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Tranquility Meditation – Śamathā
Develop profound inner peace through the various practices of Tranquility Meditation:
The Four Immeasurables – Brahma Vihāra
Sit and cultivate love, compassion, joy, and equanimity towards yourself and all beings. These
qualities must be pure, without selfish motivation, and without emotional attachment to others.
Focus first on the quality of love, becoming meditatively absorbed in it. Once you have
successfully developed that quality over a period of days or weeks, move on to the next quality
and do the same until you attain proficiency in each one of them. Then begin with love again and
deepen your realization.
1. Reflect on the danger of hate and the value of love.
2. Generate love towards yourself. Say to yourself, “May I be happy and free from suffering.”
3. Reflect on a beloved teacher, saying, “May this good person be happy and free from
suffering.” With love, become meditatively absorbed in them.
4. Reflect on a dearly beloved friend, saying, “May this good person be happy and free from
suffering.” With love, become meditatively absorbed in them.
5. Reflect on a person you feel neutral toward, generating love for them as though they were a
dear friend, saying, “May this good person be happy and free from suffering.” With love,
become meditatively absorbed in them.
6. Reflect on a person you feel dislike toward, and generate neutral feelings toward them. Then
seek to generate love for them, thinking, “This person, as my mother in the past, carried me in
her womb, played with me in her lap, and nourished me. And this person as my father nourished
me by bringing me back wealth thinking to feed his children.”
7. If you still cannot generate love toward someone you dislike, reflect on the benefits of love: 1)
you sleep in comfort, 2) you wake in comfort, 3) you dream no bad dreams, 4) you are dear to
human beings, 5) you dear to nonhuman beings, 6) deities guard you, 7) fire, poison and
weapons cannot harm you, 8) your mind is easily concentrated, 9) your face is serene, 10) you
die without confusion, and 11) you will be reborn into a higher realm.
8. If you still cannot generate love towards them, ask yourself what part of their Four Elements
you are angry with: their earth element, water element, fire element, wind element? Which of
their Six Senses are you angry with? Which of their Five Aggregates as you angry with? You
discover there is no one to be angry with.
9. If you still have dislike toward that person, go to them and give them a gift.
10. Once you develop love toward the person you felt dislike toward, become meditatively
absorbed in them.
11. Having attained a loving meditative absorption, move through the First to Fourth
Absorptions (see the Four Formless Absorptions below for instructions).
12. Generate love pervading the entire world, equally to all. Think, “May all beings be free from
enmity, affliction and anxiety, and live happily.”
Benefits: Develops inner peace and happiness in this life and future lifetimes.
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