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The heart of the workshop from my side is presenting a basic meditation practice called shamatha --- which is the technique of paying attention to one's breathing as a way of calming and settling the mind.
Modern Buddhism: Language and Culture in a Shrinking World 2010
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The heart of the workshop from my side is presenting a basic meditation practice called shamatha --- which is the technique of paying attention to one's breathing as a way of calming and settling the mind.
David Nichtern: Modern Buddhism: Language and Culture in a Shrinking World 2010
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Therefore, for mental stability and the higher states of concentration, such as shamatha and vipashyana, to be Buddhist, we need to practice and apply them within the context of taking a safe direction in life (taking refuge).
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He explains how to: develop shamatha based on various objects (breath, Buddha image, conventional nature of the mind, tantric deity, etc.); begin the session (refuge, bodhicitta and the seven limb prayer); employ the correct physical posture; and identify and remedy excitement and laxity, the obstacles to fully qualified shamatha.
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Advancement to the first arya ground of the path of seeing requires a direct, non-conceptual, transcendental experience of emptiness that is obtained through the union of shamatha and vipashyana (special insight) meditation.
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Advancement to the first arya ground of the path of seeing requires a direct, non-conceptual, transcendental experience of emptiness that is obtained through the union of shamatha and vipashyana (special insight) meditation.
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He explains how to: develop shamatha based on various objects (breath, Buddha image, conventional nature of the mind, tantric deity, etc.); begin the session (refuge, bodhicitta and the seven limb prayer); employ the correct physical posture; and identify and remedy excitement and laxity, the obstacles to fully qualified shamatha.
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The wisdom that understands emptiness through inferential cognition is gained without employing shamatha (calm abiding, single-pointed) meditation at the Bodhisattva path of preparation.
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The wisdom that understands emptiness through inferential cognition is gained without employing shamatha (calm abiding, single-pointed) meditation at the Bodhisattva path of preparation.
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His Holiness explains Kamalashila�s manual for developing this union: why the union of shamatha and vipashyana is necessary, why shamatha is developed first, and why objects other than emptiness can never uproot the grasping at true existence that imprisons us in samsara.
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