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Buddhist Meditation

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1. 2nd turning of the wheel
Philosophy- Emptiness
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Feeling
Right livelihood

2. Nirodha (4NT)
Physical matter
Right action
Suffering
Cessation

3. samma ditthi
'One who enters the stream'
Right view
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Right action

4. Samvega
'Non returner'
Right speech
Fear
Wisdom

5. Vicara (jhana)
Right speech
Virtues/Precepts
Examining
Path

6. Tanha (4NT)
Desire
Concentration
Right concentration
Insight Buddhism

7. Vedana
Concentration
Feelings
Rebirth
Buddha nature

8. Dukkha (4NT)
Mind
Yogacara-yoga practice
Four foundations of mindfulness
Suffering

9. Samadhi
'Non returner'
Concentration
Feelings
Physical matter

10. Arhat

11. samma vayama
Body
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Rebirth
Right effort

12. Dharma
Law
Virtues/Precepts
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Calm-abiding

13. Anagamin

14. Samatha
Enlightened one
Feeling
Right intention
Calm-abiding

15. Rupa (aggregate)
Feeling
Insight Buddhism
Physical matter
Joy

16. Vinnana (aggregate)
Consciousness
'Non returner'
Calm-abiding
Philosophy- Emptiness

17. Vipassana
One-pointedness
Mind
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Insight Buddhism

18. Sankhara (aggregate)
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Cessation
Volitional formations
Realm after the rupajhanas

19. Dhammas
Mental contents
Volitional formations
Concentration
'One who has reached Nirvana'

20. Vitakka (jhana)
Application
Realm after the rupajhanas
Right livelihood
Law

21. Arupajhanas
Realm after the rupajhanas
Right speech
Virtues/Precepts
Volitional formations

22. samma sankappa
Law
Action
Right intention
Fear

23. Piti (jhana)
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Loom or Warp
Joy
Enlightened one

24. samma sati
Right mindfulness
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Not self
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising

25. samma kammanta
Right action
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Suffering

26. Karma
Path
Not self
Action
Perception

27. samma samadhi
Right effort
Volitional formations
Law
Right concentration

28. samma ajiva
Loom or Warp
One-pointedness
Yogacara-yoga practice
Right livelihood

29. Anatta
Path
Right view
Not self
Law

30. Samsara
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Feelings
Rebirth
Application

31. samma vaca
Right speech
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
Four foundations of mindfulness

32. Vedana (aggregate)
Right action
Feeling
Desire
Right view

33. Citta
Volitional formations
One-pointedness
Suffering
Mind

34. Sukha (jhana)
Volitional formations
Examining
Happiness
Feelings

35. Ekaggata (jhana)
Suffering
Right action
Virtues/Precepts
One-pointedness

36. Siddarttha Gautama
Right intention
Cessation
'Returning once'
Buddha

37. Three marks of existence
Mind
Enlightened one
Realm after the rupajhanas
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self

38. Schools of Zen
'Returning once'
Enlightened one
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Feelings

39. Bodhisattva
Right effort
Wisdom
Enlightened one
Right speech

40. Kaya
Body
Perception
Rebirth
'Returning once'

41. 4th turning of the wheel
Buddha nature
Fear
One-pointedness
Loom or Warp

42. 3rd turning of the wheel
Insight Buddhism
Cessation
Desire
Yogacara-yoga practice

43. Sanna (aggregate)
Right effort
Perception
Buddha
Concentration

44. 1st turning of the wheel
Fear
Mind
Four Noble Truths
Feeling

45. States of this realm in sequence
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
Right action
One-pointedness
Right concentration

46. Panna
Insight Buddhism
Law
Wisdom
Cessation

47. Sotpanna

48. Tantra
Fear
Philosophy- Emptiness
Path
Loom or Warp

49. Sila
Feeling
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Happiness
Virtues/Precepts

50. Magga (4NT)
Rebirth
Path
Feeling
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising