Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Here I offer you some personal knowledge: the most
troublesome of these defects are the third and fourth.
They vex the meditator, first one, and then the other;
when one has stopped the other begins.
In Tsong-khapa's gNags-rim, his work on Tantra, even
here he has mentioned these particular faults together
with their cures. I object to this. These are beginners'
states, but the Tantras are not for beginners. By the time
one is fit to practice their teachings these hindrances
should have been overcome. As we should expect, in
the ''Great Stages of the Path" by the same author, much
space is rightly given to these two, but we feel they
should not appear as important in a major Tantric work.
I just say to meditators: If you follow the sequence
found in this work, then these two defects will be
conquered. Knowing that even followers of Mahayana
and Vajrayana still experience these states, we can
realize the importance of samatha practice. I have
practiced samatha for many years. In particular, I paid
much attention to these two hindrances so as to rid
myself of them.
3. Avoiding extremes
Some further experiences of mine may guide readers
about extremes to be avoided. They are:
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