This term corresponds to the kasiṇa of the Pāli tradition, a visualization object is used as a support for the totality of the meditator’s attention.

There are ten of these meditative states in the Śrāvakayāna: through meditating individually on the four elements of earth, water, fire, and air, on the four colors blue, yellow, red, and white, on space, and on consciousness, one meditates that everything that exists becomes that element, or that color, or space, or consciousness. Elsewhere, including the Mahāvyutpatti, this is translated as zad par gyi skye mched. The Sanskrit kṛtsna means “totality,” while rgyas pa means “spread,” or “pervade,” and zad par means cessation, in that everything ceases within that element, color, etc.

Best known by the equivalent Pali term kasiṇa or kasiṇāyatana, this term refers to a set of ten objects of meditative contemplation used to induce deep meditative stability (dhyāna), to the mental image born from that contemplation, and to the resultant meditative stability. The ten meditative objects are the elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space; the colors blue, yellow, red, and white; and consciousness. In some lists, “consciousness” is replaced with “light.”

See “ten sense fields of complete suffusion.”

The ability to transform the four elements based on attainment in concentration.

The ten spheres of totality comprise the total meditative immersion into (1) the earth element, (2) the water element, (3) the fire element, (4) the wind element, (5) the space element, (6) blueness, (7) yellowness, (8) redness, (9) whiteness, and (10) consciousness.

State of meditation in which one can transform whatever is perceived.

See “ten stations of complete immersion.”