For example, Zhalu Monastery (Zha-lu dgon-pa, Zhva-lu dgon-pa) had been built in Tsang in 1040 by Chetsun Sherab-jungnay (lCe-btsun Shes-rab ‘byung-gnas), two years before Atisha’s arrival in Ngari. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlike our usual mental cognition, which arises from the dominating condition (bdag-rkyen) of our mental sensors (yid-kyi dbang-po), yogic cognition arises from a state of combined shamatha (zhi-gnas; calm abiding, mental quiescence) and vipashyana (lhag-mthong, special insight) as its dominating condition. ❋ Unknown (2009)
According to Gelug Prasangika, the conventional or superficial truth about something concerns its manner of appearance (snang-tshul); the deepest truth about something concerns its manner of abiding (gnas-tshul), which refers to what establishes its existence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Mulasarvastivada alone, this first part of the ordination ceremony is called “approaching chastity” (tshangs-spyod nyer-gnas, Skt: brahmacharyopasthana, Pali: brahmachariyopatthana). ❋ Unknown (2007)
The next custom that Buddha instituted was the three-month rainy season retreat (dbyar-gnas, Skt. varshaka), during which the monks would stay in one location and avoid any travel. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The advanced awareness of recollection of past situations (sngon-gnas rjes-dran-gyi mngon-shes) – cognition that is able to know past lives. ❋ Beru Khyentse Rinpoche (2006)
The eleventh-century CE Indian or Kashmiri Gelongma Palmo and her life story of overcoming leprosy and establishing the fasting ritual (smyung-gnas) is a great inspiration for all Tibetan women. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As we progress from one stage mind to the next, we “build up” first to the attainment of “shamatha” (zhi-gnas, a serenely stilled and settled state of mind, calm abiding) focused conceptually on the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths. ❋ Unknown (2006)
These include, for example, understanding the two truths (bden-gnyis) and working with shamatha (zhi-gnas, stilled and settled state of mind, calm abiding) and vipashyana (lhag-mthong, exceptionally perceptive state of mind, special insight). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Belonging to one of these castes indicates a strong instinct to follow the behavior of the beings of the corresponding rebirth state (Tib. skye-gnas, “birthplace”). ❋ Unknown (2006)
There are five types: the aggregates, the cognitive spheres, the cognitive stimulators, dependently arising phenomena, what is appropriate and inappropriate (gnas-dang gnas ma-yin). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Discriminating awareness that arises from meditation arises in cognitions that rely on the power of the joined pair of shamatha (zhi-gnas; calm abiding, mental quiescence) and vipashyana (lhag-mthong, special insight) as their dominating conditions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
[In other words, when our attention no longer leaves our object of focus with gross flightiness of mind (rgod-pa), we need to let the undercurrents of subtle flightiness also naturally settle down (ngang-gis gnas).] ❋ Beru Khyentse Rinpoche (2006)
Through the power of achieving a stilled and settled state of mind (zhi-gnas, Skt. shamatha), practitioners attain a certain degree of three of the five extrasensory eyes (spyan-lnga) and five of the six types of advanced awareness (mngon-shes drug). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Mental fixation maintains the mental abiding (gnas-cha) on the object. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This mode of appearance (snang-tshul) does not correspond to the actual mode of existence (gnas-tshul, mode of abiding) of the item. ❋ Unknown (2006)
On a deeper level, conventional bodhichitta takes its object by making an appearance of it as seemingly truly existent and grasping for that mode of appearance (snang-tshul) to be the actual mode of existence (gnas-tshul) of its object. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Bare yogic cognition is a valid nonconceptual cognition that arises from the dominating condition (bdag-rkyen) of a state of combined shamatha (zhi-gnas, a stilled and settled state of mind) and vipashyana (lhag-mthong, an exceptionally perceptive state of mind). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Pervasive objects that are mental derivatives without discursive thought refer to objects when focused on by persons seeking to achieve a stilled and settled state of mind (zhi-gnas, Skt. shamatha, calm abiding, mental quiescence). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Dependent phenomena are defined as the affected phenomena (‘dus-byas, compounded phenomena) – meaning the phenomena affected by causes and conditions – that are the objects of conceptual cognition (rnam-par rtog-pa’i spyod-yul) and the locus (gnas, abode) – in other words, the bases of imputation (gdags-gzhi) – for totally conceptional phenomena, both existent and nonexistent ones. ❋ Unknown (2006)
“[im] gna [die] [tonight]” ❋ Goawaybro (2020)
*[Touches] someones Penis* "[YOOOO] That guy really GNA [no cap]." ❋ Jay2Pro (2019)
Dude: ur [muther] [ees] stuuuuuuuuuupid
GNA member: You have [misspelled] "Your mother is stupid". The GNA strikes again! ❋ Fnoog (2009)
-Scumbag said he [gon] come to the party
-WTF no I said GNA, tell him [to drop] off his fine [homeboy] tho ❋ Flaca69 (2020)
That [mother fucker] has GNAS [on the daily] ❋ E-whore69 (2020)
That guy kept talking about how good he was, but I [wound up] getting a GNA [on him].
If you keep up the [trash-talk], I'll perform a GNA on you. ❋ Obonky (2011)
"That [feen] is [well] [gna]!" ❋ Thomas Da Youghal (2008)
GNA ❋ Youngest YB (2022)
-That was [rhetorical]
-i [know] but...
-Gna ❋ Manon12345 (2021)
