• Samatha (Sanskrit: शमथ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and vipassanā (Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා)...
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    equanimity and sati (mindfulness); samadhi (unification of mind) c.q. samatha (tranquility) and vipassanā (insight); and are also said to lead to abhijñā...
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  • Retrieved 30 July 2023. Ramachandran, Naman (19 March 2024). "Varun Dhawan, Samatha Ruth Prabhu's Indian Version of Russo Brothers Prime Video 'Citadel' Series...
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    other parts of Southeast Asia, and has been described as a revival of samatha (tranquility) meditation in Thailand. The Dhammakaya Tradition believes...
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  • Ledi Sayadaw popularized Vipassana meditation for lay people, teaching samatha and stressing the practice of satipatthana to acquire Vipassana (insight)...
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    Mahamudra (section Śamatha)
    excited. Two types of mahāmudrā śamatha are generally taught: śamatha with support and śamatha without support. Mahāmudrā śamatha with support involves the...
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  • development (bhāvanā) of samatha-vipassana is lauded. Subsequently, Theravada teachers have made use of the following compounds: samatha-bhāvanā, meaning the...
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  • Samantha Waters may refer to: Samantha "Sam" Waters, character in Profiler (TV series) Samantha "Sam" Waters, character in The Pretender (TV series) Samantha...
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  • Samantha Roberts (born 21 April 2000) is an Antiguan swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she...
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  • breathing) to induce dhyana (meditation proper), broadly distinguishing samatha (calming the mind) and vipassana (gaining insight into the nature of reality)...
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    (bhavana) taught in all forms of Buddhism, śamatha (Tib. Shine) and vipaśyanā (lhaktong). The practice of śamatha (calm abiding) is one of focusing one's...
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    been described as E. agrarius, while the darker form is referred to as E. samatha; the North Indian spring form has been designated as E. hamasta, the form...
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    disciples. Here he worked on adapting the Indian meditation principles of śamatha and vipaśyanā (translated as "zhi" and "guan") into a complex system of...
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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Tukdam Koan Ganana Mandala...
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    derives from the Indian Buddhist practice of the union (Skt. yuganaddha) of śamatha and vipaśyanā. Hongzhi's practice of silent illumination does not depend...
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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Tukdam Koan Ganana Mandala...
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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Tukdam Koan Ganana Mandala...
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    outlines two meditative qualities which are mutually supportive: samatha (Pāli; Sanskrit: śamatha; "calm") and vipassanā (Sanskrit: vipaśyanā, insight). The...
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    THE SAMATHA JUDGEMENT" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2016. PUCL. "Attempts to subvert 'Samatha' judgement"...
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    assisting his brother. Prasad got introduced to K. Raghavendra Rao through Samatha Arts' Mukherjee who was a friend of his. Raghavendra Rao started giving...
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    indispensable for yoga practice in Buddhism: samatha (calm, stability) and vipassanā (insight, clear seeing). Samatha is a stable, relaxed mind, associated with...
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  • follow the Sekhiyavatta rules in addition to the Ten Precepts. Adhikarana-samatha are seven rules for settlement of legal processes that concern monks only...
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  • preceded by samatha. Those of a skeptical disposition (or those who enter by way of wisdom or the intellect) achieve it through samatha preceded by vipassanā...
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    Poṭṭhapāda (DN 9) Sutta, which describes the benefits and practice of Samatha meditation. The Digha Nikaya consists of 34 discourses, broken into three...
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    the principles of śamatha and vipaśyanā. Of the Tiantai meditation treatises, Zhiyi's Concise Śamatha-vipaśyanā (小止観), Mahā-śamatha-vipaśyanā (摩訶止観),...
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  • Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Tukdam Koan Ganana Mandala...
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  • Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Tukdam Koan Ganana Mandala...
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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Tukdam Koan Ganana Mandala...
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    vehicle of attaining Buddhahood, as the main principle, and three forms of śamatha-vipaśyanā correlated with the meditative perspectives of emptiness, provisional...
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    as "describing a pure form of insight (vipassanā) meditation" for which samatha (calm) and dhyāna are not necessary. Yet, in pre-sectarian Buddhism, the...
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