Meditation, Stability, Clarity: Experiencing the Liberating Power of Full Attention
D2S1 - Hovering, Comparison, and the Five Obscurations
Lama Alan · 94 minutes · recorded June 5, 2025
Lama Alan introduces hovering, staying aware of being aware rather than dissolving into the breath, and traces suffering to grasping at what is not I or mine and failing to recognise what we are, the trap behind both low self-esteem and its mirror, feeling superior to others. He sets out the five obscurations, craving, malice, dullness, agitation and uncertainty, and shows how factors that arise naturally through practice act as their antidotes.
Anxiety and fear Attachment and craving Comparison and self-cherishing Guilt and regret Self-criticism and shame Shamatha (calm abiding)