4.B.2.C.3.b.1. Training in Calm Abiding to Perfect Meditative Stabilization [Teachings]

1. Arranging proper circumstances for calm abiding meditation
   1. Live in a proper and conducive place
   2. Have few desires and attachments
   3. Be content
   4. Avoid distractions and extraneous activities
   5. Maintain pure ethical conduct
   6. Abandon preconceptions about sense objects
      
      
2. b. Actual way to practice calm abiding
   1. Five deterrents to calm abiding
      1. Laziness
      2. Forgetting the object of meditation
      3. Laxity and agitation
      4. Not applying antidotes to the deterrents
      5. Applying antidotes when they are not needed
   2. Eight antidotes
      1. Confidence or faith in the benefits of calm abiding
      2. Aspiration
      3. Joyous effort
      4. Pliancy, serviceability of body and mind
      5. Mindfulness
      6. Introspective alertness
      7. Application of appropriate antidotes
      8. Equanimity
   3. Nine stages in practicing calm abiding
      1. Setting (placing) the mind
      2. Continuous setting
      3. Resetting
      4. Close setting
      5. Taming
      6. Pacification
      7. Thorough pacification
      8. Single pointedness
      9. Setting in equipoise
   4. Six mental powers to attain these stages
      1. Hearing
      2. Thinking
      3. Mindfulness
      4. Introspective alertness
      5. Effort
      6. Familiarity
   5. Four engagements to employ to do this
      1. Painstaking (forceful)
      2. Repeated (interrupted)
      3. Uninterrupted
      4. Effortless (spontaneous)
   6. Way to develop actual calm abiding from this