The Seventh Instruction is Fully Pacifying
Here you are freed of even subtle thought, excitement, sinking, and dullness, etc. Mind rests in its focal object like the ocean, and the movement of gross and subtle delusion is released as soon as it arises. Your mind has meditative experiences of bliss, clarity, and non-conceptuality one after the other. The space between stillness and movement is joined. Delusions are pacified so that it is called Fully Pacifying.
The Eighth Instruction is Making Single-Pointed
At this time all movement is perfected within the stillness of pure awareness. Without need for much effort meditation occurs during all activities, and stillness, movement, and awareness are no longer separate. Gross and subtle minds and mental factors cease and the nature of pure awareness is perfected. Undistracted from the brilliance of rigpa, pure awareness, this is called Making Single-Pointed.
The Ninth Instruction is Equal Placement
Without moving from your previous meditation, like the vast ocean, meditation is perfected in the nature of the clarity and cognition of the present moment of awareness. Meditation and non-meditation, day and night, become undifferentiated. Freed from any sense of stillness being good and movement being bad, you are not distracted from that stated. This is called Equal Placement.
The young child of pure awareness is tied up by mindfulness and alertness,
By the mother of non-distraction who watches with mindfulness.
To become an accomplished on of perfect realization:
May beings be transformed before much time has passed!
Excerpt of text written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, from the book Precious Teachings, chapter entitled “Nine Instructions for Concentration Meditation,” page 110 in the paper book, and page 118 in the PDF version. Image is the sunrise over Mount Killamanjaro, from full moon hike, photographer unknown, creative commons.
