Practicing guidline

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Construction and creation of an ideology:

Before explore how to do the  Samma Samadhi on a kasina, we should know roughly about the construction, operation, and karma creation of an ideology. This matter has been mentioned in a Abhidarma Bibble Book or Abhidhammattha Sangaha( Thich Minh Chau)

We pay attention to one event coming : The sound of a key falling on a table "crash". When bring this event to analysis base on Abhidarma, we have the following result:
After acknowledging the event passing by, in one sound " crash ": we know or just have an idea in our head: This is the sound of a key falling on floor, this thought itself has passed 5 process:
1)   Begin from the bhavanga streaming ( Bassed on our characters)
2)   Into our sense( included: eye, ear and idea)
3)   Made our sense pay attention to the event
4)   Into our Javana weakly
5)   Out to registered citta and Defined citta

This thought has moved from Anu-raja ( 1,2,3,4) to Rough citta(5)and faded away in 17 Ksana citta

Rule of how an ideology can create karma

1) One ideology will create karma if its strong enough, means from (2,3,4,5)
2) One ideology will not create karma if it's not strong enough, means (1)
To unloose and get the knowledge and experience of nirvana, we need to bring the Pure to Bhavanga streaming and overcome it to get an unperturbed mind and appana (An chỉ) (Please correct me for this word)

Definition of Bhavanga streaming

It's the beginning Anu-raja mind. Bhavanga is always and continuously shaking and it's very difficult to stop. Bhavanga was created from a last thought when we died at our before-life. Because of Bhavanga, it silently let us love who, hate who, and press us down in karma.
Thus, there are enough reasons for us to walk by our own feet through the middle path from the Avijja land to the [i]Samma Samadhi[/i] land. This path is not for the genius, but for those who work hard. Let's those who is curious know what and how to unloose and get the knowledge of nirvana.

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Footnote:
- Kasina: An object which practicioner try to visualize during meditating session
- Citta: mind
- Anu-raja:  very small, subtle part of mind. It is used in the sense of a molecule seven times larger than an atom
- Ksana:  a very short moment of time
- Avijja: Ignorance-Stupidity-Delusion
- Samma Samadhi: right concentration

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Samma Samadhi on a Kasina

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/chanh-dinh-tren-de-muc-2105
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Rupa jhana mediating

Souce: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/chung-dac-thien-huu-sac-2106

Use your breath to relax and clear your mind of your daily job. Light up a flame in a dark room and look at this subject by your open eye for two seconds. Then close your eye, try to imagine a flame in front of you.

1)   When a flame doesn't appear yet, calling in your mind: Tejo (fire)... tejo... tejo... (Spacing one second at a time).
2)   When a flame appears, calling in your mind: Tejo1 ... tejo2... tejo3 (spacing one second at a time).
3)   When a flame appear 1st time, practitioner lost his/her feeling on body
4)   Try to relax, don't be rush, don't be competitive
5)   If you meet obstruction, your should come back to Ksamayati and try to keep your sila as carefully as possible
6)   When reaching samma Samadhi at Third jahna, you will feel that something is right.
7)   If not, practitioner will be haunted by a ghost, and anything they see is what a ghost gave to them, after that you will be controlled by ghost.
8 )   If you afraid, don't be afraid of your fear
9)   Use this: Samma Hetu will lead to samma Phala to suppress the fear ( Good cause will lead to good consequence)

Proof ( chứng): Only go into the samma Samadhi for some times, practitioner does not feel  liberating

Complete: Can into and out of samma Samadhi as long as he wants, practitioner feels liberating

        First Jhana meditation: Keep the kasina in 12 seconds.

-   At this level, practitioners lose feeling of angriness, fear and doubt about the mediating technique.

The citta before always bustles, now only have 5 matters:

-   Vitakko( only seeking kasina)
-   Keeping up the kasina as long as possible from 1 to 12th count
-   Joy( happy when thinking, smile on face because of the detachment with desires)
-   Joy and happiness( very lightly on body)
-   Focusing of mind

Second Jhana meditation: Keep the kasina from 12s to 40 seconds.

       As a result, your desire, angriness and ignorant fade away

The citta now has 4 matters:
-   Keeping up the kasina as long as possible from 12 to 40th count
-   Joy
-   Joy and happiness
-   Focusing of mind( kasina now sparkling)

Mental process: Afraid of losing kasina. If mindfulness,  kasina becomes smaller and keep still.

