Samatha
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Tranquility meditation
"Divine Flower Blossom" is a composite, monochrome artwork depicting cherry blossoms in negative over a close portrait of a Japanese Buddha statue. The entrance of the mind into stillness has often been compared to the delicate blooming of a flower.
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An anthology of teachings on samatha meditation from a variety of traditions and contemporary teachers.
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These states cannot compare to anything experienceable in everyday life. Calling them the utmost meditative bliss, peace, and release is not an exaggeration.
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… a trapper doesn’t cast bait for deer thinking, ‘May the deer, enjoying this bait, be healthy and in good condition. May they live long and prosper!’ 🖖
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Just as a palm fruit that has just been removed from its stalk is pure and bright, so Master Gotama’s faculties are tranquil and the color of his skin is pure and bright.
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Should any non-human think to overthrow their mind, they’ll eventually get weary and frustrated.
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… the subject indicated extremely high magnitude of reward, [yet] the objective activation of the reward system was not extreme.
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The first detailed EEG study of jhāna meditation, with findings radically different to studies of more familiar, less focused forms of meditation. While remaining highly alert and “present” in their subjective experience, a high proportion of subjects display “spindle” activity in their EEG, superficially similar to sleep spindles of stage 2 nREM sleep, while more-experienced subjects display high voltage slow-waves reminiscent, but significantly different, to the slow waves of deeper stage 4 nREM sleep, or even high-voltage delta coma.
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This study explores the phenomenological structure of mystical experience among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses demonstrated that Stace’s common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood’s Mysticism Scale successfully described Buddhist experience as modified by Buddhist doctrines.
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Given that sensory deprivation increases neuroplasticity, meditation may also have an enhanced neuroplastic potential beyond ordinary experience-dependent changes.
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In meditation one lets go of the complex world outside in order to reach the serene world inside. In all types of mysticism and in many traditions, this is known as the path to the pure and powerful mind.
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the neurophysiological correlates of religious chanting are different from those of meditation and prayer
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Learn through your practice the moment when the flower blooms…
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… most yogis succeed with that method
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Whether we are beginners or more advanced, it is impossible to accomplish any of our dharma practices without joy.
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You begin by sitting in a comfortable, upright position…
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… allow the mind, which is the source, to settle
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simply abide by that natural state,
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An encyclopedia article summarizing what can be said about this enigmatic state.
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A guided meditation on the four Brahma-vihārā based on the Pāli “six directions” practice.
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You can’t get much simpler than the breath.
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