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<noinclude>The [[nine ways of resting the mind]], or stages of [[shamatha]] practice can be condensed into</noinclude> '''four mental engagements''' (Tib. | <noinclude>The [[nine ways of resting the mind]], or stages of [[shamatha]] practice can be condensed into</noinclude> '''four mental engagements''' (Tib. [[ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ་བཞི་]], ''yi la jepa shyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''yid la byed pa bzhi''): | ||
#tightly focused engagement – relates to the first two stages of resting the mind | #tightly focused engagement (Tib. [[བསྒྲིམས་ཏེ་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་]], ''drim té jukpé yi jé'') – relates to the first two stages of resting the mind | ||
#interrupted engagement – this occurs from stage three to stage seven, when one is still susceptible to the obstacles of [[dullness]] and [[agitation]] and is therefore unable to abide for a long time | #interrupted engagement (Tib. [[ཆད་ཅིང་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་]], ''ché ching jukpé yi jé'') – this occurs from stage three to stage seven, when one is still susceptible to the obstacles of [[dullness]] and [[agitation]] and is therefore unable to abide for a long time | ||
#uninterrupted engagement – at stage eight one is able to remain unaffected by the obstacles of dullness and agitation without too much exertion | #uninterrupted engagement (Tib. [[ཆད་པར་མེད་པར་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་]], ''chepar mepar jukpé yi jé'' – at stage eight one is able to remain unaffected by the obstacles of dullness and agitation without too much exertion | ||
#effortless engagement – at the ninth stage one is able to maintain the practice effortlessly<noinclude> | #effortless engagement (Tib. [[རྩོལ་བ་མེད་པར་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་]], ''tsolwa mepar jukpé yi jé'') – at the ninth stage one is able to maintain the practice effortlessly<noinclude> | ||
[[Category:Meditation]] | [[Category:Meditation]] | ||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category:04-Four]]</noinclude> | [[Category:04-Four]]</noinclude> | ||
Revision as of 14:37, 20 March 2011
The nine ways of resting the mind, or stages of shamatha practice can be condensed into four mental engagements (Tib. ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ་བཞི་, yi la jepa shyi; Wyl. yid la byed pa bzhi):
- tightly focused engagement (Tib. བསྒྲིམས་ཏེ་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་, drim té jukpé yi jé) – relates to the first two stages of resting the mind
- interrupted engagement (Tib. ཆད་ཅིང་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་, ché ching jukpé yi jé) – this occurs from stage three to stage seven, when one is still susceptible to the obstacles of dullness and agitation and is therefore unable to abide for a long time
- uninterrupted engagement (Tib. ཆད་པར་མེད་པར་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་, chepar mepar jukpé yi jé – at stage eight one is able to remain unaffected by the obstacles of dullness and agitation without too much exertion
- effortless engagement (Tib. རྩོལ་བ་མེད་པར་འཇུག་པའི་ཡིད་བྱེད་, tsolwa mepar jukpé yi jé) – at the ninth stage one is able to maintain the practice effortlessly