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  • noun Plural form of riddance.

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Examples

  • Before the movie started, a bespectacled old man caused a scene "He assaulted that girl!" someone yelled; "I saw it," barked an already-approaching security guard; "Define assault," said the old man and was escorted out of the theater to a chorus of jeers and angry good-riddances.

    brothercyst N A 2008

  • Before the movie started, a bespectacled old man caused a scene "He assaulted that girl!" someone yelled; "I saw it," barked an already-approaching security guard; "Define assault," said the old man and was escorted out of the theater to a chorus of jeers and angry good-riddances.

    Archive 2008-01-01 N A 2008

  • The true pathway minds are our nonconceptual cognitions of the four noble truths; the true stoppings are riddances (spang-ba, abandonments) of various factors that we need to rid ourselves of in order to attain liberation and enlightenment.

    The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation 2006

  • The true pathway minds are our nonconceptual cognitions of the four noble truths; the true stoppings are riddances (spang-ba, abandonments) of various factors that we need to rid ourselves of in order to attain liberation and enlightenment.

    The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Basic Presentation 2006

  • As for the actual supreme and rare gem of the preventive measures, the Dharma, this refers to the qualities of the riddances (abandonments) and the qualities of the realizations on the mind-streams of an enlightened being, a Buddha.

    Explanation of The Foundation for Good Qualities ��� Session Two: Further Points Concerning a Precious Human Rebirth, and Death and Impermanence Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1982

  • Not only that, it is these qualities of riddances and realizations on the mind-streams of all highly realized beings, all aryas.

    Explanation of The Foundation for Good Qualities ��� Session Two: Further Points Concerning a Precious Human Rebirth, and Death and Impermanence Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1982

  • The four close placements of mindfulness, the four factors for attaining correct riddances, and the four legs for attaining extraphysical powers are related to the building-up pathway mind, the so-called “path of accumulation.”

    Brief Introduction to the Four Noble Truths 1981

  • Good riddances Aldon Hynes: I'm listening to Colin's final show now, streaming online.

    Connecticut Local Politics 2009

  • Total absorption on the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths with a seeing pathway mind has sixteen phases (skad-cig, moments): eight uninterrupted pathway minds (bar-chad med-lam) – pathway minds having nonconceptual cognition of the sixteen, eight liberated pathway minds (rnam-grol lam) – pathway minds having separations (bral-ba, partings), true stoppings, or riddances (abandonments) of what a seeing pathway mind gets rid of.

    The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation 2006

  • Like all of the congressional aids to the losing side rethugs, they’re off the payroll now so we can breathe a sigh of relief and say our good riddances to bad rubbish now.

    Think Progress » Al-Sadr ascendant. 2006

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