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| Characterized by openness and curiosity, don't bring conceptual obstacles with because don't think we know everything |
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| bliss; happiness without pleasure; absence of suffering |
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| perfection or culmination of certain virtues; these virtues are cultivated as a way of purification, purifying karma and helping the aspirant to live an unobstructed life, while reaching the goal of enlightenment. |
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| an essence of things that does not depend on others; conceptual attachment to oneself that promotes a belief that one is intrinsic and without incident; diverges from route to Nirvana |
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| "enlightenment-mind", is the mind that strives toward awakening and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings |
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| Buddhist philosophy and psychology; where the lists come from |
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1) Form (rupa)
2) Feelings (vedana)
3) Perceptions (samnja)
4) Mental Factors and Voalition (Samskara)
5) Consciousness (vijnana) |
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| Five aggregates (aspects) that constitute sentient being |
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| Animal Beings (Tiryakas) are solid, regular and predictable. They cling to what is familiar and are disinterested, even fearful, of anything unfamiliar. |
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| An enlightened one that works for the enlightenment of all beings |
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| anger, terror and claustrophobia |
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| Hungry Ghosts are associated with addictions, compulsions and obsessions. People who have everything but always want more may be Hungry Ghosts |
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| cycle of birth, death, and rebirth; could be opposite of Nirvana |
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| a state of bliss or peace; may be experienced in life, or it may be entered into at death; passing into another kind of existence |
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| Those is God Realm live long, pleasure-filled lives, but they're so rich and happy because they don't recognize truth of suffering. no motivation to seek liberation-->less happy in rebirth |
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| Asura (Jealous God) Realm |
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| characterized by hyper-competitiveness and paranoia |
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| marked by questioning and curiosity; liberation from wheel only possible in human realm; only a few people in human realm realize their potential |
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| Someone who has realized the enlightenment that ends samsara |
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| active sympathy, gentle affection and a willingness to bear the pain of others |
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| loving kindness; a benevolence toward all beings free of selfish attachment |
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| type of meditation used to develop concentration; calming of the mind |
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| emptiness of the permanent self; nothing exists by itself but is a result of other phenomena; |
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| characterize and qualify the object of awareness; Concentration/Mindfulness and Attachment |
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| wisdom; clearly seeing things as they are |
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| nonattachment, nondiscrimination, even-mindedness |
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