Abharaja Kumara

Abhidhamma

acceptance in vipassana practice

agitation. See also restlessness

Akkosina

Ananda

anatta. See also selflessness

anger

Angulimala

anicca. See also impermanence

anxiety

appamada. See also mindfulness

appreciative joy

asceticism, avoiding

attitudes conducive to meditation

aversion. See also rejecting, hindrance of

awareness. See also consciousness; mindfulness

as alertness

bare attention

concentration, balancing with

goal of

meditation as

mental states, application to

mindfulness as egoless awareness

preconceptual

selfless

tantric approach to

unconscious, extending into

vipassana approach to

Zen approach to

bad, good, neutral division of experience

beginner pitfalls

burnout

discursive thought

excitement over extraordinary sensations

forcing breath

trying too hard

bhavana

bliss. See rapture

body. See also pain; posture

identification with

mind/body complex

observing change in physical experience

observing movement

observing sensation

stillness during meditation

boredom

breath practice

abdomen, focusing at

breathing normally during

calmness experienced during

carpenter analogy

changing consciousness, observing through

changing mental experience, observing through

changing physical experience, observing through

chest area, focusing at

concentration aids using the breath

connection point between breaths, focusing on

controlling the breath

counting breaths

discursive thought, avoiding

elements, perceiving through

elephant analogy

farmer analogy

fascination in breath

finding the breath

gatekeeper analogy

heat, observing as home base

impermanence, perceiving through

interconnectedness, perceiving through

investigative attitude

length of breath

lightness experienced during

mindfulness, developing through

nostril tip, focusing at

noting during

passage of breath, following

pause between breaths, eliminating as aid to concentration

pause between breaths, observing

present moment, discovering through

resolve

rhythm of expansion and contraction, observing

Satipatthana Sutta, elaborated in

selflessness, perceiving through

shifting to other objects of attention

signs experienced during

sinking mind, avoiding during

subtle breath

universality, realizing through

unsatisfactoriness, perceiving through

wandering attention, bringing back to breath

Buddha Gotama

discourses

loving friendliness of

unorthodoxy of

buddha nature

Buddhaghosa

Buddhism

antiauthoritarian attitude

empiricism

faith

Mahayana

Tantra

theological religions compared

Theravada

Zen

change. See also impermanence concentration, momentary

incessant nature of

mindfulness as awareness of

observing in consciousness

observing in mental phenomena

observing in physical experience

observing through breath practice

present moment, inherent in

Cinca

clinging, avoiding in meditation

clothing worn during meditation

compassion

loving friendliness, cultivating through

meditation, arising from

morality, relation to

pity versus

thought, compassionate

wisdom, arising from

concentration. See also jhana; samatha

awareness, balancing with

breath, concentration aids using

Buddhist tradition, within

in contemplation

defined

distraction, overcoming

farmer analogy

fear arising from

forced nature of

hindrances to

Hindu tradition, within

insight versus

Judeo-Christian tradition, within

lens analogy

meditation factor

mental dullness as byproduct of

mental phenomena, needed to observe

mental processes, slowing through

mindfulness, balancing with

mindfulness, relation to

momentary

prayer as

signs of

as tool

unwholesome

vipassana meditation, role in

wandering mind, bringing back to object of attention

conceptualization

consciousness. See also awareness

observing during meditation

unconscious entering into

contemplation

daily life, bringing awareness to

activities, through concentration on

breath coordination, through

as goal of practice

motion, through mindfulness of

posture, through mindfulness of

seated meditation as practice for

seated meditation, carryover from

spare moments, taking advantage of

spontaneous

walking meditation as practice for

defilements. See hindrances

depression

desire

detachment

Devadatta

Dhamma

Dhammapada

discouragement

dissatisfaction. See unsatisfactoriness

distractions

bliss of meditation as

categorization into hindrances

environment, structuring for a minimum of

frame of reference

grasping, relation to

mindfulness, dispelling through

observing

techniques for dealing with

doubt

