Knowing that special insight endowed with calm abiding
Thoroughly destroys the afflictive emotions,
One must initially seek calm abiding.
It is achieved by those liking non- attachment to the world.
The six
prerequisities for achieving calm abiding are :
1. staying in an agreeable place
2. having few desires
3. knowing satisfaction
4. not having many activites
5. pure ethics
6. thoroughly abandonong thoughts.
Atisha's says:
If the prerequisities for calm abiding deteriorate,
Then, even if you meditate for a thousand years
In order to achieve calm abiding, there is no time
When you can attain meditative stabilization.
Therefore, a practitioner who wishes to achieve calm abiding must be able to distinguish between the excellent and absolutely essential prerequisities.The essential ones involve giving up non-virtuous conceptions and neutral ones causing fright. With regard to pure ethics, it is particularly important for someone who has committed murder to engage in the process of purification, involving confession, and the intention of future restraint.
1. staying in an agreeable place
2. having few desires
3. knowing satisfaction
4. not having many activites
5. pure ethics
6. thoroughly abandonong thoughts.
Atisha's says:
If the prerequisities for calm abiding deteriorate,
Then, even if you meditate for a thousand years
In order to achieve calm abiding, there is no time
When you can attain meditative stabilization.
Therefore, a practitioner who wishes to achieve calm abiding must be able to distinguish between the excellent and absolutely essential prerequisities.The essential ones involve giving up non-virtuous conceptions and neutral ones causing fright. With regard to pure ethics, it is particularly important for someone who has committed murder to engage in the process of purification, involving confession, and the intention of future restraint.
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