Karma
All mental and bodily actions have an effect
What is karma?
Non-judgemental awareness in the present moment
What is the goal of Sati?
Achieves valuable knowledge
What is insight meditation?
Pleasure, revulsion, concentration, insight
What are the benefits of Jhanas?
To work to save all beings
What is the demand vow?
Body dies and mind continues in a new body
What is rebirth?
Allow stimulation without following it
What is relaxed receptivity?
Non-distracted, settled concentration
What is samadhi?
Hierarchy of what is the most fundamental (natural, basic, real, true)
What is the subtractive logic?
Potential to be liberated
What is Buddha nature?
God, jealous god, human, animal, ghost, hell
What are the 6 realms?
Wholeness one feels towards visuals, feelings, sounds, etc., therefore, forms a deeper connection with those aspects
What is breadth?
Identify change, suffering, and no-self in all things
What are the three marks?
Thought, examination, bliss, pleasure
What is the 1st Jhana?
You are already awakened, you just don't realize it. Awakening can not be created.
What is original enlightenment?
Cycle of suffering that is fueled by karma
What is samsara?
Being aware of what you are doing as you are doing it
What is mindfulness?
Discover ultimate certainty and be released from suffering
What is the goal of vipassana?
Vegetable
What is the 9th Jhana?
Things are “not two” because they are fundamentally dependent (you - world), however, that does not mean you are one or identical with the world
What is nonduality?
People are dependent on things they cannot control based on past intentional and unintentional actions
What is suffering of conditions?
Single point concentration (calmness of the mind), need Sati to achieve this
What is Samatha?
Sati is vipassana (mindfulness is insight)
What is the contemporary theory of vipassana?
If you can understand the simplest most basic idea, you can explain everything
What is the theory of jhanas?
Step 1: mind-only (is there a world independent from mind?), step 2: transcend mind-only (“you” and external world are codependent), step 3: transcend “non-appearance” (recognize “you” are not experiencing nonduality), step 4: non-conceptual wisdom (impose no constructs on reality - reality is beyond description)
What is nonduality as meditation?