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Four Foundations of Mindfulness

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  1. Awareness of the body
  2. of feelings
  3. of mental phenomena
  4. of truths/laws of experience (4 NTs)
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Eightfold Path

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Right View
Right Thought
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration
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Five Aggregates

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Material Form (Rupa)
Feeling (Vedanda) - all affective element, pleasant, painful, neutral
Perception (Sanna) - quality of things, recognition, memory
Formations (Sankhara) - all volitional, emotive, intellective aspects of mental life
Consciousness (Vinnana) - basic awareness of object

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Three Marks/Characteristics (Tilakkhana)

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Impermanence
Suffering
Non-Self (anatta)

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Ten Fetters

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  1. Identity View (self among aggregates)
  2. Doubt in Buddha and his teachings
  3. Clinging to rules and observances
  4. Sensual Desire
  5. Ill-will
  6. Desire for rebirth in fine-material realm
  7. Desire for rebirth in immaterial realm
  8. Conceit
  9. Restlessness
  10. Ignorance
    * First 5 ties to world of desire; latter 5 to subtle form n formless worlds
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4 Supramundane Paths

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  1. Stream-Enterer (sotapanna): enter stream of 8FP inevitably leading to Nibbana & abandon first 3 fetters
  2. Once-Returner (sakadagamin): attenuate further root defilements of lust, hatred, ignorance (w/o yet comp erad) and destined to return once more to sense-sphere realm
  3. Non-Returner (anagamin): dest to reappear by spent birth in one of Pure Abodes and attain final Nibbana
  4. Arahant: erad 5 higher fetters of desire for rebirth in two realms, conceit, restlessness, ignorance
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Mentality-Materilaity

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Mentality: Feeling, Perception, Volition, Contact, Attention
Materiality: 4 great elements & derived material forms

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Formations (Sanhara/Samskara)

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wholesome & unwholesome volitions ~ Kamma: bodily, verbal, mental

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Ignorance

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Ignorance of 4 NTs,
Origin & Disappearance of 5 Aggs
4-fold error of taking for eternal what is not, pleasant for what is not, pure for what is not, a Self what has no self (Lamotte 36)

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Taints

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Sensual Desire, Being, Ignorance

Taint condition for Ignorance & Ignorance is also Taint - no discernible beginning of samsara b/c none for ignorance

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12 Links of Dependent Origination

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  1. Ignorance (klesa)
  2. Formations (karman)
  3. Consciousness (vipakaphala)
  4. Mentality-Materiality (vp)
  5. Sixfold Base (vp)
  6. Contact (vp)
  7. Feeling (vp)
  8. Craving (tr.s.n.a- - thirst, desire) (klesa)
  9. Clinging/Grasping (klesa)
  10. Being/Existence (karman)
  11. Birth (vp))
  12. Aging and Death (vp)
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Prajna (Early Buddhism)

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Clear & precise insight into the 3 Characteristics of all phenomena, anti, dukkha, anatman

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Kinds of Wisdom

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TEACHING (sruta - hearing)
REFLECTION (cinta): grasp meaning of letter n interpret letter by meaning; elicits personal reaction to external teaching
CONTEMPLATION (bhavana): direct apprehension of truth indeed of external adjunct
(DIRECT WISDOM: supramundane, direct ultimately only one of value)

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4 Contemplations

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  1. Difficulty of Obtaining Human Life
  2. Death & Impermanence
  3. Faults of Samsara
  4. Law of Karma (cause & effect)
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Seven Branch Prayer

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  1. Prostration
  2. Offering
  3. Confession
  4. Rejoicing (in virtues of others)
  5. Supplication for Teaching of Dharma
  6. Supplication for Buddhas to Remain
  7. Dedication of Merit
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Perfections (Mahayana)

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  1. Generosity (da-na)
  2. Morality (s’i-la)
  3. Patience (ks.a-nti)
  4. Vigor (vi-rya)
  5. Concentration (dhya-na)
  6. Wisdom (prajn~a-)
  7. Skill-in-Means (upaya-kaus’alya)
  8. Resolution/Determination (pran.idha-na)
  9. Strength (bala)
  10. Knowledge (jn~a-na)
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Perfections (Theravada)

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  1. Generosity (dana)
  2. Morality (si-la)
  3. Renunciation (nekhamma)
  4. Insight (pan~n~a)
  5. Energy (viriya)
  6. Patience (khanti)
  7. Truthfulness (sacca)
  8. Resolution (adhit.t.ha-na)
  9. Loving-Kindness (metta)
  10. Equanimity (upekkha-)

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