Dear Friends, Here is a meditation from Chas DiCapua with instructions with an intention to cultivate tranquility, calm, and concentration:Samadhi and its Role in Cultivating the Eight-Fold Path – Meditation (29 minutes)https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/61042/ With good wishes,Andrea
Dear Friends, In his book, A Whole-Life Path, Gregory Kramer outlines six tenets for crafting a whole life path, and for me, one of them is particularly relevant when it comes to wise samadhi (concentration), which is “Find each teaching in the here and now.” On this tenet, Gregory says, “Nearly all of the Buddha’s teachings, even those… Read More »
Dear Friends, The eighth factor of the eightfold path is right or wise samadhi. Samadhi is often translated as “concentration”, but as Ajahn Sucitto writes: Let’s look at the idea of concentration, or samādhi. When you hear those four little syllables con-cen-tra-tion, what do they imply to you? … You probably get a sense of doing something, working… Read More »