Third Jhana meditation: Keep the kasina from 40 seconds to 70 seconds.

-   The above result become stronger

The citta now has 3 matters:
-   Joy
-   Joy and happiness
-   Focusing of mind( kasina now sparkling and the light fired to practitioners' view

At this level, you may feel compression on chest because of the Bhavanga releasion. You should stop and try self protection technique carefully.

If mindfulness: Keep kasina at certain time and try to change to different kasina. This will be mentioned clearly at 4th jhana part.
As such, practitioner knows Purification has come to Bhavanga, so he/she will feel a vibration even very slightly but make him/her feel disturbed/annoyed and wants to be out of Samadhi. If practitioner has this feeling, he/she must immediately change to different kasina.

Fourth Jhana meditation: From 70 seconds onward.

A feeling of desire, angriness and ignorance almost end at this Jhana  level.

The citta now has 2 matters:
-   Joy and happiness
-   Focusing of mind

Now, practitioner tries to endure a dazzling light of kasina and keep kasina as long as possible. After that, CHANGE TO DIFFERENT KASINA: Visualize a 3D blue/green ball with 3cm diameter (the green color will make his/her citta less vibrated) . After a 3D blue/green ball kasina appeared easily,  make it smaller by turn it couter clockwise and at the same time  focus on a ball's center and don't be disturbed by what is around this ball- kasina, the ball will become smaller by itself.

After completing these 2 above process (visualize a 3D blue/green ball and make it smaller), try to repeat the whole process but now with 3D red, golden and white ball, step by step.

NOTE: Don't let the kasina disappear by itself, but you need to make it smaller right after it appeared clearly at certain period (means when the ball body a little bit transparent)

Suddenly, practitioner feel like a kind of "being drooping down" (the same as when an airplane goes through turbulence): A huge, shiny, clean and clear space is now opening up in front of your sight. Now, you know you are at the Vehapphala heaven( the first heaven of fourth jhana heaven)
Now, the practicing seems to be easier. Next step is to prevent the current Apanna from sinking into Bhavanga streaming.

Visualize a screen of TV (3" by 4") or (9 cm by 12 cm) keep this screen as clear as possible, and as shiny as possible and your mind repeat : Prepare... one after the other....Close practice... Change character... apanna.... Apanna..... apanna..... until you feel a little bit oppressed, then lower the practicing intensity. Try to repeat this step time by time, and then you can walk to Vipassana.

At this period, practitioner always has a mistake of too rushing, so this time don't step on this mistake again, you need to be patient, don't be hesitated.
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Footnote:

Rupa: Buddhist concept of material form, including both the body and external matter.
Ksamayati: To repent or regret for error and seek forgiveness, or to ask for pardon.
Hetu: Cause, reason
Samma: Good
Phala: Consequence
Kasina: Object for mediating
Vitakko: investigation, seeking
Apanna: absorption concentration
Vipassana:  insight meditation of Theravada

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Vajra samadhi mudra

This mudra( like the Ok signal) is called the Vajra Samadhi one hand mudra. You put your index finger touch the thumb and make it liked the circle, others finger rest normally.





Vajra Samadhi  two hand mudra: Practitioner who has strong mind power should use this two hand mudra because it will be more suitable for them
-   The right hand makes a Amrta mudra: Ring finger touch the thumb to make a circle,  other fingers rest normally



-   The left hand makes a Bhaisajya mudra: the middle finger touch the thumb to make a circle, other fingers rest normally
-   Two hands face upward, fingers point to each other.
-   Practitioner slowly pushes the two hands close to each others. Normally, left and right hand side fingers  will be automatically interposed


-   The final step is to release the two circle you made above( at the left and right hand) and lets the thumb fingertips touched each other, lying on the index finger



Attention:
-   With this condition, the right hand index finger will lye on the the left hand index finger. The right hand middle finger will lye below the left hand middle finger, etc.
-   When doing  Vajra Samadhi mudra, 2 hands touch like you are clipping a smoking paper.
-   You should read this instruction carefully and slowly and do it step by step

Release mudra:
Still holding your mudra and touch this mudra to your head skin before releasing it.
With higher mediating level ( from the Third Jhana upwards) , practitioners should visualize the image of an egg with gold color. Inside this egg has a human being (this is you), who is holding the mudra and do self protection as describes above. This self protection helps practitioners a lot by protecting his/her nimbus. Each time a human being( that's you visualize inside an golden egg) uses the mudra touch 6 parts of his/her body, the whole image of an egg will sparkle. Base on the strength of sparkling, practitioners understand how safety he gets with self protection.

