དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་གཞག་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

The meditative application of awareness to the body, perception, mind, and dharmas; part of the thirty-seven aspects of awakening.

The four applications of mindfulness are (1) the application of mindfulness which observes the physical body; (2) the application of mindfulness which observes feelings; (3) the application of mindfulness which observes the mind; and (4) the application of mindfulness which observes phenomena. In the present sūtra, an explanation focused mainly on the first of the four is found at the beginning of chapter 9. See UT22084-026-001-1604.

The application of mindfulness to the body, the application of mindfulness to feeling, the application of mindfulness to mind, and the application of mindfulness to dharmas.

A fundamental practice of Buddhist meditation: the close application of mindfulness to the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.

Application of mindfulness with respect to the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.

Recollection of the nature of the body, feelings, the mind, and dharmas.

Mindfulness of the (1) body, (2) feelings, (3) mind, and (4) mental phenomena.

Mindfulness of the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.

Four contemplations on: (1) the body, (2) feelings, (3) mind, and (4) mental objects. These four contemplations are part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.

A meditation in which (in the most basic form in which it is taught) one sees the body as impure, feeling as painful, mind as transient, and things as without self.

Mindfulness of the body, feelings, the mind, and phenomena.

Mindfulness of the body, feelings, the mind, and phenomena. These four are part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.

Mindfulness of the body, mindfulness of sensations or feelings, mindfulness of the mind, and mindfulness of phenomena. These relate to a form of meditation in which one sees the body as impure, sensations as painful, the mind as transient, and phenomena as without self.

Often called “four types of mindfulness”; they refer to mindfulness of the body, bodily sensations, thoughts, and phenomena.

The application of mindfulness to the body, the application of mindfulness to feeling, the application of mindfulness to mind, and the application of mindfulness to dharmas.

Using the body to cultivate mindfulness by observing the body, using feelings to cultivate mindfulness by observing feelings, using the mind to cultivate mindfulness by observing the mind, and using phenomena to cultivate mindfulness by observing phenomena. Part of the thirty-seven elements that are conducive to awakening.

Mindfulness of the body, feelings, the mind, and dharmas.

Mindfulness of the body, mindfulness of feelings, mindfulness of the mind, and mindfulness of dharmas, the last understood variously as either all dharmas or a specific list of dharmas.

Mindfulness of the body, feelings, the mind, and phenomena.

A fundamental practice of Buddhist meditation: close application of mindfulness to the body, close application of mindfulness to feelings, close application of mindfulness to mind, and close application of mindfulness to phenomena.