concepts.yaml

-
  id: panca-sila
  label: The Five Training Rules

  formula:
    - I voluntarily undertake the education to refrain from hurting and harming other living beings
    - I voluntarily undertake the education to refrain from
    - I voluntarily undertake the education to refrain from
    - I voluntarily undertake the education to refrain from
    - I voluntarily undertake the education to refrain from

  skos:broader:
    - Virtue (sila)
  skos:related:
    - Grasping at precepts and practices (silabbata-paramasa)

-
  id: samadhi
  label: Concentration
  variants:
    - samadhi (indriya) # Five faculties
    - samadhi (bojjhaṅga) # Factor for Awakening
    - samma samadhi (magga) # Eightfold Path

  related:
    - nīvaraṇa # Hindrances to concentration

-
  id: paññā
  label: Discernment

-
  id: anupubbī-kathā
  label: Gradual Instructions

  formula:
    - Generosity (dana) # gift, giving, offering, without expecting anything in return, immediate joys of generosity
    - Virtue (sila) # immediate joys of virtue followed by  in line with the principle of kamma
    - Heaven (sagga) # the longer-term sensual rewards of these qualities,
    - Drawbacks (adinava) # the ultimate drawbacks of those sensual rewards;
    - Renunciation (nekkhamma) # the benefits of renunciation
    - Noble Truth (ariya-sacca)

-
  id: dhana
  label: Treasures
  comment: Qualities that serve as 'capital' in the quest for liberation

  formula:
    - Conviction (saddhā)
    - Virtue (sīla)
    - Conscience & Concern (hiri-ottappa)
    - Learning (suta)
    - Generosity (dāna)
    - Discernment (paññā)

-
  id: sikkhā
  label: Threefold Training

  formula:
    - Virtue (sila)
    - Concentration (samadhi)
    - Discernment (panna)

-
  id: pāramī
  label: Perfections of Character

  formula:
    - Generosity (dāna)
    - Virtue (sīla)
    - Renunciation (nekkhamma)
    - Discernment (paññā)
    - Energy/Persistence (viriya)
    - Patience/Forbearance (khanti)
    - Truthfulness (sacca)
    - Determination (adhiṭṭhāna)
    - Loving Kindness (mettā)
    - Equanimity (upekkhā)

-
  id: indriya
  label: Five Faculties

  formula:
    - Conviction (saddha)
    - Persistence (viriya)
    - Mindfulness (sati)
    - Concentration (samādhi)
    - Discernment (pañña)

-
  id: bojjhaṅga
  label: seven factors for Awakening

  formula:
    - Mindfulness (sati-sambojjhaṅga)
    - Analysis of qualities (dhamma-vicaya-sambojjhaṅga)
    - Persistence (viriya-sambojjhaṅga)
    - Rapture (pīti-sambojjhaṅga)
    - Serenity (passaddhi-sambojjhaṅga)
    - Concentration (samādhi-sambojjhaṅga)
    - Equanimity (upekkhā-sambojjhaṅga)

-
  id: magga
  label: The Path

  formula:
    - Right View
    - Right Intention
    - Right Speech
    - Right Action
    - Right Livelihood
    - Right Effort
    - Right Mindfulness
    - Right Concentration

-
  id: nīvaraṇa
  label: Hindrances to Concentration

  formula:
    - sensual desire
    - ill will
    - sloth & drowsiness
    - restlessness & anxiety
    - uncertainty, doubt

-
  id: satipaṭṭhāna
  label: The Frames of Reference
  comment:
    and activities taking them as a frame of reference.
    make a focused investigation of the truth of the object within that frame

  formula:
    - body (kāya)
    - feelings (vedana)
    - mind (citta)
    - mental events (dhamma)

-
  id: sammappadhāna
  label: The Right Exertions

  formula:
    - non-arising (anuppādāya) unskillful qualities
    - abandoning (pahānāya) unskillful qualities
    - arising (uppādāya) skillful qualities
    - maintenance (ṭhitiyā) skillful qualities

  related:
    - Right Effort
    - Faculty of Persistence

-
  id: iddhipāda
  label: Bases of Power

  formula:
    - concentration of desire (chanda-samādhi)
    - concentration of persistence (viriya-samādhi)
    - concentration of intent (citta-samādhi)
    - concentration of discrimination (vimamsa-samādhi)

