Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013

Mental factors we need to strengthen to develop serenity and how to overcome hindrances to developing serenity.

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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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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013

Conditions for serenity retreat

Cultivating the conditions needed to gain shamatha. Physical posture and how to structure a meditation…

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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

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

The removal of distracting thoughts

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

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