• Samatha (Pāli; Sinhala: සමථ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and vipassanā (Pāli; Sinhala විදර්ශනා (Vidarshana);...
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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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  • 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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  • Ledi Sayadaw popularized Vipassana meditation for lay people, teaching samatha and stressing the practice of satipatthana to acquire Vipassana (insight)...
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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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    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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    the film, television and gaming industries. Lesley White (10 May 2009). "Samatha Morton uses her life for The Unloved". The Times. Retrieved 17 May 2018...
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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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    (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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  • semiprofessionally in Colombia. Gonzalez has two sisters, Samatha and Lily, and a brother, Christian. Samatha also represents Colombia in international events...
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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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    description of samatha practice, while the ten bulls depict the stages of awakening to the nature of mind (and as such, is not strictly about samatha only, but...
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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen...
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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen...
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  • one continuously monitors one's own body and mind. In the practice of śamatha, its principal function is to note the occurrence of laxity and excitation...
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    Laxman (BJP president), Jaya Jaitly (president of the Samatha Party), R. K. Jain (treasurer of Samatha Party), R K Sharma (treasurer of RSS), General Manjith...
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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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    understood as concentration, samatha and vipassana were understood as two distinct meditative techniques. In this understanding, samatha steadies, composes, unifies...
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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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    derives from the Indian Buddhist practice of the union (Skt. yuganaddha) of śamatha and vipaśyanā. In Hongzhi's practice of "nondual objectless meditation"...
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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 Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen...
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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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    Iddhipada Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen...
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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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  • observation") (as practiced by the Tendai sect) that translates the Sanskrit "śamatha and vipaśyanā," the two basic forms of Buddhist meditation. The phrase...
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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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