A review of the five hindrances and sharing of Master Zhiyi’s advice on cultivating balance in our body, speech, and mind.
Balance in body, speech, and mind
Tag Archives | concentration
Overcoming hindrances to concentration
How to work with the hindrances of lethargy and sleepiness, agitation and remorse, and deluded doubt.
Getting unstuck from attachment and anger
How to work with sensual desire and malice that are hindrances to cultivating concentration.
Criteria for developing serenity
Teachings from a text by Chinese Master Zhiyi on the levels of conditions we need to do a retreat to develop serenity.
The prerequisites for concentration
An overview of the causes and conditions we need to cultivate as the foundation for developing serenity.
The three higher trainings
Teaching Chapter Three, focusing on the three higher trainings of ethical conduct, meditative stabilization and wisdom.
The benefits of living in a monastic community
Venerable Jampa reflects on the benefits to be gained by living in a community of monastics.
Making progress in meditation
If we are content to create the causes for progress in our meditation practice, the results will come. Practicing within the context of the Buddhist world view.
Working with the five hindrances
The remaining three of the five hindrances: dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.
Overcoming ill will
How to identify the hindrance of ill will and work with it to calm the mind.