drowsiness during meditation

dukkha. See also suffering; unsatisfactoriness

dullness of mind

ecstasy. See rapture

effort

ego. See also self

extinguishing through mindfulness

hindrances arising from

separation, as sense of

tantric practices aimed at understanding

thought, connection with

elements, perceiving through breath practice

emotion. See also mental phenomena, observing; specific emotions

negative, canceling with skillful thought

observing during meditation

empirical nature of vipassana meditation

energy needed for meditation

equanimity

ethics

expectations

eyes closed during meditation

faith

fear, experiencing during meditation

feeling (emotional). See emotion

feeling (physical), observing. See also pain

generosity

gentleness in meditation

goals of practice

awareness

fivefold nature of

insight

jhana as goal in itself

liberation

of mindfulness

perception of impermanence

perception of selflessness

perception of unsatisfactoriness

rapture as goal in itself

setting too high

transformation of life experience

good, bad, neutral division of experience

Gotama Buddha. See Buddha Gotama

grasping

greed

impermanence, dispelling through experience of

mindfulness, dispelling through

for noble feelings

origin of

thought, dispelling through skillful

thought, greedy

guilt

hand position during meditation

happiness

hatred

benevolence, dispelling through

loving friendliness, dispelling through

mindfulness, dispelling through

origin of

self-hatred

thought, dispelling through skillful

thought, hateful

heat, observing in breath practice

hindrances

categories of

to concentration

ego, arising from

impermanence, overcoming through experience of

loving friendliness, dispelling through

mindfulness, dispelling through

Hinduism

ignorance

ignoring, habit of

impermanence. See also change of body

breath practice, perceiving through

goal of practice, perception of as

hindrances, overcoming through experience of

inherent to all existence

mindfulness, perceiving through

suffering in reaction to

insight meditation

intuition

investigative attitude in meditation

jealousy

jhana. See also concentration

joy, appreciative

lethargy. See also drowsiness during meditation; dullness of mind

liberation

listening and speaking with mindfulness

loving friendliness

acting from

anger, responding to with

bond created by

Buddha, examples in life of

compassion, cultivating through

dirty cloth analogy

enemies, towards

expanding to all beings

hindrances, dispelling through

innate capacity for

meditation session, beginning with

mindfulness, developing alongside

morality, cultivating through

motherhood analogy

neutral people, towards

peaceful mind necessary for

purification through

recitations

resistance to

self, towards

strengthening through practice

universal

lust

Mahayana Buddhism

meditation

attitudes conducive to

Buddhist

contemplation compared

elephant analogy

energy needed

environment, choosing

field analogy

group, practicing with

gumption needed for

Hindu

Judeo-Christian

length of sitting session

misconceptions about

personal transformation arising from

purpose of

resistance to, overcoming

scheduling practice

time needed to see results

wisdom factor

memory

mental factors, universal

mental notes during meditation

mental phenomena, observing. See also mind; specific mental states

attachment to pleasant states

birth, growth, decay stages

change

concentration needed

conceptualization, moment of

conceptualization, without

consciousness itself

memory

slowing mental processes through concentration

thought

unconscious becoming conscious

metta. See also loving friendliness

mind. See also mental phenomena, observing; thought

body/mind complex

conceptualization, suspending during meditation

craziness of

discipline of

dullness

events, as set of

monkey mind

muddy water analogy

positive mental states, attachment to

purification of

relaxing

sinking

tranquillity of

unconscious becoming conscious

wandering, bringing back to object of attention

wandering, observing

mindfulness

as awareness of change

as bare attention

of boredom

boredom versus

breath practice, developing through

concentration, balancing with

concentration, relation to

conditions, not limited by

described

distraction, dispelling through

dullness, dispelling through

effort required

ego, extinguishing through

as egoless awareness

elephant analogy

enlightenment, leading to

experience of

fear, dispelling through

forcing

fundamental activities of

