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　　Sanyojana: Fetter that binds the mind to the cycle of rebirth (see vatta) -- self-identification views, uncertainty, grasping at precepts and practices; sensual passion, irritation; passion for form, passion for formless phenomena, conceit, restlessness, and unawareness.

　　Sati: Mindfulness; alertness; self-collectedness; powers of reference and retention.

　　Satipatthana: Frame of reference; foundation of mindfulness -- body, feelings, mind, and phenomena, viewed in and of themselves as they occur.

　　Sotapanna: Stream winner. A person who has abandoned the first three of the fetters that bind the mind to the cycle of rebirth (see sanyojana) and has thus entered the ”stream” flowing inexorably to nibbana, which ensures that one will be reborn at most only seven more times.

　　Tanha: Craving -- the cause of stress -- which takes three forms: craving for sensuality, for becoming, and for no becoming.

　　Tapas: The purifying ”heat” of meditative practice.

　　Tathagata: One who has become true. A title for the Buddha.

　　Ti-lakkhana: Three characteristics inherent in all conditioned phenomena -- being inconstant, stressful, and not-self.

　　Ugghatitaññu: Of swift understanding. After the Buddha attained Awakening and was considering whether or not to teach the Dhamma, he perceived that there were four categories of beings: those of swift understanding, who would gain Awakening after a short explanation of the Dhamma, those who would gain Awakening only after a lengthy explanation (vipacitaññu); those who would gain Awakening only after being led through the practice (neyya); and those who, instead of gaining Awakening, would at best gain only a verbal understanding of the Dhamma (padaparama).

　　Vassa: Rains Retreat. A period from July to October, corresponding roughly to the rainy season, in which each monk is required to live settled in a single place and not wander freely about.

　　Vatta: The cycle of death and rebirth. This refers both to the death and rebirth of living beings and to the death and rebirth of defilement in the mind.

　　Vedana: Feeling -- pleasure (ease), pain (stress), or neither pleasure nor pain.

　　Vinaya: The disciplinary rules of the monastic order. The Buddha”s own name for the religion he founded was ”this dhamma-vinaya” -- this doctrine and discipline.

　　Viññana: Cognizance; consciousness; sensory awareness.

　　Vipassana: Clear intuitive insight into physical and mental phenomena as they arise and disappear, seeing them as they are in terms of the three characteristics and the four Noble Truths (see ti-lakkhana and ariya-sacca).

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　　If anything in this translation is inaccurate or misleading, I ask forgiveness of the author and reader for having unwittingly stood in their way. As for whatever may be accurate, I hope the reader will make the best use of it, translating it a few steps further, into the heart, so as to attain the truth to which it points.

　　-- The translator

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　　Notes

　　1. A small umbrella-like tent used by meditating monks.

　　2. The Dhamma learned from practice, and not from the study of books.

　　3. The tallest mountain in Thailand.

　　4. Making the effort (1) to prevent evil from arising, (2) to abandon evil that has arisen, (3) to give rise to the good, and (4) to maintain and perfect the good that has arisen.

　　5. The full passage: Sabbe satta sukhita hontu, avera hontu, abyapajjha hontu, anigha hontu, sukhi attanam pariharantu: May all living beings be happy, free from enmity, free from affliction, free from anxiety. May they maintain themselves with ease.

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