Index of themes
Ten doors into the same room.
Each theme is a curated trail through the dictionary. Begin anywhere; every word is a window onto every other.
Consciousness
The knowing moment.
Citta and its 89 forms — the stream of cognition itself.
12 terms
Craving
The thirst that turns the wheel.
Taṇhā, lobha, upādāna — the pull that keeps becoming alive.
9 terms
Awareness
Returning to what is.
Sati and its companions — the gatekeeper of the mind.
9 terms
Emotion
The feeling tone of experience.
Vedanā, joy, sorrow, kindness — what experience feels like.
10 terms
Perception
How the world becomes known.
Saññā, contact, the six sense bases — the gates of meaning.
7 terms
Karma
Intention becoming destiny.
Cetanā, kamma, vipāka — actions ripening into worlds.
7 terms
Mental Factors
The 52 colors of mind.
Cetasikas — the qualities that paint every moment of citta.
30 terms
Meditation
Training the stream.
Jhāna, samādhi, vipassanā — the disciplines that clarify.
13 terms
Suffering
The first noble truth.
Dukkha and its conditions — why experience strains itself.
12 terms
Liberation
The blowing out.
Nibbāna, magga, phala — what is left when craving ends.
13 terms