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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Vipassana jhanas

Vipassana jhanas are steps that describe the evolution of Vipassana's practice. They contrast with samatha's jhanas. The usual description opposes the concentration attained by practicing samatha : the jhanas, and concentration used in vipassana : neighborhood concentration (upacara samadhi). Nevertheless, Sayadaw U Pandita, a disciple of Mahasi Sayadaw, describes four vipassana jhanas. The meditator first explores his body, then his mind, discovering the three characteristics. The first jhana consist in ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - U Ba Khin

Sayagyi U Ba Khin (March 6, 1899 – January 18, 1971) was born in Rangoon, Burma. He was a student of Saya Thetgyi and was the first Accountant General of Burma. U Ba Khin was a notable teacher of Buddhist vipassana meditation. One of his most prominent students was S. N. Goenka. Other related archives1899, 1971, Buddhist, Burma, January 18, March 6, Rangoon, S. N. Goenka, vipassana

Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Piti

Piti is a type of emotion: the third factor in the five comprising the first Jhana of Hindu and Buddhist meditation. Piti is a very specific joy, one of the five factors of the first jhana, a deep concentration state. It should be contrasted with Sukkha, which is another factor of Jhana. The best way to meet the meaning of this is to consider five types of joy. As the meditator practices both samatha or vipassana, his mind will focus on one (mental) ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Buddhist meditation

Buddhist meditation, meditation used in the practice of Buddhism, "includes any method of meditation that has Enlightenment as its ultimate aim"1. The closest word for meditation in the classical languages of Buddhism is bhavana or "mental development"2. The main methods of Buddhist meditation are divided into samatha (tra ...

Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Satipatthana

Satipatthana refers to the broad conception of Buddhist meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. It is often called the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, namely, mindfulness of the body, of thoughts or the mind, of feelings and of mental objects or qualities. These are also known as the "four frames of reference" or Satipatthana-samyutta. Satipatthana can also be thought of as "establishing mindfulness" or sati-upatthana. Satipatthana is a way of implementing the right mindfulness and, less directly, the right concentrati ...

Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Vicara

Vicara means the way mind maintains attention toward any object. It first referred to hinduist yoga, later to buddhist meditation. Vicara - Vicara in hinduism. Vicara - Vicara in buddhism. Vicara is a term of buddhist psychology. This term is mosly used to describe the internal feeling of the yogi who practices samatha bhavana, that is the meditation technique consisting in focusing the mind to one single point. Nevertheless, this term can be used to describ ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Kasina

In Buddhism, kasina are a class of basic visual objects of meditation. There are ten kasina: earth (pathavi kasina), water (apo kasina), air, wind (vayo kasina), fire (tejo kasina), blue, green (nila kasina), yellow (pita kasina), red (lohita kasina), white (odata kasina), enclosed space, hole, aperture (akasa kasina), < ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Visuddhimagga

The Visuddhimagga ("The path to purity") is a Theravada Buddhist commentary written by Buddhaghosa approximately in 430 CE in Sri Lanka. It is considered the most important Theravada text outside of the Tipitaka canon of scriptures. The Visuddhimagga is based on the Rathavinitasutta, which describes the progression from the purity of discipline to the nibbana, considering seven steps. Visuddhimagga - Summary. It is composed of four parts, which discuss: 1) Sila (discipline); Samadhi (meditativ ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Dhyana

Dhyāna is a term in Sanskrit which refers to a type or aspect of meditation. It is a key concept in Hinduism and Buddhism. Equivalent terms are jhāna in Pāli, chán in Chinese, and zen in Japanese. Dhyana - Dhyāna in Buddhism. In the Pali Canon the Buddha describes eight progressive states of absorption meditation or Jhana. The first four are connected to the physical realm and the last four only with the mental realm (i.e. there is no experience of the body in the four highe ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Anapana

Anapana Sati, meaning mindfulness of breathing ("sati" means mindfulness, "ānāpāna" refers to breathing) is a basic form of meditation taught by the Buddha. According to the Buddha's teaching in the anapanasati Sutra, practicing mindfulness of breathing meditation as a part of the Noble Eightfold Path leads to the removal of all defilements (kleśas) and finally the attainment of Nibbana. Buddha's teaching was based on his own experience in using anapanasati as part of his means of achieving his own enlightenment. However, m ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Buddhadasa

Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (Thai: พุทธทาสภิกขุ, May 27, 1906 - May 25, 1993) was one of the most influential Theravada Buddhist monks of the 20th century. Known as an innovative interpreter of Buddhist beliefs, Buddhadasa helped reform Buddhism in his home country of Thailand and inspired persons such as Pridi Phanomyong, leader of that country's 1932 revolution, and the Thai social activists of the 1960s. Buddhadasa - Early Years. Born in 1906 as Nguam Panid in Phumriang (Chaiya district) i ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Western Buddhism

