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The Four Noble Truths | The essence of Buddha's teachings. They explain that life brings suffering, but that it can be ended, and that there is a path that leads to this goal. |
The Deer Park Sermon | A sermon Siddhartha gave to his five former ascetic companions at the Deer Park in Varanasi. It contains the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. |
Tanha/Tishna | Craving |
Nirodha | The cessation of craving. Sometimes used as a synonym for Nirvana, although the emphasis is on stopping rather than anything positive. |
Magga/Marga | The path to achieve nirodha. |
‘The Four True Realities for the Spiritually Ennobled’ | Peter Harvey’s preferred translation of ‘The Four Noble Truths’. |
Kama tanha | Your craving for the six kinds of sense desires. |
Bhava tanha | The desire for existence and for becoming what you are not. |
Vibhava tanha | The desire that arises when you are disillusioned with something and want it to cease with such intensity that you crave nonexistence. |
Sopadhishesa-nirvana | Nirvana With Remainder is nirvana in this life. The practitioner has achieved nirvana, but the five skandhas remain in combination. The person experiences mental states, but without Tanha. |
Parinirvana | Nirvana Without Remainder occurs at death. The person ceases to exist. The five skandhas dissipate. |
The Eightfold Path | Step four in the Four Noble Truths. Gives the eight steps necessary to achieve enlightenment. |
The Way of Wisdom | Steps 1 and 2 of The Eightfold Path. Right View and Right Intention. |
The Way of Morality | Steps 3, 4 and 5 of The Eightfold Path. Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood. |
The Way of Mental Training | Steps 6, 7 and 8 of The Eightfold Path. Right Effort, Mindfulness or Right Awareness and Right Concentration. |
The Tenfold Path | An extension of the Eightfold Path in which Right Knowledge and Right Release are ‘acquired’ stages of wisdom, after the eight steps. |
Jhana (Pali)/ Dhyana (Sanskrit) | Meditation. |
Samatha meditation | A kind of meditation which seeks out calm, peace, tranquillity by focusing on conceptual objects. |
Vipassana/Vipasyana meditation | A kind of meditation which seeks insight into the three marks of existence by focusing on actually present realities. |
A kasina | A visual object of meditation. |
A Bhutsudan | A shrine at which Buddhists ‘worship’. Such worship often features meditation as part of its ritual. |
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