-
  id: bodhi-pakkhiya-dhammā
  label: Wings to Awakening

  formula:
    - four frames of reference (satipaṭṭhāna)
    - four right exertions (sammappadhāna)
    - four bases of success (iddhipāda)
    - five faculties (indriya)
    - five strengths (bala)
    - seven factors for Awakening (bojjhaṅga)
    - the eightfold path (magga)

-
  id: brahma-vihāra
  label: Divine Abodes

  formula:
    - Loving Kindness (mettā)
    - Compassion (karuṇā)
    - Sympathetic Joy (muditā)
    - Equanimity (upekkhā)

-
  id: ti-lakkhaṇa
  label: Three Characteristics # of conditioned phenomena

  formula:
    - Impermanence (anicca)
    - Suffering (dukkha)
    - Not Anyone's (anattā)

-
  id: kilesa
  label: Defilement

  formula:
    - greed, desire (lobha)
    - aversion (dosa) # hatred, ill-will
    - delusion, confusion (moha)

-
  id: ariya-sacca
  label: Noble Truth

  formula:
    - Suffering (dukkha)
    - Craving (tanha)           # Cause of Suffering (dukkha samudayo)
    - Liberation (nibbana)      # Cessation (nirodho)
    - The Path (ariya-magga)

-
  id: upādāna-khandha
  label: heaps

  formula:
    - Physical Phenomenon (rūpa)
    - Feeling (vedanā)
    - Perception (saññā)
    - Fabrication (saṅkhāra)
    - Consciousness (viññāṇa)

-
  id: paṭicca-samuppāda
  label: Dependant Origination

  formula:
    - Ignorance (avijjā)
    - Fabrication (saṅkhāra)
    - Consciousness (viññāṇa)
    - Name and Form (nāmarūpa)
    - Six sense medium (saḷāyatana)
    - Contact (phassa)
    - Feeling (vedanā)
    - Craving (taṇhā)
    - Clinging (upādāna)
    - Becoming (bhava)
    - Birth (jāti)

-
  id: ariya-sangha
  label: Community of Noble Ones

  formula:
    - Stream-winner (sotāpanna)
    - Once-returner (sakadāgāmī)
    - Non-returner (anāgāmī)
    - Worthy one, pure one (arahant)

-
  id: sila
  label: Virtue
  variants:
    - sila (sikkhā) # Threefold training
    - sila (dhana) # Treasure
    - sila (pāramī) # Perfections of character
    - sila (sallekha-dhamma) # Topics of effacement
    - sila (anupubbī-kathā) # Gradual instruction

-
  id: dhamma
  label: The Wisdom of Nature
  comment:
    attributes of the dhamma
      Svakkhato: well expounded by the Blessed One
      Sanditthiko: Apparent here and now
      Akāliko: Timeless
      Ehipassiko: Encouraging investigation, "come and see"
      Opanayiko: Leading inwards
      Paccattam Veditabbo Vinnuhi: To be experienced by the wise.

  skos:related:
    - dhamma (event; a phenomenon in and of itself)
    - dhamma (mental quality)
    - Dhamma (doctrine, teaching)

-
  id: kalyāṇamitta
  label: Admirable Friend # or mentor or teacher of wisdom

-
  id: idappaccayatā
  label: This/that conditionality
  comment:
    - When this is, that is
    - From the arising of this comes the arising of that
    - When this isn't, that isn't
    - From the stopping of this comes the stopping of that

    http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/refuge.html#ida

-
  id: sammā-diṭṭhi
  label: Right View
  comment:
    there is merit in generosity
    that the moral qualities of good and bad are inherent in the universe, and not simply social conventions;
    that there is life after death;
    one has a true moral debt to one's parents;
    that there are people who have lived the renunciate's life properly in such a way that they have gained true and direct knowledge of these matters.

-
  id: sammā-saṅkappa
  label: Right Intention
  comment:

-
  id: sammā-vācā
  label: Right Speech
  comment:
    sallekha-dhamma (Topics of Effacement)
      - Having few wants
      - Being content with what one has
      - Seclusion
      - Uninvolvement in companionship
      - Persistence
      - Virtue (sīla)
      - Concentration
      - Discernment
      - Release
      - The direct knowing and seeing of release

-
  id: sammā-kammanta
  label: Right Action
  comment:

-
  id: sammā-ājīva
  label: Right Livelihood
  comment:

-
  id: sammā-vāyāma
  label: Right Effort
  comment:

