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7. Right Mindfulness / Right Memory / Perfect Mindfulness
Samyak Smriti / Samyak Smrti / Samma Sati
正念 is one of the Noble Eightfold Paths of Buddhism. Right Mindfulness, along with Right Effort and Right Concentration, constitute the path to Concentration or Perfect Thought.
Right Mindfulness is about remaining focused on one's body, feelings, mind, and mental qualities. It's also about being ardent, aware, and mindful, and supposes that you've already put aside worldly desire and aversion.
Monk Bhikkhu Bodhi described this as “The mind is deliberately kept at the level of bare attention, a detached observation of what is happening within us and around us in the present moment.” When practicing right mindfulness, the mind is trained to remain in the present, open, quiet, and alert, contemplating the present event.
Another definition: Ongoing mindfulness of body, feelings, thinking, and objects of thought.
This term is exclusively used by devout Buddhists. It is not a common term, and is remains an unknown concept to most Japanese and Chinese people.
See Also: Buddhism | Enlightenment | Noble Eightfold Path
Eyeballs / Eyes
眼 is the simplest way to write eyes or eyeballs in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
This can also mean eyesight, sight, vision, look, stare, glance, viewpoint, insight, perceptivity, the power of observation, or simply the eye.
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2. Right Resolve / Right Thought / Right Intention / Perfect Resolve
Consideration / Thought / Ikko
Diligent Study Proverb
Far-Sighted in Deep Thought
Good Good Study, Day Day Up
Idea / Thought
Idea / Thought / Meaning
Learning Leads to Knowledge, Study Leads to Benevolence, Shame Leads to Courage
Read / Study
Study / Learn / School
Thought / Thinking / Idea
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
眼 see styles |
yǎn yan3 yen manako まなこ |
More info & calligraphy: Eyeballs / Eyes(1) eye; eyeball; (2) (archaism) pupil and (dark) iris of the eye; (3) (archaism) insight; perceptivity; power of observation; (4) (archaism) look; field of vision; (5) (archaism) core; center; centre; essence; (surname) Mesaki cakṣuh, the eye. |
台 see styles |
tái tai2 t`ai tai dai だい |
(classical) you (in letters); variant of 臺|台[tai2] (n,n-suf) (1) stand; rest; base; pedestal; platform; table; holder; support; rack; (2) setting (of a gem); mounting; (3) (See 台木・1) stock (in grafting); (counter) (4) counter for machines and vehicles; (suffix) (5) (after a rounded value) level (e.g. price level); mark; range; decade (of one's life); (suffix noun) (6) tall building (with a fine view); (observation) platform; (suffix noun) (7) (in place names) plateau; heights; (surname) Dai A flat place, platform, plateau, terrace; an abbrev. for 臺 and for 天台 Tiantai, hence 台嶽 the Tiantai mountain; 台宗; 台家 its 'school'; 台徒 its disciples; 台教; 台道 its doctrine, or way. |
観 see styles |
guān guan1 kuan kan かん |
Japanese variant of 觀|观[guan1] (n,n-suf) (1) look; appearance; (n,n-suf) (2) spectacle; sight; (n,n-suf) (3) {Buddh} observation meditation; (suffix noun) (4) outlook on ...; view of ...; (female given name) Miru |
七聖 七圣 see styles |
qī shèng qi1 sheng4 ch`i sheng chi sheng nanasei / nanase ななせい |
(male given name) Nanasei v.七賢, 七聖, 七聖財, saptadhana. The seven sacred graces variously defined, e.g. 信 faith, 戒 observation of the commandments, 聞hearing instruction, 慙 shame (for self), 愧 shame (for others); 捨 renunciation; and慧 wisdom. |
五識 五识 see styles |
wǔ shì wu3 shi4 wu shih goshiki |
The five parijñānas, perceptions or cognitions; ordinarily those arising from the five senses, i. e. of form-and-color, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The 起信論 Awakening of Faith has a different set of five steps in the history of cognition; (1) 業識 initial functioning of mind under the influence of the original 無明 unenlightenment or state of ignorance; (2) 轉識 the act of turning towards the apparent object for its observation; (3) 現識 observation of the object as it appears; (4) 知識 the deductions derived from its appearance; (5) 相續識 the consequent feelings of like or dislike, pleasure or pain, from which arise the delusions and incarnations. |
修觀 修观 see styles |
xiū guān xiu1 guan1 hsiu kuan shukan |
practice of clear observation |
內觀 内观 see styles |
nèi guān nei4 guan1 nei kuan naikan |
to introspect; to examine oneself; (Buddhism) vipassana meditation (seeking insight into the true nature of reality) internal observation |
刮目 see styles |
katsumoku かつもく |
(n,vs,vi) careful observation; close attention |
助業 助业 see styles |
zhù yè zhu4 ye4 chu yeh jogou / jogo じょごう |
{Buddh} (See 浄土宗) auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering) Auxiliary karma, i.e. deeds or works, e.g. reciting the sutras about the Pure Land, worship, praise, and offering, as additional to direct karma 正業, i.e. faith in Amitābha, expressed by constant thought of him and calling on his name. |
