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Insight Meditation Summary:
In Cultivation 03, you will develop sustained attention while being mindful of changing sensations within your breathing & the pleasure of letting go.
The combination of the pleasure of letting go and the calming of intellectual functions of your mind create the conditions for the Enlightenment Factor of tranquility (passaddhi).
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In Cultivation 03, your meditation focuses on two things:
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Below: Introduction: Cultivation 03 Menu.
Introduction:
In Cultivation 03, due to your increasing skill in relaxing your body and calming your mind, you will experience dullness.
Dullness refers to a meditative state that lowers the clarity of your meditation object and the clarity of awareness itself.
The trick in Cultivation 03 is to increase the clarity of your awareness as you relax, not decrease it.
Your Meditation:
As you continue to calm down while being aware of the whole of each breath, as in Meditation 06, you will gradually become more aware of each breath at the tip of your nose, then in other parts of your body as a natural development.
Cultivation 03 develops in three stages:
With these conditions, the gradual calming of effort in your body, breathing, and mind, infused with meditative joy, that tranquility will fill your body and mind.
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