Gyalwa Chokyi Gyaltsen describes the necessary factors to analyze the mind and describes the meditation to establish mindfulness.
Series: A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness (Teachings 2010-2011)
This series is a commentary based on A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness by Gyalwa Chokyi Gyaltsen. The text is from the fourth chapter of his General Commentary to the Ornament of Clear Realization. The Ornament of Clear Realization is by Maitreya.
Analysis of mindfulness
The eight analyses of the establishment of mindfulness.
Noble eightfold path and the four noble truths
How the concept of renunciation is misunderstood.
Preparatory practices for establishing mindfulness
The importance of mindfulness in maintaining ethical conduct, and in developing concentration and wisdom.
Six types of breathing meditation
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Four observed objects
What are the objects of observation of the establishments of mindfulness? The body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.
The two manners of meditation
How we grasp at the four observed objects: body, feelings, mind and phenomena. The common and the uncommon manners of meditation.
Mindfulness of the body
The specific characteristics of the body, the benefits of meditating on the body, and how to meditate on the impure nature of the body.
Antidotes to desire
Meditating on the body as a skeleton as an antidote to desire, and looking at the ways we can consider feelings and our reactions to them.
How feelings create dukkha
Becoming aware of how our lives revolve around feelings of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral helps us to understand the true cause of our suffering.