occasion, basis, ground, instrument or subject for concentration or meditation (One of the modes of Buddhist meditation which may be called ` analytical meditation.' This meditation on the nature of elementary substances leads to a thorough appreciation of their impermanence and unsatisfactoriness. Whoever exercises it fixes his / her mind on any one element and reflects on it in all its conditions and changes until, so far as that element is concerned, he / she sees that it is only unstable, grievous and illusory)
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(Buddhism) occasion, basis, ground, instrument or subject for concentration or meditation
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