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<noinclude>The [[nine stages of resting the mind]] are accomplished through the</noinclude> '''six powers''' (Tib. [[སྟོབས་དྲུག་]], ''tob druk''; [[Wyl.]] ''stobs drug''): | <noinclude>The [[nine stages of resting the mind]] are accomplished through the</noinclude> '''six powers''' (Skt. ''ṣaḍbala''; Tib. [[སྟོབས་དྲུག་]], ''tob druk''; [[Wyl.]] ''stobs drug''): | ||
#'''Listening/study''' (Tib. [[ཐོས་པ་]], ''töpa''; Wyl. ''thos pa'') – ‘resting the mind’ is accomplished through listening to meditation instructions<br> | #'''Listening/study''' (Skt. ''śrūtabala''; Tib. [[ཐོས་པ་]], ''töpa''; Wyl. ''thos pa'') – ‘resting the mind’ is accomplished through listening to meditation instructions<br> | ||
#'''Reflection''' (Tib. [[བསམ་པ་]], ''sampa''; Wyl. ''bsam pa'') – ‘resting the mind longer’ is accomplished through reflection and contemplation<br> | #'''Reflection''' (Skt. ''āśayabala''; Tib. [[བསམ་པ་]], ''sampa''; Wyl. ''bsam pa'') – ‘resting the mind longer’ is accomplished through reflection and contemplation<br> | ||
#'''[[Mindfulness]]''' (Tib. [[དྲན་པ་]], ''drenpa''; Wyl. ''dran pa'') – through mindfulness one accomplishes ‘continuously resettling’ and ‘fully settling the mind’; whenever one is distracted one gathers the mind and slowly, through habituation, non-distraction occurs<br> | #'''[[Mindfulness]]''' (Skt. ''smṛtibala''; Tib. [[དྲན་པ་]], ''drenpa''; Wyl. ''dran pa'') – through mindfulness one accomplishes ‘continuously resettling’ and ‘fully settling the mind’; whenever one is distracted one gathers the mind and slowly, through habituation, non-distraction occurs<br> | ||
#'''[[Awareness]]''' (Tib. [[ཤེས་བཞིན་]], ''shé shyin''; Wyl. ''shes bzhin'') – through awareness one accomplishes ‘taming the mind’, ‘pacifying the mind’ and ‘completely pacifying the mind’; with joy for awareness and seeing the faults of succumbing to thoughts and negative emotions, one no longer falls prey to them <br> | #'''[[Awareness]]''' (Skt. ''saṃprajanyabala''; Tib. [[ཤེས་བཞིན་]], ''shé shyin''; Wyl. ''shes bzhin'') – through awareness one accomplishes ‘taming the mind’, ‘pacifying the mind’ and ‘completely pacifying the mind’; with joy for awareness and seeing the faults of succumbing to thoughts and negative emotions, one no longer falls prey to them <br> | ||
#'''[[Diligence]]''' (Tib. [[བརྩོན་འགྲུས་]], ''tsöndrü''; Wyl. ''brtson ‘grus'') – through diligence one accomplishes ‘complete pacification’ and ‘one-pointedness’; even subtle thoughts and negative emotions are abandoned<br> | #'''[[Diligence]]''' (Skt. ''vīryabala''; Tib. [[བརྩོན་འགྲུས་]], ''tsöndrü''; Wyl. ''brtson ‘grus'') – through diligence one accomplishes ‘complete pacification’ and ‘one-pointedness’; even subtle thoughts and negative emotions are abandoned<br> | ||
#'''Complete familiarity''' (Tib. [[ཡོངས་སུ་འདྲིས་པ་]], ''yongsu dripa''; Wyl. ''yongs su ‘dris pa'') – the final stage of ‘resting in equanimity’ where the mind is unaffected by the obstacles of [[dullness]] or [[agitation]] is accomplished through complete familiarity.<noinclude> | #'''Complete familiarity''' (Skt. ''abhyasabala''; Tib. [[ཡོངས་སུ་འདྲིས་པ་]], ''yongsu dripa''; Wyl. ''yongs su ‘dris pa'') – the final stage of ‘resting in equanimity’ where the mind is unaffected by the obstacles of [[dullness]] or [[agitation]] is accomplished through complete familiarity.<noinclude> | ||
==Further Reading== | |||
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], ''A Treasury of Dharma'' (Lodeve: Rigpa, 2005), pages 228-234. | |||
[[Category:Meditation]] | [[Category:Meditation]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:53, 3 April 2011
The nine stages of resting the mind are accomplished through the six powers (Skt. ṣaḍbala; Tib. སྟོབས་དྲུག་, tob druk; Wyl. stobs drug):
- Listening/study (Skt. śrūtabala; Tib. ཐོས་པ་, töpa; Wyl. thos pa) – ‘resting the mind’ is accomplished through listening to meditation instructions
- Reflection (Skt. āśayabala; Tib. བསམ་པ་, sampa; Wyl. bsam pa) – ‘resting the mind longer’ is accomplished through reflection and contemplation
- Mindfulness (Skt. smṛtibala; Tib. དྲན་པ་, drenpa; Wyl. dran pa) – through mindfulness one accomplishes ‘continuously resettling’ and ‘fully settling the mind’; whenever one is distracted one gathers the mind and slowly, through habituation, non-distraction occurs
- Awareness (Skt. saṃprajanyabala; Tib. ཤེས་བཞིན་, shé shyin; Wyl. shes bzhin) – through awareness one accomplishes ‘taming the mind’, ‘pacifying the mind’ and ‘completely pacifying the mind’; with joy for awareness and seeing the faults of succumbing to thoughts and negative emotions, one no longer falls prey to them
- Diligence (Skt. vīryabala; Tib. བརྩོན་འགྲུས་, tsöndrü; Wyl. brtson ‘grus) – through diligence one accomplishes ‘complete pacification’ and ‘one-pointedness’; even subtle thoughts and negative emotions are abandoned
- Complete familiarity (Skt. abhyasabala; Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་འདྲིས་པ་, yongsu dripa; Wyl. yongs su ‘dris pa) – the final stage of ‘resting in equanimity’ where the mind is unaffected by the obstacles of dullness or agitation is accomplished through complete familiarity.
Further Reading
- Sogyal Rinpoche, A Treasury of Dharma (Lodeve: Rigpa, 2005), pages 228-234.