SAMADHI (CONCENTRATION)

Two qualities have a share in clear knowing

1. Tranquility (samatha)
- When tranquility is developed, what purpose does it serve? The mind is developed. And when the mind is developed, what purpose does it serve? Passion is abandoned.

2. Insight (vipassana)
- When insight is developed, what purpose does it serve? Discernment is developed. And when descernment is developed, what purpose does it serve? Ignorance is abandoned.
 

Anguttara Nikaya II.29 : Vijja-bhagiya Sutta
(A Share in Clear Knowing)


 Four developments of concentration

There is the development of concentration that, when developed and pursued, leads to …

1.   a pleasant abiding in the here and now.
2    the attainment of knowledge and vision.
3.   mindfulness and alertness.
4.   the ending of the effluents.
 

Angguttara Nikaya IV.41 : Samadhi Sutta (Concentration)


 Four (Controlling) Powers

1.    The power of faith
2.    The power of energy
3.    The power of mindfulness
4     The power of concentration
 

Anguttara Nikaya IV.152 : Power


 Four Powers

1. Energy
2. Mindfulness
3. Concentration
4. Wisdom
 

Anguttara Nikaya IV.258 : Powers


 Five Learner’s Power

1. Power of faith
2. Power of Conscientiousness
3. Power of Fear of Blame
4. Power of Enerfy
5. Power of Insight
 

Anguttara Nikaya 5.1 : The Learner’s Power


 Seven Factors of Awakening

1. Mindfulness
2. Analysis of qualities
3. Persistence
4. Rapture
5. Serenity
6. Concentration
7. Equanimity

when developed and pursued, leads to direct knowledge, to self Awakening, to Unbinding.
 

Samyutta Nikaya XLVI.14 : Gilana Sutta (Ill)


 Prescription for dealing with drowsiness in meditation:

Whatever perception you have in mind when drowsiness descends on you,

1. Don’t attend to that perception; don’t pursue it.

2. Recall to your awareness the Dhamma as you have heard and memorized it, re-examine it and ponder it over in your mind.

3. Repeat aloud in detail the Dhamma as you have heard and memorized it.

4. Pull both you earlobes and rub your limbs with your hands.

5. Get up from your seat and, after washing your eyes with water, look around in all directions and upward to the major stars and constellations and attend to the perception of light.

6. Attend to the perception of light; resolve on the perception of daytime, [dwelling] by night as by day, and by day as by night. By means of awareness thus open and unhampered, develop a brightened mind.

7. Percipient of what lies in front and behind – set a distance to meditate walking back and forth, your senses inwardly immersed, your mind not straying outwards.
But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then reclining on your right side – take up the lion’s posture, one foot placed on top of the other, mindful, alert, with your mind set on getting up. As soon as you wake up, get up quickly, with the thought, ‘I won’t stay indulging in the pleasure of lying down, the pleasure of reclining, the pleasure of drowsiness.’ That is how you should train yourself.
 

Anguttara Nikaya VII.58 : Capala Sutta (Nodding)


 Five Hindrances

1. Kama Chanda – Sensual desire
2. Vyapada – Ill will
3 Thina-middha – Sloth and Torpor (drowsiness)
4. Udhacca – Restlessness and anxiety
5. Kukkucca – Doubt (Uncertainty)
 

Samyutta Nikaya III.24 : Issattha Sutta (Archery Skills)


 Three Indulgences

1. Sleep
2. Drinking of fermented liquor/taking drugs
3. Sexual intercourse
 

Anguttara Nikaya III.105 (Satiety)


 Four determinations:

1. The determination for discernment,
2. The determination for truth,
3. The determination for relinquishment,
4. The determination for calm
 

Majjhima Nikaya 140 : Dhatu-vibhanga Sutta
(The Exposition of the Properties)


 Five Spheres of Release

1. Learning the Dhamma,
2. Instructs others the Dhamma in detail as he has heard,
3. Repeats the Dhamma as he has heard it,
4. Ponders and Reflects on the Dhamma,
5. Grasps some concentration sign,
… he partakes both the spirit and the letter of the Dhamma, he experiences gladness, zest, calm and ease, whereby his mind is composes.
 

Anguttara Nikaya V.26 : Vimutti (Release)


 Ten Fetters

1. View of theindividual-group
2. Doubt and wavering
3. Wrong handling of habit and ritual
4. Sensual desire
5. Malevolence
6. Lust of objective form
7. Lust of the formless
8. Conceit
9. Excitement
10. Ignorance
 

Anguttara Nikaya X.13 : Fetters


 Four Right Efforts

Effort to restraint the rising of evil that have yet to arise
Effort to the abandoning of evil that have arisen
Effort to cultivate the profitable states that have not yet arisen
Effort to increase, maintain the profitable state that have arisen
 

Ang Nik IV.13 : Sammappadhanani (Effort)

 Eleven Benefits of Praticing Metta (Loving Kindness)

1. One sleeps easily,
2. Wakes easily,
3. Dreams no evil dreams,
4. One is dear to human beings,
5. Dear to non-human beings,
6. The devas protect one,
7. Neither fire, poison, nor weapons can touch one,
8. One’s mind gains concentration quickly,
9. One’s complexion is bright,
10. One dies unconfused and
11. If penetrating no higher – is headed for the Brahma worlds.
 

Anguttara Nikaya XI.16 : Metta Sutta (Good Will)


 32 Parts of Impurities of the Body

In this body there is:

1. Hair of the head,
2.  Hair of the body,
3. Nails,
4. Teeth,
5. Skin,
6. Muscle,
7. Tendons,
8. Bones,
9. Bone marrow,
10. Spleen,
11. Heart,
12. Liver,
13. Diaphragm,
14. Kidneys
15. Lungs,
16. Large intestines,
17. Small intestines,
18. Stomach,
19. Faeces,
20. Bile in gall bladder,
21. Phlegm,
22. Lymph,
23. Blood,
24. Sweat,
25. Fat,
26. Fears,
27. Pus,
28. Saliva,
29. Mucus,
30. Fluid in the joints,
31. Urine,
32. Brain.
 

Khuddkapatha 3: Dvattimsakara (The 32 Parts)


 One should do what one teaches others to do; if one would train others, one should be well controlled oneself. Difficult, indeed, is self control.

Dhammapada Verse 159


 The doer of good delights here and hereafter; he delights in both the worlds. The thought, “Good have I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss.
 

Dhammapada Verse 18


 One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.
 

Dhammapada Verse 131

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