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Finding Happiness in Troubled Times

By The Dalai Lama — 2011

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's public talk on Finding Happiness in Troubled Times organized by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) and Choe Khor Sum Ling in Bangalore, India, on January 30th, 2011.

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Meditation for Relaxation: 60 Meditative Practices to Reduce Stress, Cultivate Calm, and Improve Sleep

The meditation strategies and practices inside this book will help you find calm, get better sleep, and beat stress. Reset your thoughts and settle your emotions with a quick meditation or use belly breaths to achieve deep and restful sleep.

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Adam O’Neill
2019
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Stages of Meditation: The Buddhist Classic on Training the Mind

The Dalai Lama explains the principles of meditation in a practice-oriented format especially suited to Westerners.

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The Dalai Lama, Kamalashila
2019
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Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.

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Lorin Roche
2022
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Shamatha Meditation: Training the Mind

“The process of undoing bewilderment is based on stabilizing and strengthening our mind,” says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. “Shamatha meditation is how we do that.”

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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
2017
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Stillness and Insight

Samatha is a Pali word meaning stillness, tran­quility or calm. Samatha practice involves a sus­tained, unwavering attentiveness to a single fo­cus or object.

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Christina Feldman
2001
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Focused Attention

The word samatha can be translated as “tranquility” or “serenity.” In the samatha practices, our primary task is to focus on one object to the exclusion of everything else — in other words, to develop concentration.

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Tina Rasmussen, Stephen Snyder
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How to Practice Shamatha Meditation

Shamatha meditation—mindfulness or concentration—is the foundation of Buddhist practice. Lama Rod Owens teaches us a version from the Vajrayana tradition.

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Lama Rod Owens
2020
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Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas

One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering.

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Leigh Brasington
2015
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Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind.

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B. Alan Wallace
2011
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Steps on the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo (Volume 4: Samatha)

Geshe Sopa continues his elucidation of Lama Tsongkhapa’s masterwork on the Buddhist path with an explanation of the core meditative practice of samatha, or calm abiding.

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Geshe Lhundub Sopa
2016
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Calming (Samatha) Meditation