The training of concentration (Samādhi Sikkhā)

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Ven. Dr. Jotika Associate Professor

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The training of concentration is the second and middle stage of the Noble Eightfold Path. It consists of developing the three constituents of the Noble Eightfold Path that constitute the training of concentration (samādhi sikkhā); (1) Sammāvāyāma – the right effort, (2) Sammāsati – the right mindfulness, and (3) Sammāsamādhi – the right concentration. If one can exert strenuous effort to be vigilantly mindful of a meditation object, one can build up mental concentration.


The right concentration, according to Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, is the concentration associated with the four rūpāvacara jhāna, which are the meditative absorptions in the fine-material sphere. Visuddhimagga (the Path of Purification), however, extends the right concentration from the neighbourhood concentration (upacāra samādhi) to the concentration associated with any of the four rūpāvacara jhāna and the four arūpāvacara jhāna, which are the meditative absorptions in the immaterial sphere. To attain the right concentration one has to undertake tranquility meditation systematically

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Ven. Dr. Jotika Associate Professor. (2024). The training of concentration (Samādhi Sikkhā). Buddhism in Mekong Region Journal, 7(2), 11–22. retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/bmrj/article/view/280457
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