Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

centralize these principles in our practice, let us
conclude this chapter with an account of the Ten
Advantages of Meditation as given in the Candrapradipa
Sutra. This forms part of the sutra known as the
Samadhiraja. The Buddha teaches there that from
meditation one gains:
1. a good bearing and a pleasing appearance;
2. a mind very meek, humble, and full of kindness;
3. the absence of sorrow (duhkha) and of delusions
(moha);
4. controlled senses which do not stray from one object
to another;
5.contentment even when without food (From
meditation one obtains inner delight and so becomes a
"feeder upon joy." (Dhammapada));
6. renunciation of all desires and attachments;
7. a continual spiritual result from practice (one's time is
never wasted, for not even one minute of it fails to
produce some good result);
8. the destruction of the net of demons in which most
people are struggling, and from which they cannot
escape;
9. always abiding in Buddhahood, and with one's
surroundings those of a Buddha; and
10. ripeness for liberation.
Tsong Khapa also gives a list of advantages in his great
Stages of the Bodhi Path. There he lists seven:
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