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Glossary: meditation
Habituating ourselves with positive attitudes and accurate perspectives.
Related Articles:
Nine-point death meditation
Teaching nine-point death meditation, from the section “Learning from Our Own Mortality” in Chapter 9.
Only the Dharma helps at death
Completing the section “Only Dharma helps at the time of death” in Chapter 9, explaining the importance of practicing the Dharma.
The benefits of bodhicitta
Meditating on equanimity and explaining the benefits of bodhicitta, covering various analogies that explain these benefits (Verses 1.8 - 1.14)
Reflecting on impermanence
Teaching on generating the sense of closeness with others and outlining the meditation to develop love and compassion
Subtle impermanence
Answering questions from retreat participants and teaching on understanding impermanence and generating love and compassion