My roommate is a nursing student. I might get some helps with the anatomy terminologies We might be able to describe them, but with the exact term it might be much easier for the westerners to understand it.

Also, what sources do you guys use for Buddism terminologies? To a person who doesn't have close connection with Buddism, should we have some way of discussing common terms in pure English? We can use those as appendix to the main contents. For some westerners, reading these translations might be the same as reading a foreign language thread with so many Buddism terms, I guess

TL or RC, let me know what parts that you're working on now and what part should I prioritize in translating (since you for sure know better than me ). I'll try my best, and I volunteer you guys to proof-read those 'cos I have no clue of Buddism terms :">

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Im supposed to work onTinh Do but Im taking a break due to my health issue. I think TL will go on and comeplete the Guide.

What I do is google Từ điển phật học anh việt and have found some from google, I will post links when Im home. I think you can use the sankrit terms then footnote explanation at theen of your finish work maybe?

We can always crosscheck each other's work, that's for sure Mine is never flawless hehehe

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@Juicy: Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. Please correct any wrong grammar/words that I used

As RC said, we can use sankrit terms and also have a footnote for explanation

I used this source : http://quangduc.com/tudien/tdphathoc/tdphthienphucVA-d.html.

RC is translating pure land, I'm doing practicing guidline, Rua Bien is doing Thang Tri. For you, you can choose which part ( the main homepage)  is most suitable to translate, but I think you should do Theraveda Meditation( Như Lai Thiền) and follow this link to register:

https://www.hoasentrenda.com/smf/index.php?topic=9284.msg37940;boardseen#new

TL

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Dibbacakkhu:

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/quan-man-tivi-2107

Keep this huge, shiny clean and clear space as long as possible in your sight.  repeat "appana.. appana.. appana (spacing 1 second at a time)... Until you feel your breath slow down. Keep this feeling harder and harder until you are on the edge... Now, try to visualize a screen of TV (3" by 4") or (9 cm by 12 cm) keep this screen as clear as possible, and as shiny as possible...
About the color:  Depend on how depth your Samadhi is, the color should be different as followed: grey-black, grey, yellow dotted, yellow, and finally white like an egg. This white color is very special because when you see the white color, you can see the depth of your TV.
Your mind strength will depend on your visualize/ Samadhi ability. The stronger your mind is, the visualization inside your TV will be clearer, more detail and very lively.

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5 Supernatural powers

When practitioner reaches 4th jhana, he/she can come to practice the Abhijna. Here, practitioner nearly comes to the final purpose of Buddhism, but nothing about Buddha Dharma.  However, with continuously effort, practitioner can have 5 Supernatural powers.
1.   Dibba-cakkhu: Visualize a TV, keep it transparent and stable, put attention to whatever scene( should choose a scene near your staying, so you can check  the accuracy after mediating session)
2.   Dibba-sota: Visualize a TV, keep it transparent and stable, put attention to your whomever friend and listen to what he is saying right now. Immediately, you can hear his voice thorough your head. Remember to check so you can avoid illusion
3.   Ceto-pariya-nana: Visualize a TV, keep it transparent and stable, put attention to your whomever friend and see what he is thinking right now. Immediately, you can know his thought run through your head. Remember to check so you can avoid illusion
4.   Pubbe-nivasanus-sati: Visualize a TV, keep it transparent and stable, put attention to your past life, right away you can see what you are doing inside your TV. Then, you put attention to what you are doing when you were 3 years old, 1 year old, 0 year old...Now, ask a question: "Anything else? " to see what is next.  Remember to keep you Sila well to make sure your TV is accurate.
5.   Iddhi-vidha: Before the experience, put some flour on disk; put this disk on a table at your living room. Now, you stay in your mediation room, reach 4th jhana, visualize a TV, keep it transparent and stable, and put attention to where you put this disk and your intention to come to that place and put your hand on the disk. Right away, inside your TV, you see "you" in front of the disk and put your hand on this disk. Now, after out of your Samadhi, you come to see whether your hand print is on the disk or not. Remember to ask other person check for you, to avoid the illusion.

