Lesson 6 Handout
ANALYTICAL MEDITATION ON DHYANA PARAMITA
1. Nature of concentration meditation
2. Prerequisites for concentration meditation
(a) Conducive place; (b) fewness of desire; (c) contentment; (d) freedom from other activities; (e) good discipline; (f) lack of discursive thoughts; (g) thorough knowledge on the practice; and (h) competent and experienced mentor.
3. Causes and demerit of distractions
(a) Attachment to people; (b) attachment to meaningless things; (c) attachment to worldly activities; (d) attachment to money and material possessions; (e) unrealistic expectation.
4. Merit of solitude
(a) Soothing quality of nature; (b) free and far away from things; (c) conducive to practise; (d) birds and forest do not distract; (e) intent to practice in seclusion.
5. Types of concentration meditation
(a) Worldly concentration meditation for temporal happiness
(b) Religious concentration meditation to gain high rebirth
(c) Lesser vehicle concentration meditation to liberate from samsara
(d) Affliction purifying object of meditation
i. Physical posture
ii. Objects of meditation
(a) Pervasive object of meditation: (i) Conceptual object; (ii) non- conceptual object; (iii) finite object; (iv) meaningful object.
(b) Conduct purifying object of meditation: (i) unpleasant body to remedy desire; (ii) love to remedy hate; (iii) dependent origination to remedy ignorance; (iv) classification of elements to remedy pride; (v) round of breath to remedy discursive thoughts.
© The wise person’s object of meditation
(i) aggregate; (ii) elements; (iii) sources of sense perception; (iv) dependent origination; (v) proper and improper things.
6. Working with obstacles of meditative concentration
(a) Recognition of obstacles:
(i) laziness; (ii) forgetfulness; (iii) dullness (desire); (iv) agitation (ill-will); (v) non- application; (vi) over-exertion; (vii) doubt; and (viii) regret.
(b) Engaging mental exertion
(c)Recognition of Antidotes
(i) faith; (ii) determination; (iii) right effort; (iv) pliancy; (v) mindfulness; (vi) introspection; (vii) application and (viii) equanimity.
(c) Engaging the thought with interruption
(i) Repeated exertion if distracted; (ii) strengthening the stability; (iii) rejection of distraction; (iv) dispelling dullness; (v) Dispelling agitation
(d) Engaging without interruption
(e) Spontaneous engagement
7. bodhisattva’s concentration meditation to accomplish dhyanic qualities
(i) meditation on loving kindness; (ii) meditation on compassion; (iii) meditation on joyfulness; (iv) meditation with deep contentment; (v) meditation with equanimity; (vi) meditation on bodhicitta
8. Applied Meditative concentration to benefit sentient beings
(i) helping sentient beings in many ways; (ii) relieving their pain; (iii) teaching them the truth of dharma; (iv) repaying their kindness; (v) calming those who are fearful; (vi) consoling those who have sorrow; (vii) giving what they need; (viii) introducing them to good people; (ix) agreeing with them to pacify them; (x) making them laugh, smile and be happy; (xi) subjugating them properly; and (xii) setting them on the path.
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11 сен 2024
