This is a study guide on the ten recollections, a set of meditation themes that highlight the positive role that memory and thought play in training the mind.
They employ memory to sensitize the mind to the need for training, to induce feelings of confidence and well-being conducive for concentration, to keep the topics of concentration in mind, to produce tranquility and insight, and to incline the mind toward the deathless when tranquility and insight have grown sufficiently strong.
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You yourselves must strive, the Buddhas only point the way
Buddha, Dhp 276
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