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Welcome to the DhO Dharma Wiki
The DhO Dharma Wiki is a place where one can find detailed information regarding various meditative practices--including what they are, how to do them, and what they lead to. Below you'll find an extensive list of various meditative techniques and maps of the territory that these practices, if done correctly, will lead to.
A few things worth knowing about the wiki:
- Authorship is restricted. If you want to be a Wiki Author, let a Wiki Moderator or DhO Administrator know. We want to keep this of high quality.
- If you make an entry about anything that is anything other than straight-up standard dogma or doctrine, you must state that this your take on this by the following method: you will place your full, real name before your addition to the content so that it is labeled as your take on the topic so that there is no ambiguity about who the author of that section of entry is.
- As this will be a wiki with explicit authorship, adding an entry to the wiki is explicitly a claim to direct, personal understanding and attainment of whatever you are saying unless you explicitly label it as dogma, doctrine, theory or hearsay, and then you must give the reference for that or state that you don't know the reference if that is the case. Minimize the latter when possible except as something to build on or react to.
- Controversy in this is inevitable and expected. This is to be a place where the debates, complexities, ambiguities and convergences can all be seen as they are as much as possible. Rather than an attempt to say, "This is absolutely how it is, end of story", this wiki is an attempt to say, "This is these peoples' takes on the thing based on their own experience and experiments," which hopefully will lead to something broad, realistic, practical, applicable, and experienced-based as much as possible that has more depth than what is typically possible based on one author or tradition or small, sectarian group.
- The wiki will attempt to explore and promote personal practice, direct understanding and attainment whenever possible. All entries should attempt to keep this focus at the forefront whenever possible or say how this relates to something practical and useful that will make people's actual lives and this world somehow better.
DhO Basics
DhO Dictionary
Core Principles
Here are some of the most core principles and teachings that are mentioned on this site.
- The Four Seals of the View
- The Three Trainings
- The Three Characteristics
- The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
- The Noble Eightfold Path
The Best of the DhO
Here you can find links to some of the Best of the DhO.
Types of Meditation
Here is a list of some of the different meditative techniques that are discussed on this site, along with related instructions. Many more may be found if you look around.
Samatha Techniques
Samatha techniques include those techniques which lead to a stabilization of attention on a particular object, and then often the development of more subtle stages of concentration, called the samatha jhanas.
Vipassana Techniques
Vipassana techniques include those techniques
The Maps of Meditation
There are many maps used to describe the progress of meditation. Below you'll find a list of many of these various maps.
Theravada Maps:
- The Samatha Jhanas
- The Progress of Insight
- The Vipassana Jhanas
- The Four Path Model
- The Simple Model
Tibetan Maps:
Zen Maps:
Christian Maps:
eBooks and Resources
One of the foundation texts that forms a basis for the spirit and some of the technology and concepts of the DhO is this book, and as such is highly recommended: