Found 3272
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| fixating meditation | التأمل التثبيتى |
| fixed-star zodiac | |
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flat
One's Dharma practice is flat when it is going nowhere, when it is not taking one anywhere. There is nothing lively in it anymore. "Flat" is usually used for sparkling water (soda water) or beer, when there are no more bubbles. |
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fleeting stain
Tib: glo-bur-gyi dri-ma An emotional or cognitive obscuration that temporarily obscures the realization of Buddha-nature. |
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| flesh eye, extrasensory | |
| flightiness | الشرود |
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flightiness of mind
Tib: rgod-pa The mental factor with which the mind wanders to an object of attraction, due to desire for it or attachment, and which faults the mental abiding of mindfulness's mental hold on an object of focus. Sometimes translated as "mental agitation." |
شرود الذهن |
| flightiness, mental | |
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focal condition
Tib: dmigs-rkyen Skt: alambanapratyaya An external phenomenon that presents an aspect of itself to be an object of cognition, and thus serves as a condition giving rise to a sensory cognition of it. |
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focal object
Tib: dmigs-yul An external object on which a cognition focuses and which serves as the focal condition of the cognition. Focal objects exist prior to the cognitions of them and have their own continuums different from those of the cognitions of them. |
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focal support
Tib: dmigs-gtad A findable, truly existent referent "thing," propping up the object of a cognition. Compare: referent thing. |
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| focus [e.g. focus on the good qualities of a mentor] | |
| focus, sharp | |
| foe-destroyer | مدمر الأعداء |
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foggy-mindedness
Tib: rmugs-pa The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of a heavy feeling of body and mind that makes the mind unclear, unserviceable, and incapable either of giving rise to a cognitive appearance of its object or of apprehending the object correctly. |
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follower of logic
Tib: rigs-pa'i rjes-'brang |
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follower of scripture
Tib: lung-gi rjes-'brang |
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| force, karmic | |
| force, positive | |
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forceful
Tib: drag-po Using extremely strong actions or methods, such as yelling at someone or hitting someone, in order to make the person stop doing something harmful. Forceful methods are used only when all other methods to make the person stop have failed o ... (more) |
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forceful deity
Tib: khro-bo Skt: kroddha An emanation of a Buddha in a form of great strength, usually surrounded by flames representing deep awareness, and terrifying, so as to chase away disturbing emotions, interferences, and other harm. Often translated by others as "wrathful ... (more) |
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| Foremost Beings | |
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forgetfulness
Tib: brjed-nges |
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forgetting
Tib: brjed-pa |
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| form aggregate |