concentration
Concentration refers to focusing single-pointedly on the object of meditation. Posts include instruction and guided meditations.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Concentration and wisdom
Interplay between mental factors and correlation to lamrim for developing meditative stabilization and wisdom.
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Appreciation and mindfulness
What is mindfulness and how it plays an important role in study, meditation and ethical…
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Right effort, view, and thought
Concluding the teachings on the the eightfold noble path by looking at right effort, right…
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Right concentration and effort
Examining the eightfold noble path through right concentration and right effort.
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Right mindfulness
Examining the eightfold noble path through mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.
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Excitement and application
Examining the last three obstacles to calm abiding meditation: laxity and excitement, non-application, and over-application.
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Laxity and excitement
Examining laxity and excitement , one of the five hindrances to calm abiding meditation.
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Calm abiding review
A review on how to choose the object of meditation and how to cultivate mindfulness…
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Forgetting the object of meditation
Forgetting the object of meditation as an obstacle to calm abiding and mindfulness as its…
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Objects of meditation and deterrents
Continuing to look at objects of calm-abiding meditation and the first of the five deterrents:…
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Objects of meditation
Examining the various objects of calm abiding meditation taught by the Buddha.
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