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  1. 5. The Buddha’s teachings, truth, the basic building blocks of reality; one of the three jewels of refuge
  2. 6. Wisdom-heart or the awakened heart/mind; the aspiration for supreme enlightenment so that all sentient beings may be free from suffering
  3. 7. A Buddhist monk
  4. 10. indfulness of breathing
  5. 15. Compassion; one of the four Brahma-Viharas (sublime abodes)
  6. 16. Enlightened one; someone whose mind is completely free from the defilements; a person who is no longer bound to cyclic existence
  7. 19. The practice of giving; generosity. Dana is the first of the ten paramis, or qualities to be perfected in order to become a Buddha
  8. 20. The doctrine that all mental and physical phenomena arise and pass away depending on causes and conditions
  9. 21. Heavenly or sublime abode, the four mind states said to lead to a rebirth in a heavenly realm: lovingkindness (metta), compassion (karuna), appreciative joy (mudita) and equanimity (upekkha)
  10. 23. Loving kindness, gentle friendship; a practice for generating lovingkindness said to be first taught by the Buddha as an antidote to fear. It helps cultivate our natural capacity for an open and loving heart and is traditionally offered along with other Brahma-vihara meditations that enrich compassion, joy in the happiness of others and equanimity. These practices lead to the development of concentration, fearlessness, happiness and a greater ability to love.
  11. 25. The best known of all the Buddhist scriptures; a collection of 423 verses, spoken by the Buddha, that focuses on the value of ethical conduct and mental training
  12. 26. Careful attention to mental and physical processes; a key ingredient of meditation; one of the five spiritual faculties; one of the seven factors of enlightenment; an aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path
  13. 29. the pleasant, unpleasant or neutral tone that arises with every experience; one of the five aggregates
  14. 30. Impermanent, one of the three characteristics of existence. Buddhist teachings emphasize that all conditioned mental and physical phenomena are impermanent – nothing lasts, nothing stays the same.
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  1. 1. Fully awakened one; specifically the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, who lived and taught in India 2,500 years ago; one of the three jewels of refuge
  2. 2. One who has taken a vow to become a fully enlightened Buddha; someone known for an unbounded readiness and availability to help all sentient beings
  3. 3. The auspicious power of wholesome action that brings positive karmic results
  4. 4. A Buddhist nun
  5. 7. A mind that is open to the experience of the moment, free of conceptual overlays; first made popular by the Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi
  6. 8. Defilement; unwholesome qualities; a factor of mind that obscures clear seeing; a hindrance to meditation; also know as afflictive emotion
  7. 9. Mental absorption, a state of strong concentration that temporarily suspends the five hindrances
  8. 11. Spiritual friend. In the Theravada Buddhist meditation tradition, teachers are often referred to as spiritual friends.
  9. 12. Suffering; of pain, both mental and physical, of change, and endemic to cyclic existance; the first Noble Truth that acknowledges the reality of suffering
  10. 13. The tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India – a fig tree popularly called Pipal (Ficus Religiosa)
  11. 14. Not self, insubstantiality, one of the three characteristics of existence
  12. 17. Enlightenment, awakening
  13. 18. Awakening
  14. 22. A spiritual path that avoids extremes of self-mortification and self-indulgence, as discovered and taught by the Buddha
  15. 24. Action, deed; the law of cause and effect; intentional action, either wholesome or unwholesome that brings either pleasant or unpleasant results respectively
  16. 27. The pattern of conditioned habits that we mistake for a sense of self
  17. 28. A gladdening of the mind and body. One of the seven factors of enlightenment
  18. 29. Interest and inquiry into experience. One of the seven factors of enlightenment