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Buddhist Meditation

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1. Samadhi
Cessation
Examining
Right concentration
Concentration

2. Dharma
Law
Fear
One-pointedness
Joy

3. Three marks of existence
Application
Insight Buddhism
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Loom or Warp

4. Kaya
Loom or Warp
Right concentration
Examining
Body

5. samma ditthi
Insight Buddhism
Right view
Right livelihood
Right concentration

6. Vedana
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Feelings
Four Noble Truths
Mental contents

7. Rupa (aggregate)
Physical matter
Right livelihood
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Happiness

8. Tantra
Enlightened one
Right concentration
Fear
Loom or Warp

9. samma sati
Right concentration
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Wisdom

10. 2nd turning of the wheel
Philosophy- Emptiness
Realm after the rupajhanas
Joy
'Non returner'

11. Bodhisattva
Insight Buddhism
Mind
Buddha
Enlightened one

12. Citta
'One who enters the stream'
Mind
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Right livelihood

13. samma vaca
Four foundations of mindfulness
Action
Right speech
Loom or Warp

14. Sotpanna

15. Sila
Calm-abiding
Consciousness
Virtues/Precepts
Right action

16. Arupajhanas
'One who enters the stream'
Realm after the rupajhanas
Calm-abiding
Fear

17. Ekaggata (jhana)
Mental contents
Physical matter
Yogacara-yoga practice
One-pointedness

18. Sakadagamin

19. Sankhara (aggregate)
Action
Volitional formations
Buddha nature
Four Noble Truths

20. Samvega
Happiness
One-pointedness
Fear
Mental contents

21. 4th turning of the wheel
Consciousness
'Non returner'
Fear
Buddha nature

22. samma ajiva
'Returning once'
Perception
Right livelihood
Four foundations of mindfulness

23. Dukkha (4NT)
Cessation
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Philosophy- Emptiness
Suffering

24. Magga (4NT)
One-pointedness
Path
Concentration
Fear

25. samma sankappa
Right intention
Enlightened one
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Joy

26. Arhat

27. States of this realm in sequence
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Joy
Four foundations of mindfulness

28. Samsara
Rebirth
Consciousness
Right livelihood
Four foundations of mindfulness

29. Vicara (jhana)
Right mindfulness
Buddha
Realm after the rupajhanas
Examining

30. Sanna (aggregate)
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Perception
Action
Law

31. Vitakka (jhana)
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Examining
Application
Law

32. 3rd turning of the wheel
Yogacara-yoga practice
Concentration
Right mindfulness
Wisdom

33. Vipassana
Insight Buddhism
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Yogacara-yoga practice
Mental contents

34. Schools of Zen
Enlightened one
'Non returner'
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Feelings

35. Anagamin

36. samma vayama
Right effort
Action
Physical matter
Wisdom

37. Satipatthana
Four foundations of mindfulness
'One who enters the stream'
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Buddha

38. Samatha
Examining
Calm-abiding
'Non returner'
Philosophy- Emptiness

39. Panna
Wisdom
Suffering
Right view
Cessation

40. Sukha (jhana)
Feeling
Happiness
Rebirth
Body

41. Vedana (aggregate)
Feeling
Suffering
Consciousness
Feelings

42. Nirodha (4NT)
Right effort
Right action
One-pointedness
Cessation

43. 1st turning of the wheel
Law
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Mental contents
Four Noble Truths

44. Tanha (4NT)
'One who enters the stream'
Desire
One-pointedness
Right livelihood

45. samma kammanta
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Philosophy- Emptiness
Four foundations of mindfulness
Right action

46. Piti (jhana)
Four Noble Truths
Joy
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Application

47. Karma
Right livelihood
Action
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Philosophy- Emptiness

48. samma samadhi
Physical matter
Fear
Cessation
Right concentration

49. Anatta
Right view
Not self
Consciousness
Four Noble Truths

50. Dhammas
Right view
Mental contents
Joy
Four Noble Truths