Glossary of Terms

Ajahn

• Teacher.

Ākāra

• Change.

Anāgamī

• a non-returner.
  

Ānāpānasati

• Mindfulness on breathing.

• Uncontrollable.

• Impermanent.

Arahanta

• The Holy One; one who attained Nibbanā.

Ārammaṇa

• State of Arising of Paññā in Samādhi.

Ārammaṇa Nāma-rūpa

• The State of Arising of Paññā in Samādhi understanding the Absolute/Ultimate Truth.

Ārammaṇa Paramattha

• State of Arising of Paññā in Samādhi understanding the Absolute Truth/Ultimate Truth.
  

Ārammaṇa Rūpa-nāma

• State of Arising of Paññā in Samādhi understanding body-mind including the conventional truth.

Ārammaṇa Vipassanā

• State of Arising of Paññā in Samādhi understanding the Absolute Truth.

• Holy persons; noble individuals.

Āsava

• Mental intoxication; canker; accumulation.

Avijjā

• Lack of essential knowledge.

Avijjāsava

• The mental intoxication of the lack of essential knowledge.
  

Āyatana

• Sense; Sense-fields.

Bhavāsava

• The mental intoxication of becoming.
  

Brahmavihāra

• Sublime states of mind.

Buddha

• The Buddha; enlightened one.
  

Cakkhu-viññāṇa

• Eyes consciousness.

Caṅkama

• Walking Meditation; walking forward and backwards or walking to and from.

Catuttha-jhāna

• The Fourth Absorption.

Cinta-n᷉āna

• False; deceptive knowledge.

Dhamma

• The Law of Nature; the Truth; the Ultimate Truth.

Dosa

• Anger.

Dukkha

• Suffering; misery; trouble; pain; unsatisfactory; unstable; unbearable.
  

Duthiya-jhāna

• The Second Absorption.

Jhāna

• Absorption.

Kālāmasutta

• The Buddha’s discourse on how to deal with doubtful matters.

Kamma

• Action.

Kāmāsava

• The mental intoxication of sense-desire.
  

Karuṇā

• Compassion.

Kerd-dab (in Thai; in the sense of general people)

• Appearance-disappearance of thought.

Kerd-dab (in Thai; in the sense of Luangpor Teean)

• Arising-Extinguishing of the Mind.

Khandha

• Aggregate; group; category; container.

Kilesa

• Defilements.

Luangpor

• Venerable Father.

Lobha

• Greed.

Lokuttara-dhamma

• Supramundane State.

Magga

• The path; the path leading to the cessation of suffering.

• Complete awareness.

Mettā

• Loving-kindness.

Moha

• Delusion.

Mudhitā

• Sympathetic joy.

N̴āma

• Mind.

N̴āṇa-paññā

• Perfect knowledge.
  

Nibbāna

• The extinction of all defilements and suffering; the extinction of the lack of essential knowledge and mental intoxication.

Nirodha

• The cessation of suffering.

Pāli

• A Prakrit language native to the Indian subcontinent; the language adopted by the Theravādins as the language in which to preserve the memorized teachings of the Buddha; the Buddha’s teaching as contained in the Tipiṭaka.

Pāli Canon

• Tipiṭaka; the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.

Pañcama-jhāna

• The Fifth Absorption.

Paññā

• Wisdom; liberating knowledge.
  

Paññā-khandha

• Wisdom in the mind; container of wisdom (in the sense of Luangpor Teean).
  

Paramattha; Paramattha-dhamma

• Ultimate Reality; Ultimate Truth; Absolute Truth; Seeing and touching an object with the mind.

Paramattha-sacca

• Absolute Truth; Ultimate Truth.

Paṭhama-jhāna

• The First Absorption.

Paṭicca-samuppāda

• The Law of Dependent Arising.

Phala

• The result.

Phra (in Thai)

• Noble one; Buddhist monk.

• Rapture.

Rūpa

• Body; corporeality.

Sacca-dhamma

• The Truth; Absolute Truth.

Samādhi

• Steadiness of mind.

Samādhi-khandha

• Steadiness of body-mind; container of steady mind (in the sense of Luangpor Teean).

Samatha

• Concentration.

Sammati

• Convention; agreement; conventional truth.
  

Saṁsāra

• The Round of Existence.
  

Samudaya

• The cause of suffering.

Saṅkhāra

• Mental formations.

Saṅkhāra-khandha

• Aggregate of mental formations.

Saññā

• Perception.

Sati

• Awareness-mindfulness.

Sati-paññā

• Intelligence.

Satipaṭṭhāna

• The Four Foundation of Mindfulness.

Sīla

• Morality; naturalness; normality of body, speech and mind; imperturbability; calm.
  

Sīla-khandha

• Container of morality, naturalness, normality of body, speech and mind, imperturbability or calm (in the sense of Luangpor Teean).

State of "Kerd-Dap"

• State of Arising-Extinguishing of the Mind.

• The Four Paths, the Four Fruitions and Nibbāna.

Taṇhā

• Craving; sensual desire.

Tatiya-jhāna

• The Third Absorption.

Tipiṭaka

• Pāli Canon.

Triple Gem

• The Enlightened One, the Dhamma, and the Saṇgha.

Upādāna

• Attachment.

Upekkhā

• Equanimity; neutrality.

Vatthu

• Any object that exists inside or outside the body and mind.

Vatthu-paramath-ākāra

• Seeing/knowing/touching the change of anything that exists at that moment.

Vedanā

• Feeling.

• Feeling.

Viññāṇa

• Consciousness.

Viññāṇa-khandha

• Aggregate of consciousness.

Vipallāsa

• Derangement.

Vipassanā

• Insight.

Vipassanū

• Knowing outside oneself endlessly and forgetting oneself in the process.

The Dhamma is so deep and profound beyond thoughts. N᷉āṇa-paññā is the only thing to penetrate the avijjā to attain the Dhamma. The Dhamma is not for showing off. The Dhamma is Supreme. You have to know, to see, to be it and to have it by yourself.

(Anchalee Thaiyanond)