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Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation
By: Geshe Gedun LodroImprint: Snow Lion Publications
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This manual presents an intimate and detailed picture of the intricacies of meditation so vividly that the reader is drawn into a Tibetan world-view of spritual development.
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| Title of Religion eBook: Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation | |
| Release Date: 01-19-1998 | |
| Publisher: Snow Lion Publications |
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| SKU | 9781559399920 |
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Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation
Chapter One
PREREQUISITES
The six prerequisites for achieving calm abiding are:
1 staying in an agreeable place
2 having few desires
3 knowing satisfaction
4 not having many activities
5 pure ethics
6 thoroughly abandoning thoughts.
Most of these are readily understandable, but a little commentary is useful for some of them. The fourth, not having many activities, means that when one begins to cultivate calm abiding and special insight it is unsuitable to initiate types of activities that discord with the activity of cultivation. As to the fifth, pure ethics, it is not necessary to have assumed the vows of a monastic or novice, but if one has taken either of these vows and broken them it is necessary to engage in confession and the intention to restrain from such activity in the future. This process is known as purification and renewal, and anyone who has broken vows must engage in it before cultivating calm abiding. Even a person who does not have vows must, if he or she has engaged in non-virtuous activities, confess them and develop an intention to restrain from them in the future and should then consider that these non-virtues have been purified. This is because, if one seeks to improve oneself from within a state of having committed non-virtuous actions, one's basis is defiled to begin with, and it is difficult to generate any improvement. The point here is that pure ethics, as a prerequisite of calm abiding, does not necessarily involve having taken vows.
The sixth prerequisite, thoroughly abandoning thoughts, means that one should abandon coarse non-virtuous thoughts such as a wish to
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