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  2. Zen - Wikipedia

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    A History. Part One: India and China: "Zen (Chin. Ch'an, an abbreviation of ch'an-na, which transliterates the Sanskrit Dhyāna (Devanagari: ध्यान) or its Pali cognate Jhāna (Sanskrit; Pāli झान), terms meaning "meditation") is the name of a Mahāyāna Buddhist school of meditation originating in China.

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Rare events meaning "once in a blue moon" include: unwaith yn y pedwar amser ("once in the four seasons") and unwaith yn y pedwar gwynt ("once in the four winds"). See also [ edit ]

  4. Old-growth forest - Wikipedia

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    Using the stand dynamics definition, old-growth can be easily evaluated using structural attributes. However, in some forest ecosystems, this can lead to decisions regarding the preservation of unique stands or attributes that will disappear over the next few decades because of natural succession processes.

  5. Four stages of awakening - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The four stages of awakening in Early Buddhism and Theravada are four progressive stages culminating in full awakening ( Bodhi) as an Arahant . These four stages are Sotāpanna (stream-enterer), Sakadāgāmi (once-returner), Anāgāmi (non-returner), and Arahant. The oldest Buddhist texts portray the Buddha as referring to people who ...

  6. The Buddha - Wikipedia

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    The exact meaning of the term is unknown, but it is often thought to mean either "one who has thus gone" (tathā-gata), "one who has thus come" (tathā-āgata), or sometimes "one who has thus not gone" (tathā-agata). This is interpreted as signifying that the Tathāgata is beyond all coming and going – beyond all transitory phenomena. [29]

  7. Rapid eye movement sleep - Wikipedia

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    Rapid eye movement sleep ( REM sleep or REMS) is a unique phase of sleep in mammals (including humans) and birds, characterized by random rapid movement of the eyes, accompanied by low muscle tone throughout the body, and the propensity of the sleeper to dream vividly. The REM phase is also known as paradoxical sleep ( PS) and sometimes ...

  8. Rare-earth element - Wikipedia

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    Rare-earth element. Refined rare-earth oxides are heavy, gritty powders usually brown or black, but can be lighter colors as shown here. The rare-earth elements ( REE ), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides, and sometimes the lanthanides (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this ...

  9. Satori - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism. Satori ( Japanese: 悟り )is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding". [1] It is derived from the Japanese verb satoru. [2] [3] In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, [4] [5] "seeing into one's true nature ". Ken means "seeing," shō means "nature" or "essence".