-
  id: sammā-sati
  label: Right Mindfulness
  comment:

-
  id: sammā-samādhi
  label: Right Concentration
  comment: centering the mind


-
  id: jhana
  label: Mental Absorptions
  comment:
    upekkhā: equanimity
    vicāra: sustained attention
    vitakka: directed thought
    pīti: rapture, bliss
    sukha: ease, satisfaction, comfort

-
  id: kāya
  label: Body
  comment:
    - the inner body, with outer bodies, or with the body in and of itself
    - a matter of the four properties
    - You didn't bring it with you when you came, and can't take it with you when you go.
      When you die, you'll have to throw it away like an old log or a piece of kindling.
      There's nothing of any substance or worth to it at all.
    - 32 parts
    - loathsomeness
    - in-out breath
    - 4 properties
    - old age, illness, and death

-
  id: vedana
  label: feelings
  comment:
    - inner (mood),
    - outer (pleasure/displeasure arising from contact with external sense media),
    - good, bad, neutral

-
  id: citta
  label: Mind
  comment:
    (vi)Rāga ((non)desiring), (a)dosa ((non)irritated), (a)moha ((not)cloudy/murky/confused)

-
  id: mettā
  label: Loving Kindness

-
  id: karuṇā
  label: Compassion

-
  id: muditā
  label: Sympathetic Joy

-
  id: upekkhā
  label: Equanimity

-
  id: yoniso manasikara
  label: appropriate attention

-
  id: anicca
  label: Impermanence
  comment:  impermanent, inconstant, unsteady

-
  id: dukkha
  label: Suffering
  comment:
    - samsara

-
  id: samsara
  label: The Round # (of Rebirth)

-
  id: anattā
  label: Not Anyone's
  comment: It's not you, yours, or anyone else's.

-
  id: kamma
  label: Intentional Action
  comment:
    the efficacy of action, the importance of intention, and the existence of choice
    skillfull action (akusala kamma) # unwholesome, demeritorious
    unskillful action (kusala kamma) # wholesome

-
  id: dhātu
  label: Element
  comment:
    earth (solidity)
    water (liquidity)
    wind (motion)
    fire (heat)


-
  id: taṇhā
  label: Craving
  comment:
    - sense stimulations
    - becoming
    - not becoming

-
  id: bhavana
  label: Meditation
  comment:
    develop mental qualities. mental cultivation or development.

    techniques
      - body sweep
      - breath
      - kasina
      - loathsomeness
      - mental noting
      - mindfulness of death
      - parts of the body
      - walking (caṅkama)

-
  id: nibbana
  label: Liberation

-
  id: saññā
  label: Perception

-
  id: avijjā
  label: Ignorance

-
  id: saṅkhāra
  label: Fabrication

-
  id: viññāṇa
  label: Consciousness

-
  id: nāmarūpa
  label: Name and Form

-
  id: rūpa
  label: Physical Phenomenon

-
  id: saḷāyatana
  label: Sense Media

-
  id: phassa
  label: Contact

-
  id: upādāna
  label: Clinging # fuel, attachment to
  comment:
    sensuality
    views
    precepts and practices
    theories of the self

-
  id: bhava
  label: Becoming

-
  id: jāti
  label: Birth

-
  id: dana
  label: Generosity

-
  id: sagga
  label: Heavens

-
  id: adinava
  label: Drawbacks

-
  id: nekkhamma
  label: Renunciation

-
  id: ariya-sacca
  label: Noble Truth

-
  id: saddhā
  label: Conviction

-
  id: hiri-ottappa
  label: Conscience & Concern

-
  id: suta
  label: Learning

-
  id: viriya
  label: Energy/Persistence

-
  id: khanti
  label: Patience/Forbearance

-
  id: adhiṭṭhāna
  label: Determination

-
  id: sacca
  label: Truthfulness/Honesty

-
  id: sati
  label: Mindfulness

-
  id: dhamma-vicaya
  label: Analysis of qualities

-
  id: pīti
  label: Rapture

-
  id: passaddhi
  label: Serenity

- 
  id: saṃvega
  label: Urgency
  
  comment:
    - the oppressive sense of shock, dismay, and alienation that comes with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it's normally lived;
    - a chastening sense of one's own complacency and foolishness in having let oneself live so blindly;
    - an anxious sense of urgency in trying to find a way out of the meaningless cycle.

-
  id: pasada
  label:  Clarity
  comment: clarity and serene confidence