Медитация 11, часть 2

[Говорящий 2] (0:00 - 3:28)
I'd like to more frequently meditate now. Watch your breath. Just your breath.

One object only. Only your breath. No other thing in the world.

Go to the golden room. Feel your teacher's hands on your hands. And then relax into that feeling.

Stay for a while. And what I'd like you to do is get in touch with your sheshin.

[Говорящий 1] (3:29 - 3:38)
Try to isolate a part of your mind that catches you thinking about something else.

[Говорящий 2] (3:38 - 6:45)
Try to meet that state of mind and isolate it and see when it happens. It catches you thinking about something else. It could even be a sound in the room.

I'm your sheshin. I'm the watchdog mind. Watch that state of mind do its work.

It alerts you when you're off the object. Now try to isolate and observe the part of your mind which pulls you back to the object. Chamber.

First the alert goes off.

[Говорящий 1] (6:46 - 6:59)
And then the pulling back to the mind. They are so quick. They are so fast.

They are moments of consciousness. See if you can catch a moment of consciousness.

[Говорящий 2] (6:59 - 8:31)
See if you can get to know the inside of your mind. Okay. Good job.

Good job. Come back.

[Говорящий 1] (8:33 - 13:01)
Open your eyes. I think as you were meditating, you might have become a little curious about something. Why does a certain distraction pop up at a certain point?

You see what I mean? Like what triggers a wandering of the mind? You see?

Why does the mind at 10, 19, and 30 seconds, why does the mind suddenly decide to think about something else? That would be a different way to go at the meditation rather than exerting a certain power or pulling out a certain emotion. Could we examine what they call the field of events, the field of causation?

Why does stuff pop up at a certain moment inside my mind? Why do I have good days and bad days in meditation? Why is it that some days the mind is just like crazy?

And then why on other days does it just seem to flow? But more particularly, in a silent moment of concentration, what is it that taps on my shoulder? Why did it choose to tap at that moment?

It seems almost like a clear pool of water. Your mind is going well. Your meditation is going well.

And then there's a blip. And what causes the blip? I read this book.

It was pretty incoherent. No, a very famous author. What's his name?

The judge in British India in the 1800s who became a yogi. Arthur Avalon, who was a very famous juror. And he fell in with some yogis.

And then he applied his legalistic mind. He was a famous juror. And he applied it to yoga, the theories of yoga.

And he learned to translate Sanskrit better than almost anybody. And he did it secretly because he didn't want anybody to think he was crazy. But then later he released his books on Kundalini and stuff like that.

Anyway, so he has a long section in one of his books describing the initial impetus of all things. You see? Because that's a big problem in every tradition.

You see? What caused the big bang? You're doing quantum physics, okay?

We're going to discuss what caused the big bang to explain why a blip came in your concentration. Okay? This is quantum physics.

You use the infinitesimally small to explain the large and vice versa. So, you know, and then he has this long... Then he goes way off.

He gives this long incoherent thing about why something should happen at a certain time out of nothing. You know? And the whole conversation is crazy because there is no good reason why something should suddenly happen when there was nothing before, if there was truly nothing before.

And of course our tradition says what? There was always something before. But to try to say, you know, the non-universe was flowing along fine and then there was a big bang for some reason and then a universe started.

You see what I mean? Without anything to cause the big bang. And then somebody ran to me with a...

What do you call it? Modern Science Magazine, recent name. And they said scientists had decided there must have been a big bang before the big bang to cause the big bang.

Like a proto-big bang. Because of course you have to say that. There has to be something to cause it to happen.

So take that galactic thing and now bring it to your little mind trying to stay in the golden room. And there is this little flow of meditation going and suddenly there is a blip. Is it just random?

Did it just happen? Because if it is random we are always going to have blips. Can you go to the source of the blips and turn off the faucet?

You see? Can you go to the invisible source of the blips and turn off the faucet?

[Говорящий 2] (13:01 - 13:02)
Okay.

[Говорящий 1] (13:04 - 16:30)
And that's... I hate to say the word because I sound like Billy Graham but that's morality. That's an ethical way of life.

That's being nice to others. Dharmamitra, Sri Dharmamitra, no yoga, no peace. He would rightly say, he would beautifully say...

He doesn't say morality. I don't think I've heard him say morality. He just says, he says be nice to other people.

And we like to tell this story of... There's this famous story that I heard in a class one day. He said he was late for class on his little bicycle thing.

His collapsible... And he had cut off a bus. He had swerved in front of a bus.

And the bus had to stop. And then the bus driver yelled at him. And then the bus went on and Dharmamitra went on.

And then Dharmamitra decided on his way to our class that he had offended the driver. So he pedaled really fast and turned around and caught up to the bus and stopped next to the driver and apologized. And that's why he was late for class.

I mean, that's his level of morality. That's his level of not hurting other people. And then he's physically the best yogi in the world maybe?

I don't know. He doesn't have stamina on his hands. Just on a sewer...

We call it a sewer lid. He was in Vogue magazine or something. I forget the magazine, but anyway.

Anyway. He's like this, upside down. And he's just balancing on a corner.

So if we can be extremely careful not to hurt other people and to encourage and help other people, then we are working at the source of the blips. We are shutting off the faucet to the blips in meditation. So all this whole chart is pretty much useless.

You are applying antidotes to blips. These are after the fact. The blip happens and then you work on it.

But that other approach, which is buried deep in the text, component number five of the six components of preliminaries of meditation, be a nice person, don't hurt other people. If we can go to the source of the blips and shut them off, then this becomes less important and that becomes more important. So it's good to know how to deal with blips after they happen.

It's good to become a blip maintenance man. But it would be better to stop the source of the blips. It's good to learn these things and it's good to apply the right antidotes at the right time.

It's good to manage your blips. Blip manager. It's good to be a blip manager.

But I think simultaneously, in a class or a course like this, we have to talk about the source of the blips and we have to spend some time focusing on that also. Which means study the yamas and niyamas. In yogic terms, the yamas and niyamas.

In Buddhist terms, the ten virtues.