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Meditation
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Fifty Four Meditation
1. Just as the head is most important to the body and the
roots to a tree, meditation is fundamental to all religious practices of a monk.
— Rși. 22.13
2. A steady state of mind constitutes meditation while an
active mind might be engaged in either contemplation or deep reflection or apprehension.
-- Dhyāna. 2
3. A person who has no attachment, aversion and delusion
and whose mind, speech and body are steadfast, burns all auspicious and inauspicious karmas in the fire of meditation.
- Pañcā. 146
4. In the case of monks whose mind, speech and body are
quiescent, and who have thoroughly concentrated their mind on meditation, it does not matter at all whether they stay in a densely populated habitation or in a secluded forest.
— Dhyāna. 36
5. Just as fire fanned by powerful winds destroys heaps of
firewood in no time so also the fire of meditation destroys heaps of Karmas in a moment.
--- Dhyāna. 101
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