Glossary

The main body of the text contains some of the pedagogical structures that were used by the Buddha and which are frequently alluded to by Buddhist teachers. These are listed below for clarity and easy reference:

 


Cause and Result:

 

 cause, intended action – physical, verbal or mental: kamma
result of that action: vipaka
The Eight- ( and Ten-)Fold Path:
  Right View: samma ditthi
Right Thought: samma sankappo
Right Speech: samma vaca
Right Action: samma kammanto
Right Livelihood: samma ajivo
Right Effort: samma vayamo
Right Mindfulness: samma sati
Right Concentration (Collectedness): samma samadhi
Right Knowledge: samma ñana
Right Release: samma vimutti
The Five Spiritual Faculties (indriya):
 

faith: saddha
energy: viriya
mindfulness: sati
concentration: samadhi
wisdom: pañña

The Four Stages of Breath-Meditation (corresponding to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness):
 

1 Body:
      knowing one is breathing in and out long
      knowing one is breathing in and out long
      fully sensitive to the ‘breath-body’
      tranquillising the ‘breath-body’
2 Feeling:
      fully sensitive to rapture
      fully sensitive to ease
      fully sensitive to these effects on the citta
      tranquillising these effects on the citta
3 Mind (citta):
      fully sensitive to the citta
      uplifting the citta
      steadying the citta
      freeing the citta
4 Processes (dhamma):
      contemplating impermanence
      contemplating dispassion
      contemplating stopping
      contemplating abandonment

The Seven Factors of Awakening (bojjhanga):
  mindfulness: sati
investigation of process: dhamma-vicaya
energy: viriya
rapture: piti
tranquillity: passadhi
concentration: samadhi
equanimity: upekkha
Dependent Arising ( paticcasammuppada)
 

Wrong-seeing (avijja) is a factor that supports the determinations (sankhara) of consciousness (viññana); consciousness (viññana) thus operates in terms of knowing (nama) an object (rupa) which occurs in one of six sense-fields (salayatana) which arise dependent on contact impression (phassa); these contact impressions are registered in terms of feeling (vedana) which arouse degrees of inclination (tanha) which in turn stimulates attachment (upadana); this attachment fixes the conscious mind into a certain pattern that extends (bhava) to be the basis for a future arising or birth (jati) which must be followed by the process of ageing and death (jara-maranam); this is the basis for sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair (soka-parideva-dukkha-domanassa-upayasa).

But with the complete and dispassionate stopping of wrong-seeing, the determinations stop... thus there is the stopping of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair.

The Five Khandha:

 

 

 

 

form: rupa
feeling: vedana
perception: sañña
activities /determinants: sankhara
consciousness: viññana

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