Meditation is the firm determination of the mind in a single feeling or the clear knowledge of that feeling with truth. Thursday, April 10, 2025
Meditation is the firm determination of the mind in a single feeling or the clear knowledge of that feeling with truth. There are two types of meditation: concentration and insight. Concentration is the concentration of the mind, binding the mind to a single feeling, not allowing the mind to wander to other feelings. There are three levels of concentration meditation according to the strength of practice, namely:
1- Kānikā samādhi is meditation in which the mind has a single feeling or the mind is calm for a while but does not last long.
2- Upacara Samadhi is a meditation in which the mind is calm and free from the five aggregates, but not from the feelings of the first and middle aggregates, but the feelings of this upacara Samadhi are the feelings of the mind in a state of near-perfection.
3- Appana Samadhi is a meditation in which the mind is absorbed in the feelings of the first and middle aggregates, in which the mind is experiencing the feelings that are the aggregates of the first and middle aggregates, namely, perception, thought, happiness, and mental defilements, all of which are the five aggregates.
What is the feeling of Samatha Samadhi?
The word samadhi, which means calm mind, is not entirely correct as sammadhi. Micchasamadhi is samadhi that deviates from the path of dharma or samadhi of the mind, which adheres to vipassanā as the ultimate cause, the path, the fruit, and nibbāna, and abandons practice and cultivation of thought. Therefore, samadhi of the mind is sammadhi to achieve. The Kechi teachers or the Atthakatha teachers say that one should focus the mind on any of the 40 types of kammadhi, according to the tolerance or individual characteristics of each individual.