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	~~This essence of concentration,~~ [[dhyana]], is to remain one-pointedly directed inward to the nature of a virtuous mental state. Since one's mind with it's movements is the root of all [[karma]]s and suffering, the application is first of all to achieve the prerequisites for dhyana, which entails keeping you body away from business and your mind from [[discursive thinking]], harboring few desires, and remaining content, while keeping the intention of thoroughly desiring the happiness which comes from having calmed these thoughts; and then to adhere to the eight types of application which discard these five shortcomings as the prelude to the '''actual state of dhyana''~~'. [[LW1]], pg. 126. ([[RY~~]])		#redirect [['dri gung rig 'dzin chos kyi grags pa]]