Stages Of Meditation: Book Club III, Episode 3

In the third episode of Book Club III, Sarah Sati reads from chapters one and two of the text Stages of Meditation. This book, by his holiness the Dalai Lama, that serves as a concise commentary on the text of the same name by Kamalashila. In chapter one, the Dalai Lama discusses the idea of conditioned existence and offers support for an analytical approach to coming in contact with ignorance and replacing it with wisdom. Chapter two deeps our understanding of mind training, the importance of it and the proper method and sequence for turning the mind omniscient. Sarah recaps the previous session before reading and offers space for practical application through shamatha meditation practice, as well as practice homework for between sessions.

Book Club is an opportunity to look deeply into a spiritual text using a Western perspective. Each session includes a practice opportunity, reading, synopsis of reading, and optional practice homework.