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[[Image:LongchenRabjam.JPG|frame|'''Longchen Rabjam''']]
'''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation''' (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོ་, ''Samten Ngalso'', [[Wyl.]] ''bsam gtan ngal gso'') — part of the [[Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease]] by [[Longchenpa]].
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==Outline==
The root text consists of three chapters:

#Locations for Cultivating Samadhi
#The Meditator
#The Dharma to be Practised

==Related Texts==
Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:

:1. ''A Summary called The Pundarika Garland''
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:2. A Commentary called ''The Pure Chariot''
::{{TBRCW|O00EGS1015846|O00EGS101584615862$W23760|རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤིང་རྟ་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་, ''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i 'grel pa shing rta rnam par dag pa''}}
:3. A Practical Instruction called ''The Quintessential Heart Essence''
::{{TBRCW|O00EGS1015846|O00EGS101584615863$W23760|རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་དོན་ཁྲིད་སྙིང་པོ་བཅུད་བསྡུས་, ''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i don khrid snying po bcud bsdus''}}

==Translations and Commentaries==
===English===
*The Dalai Lama, ''Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection'', Wisdom, 2007 
*H.V. Guenther, ''Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Part 2: Meditation'', Dharma Publishing, 1975
*Longchenpa, ''Finding Rest in Meditation: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 2'' translated by the Padmakara Translation Group (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2018)

==External Links==
* A translation of the first two chapters and the Tibetan text is available at Lotsawa House:
:{{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/longchen-rabjam/locations-cultivating-samadhi|''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation:'' A guide to locations for cultivating samadhi}}
:{{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/longchen-rabjam/practitioner-meditation|''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation:'' The practitioner of meditation}}

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