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Calm Abiding / Shamatha

• Calm-abiding means free the mind from attachment and aversion. To stop grasping. This is like leveling a field. When mind is stable, we can do one-pointed meditation of loving kindness.
• Do everything that you do for sentient beings, this is concentration.
• Don’t let the mind wander. This is scattering.
• Distraction comes easy because we have habituated to it.
• Don’t follow thoughts. This is an obstacle.
• Thinking about past and future is scattering.
• Don’t be easily distracted.
• Loss of clarity is ‘sinking’. Image comes, then fades. Like a stone on the surface of water. It remains for an instant, then slowly sinks.
• Apply antidotes to scattering and sinking.
• Be content.

• To arise Wisdom realizing selflessness, we first need to calm the mind. When water is turbulent, we cannot see deep. When water is calm, we can see deep.