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"As Buddha says in the Diamond Cutter Sutra:
'View things compounded from causes
To be like twinkling stars, figments seen with an eye disease,
The flickering light of a butter-lamp, magical illusions,
Dew, bubbles, dreams, lightning, and clouds.'
When I am about to start a lecture in front of a large crowd of people looking up to me for wisdom and insight, I repeat to myself these lines about the fragility of everything and then snap my fingers, the brief sound symbolizing impermanence. This is how I remind myself that I will soon be descending from my current position."
~The 14th Dalai Lama - How to See Yourself as You Really Are
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Ng Xin Zhao
http://greg-goode.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/CHAPTER-9-NOTES.pdf
You were able to get the level 9 and beyond, calm abiding here? It seems that it's an important prerequisite before exploring many of the insight meditations. Is it that most of the teachers you recommended already got this prerequisite too? Then I need to focus more on this.

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Yin Ling
Ng Xin Zhao imo it’s dependent
Insights dependent on concentration vice Versa
No need to wait till last stage to practise insight
Once mind calm enough, can start investigating
With more clear seeing, the mind calms further
I’m mostly doing the last one now- calm abiding with insight
That will penetrate daily experience. Hence the constant bliss and tranquility Throughout the day as long as I tune into empty clarity
And not let thoughts distract me
Post no-self insight which is 1st fold emptiness one can do that .. stay in ultimate
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André A. Pais
Some teachers say that stage 9 shamatha is nearly impossible to attain these days. I don't know. Definitely one shouldn't wait for samadhi before practicing insight.
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Soh Wei Yu
André A. Pais
Malcolm said few months ago,
https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?p=616369#p616369
“Re: Is first dhyāna necessary for the first bhūmi?
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Caoimhghín wrote: ↑
The title says it all. Related: Is first dhyāna necessary for any particular significant degree of Bodhi?
Malcolm:
Nope.”
“Samadhi is a natural mental factor of one pointedness. People with no experience, who like to follow books like recipe guides, say such things as "first dhyāna is absolutely mandatory for the path of seeing." But then you have to ask them if they have discovered the path of seeing. If they say no, then obviously they are just going to the basis of what they have heard or read in a book. If they say yes, there are other tests you can apply.
In Mahāyāna, the samadhi part is not perfected until the fifth bhumi. There is no requirement for the first dhyāna to realize the first bhumi. The first bhumi merely requires realization of śunyatā. That can come about as a result of the union of śamatha and vipaśyāna, or it can be arrived at merely through vipaśyāna. It depends on the person. All that is really necessary is that aspiring bodhisattva can focus on their analysis on the emptiness of objects without being distracted, but is certainly does not mean that they have to first perfect all four or five factors of the first dhyāna. It won't harm them if they do, but it is not required.
You should examine Discerning the Middle from the Extremes, it presents a concise summary of the five paths and how they are realized in Mahāyāna. Madhyamaka texts do not discuss this so much, at least, not early ones.”
“That's what I meant by people who just read books. The only concentration one needs is to be able to focus on one's analysis without being distracted. That's it.
If one goes chasing after samadhi, one will waste a lot of time and never realize emptiness, and that is a fact.”
“Below the path of seeing, the dhyānas are just causes for rebirth.”
“Without vipaśyanā, samādhi is useless——this is why there are three prajñās, not only one. Meditation just isn't the main point of Buddhadharma. Prajñā is.”
“Prajñā is not acquired through samādhi at all. However, śila provides a basis for a focused mind (samādhi), and a focused mind provides a basis for prajñā.
Prajñā is acquired through hearing (śrutimayāprajñā), reflection (cintamayāprajñā), and cultivation (bhāvanamayīprajñā).
The dhyānas are not required for this at all. Samādhi is just mental one-pointedness on a object. For most people, that would be TV, these days.”
“The only difference between the samādhi of watching TV and the training of samādhi in the Dharma is that the former is contaminated, and the latter is not. But the samādhi, the mental factor, is identical in both cases, only the object is different. What makes the samādhi part hard is that it is difficult to shift one's focus from mundane contaminated objects to mundane uncontaminated objects, such as the path dharmas. Hence, the need for śila as a basis for samādhi. But this has nothing actually to do with samādhi itself. Samādhi can be focused wherever one likes. And in the case of a practitioners, that concentration is focused on Dharma. It also has nothing developing rarified samadhis, etc. Samādhi here just means being able to focus the mind at will. Thats it. People keep turning these things into strange beasts. We avoid things that disturb our minds (śila), so that we can focus (samādhi) on developing the three wisdoms. That's it. It's not complicated.
Its better to understand the essence of a thing, rather than pile elaboration on top of elaboration.”
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Soh Wei Yu
So.. samadhi is required, but maybe not the dhyanas.
More on dhyana: http://www.awakeningtoreality.com/.../dzogchen-meditation...
Dzogchen, Meditation and Jhana
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Dzogchen, Meditation and Jhana
Dzogchen, Meditation and Jhana
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