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- noun Plural form of
cessation .
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The definitive level of the Sangha source of direction is the internal community, within the mind, of total removals, or "cessations" of obstacles, and attainments of good qualities.
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 1 The Buddhist Framework 1997
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While causes and results must be impermanent and composite in order to change and give rise to concomitant effects, even non-composite phenomena (such as the cessations of mental afflictions that lead to Nirvana) arise in dependence upon causality.
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While causes and results must be impermanent and composite in order to change and give rise to concomitant effects, even non-composite phenomena (such as the cessations of mental afflictions that lead to Nirvana) arise in dependence upon causality.
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While causes and results must be impermanent and composite in order to change and give rise to concomitant effects, even non-composite phenomena (such as the cessations of mental afflictions that lead to Nirvana) arise in dependence upon causality.
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People who are considered not to have apnea have five or less 'events' a night of cessations in breathing.
Met the Sleep Doctor eddvick 2008
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While causes and results must be impermanent and composite in order to change and give rise to concomitant effects, even non-composite phenomena (such as the cessations of mental afflictions that lead to Nirvana) arise in dependence upon causality.
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We will discover that it is in fact possible to get rid of them forever; it is possible to have true cessations or stoppings of them and, in order to achieve this, we need to develop true pathways of mind.
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The first two of the four truths, suffering and its sources, indicate what we need to discard; the last two, cessations and paths, point out what we need to adopt.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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Those who have some experience of these cessations and paths in their mental continua make up the spiritual community, and those who have brought this process of spiritual development to perfection are known as Buddhas.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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The actual safe direction is indicated by the true stoppings (true cessations) and the true pathways of mind (true paths) on the mental continuums of aryas, highly realized beings.
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