What is Shamatha? | Dr Alan Wallace

Buddhist teacher Dr Alan Wallace explains the purpose and benefits of shamatha, or "calm abiding," one of the foundational Buddhist practices.
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[mushinjedi]

What an incredible teacher. His mastery of language is something else

[julialeite]

The only 2 things that helped to extinguish my depression symptoms: prolonged fasting and shamata

[grapefruit]

This is amazing technique! It brings true happiness !!!

[MaheshSharma-yg]

Very nice. Shamta is a sanskrit word and use in hindi language which means potential. For example a person can pick up a match stick but he can have potential or capacity to pick up a big and heavy log. We must not look what a person is doing we must look in to his abilities his potential to do something.

[Kobe]

Shamatha is just like a wheel - today we wonder why nobody thought about it for so long - in 20, 50 years? We'll be disgusted that we tried to educate children without first teaching them Shamatha!

[mkartmkart]

I need Shamata
How to start ?

World ? you there ?

[squamish]

I've been getting treated with ultra-low neurofeedback lately, and holy crap does it help my attention. In my last session, my attention was so fixed on the images I was being entrained by that my therapist said he'd never seen someone with such low 'mental chatter'. Of course the chatter returned after the session but I had a huge shift a day later as my body adjusted to the quiet it experienced during the session.

[jaxonkarrh]

Very smart man who loves to hear himself talk.

[ninamalafeeva]

Зачем было писать название на русском, если нет перевода?

[marinah-s]

Ради этого состояния Самадхи и была создана наука Религия, которую преступники, негодяи, бандиты превратили в секту для обогащения своих карманов