), unpleasant feeling (duḥkha), neutral feeling (upekṣā), happy mood (sau-manasya) or unhappy mood (daur-manasya). A translation of the psychological categories of the Yogācāra-bhūmi into the categories of Western philosophy of mind would render the following distinctions: a kleśa is a mental phenomenon that consists of a representation of an object plus a certain feeling, sensation or affect. For example, in the case of love, the Yogācāra-bhūmi states that we have the object of love plus either a pleasant sensation or a happy mood or indifference (neutral feeling). It is interesting to note that the mental phenomenon of love can be connected with indifference. In general, this suggests that a sensation is comparable to a psychological attitude and that we always have to have one attitude or another towards a mental object. This means that our thinking is never without a feeling, even if it is a “neutral” feeling. It is unclear, however, in what way we could experience the emotion of love with the sensation of indifference. It seems that love always requires a positive feeling. The Yogācāra-bhūmi allows for a mental phenomenon to count as the experience of love, as long as it does not involve a “negative”, i.e., unhappy or unpleasant, feeling.