He has a blue-coloured body.Īlertness A mental factor which is a type of wisdom that examines our activity of body, speech, and mind and knows whether or not faults are developing. See Clear Light of Bliss.Īkshobya The manifestation of the aggregate of consciousness of all Buddhas. See Understanding the Mind.Īkanishta A Pure Land where Bodhisattvas attain enlightenment. See Heart of Wisdom.Īggression A deluded mental factor that is an increase of the root delusion anger that wishes to hurt or harm others physically or verbally. See also Individual aggregates and Contaminated aggregate.

The remaining four aggregates are aspects of his mind. A person’s form aggregate is his or her body. A being of the formless realm lacks the aggregate of form but has the other four. In particular, a person of the desire realm or form realm has five aggregates: the aggregates of form, feeling, discrimination, compositional factors, and consciousness. See Clear Light of Bliss and Tantric Grounds and Paths.Īction Tantra See Four classes of Tantra.Īffirming negative See Negative phenomenon.Īggregate In general, all functioning things are aggregates because they are an aggregation of their parts. See Ocean of Nectar.Īction mudra A Highest Yoga Tantra consort who assists in developing great bliss. See Ocean of Nectar.Ībsorption without discrimination A concentration of the fourth form realm that observes nothingness and that is attained by stopping gross feelings and gross discriminations. See Ocean of Nectar.Ībsorption of cessation An uncontaminated wisdom focused single-pointedly on emptiness in dependence upon the actual absorption of peak of samsara. They are of two types: close preparations, which are uninterrupted paths, and actual absorptions, which are released paths.

See Ocean of Nectar.Ībsorption A virtuous single-pointed mind of the form or formless realm. An emptiness of a mind that has completely abandoned a delusion or other fault.Ībhidharma Sanskrit word for `Phenomenology’. She lives in Carnation, Washington.A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | ZĪbandonment Any true cessation. Demi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started drawing at an early age.

Her book The Empty Pot was selected by former First Lady Barbara Bush in 1990 as one of the books to be read on the ABC Radio Network Program Mrs. She is the author and illustrator of many children's books, including Firebird, The Dalai Lama, Buddha, and The Dragon’s Tale. Demi, along with her husband, Tze-si Huang, has been a practicing Buddhist for more than twenty years.

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