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知足 means content with one's situation or to know contentment (hence happiness).
From the Zen Buddhist context, Chisoku or 知足 (knowing what’s enough) means always to know and be
satisfied with one’s lot.
Human pain and suffering are born of greed, and that greed arises because we do not know what’s enough.
The Chinese philosopher, Menzi (372-289 BCE) said, “to nourish the mind, there is nothing better than to make the desires few.”
This relays the idea that the best method to cultivate the mind is to have little desire.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your as we desire search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
定 see styles |
dìng ding4 ting jou / jo じょう |
More info & calligraphy: Samadhi(1) (See 案の定・あんのじょう) certainty; reality; actuality; (prefix noun) (2) (See 定宿) regular; permanent; (3) {Buddh} (See 三昧・さんまい・1,禅定・ぜんじょう・1) samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); (given name) Yasushi To fix, settle. samādhi. 'Composing the mind'; 'intent contemplation'; 'perfect absorption of thought into the one object of meditation.' M. W. Abstract meditation, the mind fixed in one direction, or field. (1) 散定 scattered or general meditation (in the world of desire). (2) 禪定 abstract meditation (in the realms of form and beyond form). It is also one of the five attributes of the dharmakāya 法身, i. e. an internal state of imperturbability or tranquility, exempt from all external sensations, 超受陰; cf. 三摩提. |
念 see styles |
niàn nian4 nien nen ねん |
More info & calligraphy: Mindfulness(1) (esp. 〜の念) sense; idea; thought; feeling; (2) desire; concern; (3) (esp. 念に〜、念の/が〜) attention; care; (personal name) Nen smṛti. Recollection, memory; to think on, reflect; repeat, intone; a thought; a moment. |
意 see styles |
yì yi4 i i い |
More info & calligraphy: Idea / Thought / Meaning(1) feelings; thoughts; (2) meaning; (personal name) Kokoro Manas, the sixth of the ṣaḍāyatanas or six means of perception, i.e. sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind. Manas means "mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers), intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience, will". M.W. It is "the intellectual function of consciousness", Keith. In Chinese it connotes thought, idea, intention, meaning, will; but in Buddhist terminology its distinctive meaning is mind, or the faculty of thought. |
愛 爱 see styles |
ài ai4 ai ai あい |
More info & calligraphy: Love(n,n-suf) (1) (See 愛する) love; affection; care; (2) {Buddh} attachment; craving; desire; (3) {Christn} (See アガペー・1) agape; (4) (abbreviation) Ireland; (female given name) Rui kāma; rāga. Love, affection, desire; also used for tṛṣṇā, thirst, avidity, desire, one of the twelve nidānas. It is intp. as 貪 coveting, and 染著 defiling attachment; also defined as defiling love like that toward wife and children, and undefiling love like that toward one's teachers and elders. |
慾 欲 see styles |
yù yu4 yü yoku よく |
More info & calligraphy: Desire / Longing / Cravinggreed; craving; desire; avarice; wants Passion, inordinate desire, lust, v. 欲. |
春 see styles |
chūn chun1 ch`un chun haru はる |
More info & calligraphy: Spring Season(n,adv) (1) spring; springtime; (2) New Year; (3) prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); heyday; (4) adolescence; puberty; (5) sexuality; sexual desire; (personal name) Haruji |
欲 see styles |
yù yu4 yü yoku よく |
More info & calligraphy: Desire / Longing / Cravinggreed; craving; desire; avarice; wants; (surname) Yoku rājas, passion. Also kāma, desire, love. The Chinese word means to breathe after, aspire to, desire, and is also used as 慾 for lust, passion; it is inter alia intp. as 染愛塵 tainted with the dust (or dirt) of love, or lust. The three desires are for beauty, demeanour, and softness; the five are those of the five physical senses. |
四諦 四谛 see styles |
sì dì si4 di4 ssu ti shitai したい |
More info & calligraphy: Four Noble Truths (Buddhism){Buddh} (See 苦集滅道) The Four Noble Truths catvāri-ārya-satyāni; 四聖諦; 四眞諦. The four dogmas, or noble truths, the primary and fundamental doctrines of Śākyamuni, said to approximate to the form of medical diagnosis. They are pain or 'suffering, its cause, its ending, the way thereto; that existence is suffering, that human passion (taṇhā, 欲 desire) is the cause of continued suffering, that by the destruction of human passion existence may be brought to an end; that by a life of holiness the destruction of human passion may be attained'. Childers. The four are 苦, 聚 (or 集), 滅, and 道諦, i. e. duḥkha 豆佉, samudaya 三牟提耶, nirodha 尼棲陀, and mārga 末加. Eitel interprets them (1) 'that 'misery' is a necessary attribute of sentient existence'; (2) that 'the 'accumulation' of misery is caused by the passions'; (3) that 'the 'extinction' of passion is possible; (4) mārga is 'the doctrine of the 'path' that leads to the extinction of passion'. (1) 苦 suffering is the lot of the 六趣 six states of existence; (2) 集 is the aggregation (or exacerbation) of suffering by reason of the passions; (3) 滅 is nirvana, the extinction of desire and its consequences, and the leaving of the sufferings of mortality as void and extinct; (4) 道 is the way of such extinction, i. e. the 八正道 eightfold correct way. The first two are considered to be related to this life, the last two to 出世間 a life outside or apart from the world. The four are described as the fundamental doctrines first preached to his five former ascetic companions. Those who accepted these truths were in the stage of śrāvaka. There is much dispute as to the meaning of 滅 'extinction' as to whether it means extinction of suffering, of passion, or of existence. The Nirvana Sutra 18 says that whoever accepts the four dogmas will put an end to births and deaths 若能見四諦則得斷生死 which does not of necessity mean the termination of existence but that of continued transmigration. v. 滅. |
