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Makyou - Illusory or distracting experiences that arise during meditation, considered obstacles on the path to enlightenment.
Five Hindrances - Five mental states in Buddhist psychology that obstruct meditation and spiritual progress.
Three Marks of Existence - Buddhist teaching of three fundamental characteristics shared by all conditioned phenomena: impermanence, suffering, and non-self.
Equanimity - Mental calmness and composure, especially in difficult situations - being with what is without reactivity.
Four Noble Truths - The Buddha's core teaching on the nature of suffering and the path to liberation.
Dharma - The natural order, duty, righteousness, and truth - a central concept in Indian philosophy.
Karma - The principle that actions have consequences, shaping future experience and character.
Dukkha - The Buddhist concept of suffering, dissatisfaction, and the unsatisfactoriness of conditioned existence.
Laya - A meditative state of mental absorption, dissolution, or deep relaxation where thoughts temporarily cease.
Attachment - Psychological clinging to experiences, outcomes, people, or things that causes suffering when they change or are lost.
Noble Eightfold Path - The Buddhist path to ending suffering through right understanding, conduct, and mental discipline.
Mu - The Zen concept meaning 'nothing' or 'not' - transcending yes and no.
Middle Way - The Buddhist path of moderation between extremes of indulgence and asceticism.
Monkey Mind - The Buddhist term for an unsettled, restless mind that jumps from thought to thought like a monkey in trees.
Samadhi - A state of profound meditative concentration where the mind becomes completely absorbed in its object of focus.
Satori - The Zen Buddhist concept of sudden enlightenment or awakening to true nature.
Zazen - The seated meditation practice that forms the core of Zen Buddhist training.
Impermanence - Anicca - the Buddhist teaching that all phenomena are temporary and constantly changing.
Dependent Origination - The Buddhist teaching that all phenomena arise from conditions, nothing exists independently.
The Second Arrow - A Buddhist parable teaching that while we cannot control external pain (the first arrow), we can choose not to inflict additional suffering on ourselves through our reactions (the second arrow).
Non-Attachment - Freedom from clinging to outcomes, possessions, or experiences - holding things lightly.
Anatta - Buddhist concept of non-self stating there is no permanent, unchanging self or soul.

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