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Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation Geshe Gedun Lodro, Jeffrey Hopkins
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Mar 24, 2014 - Not singing hymns or chanting from another tradition in order to provide comfort to another human being or bring a spirit of religious tolerance within one's community. In Yoga, this is the Buddhist Tantra, the Highest Yoga Tantra in particular, is the special method to generate the mind of spontaneous great bliss and use this mind to meditate on emptiness, reinforcing this great bliss. The Dalai Lama speaks on four major themes in spirituality: prayer and meditation; the stages in the process of spiritual development; the role of the teacher and the community; and the spiritual goals of personal and social transformation. Dec 19, 2013 - She has recently completed the introductory course offered by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche's Mangala Shri Bhuti organization, “Self-reflection and Shamatha (calm abiding meditation),” and has explored techniques such as Through groundbreaking research into more than a century of uprisings around the world, Chenoweth demonstrated that peaceful resistance movements have been much more effective at achieving their political and social aims than violent ones. Oct 14, 2010 - Like many meditative techniques, vipassana begins by paying attention to the breath to help calm and focus the mind. Meditation manual, Stages of Meditation. From the Arya For these reasons, those who wish to attain the thoroughly purified transcendent wisdom by eliminating all obscurations, should meditate on wisdom while staying in calm-abiding meditation. Nov 19, 2010 - --from Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation by Geshe Gedun Lodro, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications. The Dalai Lama describes the nature of mind and how to train in it to achieve calm abiding - perfect clarity and mental stability - and penetrative insight into reality. Ajita indicates in the Ornament for Clear Knowledge that knowing the paths of the three vehicles is the method for bodhisattvas to achieve the goal they have set. Feb 2, 2011 - This is achieved through constant and respectful familiarity with the yoga of calmabiding meditation and penetrative insight for a long time. All those distractions are detrimental to cultivating calm abiding and special insight the door entry to supra mundane attainments. Arya Mahayanashrada One must remove regret and make special effort towards meditation. Jun 7, 2012 - As in Yoga, Tantra aims at a spiritual transformation opening the door to thedirect experience of the Divine here & now, entering the immediate awareness of the presence of the absolute (no longer overlayed with false ideation or even conceptualization).