Graves’ Disease and the benefits of meditation

Even though breathing meditation is only a preliminary stage of meditation, it can be quite powerful. We can see from this practice that it is possible to experience inner peace and contentment just by controlling the mind, without having to depend at all upon external conditions.

We should train in this preliminary meditation until we gain some experience of it. Then we can progress to more practical forms of meditation, such as the cycle of twenty-one Lamrim meditations explained by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in .