[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Bodhisattva path, ethics and meditation manuals](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga) › [Bhāvanākrama](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama) › [བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916) › Popular Quotations from Stages of Meditation II # Popular Quotations from Stages of Meditation II Translation of [བསྒམ་པའ་རམ་པ (བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916) - **Language:** English - **Date:** 2012 CE - **Translator:** [Adam Pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/person/adam-pearcey) - **Extent:** 8 passages, 161 words - **Text:** partly digitised - **Source:** lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), Popular Quotations from Stages of Meditation II, Lotsawa House (version… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site ## Contents - [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p1) - [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p2) - [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p3) - [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p4) - [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p5) - [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p6) - [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p7) - [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p8) ## Text ### [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p1) Popular Quotations from Stages of Meditation II ### [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p2) by Kamalaśīla ### [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p3) དེའི་ལུས་དང་སེམས་གང་གི་ཚེ་ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱངས་པར་གྱུར་པ་དང་། ཇི་ལྟར་འདོད་པ་བཞིན་དུ་དམིགས་པ་སེམས་དབང་དུ་གྱུར་པ་དེའི་ཚེ་ཞི་གནས་གྲུབ་པ་ཡིན་པར་རིག་པར་བྱའོ།། ### [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p4) Know that śamatha is achieved when body and mind become extremely pliable and you have the power to direct your mind toward a given object just as you wish. ### [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p5) ཞི་གནས་དེ་ཉིད་ལ་དམིགས་པའི་ཚེ། དེ་ཁོ་ན་ལ་རྣམ་པར་དཔྱོད་པ་དེ་ནི། ལྷག་མཐོང་ཡིན་ཏེ། ### [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p6) While focused in that state of śamatha, to analyze reality is vipaśyanā. ### [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p7) ལྷག་མཐོང་གི་ཚོགས་གང་ཞེ་ན། སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་ལ་བསྟེན་པ་དང་། མང་དུ་ཐོས་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་བཙལ་བ་དང་། ཚུལ་བཞིན་དུ་སེམས་པའོ།། ### [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey.p8) What are the prerequisites of vipaśyanā? To follow a noble teacher, to seek extensive learning, and to contemplate in the proper way. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.bhavanakrama*bo-d3916~en-pearcey) · Pramāṇa