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Sometimes six are outlined: giving, ethical discipline, patient endurance, diligence, meditation and transcendent wisdom. [106] [5] Other sutras (like the Daśabhūmika) give a list of ten, with the addition of upāya (skillful means), praṇidhāna (vow, resolution), Bala (spiritual power) and Jñāna (knowledge). [107]
Emptiness as a meditative state is said to be reached when "not attending to any themes, he [the bhikkhu] enters & remains in internal emptiness" (MN 122). This meditative dwelling is developed through the "four formless states" of meditation or Arūpajhānas and then through "themeless concentration of awareness". [10]
The five faults identify obstacles to meditation practice, and the eight antidotes are applied to overcome the five faults. This system originates with Maitreyanātha's Madhyānta-vibhāga and is elaborated upon in further texts, such as Kamalaśīla's Stages of Meditation (Bhāvanākrama).
The Practice of Tranquility and Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. Shambhala Publications. Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan (1975). Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding". Translated by Herbert V. Guenther and Leslie S. Kawamura. Dharma Publishing. ISBN 9780913546079.
Mental state in terms of challenge level and skill level, according to Csikszentmihalyi's flow model. [1] (Click on a fragment of the image to go to the appropriate article) In psychology, relaxation is the emotional state of low tension, in which there is an absence of arousal, particularly from negative sources such as anger, anxiety, or fear ...
Thai Buddhist monk and meditation-master Ajahn Lee classifies the first two types of paññā as dhamma on the theory-level and the last as dhamma on the practice-level. [13] Ajahn Lee states that this results in two levels of paññā : mundane paññā which is the comprehension of worldly and dhamma subjects, and transcendent paññā which ...
Conversely, so called "relaxation games" keep the level of challenges significantly below the player's competency level, in order to achieve an opposite effect. [83] The video game Flow was designed as part of Jenova Chen 's master's thesis for exploring the design decisions that allow players to achieve the flow state, by adjusting the ...
Zazen: In Zen Buddhism, sitting meditation or zazen (Japanese: 座禅; literally "seated concentration") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence. While the term originally referred to a sitting practice, it is now commonly used to refer to practices in ...