What is "viksepa"

Vikṣepa (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: nampar yengwa) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "distraction", "mental wandering", etc. In the Mahayana tradition, vikṣepa is defined as the mental motion or wandering towards an object which causes the inability to remain one-pointedly on a virtuous objective.

Vikṣepa is identified as:

• One of the twenty secondary unwholesome factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings