Meditative concentration

Concentration (Skt. dhyāna; Tib. samten; bsam gtan), the fifth of the six paramitas, is defined as the capacity to remain undistracted.

Subdivisions

Chökyi Drakpa says:

"Meditative concentration includes the childish concentration of those who practise in isolation away from distractions and busyness, but are attached to the experiences of bliss, clarity and absence of thought. There is also the clearly discerning concentration in which emptiness is clung to as an antidote; and the concept-free samadhi of intrinsic reality, which is known as 'the concentration delighting the Tathagatas'. These should be practised successively, in stages."