   samÄdhi (sanskrit: , ), also called samÄpatti, in hinduism, buddhism, jainism, sikhism and yogic schools is meditative absorption, attained by the practice of dhyÄna. in samadhi the mind becomes still, one-pointed or concentrated while the person remains conscious. in buddhism, it is the last of the eight elements of the noble eightfold path. in the ashtanga yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the yoga sÅ«tras of pataÃ±jali. ==definitions== * sarbacker: samadhi is meditative absorption, attained by the practice of dhyÄna. * diener, erhard & fischer-schreiber: samadhi is a non-dualistic state of consciousness in which the consciousness of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object. * shankman: an abiding in which mind becomes very still but does not merge with the object of attention, and is thus able to observe and gain insight into the changing flow of experience. ==etymology== ===sanskrit=== various interpretations for the term's etymology are possible: * sam, "together"; a, "toward"; stem of dadhati, "puts, places": "a putting or joining together;"dictionary.com, samadhi * sam, "together" or "integrated"; Ä, "towards"; dhÄ, "to get, to hold": "to acquire integration or wholeness, or truth" (samÄpatti); * sam, "uniformly" or "fully"; adhi, "to get established: : a state wherein one establishes himself to the fullest extent in the supreme consciousness; * samÄ, "even"; dhi, "intellect": a state of total equilibrium of a detached intellect. ===chinese=== common chinese terms for samÄdhi include the transliterations sanmei (ä¸æ§) and sanmodi (ä¸æ©å° or ä¸æ©æ), as well as the translation of the term literally as ding (å® "fixity"). kumarajiva's translations typically use sanmei (ä¸æ§), while the translations of xuanzang tend to use ding (å® "fixity"). the chinese buddhist canon includes these as well as other translations and transliterations of the term. ==origins== according to rhys davids the first attested usage of the term samÄdhi in sanskrit literature was in the [[maitri upan
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