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Buddhist Meditation

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1. Vinnana (aggregate)
Consciousness
Feelings
Realm after the rupajhanas
Right mindfulness

2. Siddarttha Gautama
Joy
Concentration
Buddha
Mental contents

3. 4th turning of the wheel
Not self
Rebirth
Buddha nature
Right mindfulness

4. Rupa (aggregate)
Consciousness
Physical matter
Happiness
Philosophy- Emptiness

5. Vedana (aggregate)
Right intention
Feelings
Feeling
Happiness

6. samma ditthi
Mind
Right view
Philosophy- Emptiness
Perception

7. Sakadagamin

8. Satipatthana
Perception
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Application
Four foundations of mindfulness

9. States of this realm in sequence
Cessation
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Realm after the rupajhanas
Concentration

10. Sanna (aggregate)
Buddha nature
One-pointedness
Loom or Warp
Perception

11. Anagamin

12. 1st turning of the wheel
Fear
Four Noble Truths
Law
Perception

13. Bodhisattva
Realm after the rupajhanas
Desire
Enlightened one
'One who has reached Nirvana'

14. Samvega
Four foundations of mindfulness
Rebirth
Fear
Feeling

15. Dukkha (4NT)
Four Noble Truths
Suffering
Law
Insight Buddhism

16. samma vayama
Rebirth
Law
Right effort
Four Noble Truths

17. Sila
Virtues/Precepts
Suffering
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Right effort

18. Vedana
Right speech
Path
Feelings
'Non returner'

19. Tantra
Loom or Warp
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
'Non returner'
Path

20. Dharma
Law
Four Noble Truths
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Loom or Warp

21. Kaya
Body
Right mindfulness
Wisdom
Yogacara-yoga practice

22. samma sankappa
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Right intention
Cessation
Four Noble Truths

23. samma kammanta
Physical matter
Consciousness
Not self
Right action

24. Piti (jhana)
Buddha nature
Joy
Application
Concentration

25. Vicara (jhana)
Application
'Non returner'
Four foundations of mindfulness
Examining

26. Samsara
Rebirth
Right intention
Mental contents
Philosophy- Emptiness

27. samma samadhi
Right effort
Happiness
Right concentration
Law

28. Dhammas
Mental contents
Right view
Right effort
Law

29. Three marks of existence
Right mindfulness
Right livelihood
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Rebirth

30. Ekaggata (jhana)
Right effort
One-pointedness
Right concentration
Right speech

31. Tanha (4NT)
Feeling
Desire
Fear
Wisdom

32. samma ajiva
Right livelihood
Application
Right view
Right mindfulness

33. Samadhi
Cessation
Realm after the rupajhanas
Concentration
'Returning once'

34. samma vaca
Right speech
Buddha nature
Joy
Loom or Warp

35. Sotpanna

36. Arhat

37. Paticcasamuppada
One-pointedness
Calm-abiding
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Virtues/Precepts

38. Arupajhanas
Right effort
Right speech
Consciousness
Realm after the rupajhanas

39. 3rd turning of the wheel
Philosophy- Emptiness
Insight Buddhism
Yogacara-yoga practice
Four Noble Truths

40. Vitakka (jhana)
Rebirth
Right livelihood
Fear
Application

41. Samatha
'Non returner'
Yogacara-yoga practice
Not self
Calm-abiding

42. 2nd turning of the wheel
Right action
Fear
Philosophy- Emptiness
Virtues/Precepts

43. Nirodha (4NT)
Four Noble Truths
Joy
Cessation
Right mindfulness

44. Citta
Mind
Right intention
'Returning once'
Right view

45. Sankhara (aggregate)
One-pointedness
Volitional formations
'Returning once'
Philosophy- Emptiness

46. Sukha (jhana)
Happiness
Physical matter
Rebirth
Feeling

47. Panna
Right view
Wisdom
Joy
Body

48. Schools of Zen
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
'One who enters the stream'
'Non returner'
Rebirth

49. Vipassana
Calm-abiding
Realm after the rupajhanas
Concentration
Insight Buddhism

50. samma sati
'Returning once'
Right mindfulness
Yogacara-yoga practice
Application