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Buddhist Meditation

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Nirodha (4NT)
Consciousness
Yogacara-yoga practice
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Cessation

2. samma samadhi
Rebirth
Insight Buddhism
Right concentration
One-pointedness

3. Sanna (aggregate)
Right livelihood
Yogacara-yoga practice
Perception
Action

4. Anagamin

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5. Sankhara (aggregate)
Volitional formations
Joy
Right view
Desire

6. Tanha (4NT)
Desire
Concentration
Feelings
Insight Buddhism

7. Arhat

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8. Sukha (jhana)
Examining
Right concentration
Right mindfulness
Happiness

9. samma vaca
Volitional formations
Yogacara-yoga practice
Right speech
Mental contents

10. Schools of Zen
Physical matter
Right livelihood
1. Soto 2. Rinzai
Right mindfulness

11. 4th turning of the wheel
Buddha nature
Physical matter
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Yogacara-yoga practice

12. samma sati
Happiness
Mental contents
Concentration
Right mindfulness

13. Samadhi
Enlightened one
Concentration
Realm after the rupajhanas
Fear

14. samma ajiva
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Right livelihood
Volitional formations
One-pointedness

15. Ekaggata (jhana)
One-pointedness
Fear
Right livelihood
Physical matter

16. Anatta
Suffering
Not self
Right effort
Right view

17. Samsara
Rebirth
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Buddha
Right mindfulness

18. Siddarttha Gautama
Buddha
Virtues/Precepts
'Non returner'
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self

19. Vinnana (aggregate)
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Application
Consciousness
Right action

20. Bodhisattva
'Returning once'
Right view
Happiness
Enlightened one

21. Vicara (jhana)
Buddha nature
Right view
Mind
Examining

22. samma kammanta
Path
Cessation
Application
Right action

23. Tantra
Right concentration
Loom or Warp
Virtues/Precepts
One-pointedness

24. Sakadagamin

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25. Vedana (aggregate)
Insight Buddhism
Right speech
Feeling
Volitional formations

26. Dharma
Virtues/Precepts
Law
Philosophy- Emptiness
Consciousness

27. Dhammas
Examining
Right concentration
Mental contents
Desire

28. 1st turning of the wheel
Four Noble Truths
Right mindfulness
Wisdom
Loom or Warp

29. Dukkha (4NT)
Yogacara-yoga practice
'Returning once'
Suffering
Consciousness

30. Panna
Rebirth
Right mindfulness
'One who enters the stream'
Wisdom

31. Samvega
Fear
'One who enters the stream'
Happiness
Right action

32. Sotpanna

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33. Vipassana
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self
Volitional formations
Insight Buddhism
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising

34. Rupa (aggregate)
Physical matter
Law
Right mindfulness
Right action

35. Arupajhanas
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Realm after the rupajhanas
Virtues/Precepts
Right mindfulness

36. samma ditthi
Volitional formations
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Mind
Right view

37. 2nd turning of the wheel
Application
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Philosophy- Emptiness
Buddha

38. Paticcasamuppada
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
Right concentration
Buddha nature
One-pointedness

39. Magga (4NT)
Path
Four Noble Truths
'One who enters the stream'
Feeling

40. Sila
Loom or Warp
Virtues/Precepts
Enlightened one
Feelings

41. samma sankappa
Right livelihood
Concentration
'One who has reached Nirvana'
Right intention

42. Piti (jhana)
'Returning once'
Joy
Right concentration
Feelings

43. Karma
Right effort
Mind
'One who enters the stream'
Action

44. Samatha
Not self
Calm-abiding
Right concentration
Application

45. 3rd turning of the wheel
Right action
Rebirth
Yogacara-yoga practice
Happiness

46. Three marks of existence
Action
Right effort
Co-dependent Origination/Dependent Arising
1. Anicca-Impermanence 2. Dukkha- Suffering 3. Anatta- No-self

47. Citta
Happiness
Perception
Buddha nature
Mind

48. Vitakka (jhana)
Concentration
Not self
Application
Feelings

49. samma vayama
Path
Not self
Right effort
Realm after the rupajhanas

50. States of this realm in sequence
Right effort
'One who enters the stream'
Consciousness
1. Sphere of infinite space 2. Sphere of infinite consciousness 3. Sphere of nothingness 4. sphere of neither perception nor non-perception