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Luang Por Liem: The Ways of the Peaceful - Wat Pah Nanachat

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saddha (Pali): Confidence, faith or trust.<br />

Sangha (Pali): <strong>The</strong> monastic community.<br />

sankhara (Pali): Conditioned phenomena <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mind; proliferations<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mind; (occassionally) all conditioned phenomena.<br />

samadhi (Pali): Concentration. <strong>The</strong> development <strong>of</strong> sustained,<br />

blissful, unified, one-pointed awareness on a meditation object, leading<br />

to tranquility.<br />

samaggi (Pali): Harmony, unity.<br />

samana (Pali): <strong>Peaceful</strong> one, contemplative, renunciant, ascetic,<br />

recluse.<br />

Samanera (Pali): Novice.<br />

sampajañña (Pali): All-around awareness and clear comprehension.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Thai usage as “roo dtua” also means consciousness.<br />

samsara (Pali): <strong>The</strong> round <strong>of</strong> birth and death.<br />

sati (Pali): Mindfulness and recollection.<br />

sati-pañña (Pali): Mindfulness and wisdom.<br />

sila (Pali): Moral conduct, ethical behaviour.<br />

sukha vedana (Pali): Pleasant feeling.<br />

tanha (Pali): Craving or desire, sometimes translated as wanting.<br />

Three Characteristics: anicca, dukkha, anatta.<br />

Triple Gem: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha.<br />

upadana (Pali): <strong>The</strong> tendency to hold on to things, such as thoughts<br />

that something is one’s own or belongs to one.<br />

upajjhaya (Pali): Ordination preceptor.<br />

upasampada (Pali): Ordination as a Bhikkhu.<br />

upekkha (Pali): Equanimity.<br />

vedana (Pali): Feeling. Ei<strong>the</strong>r sukha-, dukkha-, or upekkha-vedana<br />

vinaya (Pali): Training and discipline undertaken by <strong>the</strong> Buddhist<br />

practitioner; or, <strong>the</strong> Bhikkhus’ discipline with its 227 major rules.<br />

viññana (Pali): Sense consciousness.<br />

Worldly Dhammas: see lokadhamma.<br />

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