四診 四诊 see styles |
sì zhěn si4 zhen3 ssu chen shishin ししん |
(TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診|望诊[wang4 zhen3] (observation), 聞診|闻诊[wen2 zhen3] (auscultation and olfaction), 問診|问诊[wen4 zhen3] (interrogation), 切診|切诊[qie4 zhen3] (pulse feeling and palpation) the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching) |
天測 see styles |
tensoku てんそく |
(noun, transitive verb) astronomical observation; shooting the sun |
定律 see styles |
dìng lǜ ding4 lu:4 ting lü teiritsu / teritsu ていりつ |
scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy); (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") fixed law; (personal name) Yasunori |
望楼 see styles |
bourou / boro ぼうろう |
watchtower; observation tower; lookout |
望樓 望楼 see styles |
wàng lóu wang4 lou2 wang lou bourou / boro ぼうろう |
watchtower; lookout tower (out-dated kanji) watchtower; observation tower; lookout |
望観 see styles |
boukan / bokan ぼうかん |
(noun/participle) observation; looking out (into the distance); (given name) Mochimi |
望診 望诊 see styles |
wàng zhěn wang4 zhen3 wang chen boushin / boshin ぼうしん |
(TCM) observation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊[si4 zhen3] (See 四診) the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching) |
欠測 see styles |
kessoku けっそく |
(noun/participle) missing (data, observation, etc.) |
止觀 止观 see styles |
zhǐ guān zhi3 guan1 chih kuan shikan |
奢摩他毗婆舍那 (or 奢摩他毗鉢舍那) śamatha-vipaśyanā, which Sanskrit words are intp. by 止觀; 定慧; 寂照; and 明靜; for their respective meanings see 止 and 觀. When the physical organism is at rest it is called 止 zhi, when the mind is seeing clearly it is called 觀 guan. The term and form of meditation is specially connected with its chief exponent, the founder of the Tiantai school, which school is styled 止觀宗 Zhiguan Zong, its chief object being concentration of the mind by special methods for the purpose of clear insight into truth, and to be rid of illusion. The Tiantai work gives ten fields of mediation, or concentration: (1) the 五陰, 十八界, and 十二入; (2) passion and delusion; (3) sickness; (4) karma forms; (5) māra-deeds; (6) dhyāna; (7) (wrong) theories; (8) arrogance; (9) the two Vehicles; (10) bodhisattvahood. |
正觀 正观 see styles |
zhèng guān zheng4 guan1 cheng kuan shōkan |
to correct observation |
注目 see styles |
zhù mù zhu4 mu4 chu mu chuumoku / chumoku ちゅうもく |
attention; to stare at; to fix attention on something (n,vs,vt,vi) notice; attention; observation |
測候 see styles |
sokkou / sokko そっこう |
(noun/participle) meteorological observation |
測天 测天 see styles |
cè tiān ce4 tian1 ts`e t`ien tse tien |
to make astronomical observation |
理智 see styles |
lǐ zhì li3 zhi4 li chih richi りち |
reason; intellect; rationality; rational intellect; intelligence; (female given name) Richi Principle and gnosis (or reason); the noumenal in essence and in knowledge; the truth in itself and in knowledge; li is also the fundamental principle of the phenomenon under observation, chih the observing wisdom; one is reality, the other the knower or knowing; one is the known object, the other the knower, the knowing, or what is known; each is dependent on the other, chih depends on lili is revealed by chih. Also knowledge or enlightenment in its essence or purity, free from incarnational influences. |
留觀 留观 see styles |
liú guān liu2 guan1 liu kuan |
(medicine) to remain in hospital under observation |
発言 see styles |
hatsugen はつげん |
(n,vs,vt,vi) statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal |
監視 监视 see styles |
jiān shì jian1 shi4 chien shih kanshi かんし |
to monitor; to keep a close watch over; surveillance (noun, transitive verb) monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision; lookout |
目視 目视 see styles |
mù shì mu4 shi4 mu shih mokushi もくし |
visual (noun, transitive verb) seeing (with the naked eye); observation; visual inspection |
直觀 直观 see styles |
zhí guān zhi2 guan1 chih kuan chokkan |
direct observation; directly perceived through the senses; intuitive; audiovisual intuition |
眼光 see styles |
yǎn guāng yan3 guang1 yen kuang gankou / ganko がんこう |
gaze; insight; foresight; vision; way of looking at things (1) sparkle of one's eyes; (2) insight; discernment; penetration; power of observation glint of the eye |
眼力 see styles |
yǎn lì yan3 li4 yen li ganriki; ganryoku がんりき; がんりょく |
eyesight; strength of vision; the ability to make discerning judgments insight; power of observation insight |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| 7. Right Mindfulness Right Memory Perfect Mindfulness | 正念 | sei nen / seinen | zhèng niàn zheng4 nian4 zheng nian zhengnian | cheng nien chengnien |
| Eyeballs Eyes | 眼 | gan | yǎn / yan3 / yan | yen |
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