Buddhaghosa · Theology
Buddhaghosa's manual of calm (samatha): forty meditation subjects matched to six temperaments, the deepening of attention through signs and stages, and the four absorptions (jhana) that make the mind fit for insight.
You learned that samatha unifies the mind on a single object; that Buddhaghosa catalogued forty meditation subjects and matched them to six temperaments as antidotes to each character's dominant defilement; that concentration deepens from the learning sign to the counterpart sign, from access to absorption; and that t…
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