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Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation Geshe Gedun Lodro, Jeffrey Hopkins
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

May 3, 2013 - GO Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation (Textual Studies and Translations in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism) Author: Geshe Gedun Lodro Type: eBook. It's special insight from meditation. Feb 2, 2011 - This is achieved through constant and respectful familiarity with the yoga of calmabiding meditation and penetrative insight for a long time. Meditation manual, Stages of Meditation. Vipashyana means special insight, and relates to the ability to perceive and see something new, to see into something, to analyse something. The Dalai Lama speaks on four major themes in spirituality: prayer and meditation; the stages in the process of spiritual development; the role of the teacher and the community; and the spiritual goals of personal and social transformation. Oct 14, 2010 - Like many meditative techniques, vipassana begins by paying attention to the breath to help calm and focus the mind. The Buddha certainly did not find knowledge I have personally never been able to achieve a thought-free perception in meditation—and for my meditation teachers this just means I don't spend enough time in zazen, or Samadhi, or whatever. The Dalai Lama describes the nature of mind and how to train in it to achieve calm abiding - perfect clarity and mental stability - and penetrative insight into reality. Dec 19, 2013 - She has recently completed the introductory course offered by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche's Mangala Shri Bhuti organization, “Self-reflection and Shamatha (calm abiding meditation),” and has explored techniques such as Through groundbreaking research into more than a century of uprisings around the world, Chenoweth demonstrated that peaceful resistance movements have been much more effective at achieving their political and social aims than violent ones. Jan 15, 2012 - (and while this might have to do with learning to dissociate from compulsive behavior), there is on the other side no source for knowledge down there in this clear cool well of calm abiding. We make So even if it is hard to achieve a state of calm abiding, if we practice we will succeed through that effort. Jul 28, 2013 - In my previous text I wrote about shamatha (calm abiding) and vipashyana (direct investigation). From the Arya For these reasons, those who wish to attain the thoroughly purified transcendent wisdom by eliminating all obscurations, should meditate on wisdom while staying in calm-abiding meditation. Oct 27, 2010 - Samatha (calm abiding) comprises a suite, type or style of Buddhist meditation or concentration practices designed to enhance sustained voluntary attention, and culminates in an attention that can be sustained effortlessly for hours on end. They have transformed the mind like water transforming into a block of ice. It will be easy for even complete beginners of meditation to get a taste of it for a moment or two. Feb 21, 2012 - Shamatha is calm abiding, what we could call concentration or meditative stability, or tranquillity. Nov 19, 2010 - --from Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation by Geshe Gedun Lodro, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications. The bushes around you, even in distance from you, there is knowing that this rustling takes place and in you somehow there is perfect awareness of it, sharp, natural, entirely without tension or any other kind of hindrance, just clear perception wihtout being anything special. Arya Mahayanashrada One must remove regret and make special effort towards meditation.