Meditation

21meditation for the Shamatha 🙏🙏

སེམས་གནས་དགུ
༡༽སེམས་འཇོག་པ།  ༢༽རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇོག་པ།  ༣༽གླན་ཏེ་འཇོག་པ།  ༤༽ཉེ་བར་འཇོག་པ།  ༥༽དུལ་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༦༽ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༧༽རྣམ་པར་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༨༽རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ།  ༩༽མཉམ་པར་འཇོག་པ་སྟེ་དགུ
Deepening Calm-Abiding- The Nine Stages of Abiding
 1) Stage Stabilising in the Mind
 2) Stage Continuous Stabilising
 3) Stage Habitual Stabilisation
 4) Stage Near Stabilsation
 5) Stage Habituation
 6) Stage Pacifying
 7) Stage Thorough Pacification
 8)Stage Becoming One-Pointed
 9) Stage Entrance into Samadhi 
The elephant is the example of the mind for:
If an elephant is wild, it is very dangerous to all other animals. Likewise, if the mind is not tamed it harms others. All suffering is caused by the untamed mind.
 An elephant once tamed obeys its master better than any other animal; even if the master were to say pick up a very large hot ball with its trunk, the elephant will do so. Therefore, the mind when tamed, can perform any action, no matter how difficult.
The footprint of the elephant is larger than any other animal's. Likewise, if our mind is tamed and comes into the realm of the Dharma, it serves its master better than any other and its capacity and scope is unlimited. If our mind is very peaceful and well tamed, there will no longer be any enemies of that person anywhere. If our mind is peaceful, we make all others around us peaceful. All the results of our mind-whether good or bad-increase, for body and speech of a person are only servants of the mind.
The monk in the drawing is the meditator.
The dark color of the elephant signifies the presence of weakness and fogginess, because these two are "the darkness of the mind."
The monkey's dark color symbolizes scattering of attention; its presence symbolizes distraction and scattering of focus from both inner turbulence and outer attraction. Thus the monkey leads the elephant everywhere, always to different objects. (Just as scattering distracts the mind to sense objects).
The rope held by the monk symbolizes recollectedness; and the hook symbolizes watchfulness or alertness not only to the instruction about the practice of Calm-Abiding but also to the enlarging of the undistracted field of Awareness: what is occurring and what one is doing.
The fire is the energy and zest for meditation. The progressively diminishing flame, along the path, is lessening of effort needed to cultivate understanding and recollected concentration.
Cloth (touch), fruit (taste), perfume conch (smell), cymbals (hearing), and a mirror (seeing) are the distractions of the five senses and their objects because in the early stages of cultivating meditation, the attention is readily distracted by objects of the senses.
The rabbit represents a more subtle aspect of scattering and fogginess, which dilutes the zest for practice and diminishes the mind's clarity.
The Nine elephants show progression on the Path to Calm-abiding....... I hope this can help you little bit 🙏🙏🙏