Meditation teachers are sometimes reluctant to recommend a common method of practice as each person has a different set of karmic conditions and resultant personality characteristics
that need to be addressed. The Great Indian Master Asanga recommended that individuals with unique character flaws or a dominate negative behavior use different techniques. These
techniques could also be useful for any of us who find ourselves obsessed with any of these qualities from time to time. Since the last characteristic of discursiveness or a tendency to ramble and be unfocused is common to most of us, that technique is often given as a common method.
| Dominant Delusion | Methods or Objects of Meditation |
| Attachment-Desire/Craving | Ugliness in the form of corpses or certain unattractive body functions; |
| Impermanence. | Hatred Love/happiness, compassion/suffering, sympathetic joy/good fortune, generosity/ equanimity; Metta Bhavana as sent first to those closest family members, friends, neutral people you do not know, and enemies or those you hate or who hate you (Brahmavihara or FourLimitless States of Mind). |
| Ignorance | The twelve factors of dependent-arising; Contemplation of conditionality. How our “world” comes into being. |
| Pride/Conceit (mana) | Differentiation of the six constituents of earth, water, wind, fire, space, & consciousness (Six Element Practice). This who you really are. |
| Discursiveness/Doubt | The exhalation and inhalation of the breath, mindfulness of breathing. |
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