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    Vitakka-vicāra form one expression, which refers to directing one's thought or attention on an object (vitarka) and investigating it (vicāra), "breaking...
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    Vitakka-vicāra form one expression, which refers to directing one's thought or attention on an object (vitarka) and investigate it (vicāra). According...
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    Vitakka-vicāra form one expression, which refers to directing one's thought or attention on an object (vitarka) and investigate it (vicāra). According...
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    Vitakka-vicāra form one expression, which refers to directing one's thought or attention on an object (vitarka) and investigate it (vicāra). According...
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    Hindu and Buddhist iconography mudras play a central role. For example, Vitarka Vicara, the gesture of discussion and transmission of Buddhist teaching, is...
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  • Vitakka-vicāra form one expression, which refers to directing one's thought or attention on an object (vitarka) and investigate it (vicāra). According...
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    interprets vitarka-vicara as the concentration of the mind on an object of meditation, thereby stilling the mind, Polak notes that vitarka-vicara is related...
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  • bad or neutral mind. Kaukritya - regret Middha - sleepiness Vitarka - initial thought Vicāra - sustained thought Within the Theravāda Abhidhamma tradition...
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  • force of will. Sengcan, thought to be the author of Hsin Hsin Ming Vitarka-vicāra, or discursive thought, which disappears in the second of the four absorptions...
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  • Vichāra, (Pāli: vicāra) in Indian philosophy, means deliberation; It is the faculty of discrimination that discerns the Real, Brahman, from the unreal...
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  • book discusses three different foundations having to do with vitarka (discernment) and vicara (discursiveness): (1) the foundation which includes both, (2)...
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    Patnajali's Samprajnata Samadhi, which both share the application of vitarka and vicara. Yoga Sutra 1.17: "Objective samadhi (samprajnata) is associated with...
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  • vitarka and vicara. Phenomena reveal themselves as arising and falling away. In the second jhāna, the practice seems effortless. Vitarka and vicara both...
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    to the first dhyāna, and is characterized by observation (vitarka) and reflection (vicāra) as well as delight (prīti) and joy (sukha). The Brahmā worlds...
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    Kaukṛitya — regret, worry, Middha — sleep, drowsiness Vitarka — conception, selectiveness, examination Vicāra — discernment, discursiveness, analysis Citta —...
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    Patanjali's Samprajnata Samadhi, which both share the application of vitarka and vicara. Asamprajnata Samadhi, states Jianxin Li, may be compared to the arupa...
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