Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

There is a method of meditative practice where, in alternating sequence,tranquillity-meditation and insight-meditation are developed. It is called 'tranquillity andinsight joined in pairs' (samatha-vipassanáyuganaddha), the coupling or yoking of tranquillityand insight. He who undertakes it, first enters into the 1st absorption. After rising from it,he contemplates the mental phenomena that were present in it (feeling, perception, etc.) asimpermanent, painful and not-self, and thus he develops insight. Thereupon he enters into the2nd absorption; and after rising from it, he again considers its constituent phenomena asimpermanent, etc. In this way, he passes from one absorption to the next, until at last, duringa moment of insight, the intuitive knowledge of the path (of Stream-entry, etc.) flashesforth - See A. IV, 170; A.IX, 36; Pts: Yuganaddha Kathá.samatha-yánika: 'one who takes tranquillity as his vehicle'. This is a name for a person whonot only has reached insight but also one or the other of the absorptions, to distinguish himfrom one 'who practises only insight' (sukkha-vipassaka, q.v.).sambodhi = bodhi (q.v.).sambojjhanga = bojjhanga (q.v.).sammá-ditthi, -sankappa, -vaca, etc: see magga.sammá-magga: see micchá-magga.sammá-ppadhána: 'right exertion', is identical with the 6th link of the 8-fold path (s.magga, padhána).sammá-sambodhi: 'Perfect Enlightenment', Universal Buddhahood, is the state attained by aUniversal Buddha (sammá-sambuddha), i.e. one by whom the liberating law (dhamma) whichhad become lost to the world, has again been discovered, realized and clearly proclaimed tothe world."Now, someone, in things never heard before, understands by himself the truth, and hetherein attains omniscience, and gains mastery in the powers. Such a one is called a UniversalBuddha, or Enlightened One" (Pug. 29).The doctrine characteristie of all the Buddhas, and each time rediscovered by them and fullyexplained to the world, consists in the 4 Truths (sacca, q.v.) of suffering, its origin, itsextinction and the way to its extinction (s. magga). See bodhi.sammasana: 'comprehension', exploring, 'determining' (vavatthána, q.v.) is a name for thedetermining of all phenomena of existence as impermanent, miserable and impersonal (anicca,dukkha, anattá), etc., which is the beginning of insight (s. Pts.M. I, p. 53; Vis.M. XX); alsocalled kalápa-s. (q.v.), 'comprehension by groups (of existence - khandha).' (App.).sammatta: the 'state of rightness', are the 8 links of the 8-fold Path (D. 33). Cf. micchátta.sammuti-sacca: 'conventional truth', is identical with vohára-sacca (s. paramattha-sacca).sampadá: 'attainment, blessing'. The 5 blessings are said to be faith, morality, learning,liberality, wisdom (A. V, 91). Further: morality, concentration, wisdom, deliverance, the eye of