Pali Glossary

• akusala unwholesome, unskilful

• anattā not self

• anumodhanā thanksgiving, appreciation of someone else’s kusala

• arahat noble person who has attained the fourth and last stage of enlightenment

• Buddha a fully enlightened person who has discovered the truth all by himself, without the aid of a teacher

• citta consciousness the reality which knows or cognizes an object

• dhamma reality, truth, the teaching

• dukkha suffering, unsatisfactoriness of conditioned realities

• jhāna absorption which can be attained through the development of calm

• kamma intention or volition; deed motivated by volition

• kasiṇa disk, used as an object for the development of calm

• khandhas aggregates of conditioned realities classified as five groups: physical phenomena, feelings, perception or remembrance, activities or formations (cetasikas other than feeling or perception), consciousness.

• kusala wholesome, skilful

• lokuttara citta supramundane citta which experiences nibbāna

• nāma mental phenomena,including those which are conditioned and also the unconditioned nāma which is nibbāna.

• nibbāna unconditioned reality, the reality which does not arise and fall away. The destruction of lust, hatred and delusion. The deathless. The end of suffering

• rūpa physical phenomena, realities which do not experience anything

• samatha the development of calm

• satipaṭṭhāna applicatioms of mindfulness. It can mean the cetasika sati which is aware of realities or the objects of mindfulness which are classified as four applications of mindfulness: Body, Feeling Citta, Dhamma. Or it can mean the development of direct understanding of realities through awareness.

• sīla morality in action or speech, virtue

• Tathāgata literally “thus gone”, epithet of the Buddha

• Tipiṭaka the teachings of the Buddha

• vipassanā wisdom which sees realities as they are