Search results for: "Concentration"

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  2. The Concentration Omelet
  3. Cooking Your Concentration
  4. Establishing Mindfulness & Concentration
  5. Protect Your Concentration
  6. Concentration Through Pictures
  7. Success in Concentration
  8. Balanced Concentration (outdoors)
  9. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  10. Cherish Your Concentration
  11. Your Concentration Home
  12. Lessons from Concentration
  13. Concentration & Its Supports
  14. Why Practice Concentration
  15. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  16. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  17. Noble Priorities
    When the Buddha talks about how he discovered the path, he starts with right concentration. He’d been trying different methods for years, and nothing worked. He’d pretty much exhausted all the alternatives that were known in those days. Then he remembered a time from his childhood when he’d entered spontaneously into concentration, with a sense of ease, refreshment. He asked himself … 
  18. Breath Meditation: The Fourth Tetrad
     … So the concentration and the ability to fight these things off go together. In other words, you have to fight them off to get the mind concentrated, and the better your concentration gets, the more useful it is in fighting them off. The stronger your concentration, the more constant it becomes. That makes it easier to see the subtle inconstancy of other things. You … 
  19. No Resistance
     … Once you can stick with that perception, your concentration gets a lot stronger. And the ability to stick with a single perception like that will help you get into the more and more refined states of concentration. As the movement of breath begins to calm down, and even your sense of the shape of the body begins to calm down and dissolve into little … 
  20. Directing & Not Directing the Mind
     … Well, that’s not how the Buddha taught either concentration or mindfulness. Concentration, remember, is full-body awareness. It’s actually quite broad. Concentration on goodwill extends not only through the body, but out in all directions to all beings. And it’s both concentration and a kind of mindfulness. As for mindfulness practice, the Buddha calls it a kind of concentration, which you … 
  21. Looking After Your Concentration
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