Now, when reaching this level and also until he/she come to Naivasamjnanasamjnayatana , practitioners still be considered as Paganism(Heterodox way or doctrine). Now, practitioners can see his/ her 40 past lives, and because of Paganism; he/she can't see the 41st . So horrible because you now know you still be controlled by the Paganism and so sublime the Buddha is. Only when practitioner reaches Nirodha Samapatti, he/she is not considered as Paganism. After 7 times into Nirodha Samapatti stages, practitioner attains Pratyeka-buddha.

There is other shorter way to the Truth and this ways is rarely to attain because not many people can be successful when using it.  It's: when talking about dharma, suddenly because of the story, mind of practitioner stops oscillating, and if keeping it for quite a time, he/she can reach arhat stage without practicing kasina and thorough jhana.

We need to be very careful when meeting the bad monks and mustn't follow their ways. They are different from the paganism monks, who are not reaching their final stages, but still on way of practicing. So, don't be immediately say and call them (paganism monks) bad words because even paganism or not, we still haven't reach this stage, we are still in Avijjasava and worse than those who are paganism, because they are practicing but we are not.

Note:

Dibba-cakkhu:  Ability to see without hindrances. Ability to see beings vanishing and reappearing, low and noble ones, beautiful and ugly ones, seeing beings are reappearing according to their deeds

Dibba-sota: Hearing to any distance—Ability to hear  sound both heavenly and human, far and near.

Ceto-pariya-nana: Penetrating men's thoughts—Ability to know the minds of other beings, by penetrating them with one's own mind.

Pubbe-nivasanus-sati: Knowing their state and antecedents—Ability to remember former existences, may be from one to five or even to hundred or thousand births

Iddhi-vidha: Taking any form at will—Ability to pass through walls and mountains, just as if through the air
Paganism :Heterodox way or doctrine

Pratyeka-buddha: Who are enlightened in the twelve nidanas (Thập nhị nhân duyên); however, the objective is personal salvation or own enlightenment.

Nirodha Samapatti: A  samadhi in which there is complete extinction of sensation and thought, one of the highest form of meditation (kenosis), resulting from concentration.

Arhat:

Avijjasava: The defilements of ignorance in mind.

Naivasamjnanasamjnayatana : The state of neither thinking nor not thinking

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Arùpa and the practice guideline

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/chung-dac-thien-vo-sac-2109
That's five completely different mentalities: I cannot explain thoroughly ... unless you reach there because: Speech, writing is only part of it, only when you achieve it and then you can understand fully

1. Àkàsanantyàyatana:The emptiness has no boundaries. You feel like you yourself spread out unlimited
2. Ijnànànatyàyatana: Consciousness has nothing inside. This is a clearly feeling that " it" spread out widely, greatly and unlimited
3. Akincanyà- yatana: Nothing belongs to yourself and you has a feeling that it spread out widely, greatly and unlimited
4. Naivasamjnànasamjnàyatana: It's not true if you say at this state you have thoughts or you don't have thought. At the same time, you have a feeling of unlimited depth and width.
5. Immateriality: Anatta, pure and quiet

PRACTICE GUILDLINE:
1.Àkàsanantyàyatana.
Condition: In and out of the fourth Jhana easily
Kasina: Close your eyes 100% and Visualize a small white dot like this (.)
Procedures: This tiny white dot (the smaller the better) after skillful practitioner spending some times for trial, now is able to emit light. These light rays increasingly bright and increasingly spreading out, and gradually occupied the space (black) - immense and vast. After spreading to a certain extent, these rays are stopped and cannot spread out any further. Next step, these light rays change into colors of the rainbow. Further description of these colors: The color is not limited to its distinct and they glaze over, at the same time gradually shifted from one color to another color (like a change of color in the rainbow.)

Note: During time practicing in Form state, practitioners sometimes also occurred colorful space scenes. But it's not like colors of the rainbow which we meet during formless state, but it has clearly boundaries, this reflection is because of anger mind.
Abilities:
The first heaven of formless state is Àkàsanantyàyatana: Reaching this heaven, practitioners can have feeling of some beings. An example: NP (a son of my neighbor) was 13 years old, when it he reached this stage, he concentrated his mind on a chili tree; he knew that this tree is thirsty! And when he picked a chili, he knew that the tree was hurting. DP (his sister) is also reached this heaven and when she paid attention to me( Tibu), at that time- I'm having pain on my nerves, she also got pain on her nerves, too.

