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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (38)
Meditation (Dhyana) is the pure land of the Bodhisattva; when he shall arrive at full enlightenment, beings who can concentrate their minds without distraction will be born in that land.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (2)
A prolonged holding of the perceiving consciousness in that region is meditation (dhyana).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.22)
And believing in the unchanging nature of the pure and holy Truth, thou wilt have had produced in thee the tranquil-flowing Samddhi; and, having merge...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (5)
By mastering this perfectly concentrated Meditation, there comes the illumination of perception.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (3)
When the perceiving consciousness in this meditative is wholly given to illuminating the essential meaning of the object contemplated, and is freed...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Judgement (25.12)
O nobly-born, listen unto me undistractedly. By merely recognizing the Four Kayas, thou art certain to obtain perfect Emancipation in any of Them. Be...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Protection Against the Tormenting Furies (37.7)
At this time, if one can recollect the Great Symbol [teachings] concerning the Voidness, that will be best. If one be not trained in that, train the...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Appendix: The Root Verses of the Six Bardos (44.7-44.9)
O now, when the Dhydna Bar do upon me is dawning! Abandoning the whole mass of distractions and illusions, May [the mind] be kept in the mood of...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Supernormal Birth by Transference to a Paradise Realm (39.2)
Thinking thus, direct the resolution [or wish] earnestly [to that Realm]; or, likewise, to any Realm thou mayst desire — The Pre-eminently Happy...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Dawning of the Lights of the Six Lokas (27.5)
Wherever the ether pervadeth, consciousness pervadeth; wherever consciousness pervadeth, the Dharma-Kaya pervadeth. Abide tranquilly in the uncreated...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties (23.16)
'Visible to pure celestial eyes' [also] implieth that the devas, being born [pure] in virtue of merit, are visible to the pure celestial eyes of...
Bhagavad Gita
Akṣhara Parabrahma Yoga (8.8)
Meditating with the mind engaged in the Yoga of constant practice, not passing over to any thing else, one goes to the Supreme Purusha, the...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Dawning of the Lights of the Six Lokas (27.4)
O nobly-born, the special art of these teachings is especially important at this moment: whichever light shineth upon thee now, meditate upon it as...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (32)
Through perfectly concentrated Meditation on the light in the head comes the vision of the Masters who have attained.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introduction (11.11)
[Those of, and] above, the mystic mantraydnic devotees of ordinary [psychic development], who have meditated upon the visualization and perfection...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (4)
When these three, Attention, Meditation Contemplation, are exercised at once, this is perfectly concentrated Meditation (sanyama).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Supernormal Birth by Transference to a Paradise Realm (39.1)
In the first-the transference to a pure paradise-the projection is directed [by thinking or meditating] thus: 'Alas! how sorrowful it is that I,...