Description

This is an Applied Meditation Course conducted by Asian Classics Institute is a must for anyone who wishes to practice meditation effectively. It is based upon the Stages of Meditation (Bhavana Krama) by Master Kamalashila (750 AD), and presentations by Geshe Michael Roach.Topics include: a description of all of the different types of meditation, conditions of the environment conducive to meditation, the parts of a meditation practice, the preliminaries to undertake prior to meditating, the eight-point meditation posture, the best objects to focus the mind upon during meditation, the five problems which occur within meditation, the eight corrections to those problems, and the nine resulting meditative states which lead to the attainment of deep meditative concentration, or quietude.