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Deliberate mental activity directed onto a particular object or topic. In this translation we have used “to keep in mind” to convey its verbal form. +
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Also translated as “true nature.” The true nature of phenomena, which is emptiness. +
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Also translated in this book as “actions,” or as “past deeds.” Implied in the use of this term is the force created by a positive or negative action which is then stored in an individual’s stream of being and persists until it is experienced as pleasure or pain (usually in another life), after which the deed is said to be exhausted or spent. Although the Sanskrit term ''karma'' simply means “action,” it has come to be widely used to signify the result produced by past deeds (Tib. ''las kyi ’bras bu''), which is sometimes wrongly equated with destiny or fate, that is, with something beyond one’s control. In the Buddhist teachings, the principle of karma covers the whole process of deeds leading to results in future lives, and this is taught as being something that is very definitely within one’s control. +
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The demon, the tempter in general, that which makes obstacles to spiritual practice and enlightenment. +
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One of the eighteen original schools of the Listeners’ Vehicle in India. Its followers believed in a substantially existing self. +
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The vehicle of the bodhisattvas, referred to as great because it leads to perfect buddhahood for the sake of all beings, and because of the greatness of its object, accomplishment, gnosis, diligent application, skill in means, consummation, and activities. +
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The ultimate nature of things, emptiness, the expanse of reality free from elaboration. +
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The aspects of mental function that accompany the main mind (citta), apprehending and reacting to the objects detected by consciousness. +
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The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things. +
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The vehicles of the listeners, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas. +
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The third of the three worlds, at the peak of existence. It comprises the spheres of infinite space, infinite consciousness, utter nothingness, and neither existence nor nonexistence. +
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Three aspects of a bodhisattva’s practice: completing the accumulations of merit and wisdom, bringing beings to maturity, and training in purifying the realm as a buddha field. +
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One of the six realms, in which beings suffer from hallucinations of intense heat or cold, mainly as a result of violent deeds motivated by hatred. +
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An aspect of the aggregate of form asserted by certain listeners and said to comprise vows (commitment to virtue), nonvows (commitment to negative deeds), and intermediate activities (positive or negative deeds performed without conscious intention). +
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lit. “levels of the noble ones.” The ten levels of realization reached by bodhisattvas on the paths of seeing, meditation, and no more learning. In some classifications additional levels are added. +
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The normal preoccupations of unrealized people without a clear spiritual perspective. They are gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy. +
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The last three of the ten levels. +
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lit. “childish.” Ordinary beings who are spiritually immature. +
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lit. “wheel.” Cyclic existence, the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as result of their actions and defilements. +
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Also dialecticians, polemicists. A term often used pejoratively to refer to individuals who are more concerned with philosophical debate on the intellectual level than with gaining genuine spiritual realization. +
