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Buddhist meditation
- BuddhānusmṛtiBuddhānusmṛti is named directly in a Pali discourse, AN 1.296, which makes a striking claim about it. The passage declares: "One thing, mendicants, when…
- AnapanasatiAnapanasati is a Buddhist meditation practice built entirely around the breath. Its earliest instructions are plain: go into the forest, sit beneath a tree…
- Buddhist meditationBuddhist meditation begins with a question that has occupied practitioners for more than two millennia: what does it mean to free the mind from suffering?
- VedanāVedanā is an ancient Pāli and Sanskrit term, and it may be the most consequential concept you have never heard of. Right now, as you listen to these words…
- Five hindrancesIn the Buddhist tradition, mental factors known as hindrances block progress in meditation and daily life. Theravada teachers identify these five specific…
- SatipatthanaSatipatthana is a Pali compound that has been translated at least three different ways. Scholars have rendered it as the establishment of mindfulness, the…
- Samatha-vipassanāSamatha-vipassanā names two qualities of the Buddhist mind that have, for over two millennia, been at the center of a quietly fierce debate.
- ZazenZazen is a meditative discipline and the primary practice at the heart of Zen Buddhism. Picture a meditation hall in a Zen monastery, the kind called a…
- Sati (Buddhism)Sati is one of the oldest and most debated concepts in Buddhist thought, yet its English name is barely a century and a half old.
- YogacharaYogachara poses one of philosophy's most radical questions: what if the world you perceive is not outside your mind at all, but woven entirely from…
- Noble Eightfold PathThe Noble Eightfold Path is the central practical teaching of Buddhism, described in its earliest texts as the road out of samsara, the painful cycle of…