Projection

The value of something is like projection.

Everything single thing , people or situation is a projection.

We always see things as self interest and project it will last forever and we take a lot of effort to preserve/maintain it but in actual fact, it doesn’t last and is originate from our attachment.

All these are wrong perception/wrong view/wrong projection and we are happy suffering it.

8 Worldly Concerns

1	to happy when we are praised
2	to be unhappy when we are insulted
3	to be happy if we recieved gifts
4	to be unhappy if we don’t
5	to be happy upon achieving reputation
6	to be unhappy when we are unsuccessful
7	to be happy when we are comfortable
8	to be unhappy when we are not

How to train in Calm Abiding Meditation?

1. The Prerequisites
   1. Conducive Dwelling
      • Excellent provisions- how we live ( no negative actions)
      • Wholesome place
      • Healthy location
      • Noble friends at hand
      • Facilities to satisfy the yogi
   2. Having few wants
      • No attachment
        • the best food
        • large quantities of fine clothes
        • etc
   3. Being content- Satisfied with simple things and refraining from attachment to fancy , expensive things ( Do gratitude meditation)
   4. Having pure ethics– vows are the root of all attainments by abandoning gross external distractions.
   5. Abandoning demands of society
      • Business
      • Socialising
      • Having long conversations
      • Astrology, medicine, divinations, going to people’s homes to do pujas
   6. Abandoning conceptual thoughts
      • Desiring objects of fives senses
      • longing for worldly goals
      • dwelling on wishes
      • dwelling on anxiesties
        • Antidotes for attachment: contemplate the drawbacks and how negative karma can propel you to a rebirth in the lower realms
        • Antidotes for desire: contemplate impermanence , the transitory nature of all things.
2. The Method
   1. Preparations
   2. The five Pitfalls and eight adjustment
      1. Laziness
         • Procrastinating- unwillingness to undertake forms of spiritual practice
         • Craving what is meaningless- worldly business , wanting a perfect family, watching K dramas
         • Defeatism- thinking you cannot progress and become a Buddha
           • 4 Antidotes:
             • faith due to sessing the good qualities of single pointed concentration ( Faith-1st adjustment)
             • Yearning and wishing for single pointed concentration ( Aspiration-2nd adjustment)
             • Perseverance in seeking single pointed concentration( effort- 3rd adjustment)
             • The result – meditative suppleness ( 4th adjustment- Pliancy)
      2. Forgetting the instruction
         • memorise and build in the mental image of Buddha Shakyamuni on top of your head the size of the thumb.. This is actually your Guru
           • Antidote: memory ( 5th adjustment)
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      3. excitement and dullness
         • Mental Fog- heaviness of the body and mind as we feel as though we are falling asleep
         • Dullness
           • Course dullness- When you remember your device , the image is steady but unclear
           • Subtle dullness- When you remember your device , the image is both steady and with clarity, but the force of holding the image has become weak, so it is not intense.
         • Excitement- Disturbed aspect ( existed by movies )
           • Course Excitement- When you lost the meditation device entirely
           • Subtle excitement- you do not lose the device, but a thought begins to stir in another part of your mind.Beneath your field of awareness ( conceptual thought)
           • Antidote
             • Vigilance ( 6th adjustment)
      4. nonadjustment- Do not apply antidote ( no vigilance)- 18 sessions a day
      5. readjustment ( 7th adjustment)
   3. The object of meditation
3. Achieving the Nine Mental States
   1. Fixing the mind
      1. Six Power: 1st Power-Power of listening
      2. Four attention: 1st Attention-focus
   2. Fixation with some continuity
      1. Six Powers: 2nd Power- Reflection
      2. Four Attentions: 2nd Attention- interrupted Focus
   3. Patchy Fixation
      1. Six Power: 3rd Power- Mindfulness
      2. Four Attentions: 2nd Attention- Interrupted Focus
   4. Good fixation
      1. Six Power: 3rd Power- Mindfulness
      2. Four Attentions: 2nd Attention- Interrupted Focus
   5. Becoming disciplined
      1. Six Power:4th Power- Vigilance
      2. Four Attentions: 2nd Attention- Interrupted Focus
   6. Becoming peaceful
      1. Six Power:4th Power- Vigilance
      2. Four Attentions: 2nd Attention- Interrupted Focus
   7. Becoming very pacified
      1. Six Power:5th Power- Perseverance
      2. Four Attentions: 2nd Attention- Interrupted Focus
   8. Becoming single pointed
      1. Six Power:5th Power- Perseverance
      2. Four Attentions: 3rd Attention- Uninterrupted Focus
   9. Fixed absorption
      1. Six Power:6th Power- Familiarity
      2. Four Attentions: 4th Attention- Spontaneous Focus
4. How to Achieve the Mental States through Six Powers
5. Four Types of Mental Process
6. How True Concentration Develops
   • Attain mental & Physical suppleness- exceptional bliss
     1. Feel heaviness on the top of your head. Negative energy leaves the body and develop mental suppleness
     2. Feel body as light as cotton wool
     3. Anything virtues able to do it
     4. Bliss- Mandatory access level of the first state of the concentration of the Form Realm

How to train in the last two perfections?

For Concentration – ( 5th Perfection ) train in mental quiescence -Calm Abiding meditation/concentration meditation/singled pointed concentration meditation/ awareness meditation/ mindfulness ( Dhyana /Jhana)

Shamata ( Sanskrit)

Shiney ( Tibetan)

To gain realisation from sutric mediation such as emptiness
For tantric meditations

For Wisdom – (6th Perfection ) train in special insight ( Prajna)/special insight meditation/superior seeing meditation/ analysis meditation, etc

Vipashyana ( Sanskrit)

Lhatong ( Tibetan )

To see true nature of reality

Knowing that through special insight having great mental quiescence

You will destroy your demons

First seek mental quiescence

-Shantideva

REFUGE

General / Ordinary refuge meaning	-Seek Protection -Security -Pillar -Job security -Relationship security -Attention
Lamrim Refuge	Mental attitude-relying on 3 Jewels ( Buddha ,Dharma, Sangha ) Quality of surrender and seeking protection from the 3 Jewels to be 1.free from Samsara 2.get enlightenments 3.freedom from 2 obscuration