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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarmaChronicle" data-source="post: 10198374" data-attributes="member: 357572">thank you RaneNat for your contribution.i hope those points will motivate people to engage in concentration meditation.note to others: even though the listed benefits are only the ones which we can measure by our selves, they are not the ultimate goals of concentration meditation. they are only side-effects. non buddhists can try out meditation simply for these above mentioned side-effects.but for real buddhists, this meditation has great many (unverifiable with science - but verifiable with wisdom) benefits some of which i will list below:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">shortcut towards nirvana</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">pay off bad karma (ahosi karma) with the merit of meditation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">enter temporary states of bliss</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">completing prerequisites for vipassana meditation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">higher chances of being reborn in divine planes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">overpower the total collected bad karma</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">increased awareness of mental and physical occurrences (needed for vipassana) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">better intuitive powers</li> </ul>there's more but i think the above gives you an idea.to explain things more: if you are a buddhist that's trying to attain nirvana, and you enter directly into pure vipassana meditation, it is comparable to trying to pick up marbles in a dark room without lights. you will be fiddling in the dark and you may even hurt yourself.if one builds good enough samadhi first and makes his/her mind bright and then turn to vipassana he/she can easily engage in vipassana effectively with the power of a focused beam of light at his/her disposal.the above is a good simili i've heard from great meditation masters over and over again. hope that gives you a better understanding.</blockquote>

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