Stages of Meditation: Buddhism for the 21st Century
A Teaching by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at MIT
On the occasion of the 10-Year Anniversary Celebration of Prajnopaya at MIT, His Holiness the Dalai Lama graciously agreed to bestow a teaching based on Acharya Kamalashila’s “Stages of Meditation.”
About the Text:
Stages of Meditation (Sanskrit. Bhavanakrama; Tibetan. Gomrim Barpa) offers lucid instructions on cultivating a meditative mind. In great detail, it instructs practitioners on acquiring familiarity and developing expertise in two forms of meditation that will lessen suffering and ultimately lead to enlightenment. These two are shamatha or calm abiding and vipashyana or stainless insight. Kamalashila clearly outlines why both methods are essential to the practitioner’s development and why both must be grounded in compassion.
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