Teaching on flawed methods of meditating, the five faults, the six powers, the four types of attention, and how to know you’ve attained serenity.
Review of meditative stability and developing serenity (samatha) and insight (vipashyana).
Explaining how to progress from serenity to the jhanas, and describing the first four of the six supernormal powers.
Teaching on Maitreya’s nine stages of sustained attention, including the six powers and four types of attention.
Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads a review of meditative stabilization, focusing on the the six conditions necessary for developing serenity/calm abiding.
Teaching on the five hindrances to meditative stabilization and the eight antidotes to cultivate to oppose them.
A reflection on the voyage that practitioners take, from our present state of samsara to the the shore of liberation.
Finishing the discussion on the five hindrances and moving on to the five faults of meditation and the eight antidotes.
Teaching on the objects used for stabilizing meditation according to the Pali Tradition.
A continuation of the teaching on the perfection of meditative stabilization, describing different objects on which to meditate.
