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- noun A calm-abiding,
stabilizing meditation .
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Examples
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He explains that any of them will do for attaining to this goal of shamata, yet taking mind itself as the object of focus for achieving that state has special significance.
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What has been explained so far in the text, then, is an effective and wondrous method for accomplishing the settling of mind for attaining to a state of shamata.
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What we have achieved so far in the text is the attainment of shamata, a serenely stilled state of mind settled on mind itself.
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When we experience serene joy, on both a physical and mental level, brought on by the force of total absorption of mind on mind, we achieve a meditation state that fulfills the definition of being shamata.
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Attaining to a state of shamata accomplishes this aim.
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To do this, we need to develop, in addition to shamata, an exceptionally perceptive state of mind, known as vipashyana.
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Progressing through the stages for attaining to shamata is like forging the iron ore into steel.
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~ Stability practice -- "Stability practice shamata is a basic and ongoing companion practice to almost any other practice, whether it is prayer, allowing, inquiry, yoga, or something else."
Speedlinking 12/20/07 William Harryman 2007
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Unspecified phenomena that are states of pacifications (nye-bar zhi-bas lung ma-bstan) – the disturbing states of mind of the realm of ethereal forms and the formless realm, since they occur on the mental continuums of those who have a stilled and settled state of shamata (zhi-gnas; mental quiescence) which overrides and thus blocks the manifestation of the disturbing emotions and states of mind of the realm of desirable forms.
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We also need ethical discipline and concentration in order to achieve shamata.
Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 3 Application to Mahamudra Practice 2003
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