The Foundations of Buddhism

The Buddhist Path I8I instrument must acquire some measure of control over such hindrances, so the meditator intent on developin ...

r82 The Buddhist Path TABLE 5· Ascending stages of calm meditation meditational powers/higher knowledge/insight/formless attainm ...

The Buddhist Path meditator investigates and explores the acquired sign, there even- tually arises the 'counterpart sign' (pa{ib ...

The Buddhist Path settled and calm in meditation parallels in a real sense the stages of sexual excitement and enjoyment. Indeed ...

The Buddhist Path understood by reference to some such process as that of learning to play a musical instrument. In the initial ...

186 The Buddhist Path the moon ... he has mastery with his body as far as the world of Brahma. Or he has knowledge of distant so ...

The Buddhist Path can be taken as a subject of meditation and developed as a 'divine abiding'. Loving kindness is understood as ...

188 The Buddhist Path The culmination of calm meditation is the attainment of a state of calm where the mind rests in complete e ...

The Buddhist Path good conduct and the practice of calm meditation in the manner just described. Together these two purification ...

The Buddhist Path thereby complete the fourth purification to become a 'lesser attainer of the stream'. The meditator now moves ...

The Buddhist Path purification of 'knowing and seeing what is the path and not the path'; the meditator then passes to the sixth ...

The Buddhist Path on the snake. Just as the man became frightened, so the medit- ator (3) knows the presence of danger; just as ...

The Buddhist Path 193 TABLE 6. The stages of insight according to Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga PURIFICATION 7· by knowing and see ...

194 The Buddhist Path (see above, pp. 72....:.3). By the abandoning of the first three fet- ters one becomes a 'stream-attainer' ...

The Buddhist Path 195 the general basis of the spiritual life in the form of faith, gen- erosity, good conduct, and the prelimin ...

The Buddhist Path TABLE 7· The scheme of the five paths and the ten bodhisattva stages WHOLESOME ROOT CONNECTED WITH PENETRATIVE ...

The Buddhist Path 197 glow' is the first of four 'stages of penetrating insight' (nirvedha- bhtigzya); the subsequent three stag ...

The Buddhist Path mastered the dhyiinas eradicates by the path of seeing the grosser defilements associated with craving for the ...

The Buddhist Path 199 by the practice of calm meditation one abandons the gross for the sake of the subtle. That is, by seeing c ...

200 The Buddhist Path the academic level this kind of thinking is reflected in an author- itative modern scholarly treatment of ...