Friends:
The 10 Tricks in the Art of Jhãna Concentration:
1: Making the basis pure: Means a clean body, a clean room and a
clean morality.
2: Balanced abilities: Energy on same level as concentration. Faith
as understanding.
3: Skill in the sign: A moment of absorption is remembered exactly
for recollection.
4: One exerts the mind on all occasions by advantageously pushing
and prodding it forth.
5: One controls the mind on all occasions, by advantageously holding
it checked and back.
6: One encourages mind on occasions by advantageously inciting and
cheering the mind.
7: One observes mind with calm on-looking equanimity when things
proceed appropriately.
8: One avoids all distracted, agitated, frantic, unconcentrated, and
stressed up persons.
9: One cultivates company with well-focused, all determined and
concentrated persons.
10: One is resolutely single-minded upon that absorption level of jhāna
concentration!
Visuddhimagga I
128.
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