Thus the feeling of practitioner is no longer limited to his/her body, but it can also be spread to the ... no borders. Due to this characteristic, we call this stage: The infinitive-   Àkàsanantyàyatana
2. Ijnànànatyàyatana:
Enter this stage is a big problem.  Because of the color distraction; practitioners feel it's very difficult to focus on a place where the star has turned on, but now disappeared. However, with effort and perseverance, he then can do it. This time, practitioners will see that the whole space is now dyed by the color (like a rainbow).

As a result, one can read other thoughts easily. For example: My neighbor's girl, after entering Ijnànànatyàyatana :"They can talk to each other by ... Telepathy. Outsiders cannot hear and did not understand anything. They only see these kids shook and nod heads, just like we are watching silent movie.
3. Akincanyà- yatana:
Practitioners put attention to the place of re- appeared star, suddenly the space turn to totally black, however practitioners still feel the greatness of space. As a result, practitioners can feel the pain of others and read others' mind.
Human beings have two part: physical body and thought; now with this mediating level, practitioners can break the border between these two parts.These two are spreading out endlessly, both no longer belong to him/herself so that it is called: Akincanyà- yatana or Unknown Land
4. Naivasamjnànasamjnàyatana:
Practitioners continue put attention to the point, then the space continuously become much wider and black.
Result: The silence of thought remains as long as she/he wants. Immature and subtle mind now is controlled by the jhana.  Practitioners feel like they are reaching the final purpose. If and only if.... practitioners really concentrate on this purity, he/she suddenly realize:
- This is a very high standard purity; the breath has been stopped (if he/she fall into deepest of Naivasamjnànasamjnàyatana)
- However, the brain still working. Thus, practitioners' ego still remains as strong as it was.
Footnote:
Arùpa : Formless

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Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/minh-sat-tue-2114

Thank you Su Tu for helping me correcting some irrelevant words and grammar

VISPASSANA:
It is a wisdom of contemplating oneself or attaining and proving this statement: "THIS BODY IS NOT ME, THIS SPIRIT IS NOT ME, THIS PERCEPTION IS NOT ME".

Developing from FIRST to FORTH JHANA (using a Kasina), then visualizing a TV screen in boiled-egg-white color, keeping it as long as possible. Reciting in mind: TRANQUIL, TRANQUIL... until feeling REALLY SUFFOCATED (choked). At that second, trying to recite one more DECISIVE thought: TRANQUIL!
Practitioner will see his/her own image on "TV screen". Here, practitioner feels very STRANGE about that image: Don't know WHO is that? Don't know WHAT is his/her name?
If thinking about the EARTH, having a feeling: Not even one time, I have been born there!

NIRODHA SAMAPATTI
To reach the first state of Nirodha Samapatti, practitioner uses the "TRANQUIL" thought in Fourth Rupa Jhana:

When the "TRANQUIL" state affects adversely right on practitioner's body, practitioner will be having... suffocated feeling.

Comments: This phenomenon is very normal really, because: Buddhas said that "As mind is tranquil, scenery is tranquil too". Because of breathing noises are still happening, so according to the right meaning of "TRANQUIL" word, he/she in fact is still... oscillating Grin Grin Grin. So, as entering into the Fourth Rupa Jhana, mental power is very strong, then reciting "TRANQUIL" thought, its first job will be affecting his/her breath.

With "BRAVE" characteristic of a person who vowed that: death, or else victory: Now, I set my mind on following His (Shakyamuni Buddha) path, so regardless of this suffocattion. After reading, practitioner has to fight with the suffocattion and trying to recite successfully the last "TRANQUIL" thought in this greatest Appana Samadhi:

Because of this greatest Appana Samadhi plus that "TRANQUIL" thought: practitioner could forget his/her body and... enter into "Bhutatathata" through:

***The View***
Next phenomenon is:
Practitioner has become ***The View*** seeing an image of a man that is sitting cross-legged in an upright frame. Facing the image of this man, ***The View*** has a feeling that having seen him somewhere but don't know where is it, this doubtful and familiar feeling is really weird :-). When looking at this image, ***The View*** should... understand that this man looks quite dumb and foolish and not ...very normal  Grin Grin Grin.

When paying attention to the Earth, a perception goes through his/her head from right half to left half of the brain as following: Not even one time, I have been born there!!!

