Resources

🎧 Podcasts & Audio

• Dharma Ocean Podcast - Weekly teachings and guided meditations
• Buddhist Geeks - Modern applications of ancient wisdom
• Against The Stream - Meditation instruction and dharma talks
• Audio Dharma - Extensive library of recorded teachings
• Ten Percent Happier - Meditation and mindfulness for skeptics

📱 Mobile Apps

• Insight Timer - Large library of free guided meditations
• Headspace - Beginner-friendly meditation courses
• Calm - Sleep stories, meditation, and relaxation
• Waking Up - Philosophy and non-dual awareness practices
• Plum Village - Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings and meditations

A

Anatta: Non-self; the teaching that there is no permanent, unchanging self or soul.

Anicca: Impermanence; the characteristic of all conditioned existence.

Arhat: "Worthy one"; one who has achieved liberation from suffering in Theravada Buddhism.

Awakening: Enlightenment; the realization of the true nature of reality.

B

Bodhi: Enlightenment; awakening to the true nature of reality.

Bodhisattva: "Enlightenment being"; one who vows to achieve Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Buddha: "Awakened one"; refers to Siddhartha Gautama and all those who achieve full enlightenment.

Buddha Nature: The inherent potential for enlightenment present in all beings.

D

Dharma: The teachings of the Buddha; the truth; the path of practice.

Dukkha: Suffering; dissatisfaction; the first Noble Truth.

Dana: Generosity; giving; one of the perfections (paramitas).

E - K

Emptiness (Śūnyatā): The absence of inherent existence in all phenomena.

Four Noble Truths: The foundation of Buddhist teaching: suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path.

Karma: The law of cause and effect; intentional actions and their consequences.

Koan: A paradoxical story or question used in Zen practice to transcend rational thinking.

L - N

Loving-kindness (Metta): Unconditional friendliness and love for all beings.

Mindfulness (Sati): Clear awareness of present-moment experience.

Nirvana: The extinction of suffering; liberation; the ultimate goal of Buddhist practice.

Noble Eightfold Path: The path to end suffering: right understanding, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, concentration.

P - S

Paramitas: Perfections; virtues cultivated on the path to enlightenment.

Precepts: Ethical guidelines for Buddhist practitioners.

Refuge: Going for refuge in the Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.

Sangha: The community of Buddhist practitioners; specifically, ordained monks and nuns.

Samsara: The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth characterized by suffering.

T - Z

Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha - the foundation of Buddhist refuge.

Vipassana: Insight meditation; seeing things as they truly are.

Zen: A school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing meditation and direct experience.

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