Fall 2013 Shamatha And The Bodhisattva Way Of Life

We return to this practice also known as Appearances and Awareness as the Path. Alan reminds us to examine the essential nature of the thought arising rather than the content or referent and discusses stillness and motion as the type of mindfulness we are working with here. Next we look into stage seven of the Shamatha Path: Fully Pacified Attention. Alan relates this to the five paths and ten stages. Meditation starts at:11:35 (silent meditation not recorded)