Curated playlist
Buddhist meditation
- BuddhānusmṛtiThe Buddha told a follower to recall him while working and at home with his children.
- AnapanasatiAnapanasati is a Buddhist meditation built entirely around the breath. Its best-known guide is the Ānāpānasati Sutta.
- Buddhist meditationSome Pure Land Buddhists committed to repeating a Buddha's name over 500,000 times a day.
- VedanāThe Buddhist idea of vedanā is not what English speakers mean by feeling.
- Five hindrancesBuddhist texts compare the five hindrances to a debt, a sickness, a prison and slavery.
- SatipatthanaScholars still disagree on how to translate the Pali word Satipatthana.
- Samatha-vipassanāDo calm and insight in Buddhist meditation need each other, or can one stand alone? Schools disagreed for centuries.
- ZazenHow do you think of not thinking? Zazen, Zen's core sitting practice, answers with Dogen's word nonthinking.
- Sati (Buddhism)The English word "mindfulness" for Buddhist sati was coined in 1881.
- YogacharaYogachara Buddhists added two more kinds of consciousness to the standard six. The eighth stores karmic seeds.
- Noble Eightfold PathThe word "noble" in the Noble Eightfold Path does not describe the path. It means the path belongs to enlightened ones.