1. learnreligions.com

    In modern terms, the Buddha's Eightfold Path is an eight-part program toward realizing enlightenment and liberating ourselves from dukkha (suffering). Right Concentration is the eighth part of the path. It requires practitioners to focus all of their mental faculties onto one physical or mental object and practice the Four Absorptions, also called the Four Dhyanas (Sanskrit) or Four Jhanas (Pali).
  2. buddhist-spirituality.net

    Right Concentration. Right Concentration is the means for training and centering the mind. Through Right Concentration we bring our ordinarily restless, unconcentrated mind into a state of tranquility, one-pointedness, and unbroken attentiveness. By training the mind through Right Concentration, we extinguish the delusion, self-centered desire ...
  3. In Right Concentration, Leigh Brasington takes away the mystique and gives instructions on how to achieve them in plain, accessible language. He notes the various pitfalls to avoid along the way and provides a wealth of material on the theory of jhāna practice—all geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar. As Brasington proves ...
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  4. buddhist-spirituality.org

    Learn about the definition, objects, requisites and development of Right Concentration (samma-samadhi), a factor of the Noble Eightfold Path. Explore the four Absorptions (jhana) and their characteristics, and how they relate to Insight (vipassana) and the Supermundane Paths.
  5. lionsroar.com

    Mar 30, 2023Right concentration will come more readily if you're living a quiet, uncomplicated life, as you have less wrangling to do when you sit on the cushion. The mind is already aligned with the purpose of your meditation, with the path, and has less of the chatter that normally accompanies a busy, restless day. This is why retreats and monasteries ...
  6. buddhistdoor.net

    Right Concentration . . . ensures one pointedness of mind. It is the ability to focus steadily one's mind on any one object and one only, to the exclusion of all others. There are many exercises in mind concentration. Long-continued practice of mental concentration makes the mind highly penetrative. It becomes like a high powered light which ...
  7. stillmountainmeditation.org

    Dec 22, 2024This, monks, is called right concentration. As this description suggests, the jhanas are complex states, comprised of several dimensions, or qualities. Traditionally, five of these qualities have been singled out and identified as Jhana Factors. The Pali names of the Jhana Factors are vitakka, vicara, piti, sukha, and ekaggata.
  8. shambhala.com

    Jun 2, 2023The jhānas are eight progressive altered states of consciousness that can be identified with the aspect of the Buddha's Eightfold Path called Right Concentration. Training in concentration leads to these states, each of which yields a deeper and subtler state of awareness than the previous one. The jhānas are not in themselves awakening, but they are a skillful means for stilling the mind ...
  9. lotusbuddhas.com

    Feb 27, 2024Right Concentration is the eighth and final factor of the Eightfold Path in Buddhism, involving the practice of meditation and mindfulness. It is the culmination of mental development and the path to liberation, achieved through four stages of deep meditative absorption known as jhanas.
  10. Right Concentration is the eighth item of the Noble Eightfold Path and is often exemplified by and even defined as the jhānas. Before his awakening, after rejecting both the path of sensual indulgence and the path of austerities, the Buddha remembered an incident from his childhood of experiencing the first jhāna and upon further reflection ...
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