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CALM ABIDING AND INSIGHT:

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CALM ABIDING AND INSIGHT:

How to Establish Calm Abiding, the Foundation of all Types of Concentration, and Insight “Mercy, the six, generosity and so forth, Calm-abiding together with special-insight, Those paths of union, Those skilful means, Exalted wisdom, merit, Paths, retentions, the ten grounds, and Antidotes; know that as the sequence of The achievings of accumulation.” VS. 1.47 and VS. 1.48 It is said that calm abiding is the corner stone of all types of placement meditation and it is also a practice that is common among Buddhists and non-Buddhists. In Buddhism, it is common to all Vehicles, as well as in sutra and tantra, and for this reason it is important to be certain about it, right from the beginning. Currently our mind escapes to external objects, such as forms, sounds and so forth, distracted to every part and aspect of desired objects. Like fast flowing water that is diverted in many smaller streams, its capacity is limited. However if all the streams could be gathered and directed in a single flow, the effect would be very powerful. Similarly, if our mind could abide calmly, it would gain great capacity and become suitable to act as the corner stone of our concentration. Here the stages of achieving calm abiding are enumerated as four, namely: (1) the characteristics of the location in which calm abiding is achieved, (2) the individual who will establish it, (3) the characteristics of the focal objects of meditation, (4) the gradual development of various mental placements through meditating on those focal objects. In addition to those four there is also (5) a presentation of how the actual calm abiding is achieved in dependence on these mental placements, and (6) how to practice insight in dependence of calm abiding. See more at: http://www.anandadharma.org/FiveTreatises#sthash.FOXAF7Kn.dpuf