Western Buddhism is the practice of Buddhism in Europe and the Americas, especially in the United States. For the most part, Western Buddhism is identical to Buddhism in East Asia, borrowing Asian practicises such as the sangha and meditation. Usually, practicitioners do not see any reason to create a distinction between the śīla or enlightenment they aim for and the goals of Asian Buddhists. Western Buddhism, however, also has its roots in the Western concepts of freethought and secular humanism, which draws comparisons with Buddhism's original rebellion from Hinduism rather than its established p ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Meditation

Meditation like yoga originated in Vedic Hinduism many centuries ago, it was much later adopted into a wide variety of practices of religious and non-religious formats which emphasize mental activity or quiesscence. The English word comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, but which later could perhaps be better translated as "contemplation." This usage is found in Christian spirituality, for example, when one "meditates" on the sufferings of Christ; as w ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Ajahn Chah

Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhatto (Chao Khun Bodhinyanathera) (alternatively Achaan Chah, occasionally with honorific titles Luang Por and Phra) (18 June 1918, Thailand – 1992), was one of the greatest meditation masters of the twentieth century. Known for his informal and direct style, he was a major influence on Theravada Buddhism around the world. Venerable Ajahn Chah was an influential and perhaps the most famous monk of the Thai Forest tradition of Theravada. The monks of this tradition use various ascet ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Buddhism in the United States

Buddhism is a religion with millions of followers in the United States, including traditionally Buddhist Asian Americans as well as non-Asian converts. The U.S. presents a strikingly new and different environment for Buddhists, leading to a unique history and a continuing process of development as Buddhism and America come to grips with each other. Buddhism in the United States - Early history. Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occurring for thousands of years. ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Theravada

Theravada (Pali; Sanskrit: Sthaviravada) is one of the eighteen (or twenty) Nikāya schools that formed early in the history of Buddhism. These developed in India during the century subsequent to the death of the Buddha. The name of the school means "Teachings of the Elders" which implies that this was the most conservative school of Buddhism, a school that has attempted to conserve the original teachings of the Buddha. Adherents trace their lineage back to the Sthaviras (Pali: Theras; "Elders") of the First Buddhist Council when 500 arahants, including Mahakasyapa chose a position of orthodoxy to keep all the ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Skandha

The Five Skandhas (Sanskrit: pañca-skandha, Pāli: pañca-khandha; literally: pañca, five; skandha, heap or bundle) are the five aggregates necessary to create an individual according to Buddhist phenomenology. In other words, a person is made up of the Five Skandhas, without which, there is no "self." The Five Skandhas are: "form" (sa., pi. rūpa): the body and the six sense organs and their objects - 18 Dhatus. rūpa is created by four components (sa ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Buddhism

Buddhism, a religion and philosophy from ancient India, is based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, of the Shakyas. His lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 483 BCE; it spread throughout the Indian subcontinent in the five centuries following his death. Missionaries would carry Buddhism throughout Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tibet, as well as East Asian countries such as China, Korea, and Japan in the following two millenia. Buddhism is classified as an Ārya dharma ("Noble religion") and is one ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - List of Buddhists

A number of noted individuals have been Buddhists. List of Buddhists - Historical Buddhist thinkers and founders of schools. Individuals are grouped by nationality, except in cases where the vast majority of their influence was felt elsewhere. List of Buddhists - Indian. The Buddha Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama Ananda, Siddhartha's cousin and one of his chief disciples Aryadeva foremost disciple of Nagarjuna, continued the philosophical school of Madhyam ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia - Dharma

Dharma (Sanskrit, roughly law or way) is the way of the higher Truths. Beings that live in harmony with Dharma proceed more quickly towards moksha, nirvana, or personal liberation. Dharma forms the basis for philosophies, beliefs and practices originating in India. The oldest of these, widely known as Hinduism, is Sanatana Dharma or Eternal Dharma. Buddhism, Ayyavazhi, Jainism and Sikhism also retain the centrality of Dharma. For the followers of these traditions, Dharma also refers to the teachings ...

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Vipassana Meditation: Encyclopedia II - Vipassana - Vipassana in the Theravada Mahayana and Vajrayana

Vipassana - In the Theravada. Vipassana as practiced in the Theravada is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths that were taught by the Buddha. It is understanding the transitory nature of phenomena and the selflessness of persons, that the conceptual consciousness, "I" does not exist. Most of Theravada's teachers refer to knowledges evolving during practice. The meditator gradually improve his perception of the three marks of existence until he reaches the step sensations constantly disappear ...

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