High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samatha comprises a suite, type or style of Buddhist meditation or concentration practices designed to enhance sustained voluntary attention, and culminates in an attention that can be sustained effortlessly and for hours on end. Samatha is a subset of the broader family of samadhi ("concentration") meditation practices. The Tibetan term for samatha is shiney. According to Jamgon Kongtrul, insight may be garnered by an exegesis of the etymology of shamatha and shiney.
