Topics Include: 1) The importance of concentration practice in the training of the Buddha 2) The beginning of the training for a dedicated practitioner. 3) Description of the normal meditation process. Noting all distractions, letting them go and returning to the breath, over and over again. The difficulty taming our minds. 4) The arousal of the five hindrances: desire, aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and doubt. 5) The cultivation of the five concentration factors: initial application, sustained application, rapture, happiness, and equanimity. 6) Approaching access or neighborhood concentration. 7) Description of the eight jhanic stages. 8) Discovering our own potential and ability to access the jhanic states.
September 25, 2021
48 min.