Samatha
- A very special mental state achieved through the cultivation of stable attention and mindfulness.
- It has five characteristics.
- Effortlessly stable attention (samādhi)
- Mindfulness (sati-sampajañña), which means being fully conscious not only of the immediate objects of attention, but of everything else happening in the mind moment by moment.
- Joy (pīti)
- Tranquility (passaddhi)
- Equanimity (upekkhā)