- bodhicitta Tib. ཇང་ཆུབ་སེམས jang chub sems
- “awakening mind”
- the wish to attain complete enlightenment (that is, Buddhahood) in order to be of benefit to all sentient beings trapped in cyclic existence (samsāra)
- More at Wikipedia Words about bodhicitta compassion
- chöd Tib. གཅོད་
- “cutting through”
- confronting a negative thing as an entity, accepting it, and transforming it
- More at Wikipedia Words about chod
- lo jong
- “mind training”
- refining and purifying one’s motivations and attitudes, using antidotes to undesired mental habits that cause suffering, and concentration on absolute and relative bodhicitta
- More at Wikipedia Words about lo jong
- meta Gr: μετα
- (“beyond”, “with”, “adjacent”, “self”), a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, a category about itself
- More at Wikipedia
- metaxu Gr: μεταξύ
- “between” more
- “every separation a link” “an intermediary” “a bridge” more
- “middle ground” “things can be perceived by different people in different ways” more
- “culture” “a ground” “that which separates and connects” more
- a silly, possibly pretentious, label for a human person More at metaxu.to
- saddha Pāli: saddhā, Sanskrit: śraddhā
- “faith”
- “the initial acceptance of the Buddha’s teachings, prior to the acquisition of right understanding and right thought”
- More at Britannica.com
- samsara Tib. འཁོར་བ་་ khor wa
- “continuous flow”
- the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth
- More at Wikipedia: concept of samsara, samsara in Buddhism
Words about samsara - tong len Tib. གཏོང་ལེན་
- “giving and taking”
- taking onto oneself the suffering of others on the in-breath, and on the out-breath giving happiness and success to all sentient beings.
- More at Wikipedia Words about tong len
These are just some small summaries. They are all from my own ignorance, and certainly not complete. Hopefully they point a way.
Revised 27 december 2010
