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Meaning of "samatha"
Samatha is a Pali word in Buddhism that refers to a state of concentrated meditative awareness or tranquility
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- A female given name from Sanskrit.
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Samatha and vipassanā work hand in hand.
The second function of samatha is calming.
In samatha one practices perfect stillness.
The second obstacle to samatha is regret.
Samatha can include other samādhi practices as well.
One can not separate samatha and vipassana.
Samatha meditation is a becoming process.
Dhammakaya meditation has both samatha and vipassana stages.
Samatha here means concentration.
The various movements espouse forms of samatha and vipassanā meditation.
Samatha dropped out of school.
There is a tendency in some circles to favorvipassana practice over samatha practice.
Samatha is commonly practiced as a prelude to and in conjunction with wisdom practices.
One solution to this contradiction is the conjunctive use of vipassana and samatha.
Samatha meditation is a necessary step before undertaking any more advanced techniques.
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That act of taking delight in the tranquillity of samatha is becoming and birth.
Vipassana and samatha are described as qualities which contribute to the development of mind bhāvanā.
Buddhist meditation techniques make use of vipassana and samatha techniques in their meditation practice.
Samatha is common to many Buddhist traditions.
That iron will can only be created by Samatha.
Vipassanā meditation in conjunction with Samatha meditation is a necessary part of all Buddhist traditions.
One of the best techniques is Samatha.
This tradition upholds the emphasis on samatha explicit in the commentarial tradition of the Visuddhimagga.
The New Burmese Method strongly emphasizes vipassanā over samatha.
Both Samatha and Vipassana are considered to be important.
There is no such thing as Samatha or Vipassana practice.
In Sri Lanka samatha includes all the meditations directed at static objects.
Interview with Samatha.
Samatha is not the practice self-hypnosis.
The New Burmese Method strongly emphasizes vipassana over samatha.
Samatha is tranquility, vipassana is contemplation.
But definitely Samatha.
When someone develops samatha can concepts be the object of citta?
In our practice, it is not necessary to talk of samatha or vipassana.
With full samatha realization, one achieves an extremely refined body and mind.
You may have heard of the two terms - samatha and vipassana.
This is samatha sukha, the happiness that comes from concentration and tranquility of mind.
Only after achieving all 9 levels of samatha can one do perfect meditation.
This same trend has recently carried over into the modern vipassana tradition, which de-emphasizes samatha.
Here we are talking about the way of samatha practice, the practice of developing calm.
In the Theravada-tradition various understandings of samatha exist.
Usually, methods of samatha and vipassana are used to collect and calm the scattered mind.
In modern Theravada, the combination or disjunction of vipassanā and samatha is a matter of dispute.
In this sense, samatha is not a strictly Buddhist meditation.
In the early Buddhist texts, samadhi is associated with the term samatha.
In Burma, samatha comprises all concentration practices, aimed at calming the mind.
This point is also reiterated by Shankman, arguing that samatha and vipassana can not be separated.
In Pali, the previous language of Theravada literature is known as Vipassana and Samatha.
According to the Theravada tradition, samatha refers to techniques that assist in calming the mind.
In Pali, the original language of Theravada literature, they are called Vipassana and Samatha.