天上 see styles |
tiān shàng tian1 shang4 t`ien shang tien shang tenjou / tenjo てんじょう |
More info & calligraphy: Heavenly / Celestial(n,vs,adj-no) the heavens; (given name) Tenjō The heavens above, i. e. the six devalokas 六欲天 of the region of desire and the rupalokas andarupalokas, i. e. 色 and 無色界. |
情欲 see styles |
qíng yù qing2 yu4 ch`ing yü ching yü jōyoku じょうよく |
More info & calligraphy: Lust / Desire / PassionThe passions, desires. |
想い see styles |
omoi おもい |
More info & calligraphy: Omoi / Desire |
愛心 爱心 see styles |
ài xīn ai4 xin1 ai hsin aishin あいしん |
More info & calligraphy: Loving Heart / Compassion(obsolete) love; affection; (female given name) Rabu A loving heart; a mind full of desire; a mind dominated by desire. |
愛慕 爱慕 see styles |
ài mù ai4 mu4 ai mu aibo あいぼ |
More info & calligraphy: Adoring Love(noun, transitive verb) love; attachment; adoration; (female given name) Narumo desire |
愛憎 爱憎 see styles |
ài zēng ai4 zeng1 ai tseng aizou / aizo あいぞう |
More info & calligraphy: Love and Hatelove and hate Love and hate, desire and dislike. |
捨欲 舍欲 see styles |
shě yù she3 yu4 she yü shayoku |
More info & calligraphy: Give Up Desire |
欲望 see styles |
yù wàng yu4 wang4 yü wang yokumō よくぼう |
More info & calligraphy: Desire / Cravingdesire |
熱望 热望 see styles |
rè wàng re4 wang4 je wang netsubou / netsubo ねつぼう |
More info & calligraphy: Aspire / Burning Desire(noun, transitive verb) longing for; burning desire |
轉世 转世 see styles |
zhuǎn shì zhuan3 shi4 chuan shih tense |
More info & calligraphy: Reincarnation (Buddhism)To return to this life. |
願望 愿望 see styles |
yuàn wàng yuan4 wang4 yüan wang ganbou(p); ganmou / ganbo(p); ganmo がんぼう(P); がんもう |
More info & calligraphy: Desire / Wish / Aspiration(noun, transitive verb) desire; wish; aspiration |
カーマ see styles |
kaama / kama カーマ |
More info & calligraphy: Carma |
デザイア see styles |
dezaia デザイア |
More info & calligraphy: Dezyre |
を see styles |
o を |
(particle) (1) indicates direct object of action; (particle) (2) indicates subject of causative expression; (particle) (3) indicates an area traversed; (particle) (4) indicates time (period) over which action takes place; (particle) (5) indicates point of departure or separation of action; (particle) (6) (See が・1) indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc. |
人 see styles |
rén ren2 jen hito(p); hito ひと(P); ヒト |
person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] (1) person; someone; somebody; (2) human beings; mankind; man; people; humans; (3) (kana only) (usu. ヒト) human (Homo sapiens); (4) (other) people; others; (5) character; personality; nature; (6) capable person; competent person; suitable person; right person; (7) adult; grown-up; (8) (used when rebuking or criticizing someone) I; me; one; (surname) Hitotaka manuṣya; nara; puruṣa; pudgala. Man, the sentient thinking being in the desire-realm, whose past deeds affect his present condition. |
使 see styles |
shǐ shi3 shih shi し |
to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do something; envoy; messenger (1) messenger; (2) (abbreviation) (See 検非違使) police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); (3) {Buddh} (See 煩悩・2) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering); (female given name) Tsukasa To send; cause; a messenger; a pursuer, molester, lictor, disturber, troubler, intp. as 煩惱 kleśa, affliction, distress, worldly cares, vexations, and as consequent reincarnation. There are categories of 10, 16, 98, 112, and 128 such troublers, e. g. desire, hate, stupor, pride, doubt, erroneous views, etc., leading to painful results in future rebirths, for they are karma-messengers executing its purpose. Also 金剛童子 q. v. |
取 see styles |
qǔ qu3 ch`ü chü shu しゅ |
to take; to get; to choose; to fetch {Buddh} (See 十二因縁) appropriation; obtaining; (surname) Takadori upādāna. To grasp, hold on to, held by, be attached to, love; used as indicating both 愛 love or desire and 煩惱 the vexing passions and illusions. It is one of the twelve nidānas 十二因緣 or 十二支 the grasping at or holding on to self-existence and things. |
垢 see styles |
gòu gou4 kou ku く |
dirt; disgrace {Buddh} (See 煩悩・2) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering); (personal name) Yoshimi mala. Dust, impurity, dregs; moral impurity; mental impurity. Whatever misleads or deludes the mind; illusion; defilement; the six forms are vexation, malevolence, hatred, flattery, wild talk, pride; the seven are desire, false views, doubt, presumption, arrogance, inertia, and meanness. |
將 将 see styles |
qiāng qiang1 ch`iang chiang masaru まさる |
to desire; to invite; to request (given name) Masaru will |
忺 see styles |
xiān xian1 hsien |
(literary) to want; to desire; (literary) pleased; gratified; happy |
恏 see styles |
hào hao4 hao |
to desire |
悲 see styles |
bēi bei1 pei hi ひ |
sad; sadness; sorrow; grief {Buddh} karuna (compassion) karuṇā; kṛpā. Sympathy, pity for another in distress and the desire to help him, sad. |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Contentment | 知足 | chisoku | zhī zú / zhi1 zu2 / zhi zu / zhizu | chih tsu / chihtsu |
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