var q freedownloadmoonlightengine1365Buddhist meditation Wikipedia. Buddhist meditation refers to the meditative practices of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Core meditation techniques have been preserved in ancient Buddhist texts and have proliferated and diversified through teacher student transmissions. Buddhists pursue meditation as part of the path toward Enlightenment and Nirvana. a The closest words for meditation in the classical languages of Buddhism are bhvanb and jhnadhyna. c Buddhist meditation techniques have become increasingly popular in the wider world, with many non Buddhists taking them up for a variety of reasons. Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that aim to develop sati mindfulness, samadhi concentration, abhij supramundane powers, samatha tranquility, and vipassan insight. Retrouvez toutes les discothque Marseille et se retrouver dans les plus grandes soires en discothque Marseille. Specific Buddhist meditation techniques have also been used to remove unwholesome qualities thought to be impediments to spiritual liberation, such loving kindness to remove ill will, hate, and anger, equanimity to remove mental clinging, and patikulamanasikara meditations on the parts of the body and maraasati meditation on death and corpses to remove sensual lust for the body and cultivate impermanence anicca. Given the large number and diversity of traditional Buddhist meditation practices, this article primarily identifies authoritative contextual frameworksboth contemporary and canonicalfor the variety of practices. Several of her books online, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Lady of Quality, and The Secret Garden. At Project Gutenberg. For those seeking school specific meditation information, it may be more appropriate to simply view the articles listed in the See also section below. Key TermseditEnglish. Pali. Sanskrit. Chinese. Tibetanmindfulnessawarenesssatismti nintrenpa wylie dran paclear comprehensionsampajaasamprajaa zhng zh lshezhin shes bzhinvigilanceheedfulnessappamadaapramda b fng y zubaky bag yodardencyatappatapa yng mngnyima nyi maattentionengagementmanasikaramanaskra r l zu yyila jepa yid la byed pafoundation of mindfulnesssatipahnasmtyupasthna ninzhtrenpa neybar zhagpa dran pa nye bar gzhag pamindfulness of breathingnpnasatinpnasmti nnbnnwk trenpa dbugs dran pacalm abidingcessationsamathaamatha zhshiney zhi gnasinsightcontemplationvipassanvipayan gunlhagthong lhag mthongmeditative concentrationsamdhisamdhi snmiting nge dzin ting nge dzinmeditative absorptionjhnadhyna chnsamten bsam gtancultivationbhvanbhvan xixnggompa sgom pacultivation of analysis. Vitakka and Vicravicra bhvanchegom dpyad sgomcultivation of settlingthpya bhvanjokgom jog sgomMeditation in Buddhist traditionseditWhile there are some similar meditative practices such as breath meditation and various recollections anussati that are used across Buddhist schools, there is also significant diversity. In the Theravada tradition alone, there are over fifty methods for developing mindfulness and forty for developing concentration, while in Tibetan Buddhism, there are thousands of visualization meditations. d Most classical and contemporary Buddhist meditation guides are school specific. e Only a few teachers attempt to synthesize, crystallize and categorize practices from multiple Buddhist traditions. In early traditioneditThe earliest tradition of Buddhist practice is preserved in the nikyagamas, and is adhered to by the Theravada lineage. It was also the focus of the other now extinct early Buddhist schools, and has been incorporated to greater and lesser degrees into the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and many East Asian Mahayana traditions. Types of meditationeditMeditation on the. Buddhist Path. Most Buddhist traditions recognize that the path to Enlightenment entails three types of training virtue sla meditation samadhi and, wisdom pa. f Thus, meditative prowess alone is not sufficient it is but one part of the path. In other words, in Buddhism, in tandem with mental cultivation, ethical development and wise understanding are also necessary for the attainment of the highest goal. 1In terms of early traditions as found in the vast Pli Canon and the gamas, meditation can be contextualized as part of the Noble Eightfold Path, explicitly in regard to Right Mindfulness samma sati exemplified by the Buddhas Four Foundations of Mindfulness see Satipatthana Sutta. Right Concentration samma samadhi culminating in jhanic absorptions through the meditative development of samatha. 2And implicitly in regard to  Right View samma ditthi embodying wisdom traditionally attained through the meditative development of vipassana founded on samatha. gClassic texts in the Pali literature enumerating meditative subjects include the Satipatthana Sutta MN 1. Visuddhimaggas Part II, Concentration Samadhi. Four foundations for mindfulnesseditIn the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha identifies four foundations for mindfulness the body, feelings, mind states and mental objects. He further enumerates the following objects as bases for the meditative development of mindfulness Body ky Breathing see npnasati Sutta, Postures, Clear Comprehending, Reflections on Repulsiveness of the Body, Reflections on Material Elements, Cemetery Contemplations. Feelings vedan, whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. Mindconsciousness cittMental Contents dhamm Hindrances, Aggregates, Sense Bases, Factors of Enlightenment, and the Four Noble Truths. Meditation on these subjects develops insight. 3Serenity and insighteditThe Buddha is said to have identified two paramount mental qualities that arise from wholesome meditative practice serenity or tranquillity Pali samatha which steadies, composes, unifies and concentrates the mind insight Pali vipassan which enables one to see, explore and discern formations conditioned phenomena based on the five aggregates. hThrough the meditative development of serenity, one is able to suppress obscuring hindrances and, with the suppression of the hindrances, it is through the meditative development of insight that one gains liberating wisdom. 4 Moreover, the Buddha is said to have extolled serenity and insight as conduits for attaining Nibbana Pali Skt. Nirvana, the unconditioned state as in the Kimsuka Tree Sutta SN 3. Buddha provides an elaborate metaphor in which serenity and insight are the swift pair of messengers who deliver the message of Nibbana via the Noble Eightfold Path. iIn the Four Ways to Arahantship Sutta AN 4.