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Buddhist Meditation

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1. Samadhi
Insight Buddhism
Concentration
Cessation
Examining

2. Siddarttha Gautama
Application
Right effort
Buddha
Volitional formations

3. Karma
Law
Action
'One who enters the stream'
Mental contents

4. Sila
Virtues/Precepts
Cessation
Right concentration
Desire

5. Piti (jhana)
Calm-abiding
Joy
Virtues/Precepts
Happiness

6. Citta
Not self
Mind
'Returning once'
Buddha nature

7. samma sati
Right mindfulness
Not self
Cessation
Right effort

8. Kaya
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Yogacara-yoga practice
Body
Mind

9. Rupa (aggregate)
Right effort
Philosophy- Emptiness
'One who enters the stream'
Physical matter

10. samma sankappa
Mental contents
Right intention
Philosophy- Emptiness
1. Soto 2. Rinzai

11. Paticcasamuppada
Perception
Right livelihood
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Application

12. Vipassana
Suffering
Volitional formations
Enlightened one
Insight Buddhism

13. Satipatthana
Volitional formations
'One who enters the stream'
Concentration
Four foundations of mindfulness

14. samma ajiva
Concentration
Suffering
Right mindfulness
Right livelihood

15. Samsara
Volitional formations
Right mindfulness
Rebirth
Right action

16. Tantra
Loom or Warp
Body
Not self
Right mindfulness

17. Dukkha (4NT)
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Suffering
Right intention
Not self

18. Dharma
Right mindfulness
Right intention
Four foundations of mindfulness
Law

19. Sanna (aggregate)
Perception
'Non returner'
Philosophy- Emptiness
Consciousness

20. Sankhara (aggregate)
Law
Volitional formations
Physical matter
Cessation

21. Sakadagamin

22. Samatha
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Virtues/Precepts
Calm-abiding
Four foundations of mindfulness

23. Vitakka (jhana)
Concentration
Body
Application
Rebirth

24. samma vaca
Loom or Warp
Right speech
Right mindfulness
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising

25. 2nd turning of the wheel
Law
Right action
Buddha
Philosophy- Emptiness

26. 3rd turning of the wheel
Yogacara-yoga practice
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Buddha
'Non returner'

27. Nirodha (4NT)
Cessation
Volitional formations
Mind
Not self

28. Samvega
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Fear
Virtues/Precepts
Yogacara-yoga practice

29. 1st turning of the wheel
Enlightened one
Feelings
Four Noble Truths
Feeling

30. Schools of Zen
Right livelihood
Right effort
Buddha nature
1. Soto 2. Rinzai

31. Vinnana (aggregate)
Cessation
Consciousness
Body
Action

32. samma samadhi
Right concentration
Physical matter
Body
Four foundations of mindfulness

33. Magga (4NT)
Virtues/Precepts
'Non returner'
Path
Cessation

34. samma kammanta
Action
Yogacara-yoga practice
Right action
One-pointedness

35. samma ditthi
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Right view
Mind
Right livelihood

36. Vedana (aggregate)
Volitional formations
Wisdom
Right concentration
Feeling

37. Panna
Path
Right effort
Joy
Wisdom

38. Dhammas
Mental contents
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Right livelihood
Right view

39. Sukha (jhana)
Examining
Feelings
Happiness
Physical matter

40. Arhat

41. Vicara (jhana)
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
'Non returner'
Realm after the rupajhanas
Examining

42. Three marks of existence
Consciousness
Examining
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Not self

43. Arupajhanas
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Realm after the rupajhanas
'Non returner'
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception

44. Tanha (4NT)
Law
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Suffering
Desire

45. Vedana
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Four Noble Truths
Feelings
Suffering

46. Sotpanna

47. 4th turning of the wheel
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Right view
Buddha nature
'Returning once'

48. Ekaggata (jhana)
One-pointedness
'Returning once'
Cessation
Volitional formations

49. samma vayama
Not self
Enlightened one
Right effort
Cessation

50. States of this realm in sequence
Physical matter
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Right mindfulness