| 单词 | one-pointedness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone-pointedness one-pointedness n. [after Sanskrit ekāgratā (compare Pali ekaggatā ) < ekāgra (see one-pointed adj.) + -tā, suffix forming abstract nouns] (in meditation) the state of concentrating on one point or object to the exclusion of other thoughts. ΚΠ 1879 N. Amer. Rev. June 637 This concentration of thought, ekâgratâ or one-pointedness, as the Hindoos called it, is something to us almost unknown. 1923 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 223 He has an innate tendency to ‘onepointedness’—as it is sometimes called—to concentration on unity. 1960 J. Hewitt Yoga ix. 135 In..another method to achieve withdrawal and onepointedness, the meditator imagines that he has a diamond in each ear, [etc.]. 2001 Observer 1 Apr. (Life Suppl.) 48/2 In the practice of Zen archery, for instance, the master observes the student's tanden, ignoring the target board altogether, yet can predict a bullseye accurately every time according to the archer's visible degree of hara-centredness or ‘one-pointedness’. < as lemmas |
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