goal of

greed, dispelling through

hatred, dispelling through

hindrances, dispelling through

honesty in

ignorance, dispelling through

as impartial watchfulness

impermanence, perceiving through

inclusive nature of

lethargy, dispelling through

loving friendliness, developing alongside

lust, dispelling through

meditation, cultivation through

meditation, role in

as mirror-thought

morality arising from

muddy water analogy

as nonconceptual awareness

as nonjudgmental observation

object of attention

of pain

as participatory observation

patience, as essence of

preconceptual nature of

as present-moment awareness

as presymbolic

problems, dealing with through

process of

reminder function of

sanity, role in achieving

as seeing things as they really are

selfless nature of

selflessness, perceiving through

slow movement as aid to

speaking and listening with

spontaneous nature of

strengthening through practice

tension versus

unsatisfactoriness, perceiving through

wisdom arising from

mitra. See also loving friendliness

monastery, controlled environment of

morality

bath in ocean analogy

compassion, relation to

ethics

as habit pattern

intuitive

levels of

loving friendliness, cultivating through

meditation, arising from

meditation, as prerequisite to

mental control prerequisite to

mindfulness, arising from

precepts as guide to

neutral, good, bad division of experience

nibbana

noting during meditation

objects of attention

identified in Pali canon

mental focus, importance to

of mindfulness

shifting

obsession

pain

asceticism, avoiding

mindfulness of

observing in meditation

pleasure/pain connection

reducing through proper clothing

reducing through proper posture

reducing through relaxation

resistance reaction

selflessness of

suffering versus

Pali literature. See also specific works

passana

The Path of Freedom (Upatissa)

The Path of Purification (Buddhaghosa)

patience

physical sensation, observing. See also pain

pity

pleasant, unpleasant, neutral division of experience

posture

prayer

precepts as guide to morality

present moment

breath practice, discovering through

change inherent in

mindfulness as awareness of

observing in meditation

pride

problems. See also specific problems

psychic irritants. See hindrances

psychic powers

purification

happiness, role in

through loving friendliness

meditation as means of

of mind

of psychic irritants

rapture

reaction, observing

reality

construction of

vipassana as means of perceiving

recitations

rejecting, hindrance of

relaxation

resentment

resistance to meditation

restlessness

ritual

samadhi. See also concentration

samatha. See also concentration

Sangha

Sariputta

sati. See also mindfulness

Satipatthana Sutta

scheduling practice

seeing things as they really are self. See also ego

comparison with others

construction of

evil arising from false sense of

ignorance arising through notion of

self-discipline

self-hatred

selfishness

selflessness

awareness, selfless

ignorance dispelled through realization of

of mindfulness

of pain

perceiving through breath practice

perceiving through mindfulness

perception of as goal of practice

sensation (physical) observing. See also pain

sexual feelings, experiencing during meditation. See also lust

sleepiness

slow-motion activity

sound

as distraction

observing in meditation

speaking and listening with mindfulness

stagnation

stillness during meditation

“stone buddha” syndrome

stupor

sublime states

suffering

cause of

cessation of

inherent to human experience

pain versus

suttas. See also specific suttas

sympathetic (appreciative) joy

tantra

teacher, role of

Theravada Buddhism

thought. See also mind

canceling one thought with another

discursive, avoiding during meditation

ego, connection with

experience of

freedom from

greedy

hateful

observing during meditation

obsessive

skillful/unskillful

time

experiencing as concept

length of sitting session

needed to see results of meditation

scheduling practice

timing distractions

Tipitaka

trance

transformation arising from meditation

trust in yourself

unconscious becoming conscious

universality, realizing through breath practice

unsatisfactoriness

inherent to human experience

perceiving through breath practice

perceiving through mindfulness

perception of as goal of practice

Upatissa

verbalizing mentally during meditation

Vimuttimagga (Upatissa)

Vinaya

vipassana bhavana

vipassana (the word)

Visuddhimagga (Buddhaghosa)

walking meditation

wisdom

worry

Zen Buddhism