concentration

Concentration refers to focusing single-pointedly on the object of meditation. Posts include instruction and guided meditations.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Preliminaries to meditation

Introduction to the series and text. How to set up a daily meditation practice. The…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Developing calm abiding

How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013

The removal of distracting thoughts

The methods for dealing with the hindrances to concentration and the mental factors to be…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013

Hindrances to serenity

Explaining the mental factors that interfere with our concentration, how they are related and prompt…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013

Mental factors and states of consciousness

The two mental factors crucial for concentration. Developing meditative stabilization grounded on renunciation, bodhicitta, and…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013

Concentration: Worldview, technique, result

Importance of motivation for concentration/meditation to lead us to liberation and enlightenment.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2013

Working with the mind in a structured way

An explanation of diligent study and practice of the Dharma with practical ways of working…

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Concentration

Desire and happiness

The five hindrances to developing meditative concentration, and what it means to be "in the…

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Stages of the Path

The six far-reaching practices

How the six far-reaching practices work together enabling us to progress on the path.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2012

The hindrances: Dullness and restlessness

A guided meditation session followed by the continued teaching on the five hindrances to concentration.…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2012

The hindrances: Desire and malice

The difference between arhats and bodhisattvas in attaining full awakening. The hindrances of sensual desire…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2012

Ultimate goal of developing concentration

Exploring the long-term purpose of shamatha meditation and the positive impact to everyone.

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