Медитация 26

[Говорящий 1] (0:00 - 5:36)
Watch your breath, please, and come to the golden room, beautiful room covered in golden light, liquid golden light. It's very quiet, very restful. Look at the blue sky.

Gaze at the sky. Drop your gaze to the mountains and the valley between, covered with light.

[Говорящий 2] (5:40 - 5:49)
Sheshin is watching to see if the mind loses the object or gets too low, dull.

[Говорящий 1] (5:55 - 6:04)
Then it applies the antidote. After a meal, we might feel dull. Then uplift the mind.

[Говорящий 2] (6:11 - 6:23)
Because we're planning to leave this evening, the mind might go to that and then bring the mind down with thoughts of loved ones who have passed away.

[Говорящий 1] (7:13 - 7:36)
Bring the mind back to the golden room and your teacher. Ask your teacher to come. And they lay their hands on your head.

Try to place the mind on the touch of the hands.

[Говорящий 2] (7:38 - 7:48)
And try to be content with that. Try to think, this is enough. This is all I need.

I don't need to think of other things or plans.

[Говорящий 1] (7:51 - 11:38)
This is a very precious, most precious thing that could happen to me. Single point, the hands, and slowly bring your mind back to this room.

[Говорящий 2] (11:41 - 15:29)
Somebody asked a question. They are teaching Bhojjyama classes, which are classes about meditation and emptiness that were developed at our mountain. And then they are teaching other meditation classes.

And they are doing Jetsam Kapha retreats. And then they wondered how could we incorporate this briefer style of meditation into those teachings and activities. We originally designed this program to be walking meditation between the meditations, you know like maybe 10 minutes of meditation and then some walking or a few yoga poses and then some meditation.

And then you go out and we had fences ready to be mended and stuff like that. Then we had the snow. And then we lost one lady in the first day or something.

She fell down to her home. So I think you can either have discourse between the meditations. I would just, I would try to get up to 18 meditations a day, you know.

Maybe in a week or 10 days. But if it's a retreat, because that's the tradition. 18 times 10 is what?

3 hours. In 3-year retreat, we kind of determined that about 4 hours was the maximum you could do in a day. Even with all day.

Because we didn't have anything else to do. 4 hours in deep meditation was about the maximum. And then we would do mantras.

Mantras are good. You need things between some mantras or rituals, recitations. Go out walking.

Do some yoga. But I think for new people especially, I don't think those long-rounding meditations are healthy. I've done them.

I've been there. For years. And I don't think they're so useful.

So I think they're good for cogitation. I don't think they count as meditation. Cogitation.

Just kind of rambling reviews of your life and stuff like that. But not for seeing emptiness. All right.

So if you were going to teach a bunch in the class or do a retreat, I think you could incorporate the shorter ones. Just see how it works. I think it would be good.

I think it would be good. And then rather than encouraging the students to do a whole hour required between classes, say, per day, then ask them maybe to do two or three shorter ones like that. The length, the duration comes.

You can get up to four hours straight if you do it this way. But if you just try to do four hours straight, force yourself. Just sit down and say, I'm not getting up for four hours.

What you do in your mind is just going to be rambling. You're just going to ramble in your mind. You'll get exhausted.

And you won't be able to keep your mind on a single thing. Okay.