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  1. Book search result icon Meditations5 Glossary
     … urges, thoughts, etc., within the mind. Satipatthana:  The act of establishing mindfulness on any one of four frames of reference—body, feelings, mind states, or mental qualities—taken in and of themselves. Sutta:  Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra. Tathagata:  One who has become authentic or has truly gone to the goal. An epithet of the Buddha. Vinaya:  The monastic discipline. Vipassana:  Insight. Wat (Thai):  Monastery.
  2. Joy in Effort
     … He said to follow the Vinaya; they follow the Vinaya. He said to develop right concentration, which means jhana. Okay, they do that. Then they look at what they’re doing to see how it helps in bringing suffering to an end. What this means in practice is that you learn how to question your efforts in terms of the four noble truths until … 
  3. Working at Home
     … I don’t know the Pali term for a sense of humor, but you see it throughout the texts, especially in the Vinaya: the ability to laugh at the foibles of human nature that led monks and nuns to do unskillful things. Many of the origin stories for the rules really are humorous. They teach you to laugh at that kind of behavior, but … 
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