All Buddhas of ten directions don't accept any "ACCIDENTAL" situation. Therefore, Entering into Nirodha Samapatti must have enough following requirements:
1. Mental power must be strong, which means that stage of Appana Samadhi must be the Fourth Rupa Jhana. This mental power is proven through 5 supernormal powers that he/she could pratice.
2. Intention of Mukti (liberation) must be the final destination to go to, unless seeking and nurturing ways to implement this intention, "Never LIBERATION happens" even though practicing... Buddhism.
3. Methods to enter into Nirodha Samapatti must be learned by heart
4. Practitioner must understand that when reaching that stage, breath will be stopped. Therefore, must fight till death with this... little breath sand.
5. They are only human beings and have done it, so do I. Just uneven methods, Now I know the methods, only practicing to do, no more talking.
Just like knowing swimming, since that moment, if being thrown into water, will start swimming right now. Never forget. All the stages of samadhi are still there, once having developed. The only special is that after LIBERATION gained, the thought flashed left right in my head as following: "Practicing is accomplished, learning is completed, I do my work".

The purpose of BUDDHISTS: From now on, the buddist has walked on the NOBLE PATH. The previous part is just HEAVEN PATH or also called IMPROPER PATH or incompletely practiced path.

If entering into:    1 (one) time (Sotapatti)
2 (two) times (Sakadagami)
4 (four) times (Anagami)
7 (seven) times (Arahantship)

Similar to VIPASSANA, but when feeling REALLY SUFFOCATED, trying to recite one of three MUDRAS (seals):
1. LIFE: IMPERMANENT
2. PHENOMENA (Dharma): NON-EGO (impersonal)
3. SENSATION (Vedana): SUFFERING.
Or: SUFFERING, IMPERMANENCE, NON-EGO (Dukkha, Anicca, and Anatta). Will enter into.

In there, if practitioner has a perception of one thing or any single person: practitioner will BE IT, by: practitioner WEARS ITS BODY and has its special SPIRITUAL VIBRATIONS. If don't want to continue practicing, so stop it. When leaving that stage, practitioner realizes that: HEART and LUNG are both stopped working during ATTAINMENT TO SAINHOOD FRUIT.

Footnote:
Jhana: a developed state of consciousness gained by concentration. See A Manual of Abhidhamma by Narada pp. 64.

The Sotapatti: Stream-Winner – the first stage of Sainthood.
The Sakadagami: Once-Returner – the second stage of Sainthood.
The Anagami: Never-Returner – the third stage of Sainthood.
The Arahant: The Worthy One who is the Perfect Saint – (Arahanship - the last stage of Sainthood).

Five Supernormal Powers: (abhinna or abhijna) - Divine Eye (dibba-cakkhu), Divine Ear (dibba-sota), Reminiscence of Past Births (pubbe-nivasanus-sati-nana), Thought Reading (paracittavij-nana or ceto-pariya-nana), and various Psychic powers (iddhi­vidha).

Nirodha Samapatti: "attainment of extinction", or "attainment to cessation". See A Manual of Abhidhamma by Narada Thera pp. 485.

Vipassana: Insight or Intuitive vision - A Buddhist system of meditation practiced in the Theravada. See The Buddha and His Teaching by Narada pp. 485 or A Manual of Abhidhamma by Narada pp. 64.

Bhutatathata: Dharmakaya or Ultimate - The reality of all things, or all things in their real aspect, i.e. the reality beneath all things.

Appana Samadhi: Attainment or e*** ***tatic concentration.

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Enlightenment

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/minh-sat-tue-2114#NhapLuu

Often be mentioned a lot in the literature of Zen, but few know essentially how it is: Based on what the master say someone is enlightened, others not? When practitioner has ability to be enlightened? So when the master gives Zen practitioner a koan? What expression when someone is enlightened?

Here is the judgment and experience of the man he has turned enlightenment, so you can choose to follow or not
 
1. When practitioner has ability to be enlightened?

When practitioner reaches 2nd Jhana, at that time, practitioner  meticulously temporarily stop and switch to one of the following two questions( or 2 koans)
 
a. Buddha nature is everywhere, but why I do not know?
b. Everything is to be one( all the same), why I do not know?
 
2. What expression when someone is enlightened?

While mediating with these above thought, suddenly practitioner has feeling like he/she is dissolving or disappear and he/she may think that he/she is all over everywhere, even the feeling is very lightly but effects are intense on the body with evidence the body may be in e*** ***tasy/drowsiness for  24 hours

Let's say it again CAREFULLY: The time being enlightened will not happen during mediating session, but normally in normal life when  practitioner is living with his/her normal activities(when going, standing, lying, sitting). When practitioner is in enlightenment, he/she will go through a process temporary called: Reset Process! This means that the nerve currently is operating under karma. Once being enlightened, the nerve system of the practitioner will vibrate to instill the truth which he only tasted within a "blink of an eye" moment. The vibration of the nerve system will make practitioners feeling dizzy during 24 hours from the time being enlightened. 

