Meditation Diagram<ref>On a large scale, this picture depicts the complete process or path of shamatha. On a smaller scale, it illustrates the process we go through in almost every meditation session.</ref>]] Nine ways of resting the mind (Tib. སེམས་གནས་པའི་ཐབས་དགུ་, sem nepé tab gu; Wyl. sems gnas pa’i thabs dgu) — whatever the object of our meditation, we pass through nine stages in the development of shamatha.

1. Resting the Mind (Tib. འཇོག་པ་, jokpa) – focusing the mind upon an object [number 2 on the illustration]<br>
2. Resting the Mind Longer (Tib. རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇོག་པ་, gyündu jokpa) – maintaining that continuity [9]<br>
3. Continuously Resettling the Mind (Tib. བླན་ཏེ་འཇོག་པ་, len té jokpa) – whenever one forgets the object and becomes distracted one resettles the mind [13]<br>
4. Fully Settling the Mind (Tib. ཉེ་བར་འཇོག་པ་, nyewar jokpa) – by settling in that way, the mind becomes increasingly focused on the object [16]<br>
5. Taming the Mind (Tib. དུལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་, dulwar jepa) – by thinking of the qualities of samadhi, one feels greater joy for meditation [21]<br>
6. Pacification of the Mind (Tib. ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ་, shyiwar jepa) – then seeing the faults of distraction, one’s dislike for meditation is pacified [22]<br>
7. Complete Pacification of the Mind (Tib. རྣམ་པར་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ་, nampar shyiwar jepa) – then whenever the cause of distraction, such as the subsidiary disturbing emotions or sleepiness or mental unease occur, they are completely pacified [24]<br>
8. One-pointedness (Tib. རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་, tsechik tu jepa) – then one attains some stability through applying the antidotes for distraction [26]<br>
9. Resting in Equanimity (Tib. མཉམ་པར་འཇོག་པ་བྱེད་པ་, nyampar jokpa jepa) – finally one is able to rest the mind on its object quite naturally, without resorting to any antidotes [28]<br>

The ninth stage of resting the mind is also known as the ‘one-pointed mind of the desire realm’ (Tib. འདོད་སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་པ་, Wyl. ‘dod sems rtse gcig pa).

These are taken from Maitreya's Ornament of Mahayana Sutras (Skt. Mahayanasutralankara).

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