Dharma PhD
3y ago
One practitioner’s four(ish)-year journey to become a professional in Mindfulness and Secular Buddhism, without getting all mysterious and solemn about it.
Greeting, Friendlies!
Part of the tangle of ideas I spoke about in Part 1 comes from reading or hearing teachers or practitioners* use words in contexts such that I think they are referring to a territory near(ish) to Awakening.
In this post I'd like to acknowledge these words and ask the hivemind what others might be included?
Awakening/Enlightenment (Pāli: Budh), Liberation (Samyaksambudh or Sambodha? I think?), Extinguishing (Nibbāna), Unfabricated/Unconditioned (Asaṅkhata), Deathless (Amata, more on that later), Unborn (Ajāti), Cessation (Nirodha, which I think is different from Cessation of feeling and perception, Saññāvedayitanirodha?), Arhatship.
(Leigh Brasington has a page called "Problematic Pāli Translations" which includes several of these. For Amata, Deathless, he prefers "Without Death". For Ajāti, Unborn, he prefers "Without Birth". For Asaṅkhata, Unfabricated, he prefers "Without Fabrication". I dig this.)
Gratitude for your thoughts/contributions/clarifications.
With friendliness!
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*When I am on my game, every one of you is my teacher. And I am grateful for you!