AND Base on what the Master say someone is being enlightened or not?
 

Based countless miracle and supernatural ability with calm, the Master see immediately see in middle of practitioner's chest has a 10cm diameter agonist with bright YELLOW color! And he said right away, without any hesitation in truthful:

"THIS IS YOU, YOU have been enlightened! But I have a duty to remind you that: You are stiill a far AWAY FROM BUDDHA! Just like you just got certification of over illiteracy, but this is granted to you in terms of spirituality.

Remind: If when mediating you see  left eye, flower, crawling people, mediating people without the lotus,  HEAR THE VOICES s, feeling stress on chest, smelling the scent .... in an unexpected and sudden way. YOU MUST STOP RIGHT AWAY, and return to self protection technique. If not you are being controlled by outsiders in spirit world.

Note: My experience is: The most probability practitioners can enter enlightenment is when at 2nd Jhana : when kasina appeared and practitioners worry of losing it.

Footnote:
Koan: In Zen a koan is a formulation, in baffling language, pointing to the ultimate truth. Koans cannot be solved by recourse to logical reasoning, but only by awakening a deeper level of the mind beyond the discursive intellect.

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" My doctrine is not for anyone to believe, but to practice"
Shakyamuni Buddha

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Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/quan-vo-thuong-2117

Contemplating the Impermanence
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Focus on an idea to create a scene of the Impermanence: A grave. When this imagination appears as real right in front of your eye, then practitioner continue to contemplate about the harsh truth:
" I myself also must go down into this grave, my company, lover, family, children and any property also go into this grave"
Effect: If you can imagine these above, then practitioner will feel indifferently when something happened to his/her daily life. When having this kind of consciousness,  practitioner waits until it ripens after going through three stages: watering, fulfilling, and abundant. When it reaches the abundant stage, an image of a grave lastly turns into a bright yellow lotus with exactly five petals.
For one practicing Pureland: With this 5 petals – lotus, practitioner recites this following: Namo Amitabha Buddha or Om, Amitabha Hrih Svaha, then he/she will suddenly enter the pure land. Please try and see it.

Contemplating the Death
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This is rated R, just for significant practitioner who can bear it. In Tantra, there is a picture of Vajra Vajra god who is making love with a female Vajra Vajra. The number of people who misunderstood this picture is much and they think they are so great that they can do it, then a result is: Every night, master find his followers to have sex.

When meeting an opposite gender, please don't see
If accidently see, then don't say anything
If accidently say, then please use the right mindfulness.

Right mindfulness also depends on different kind of people. For me, I must contemplate the death. Another way, just considers these opposite gender ones as your family members.

The danger of this contemplating is: When you see someone who is too beautiful/ handsome, you forget the Impermanence of this objective, so as a result, it's unsuccessfully.

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Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/quan-vo-thuong-2117#QuanTuBi

Contemplating the love and kindness is considered as one of hardest practice.
Saying is easy but doing is very hard.
1.   Close eyes (100%)
2.   Try to imagine face of a girl who u love and who u try to satisfied-> This is easy
3.   Try to imagine face of Sadden Hussen or anybody who u hate the most until this image appearing right in front of your clearly -> this is also easy since you hate that person quite a lot.
4.   Imagine both part 2 and 3 -> two images must be in the same size and equal to each other.
5.   Then let's pray about love and kindness.

My knowledge by far, I know in Tantra, there is one Buddha called Vairocanabuddha
And also in the one thousand light Book, there is one Buddha called Victorious Fighting Buddha (Dau Chien Thang Phat).
Once, I went to see how look the Victorious Fighting Buddha is and I saw him with Skull stick. I asked him the way he had done to become the Buddha and he replied: My only way to become Buddha is contemplating the Impermanence.  Of course, The Buddhas never read books to have this kind of knowledge, but by using his righteous mediation only.
And there is not any Buddha who is imitating the other Buddha. They have their own character and they all say: I have no one who is my master.

