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Themes for Reflection

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THREE JEWELS 

Going for Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

Suffering, Causes and Conditions, Resolution, Way to Resolution .

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NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

Right Understanding (Right View), right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditative concentration.

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FOUR APPLICATIONS OF MINDFULNESS

Body, Feelings, States of Mind, Dharma

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FIVE HINDRANCES

The blind pursuit of pleasure, negativity/anger, boredom/apathy, restlessness/anxiety, doubt/fear.

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FIVE AGGREGATES

(Categories) of a human being: Body, feelings, perceptions, thoughts/mental formations, consciousness.

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THREE CHARACTERISTICS or MARKS

Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self (impersonal)

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FIVE-FOLD TRAINING

Ethics, meditative concentration, wisdom, (transformative) knowledge and knowing liberation

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SEVEN FACTORS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Mindfulness, inquiry, happiness, calmness, energy, meditative concentration, equanimity

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Dharma practices explore sukha (happiness) as much as dukkha (suffering). Trust in and the application of the wholesome prevails, so the unwholesome fades. (AN V 6). Dharma offers a huge range of practices to cultivate the wholesome, so the unhealthy lose their foothold in consciousness.

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In alphabetical order: 

  • appreciative joy

  • being in nature

  • community

  • compassion

  • creativity

  • deep meditative absorptions

  • formless realms of experience

  • friendship

  • generosity

  • letting go

  • love

  • loving kindness

  • meditation

  • mystical experiences

  • non-attachment

  • passion

  • reflection

  • relationships

  • seeing and knowing profound awakening

  • service

  • sharing

  • transcendental realisations

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