Contemplating the loving-kindness, compassion, empathic joy, equanimity ( or the four immeasurable )

Level: Fourth Jhana

Visualize an image of your love and enemy. Imagine these two right in front of you obviously and clearly.
Until the law has been equal, means the two images appearing in balance, easily; then practitioner try to think about loving-kindness, compassion, emphatic joy, equanimity to one person/object. Afterward, you need to see the changing of this object

Then you need to spread the loving-kindness, compassion, emphatic joy, equanimity to two persons/objects and see the changing of these two ( trees will grow, bloom and have sweet fruit) Or (The one who hate u suddenly be nice to u)

Next step, try to spread the loving-kindness, compassion, empathic joy, equanimity to three  persons/objects and see the changing of these three, then a group of objects and next...as much as possible. Keep practicing this contemplate    

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Contemplating the impurity of the body

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/quan-vo-thuong-2117#QuanThanBatTinh

It's quite a long time since I have the opportunity to talk about this complicated thing: Desire/ lust. I'm myself quite strong/ energetic, so sex involvement is like a mountain burden for me.

Book saying: To deal with this desire, we should contemplate the impurity in body.
This is also considered as one technique of Bruce Leae, means accordingly we need to attack the enemies before they have enough time to attack us.

Meanwhile, the mind/consciousness needs to solve this problem right from the germ live of this desire. By practicing the habit of thinking about the opposite sex differently

Practicing technique:
1.       Choose the subject:
a.       At the beginning, you should not choose the subject as a very beautiful woman; but an old woman with wrinkles, etc.
b.      Then when u go to the funeral, you should remember that scene.
c.       Lastly, you should  memorize the gravel
After 3 steps like mentioned above (a) (b) (c), you come to the practicing.
2.       Practice:
a.       Laying down on the bed and rewind the 3 scenes,  assemble these 3 scenes into a likely real movie with imagination
Meaning: Let's the old lady standing there, blur her image and then change to a funeral scene and then a gravel appear.

You can do imagine about this, you are practicing the contemplate which always mentioned in mediating book. You will see the desire disappearing. If not, you need to practice again and again.
Then change a subject from an old lady to a woman with normal looking.
Explanation:
We need to use the subject as an old lady because our mind will let's her die very easily. If not applicable, then we need to use the subject as a normal looking woman.
As my experience, I know if coming to this step, practitioners will reduce 99% the desire ( a research of 50 practitioners)
b) When u reach first jhana
According to book, when reaching 1st jhana, practitioner will have:
1.Seeking
2.Reaching
3. Happy
4. Joyful and whole mind

And when reaching 1st Jhana, practitioner will also separated from Desire

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Contemplating the Four Enormous (mahābhūta)

Source: https://www.hoasentrenda.com/fp/phuong-phap/thuc-hanh/quan-vo-thuong-2117#QuanTuDai

Eventually, everything will pass away. However, if you want to try and leave precious things in this life, you should sum up the experience of yourself when practicing your  Kasina.
Here is one procedure/techniques which I am (Tibu) fond of:
Contemplating the Four Enormous –mahābhūta (Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind): You can read more about it from this link:
Level: Very difficult (From Fourth Jhana)
Requirement: Mastering (Can mediate the kasina as small or big easily) and effortlessly (can change the kasina without effort).
Duration: 31 minutes
Effects:  Understand more about strength and weakness of practitioner's body, how to balance your health and please remember to spend your blessing to upgrade your health.
Especially: kasina which is difficult to appear will show you which part of your body has problem

Practice:
1.   Preparation: 1 minute
2.   Implementing: 30 minutes
-   Enter the fourth Jhana and then into your 3d TV.
-   Contemplating the Earth: Think about it's the element of Life
-   Contemplating the Water ( a drop of water): Think about it's the principle of life ( the drop must be sticky)
-   Contemplating the Fire: Think about it's the factor of Life ( warmth and coldness... how to balance your body)
-   Contemplating the Wind ( Image of a window with curtain blowing in the wind): Think about it's the expression of life
3.   Return to your breath.
4.   Release mediation
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Little monk say Tibu's way is not very good. They only do it in 2 minutes to complete the whole process.
But to maintain and make the four enormous in balance, it will take around 2 days.
When completing the process, the Little monk's mother told Tibu that: He looks so healthy, like a new person. Everything is great, no more stomachache, no back pain, no need to massage his back and shoulder...How great it is.
However, the two day of little monk may equal to 1 year of the old ones.
Little monks found new way: Use the four images of the Four Enormous to put in horizontally and then they will adjust through the brightness and order of the Four Enormous. And finally, the Four Enormous will be in same brightness

With this result, our health will be harmonious with sparkling eyes, pinkie face,  and no pain during period.