Медитация 6, часть 1

[Говорящий 2] (0:00 - 5:12)
So, meditate. Go to your breath. Tie your mind to your breath.

There's no other thing in the world except your breath. Just your breath. There's nothing else in the world.

Come to that golden room, the room covered with sunlight. Look at the blue of the sky, at the moon. Look at the mountains across the valley.

Come back to the golden room and see your heart teacher in front of you. And feel them take your hand and just concentrate on the touch of their hand. You might even close your eyes in the golden room.

[Говорящий 1] (7:30 - 7:37)
Try to see what kind of problems come up in your meditation. Are you thinking of something else?

[Говорящий 2] (7:39 - 11:43)
Maybe something you have to do, someone you have to talk to later? Or are you spacing out, getting sleepy? Or maybe the object is not that fascinating to you.

No more. Try to call up a sense of satisfaction and willingness to stay there, without moving. Just the hands touching and a feeling of well-being, willingness to be happy, to stay silent, unmoving, together with your heart teacher.

And slowly come back to this room. Open your eyes.

[Говорящий 1] (11:45 - 14:53)
I used to sort diamonds in the diamond business, that's what you do. And in a large company you have long, long tables and many tensor lights. And then you have special paper made in Belgium.

So you can toss diamonds on them and they land the right way. And then the chairs have all their legs cut off. So you're up straight, your back is straight and you've got the eye thing and you're going like this.

And then you might do a thousand stones an hour or something like that. But they start you on five or something like that. They say do five stones well, in an hour you're okay.

So when you first get there, you just do five stones an hour. And your shoulder feels like it's on fire, because it's up like this all day. And you have horrible pains in your body.

And then your body adjusts. And then they take you up to ten stones an hour, something like that. But there's a big emphasis on you don't go faster until you're perfect.

You see what I mean? So you can't go to ten stones an hour until you do five stones an hour without a mistake. And I think you're starting to sense that meditation would be good done that way.

So three or four minutes of really good meditation is better than a half hour of subtle dullness. Subtle dullness is pernicious. It becomes a habit very quickly.

And then you get satisfied with it and you never progress. So there's two kinds of people you meet. One says, I tried to meditate and I couldn't.

I tried to meditate and I gave up. I quit. And then you find other people who say, I tried to meditate and nothing's happening.

I meditate every day and nothing's happening. I don't seem to change. And my meditation doesn't seem to change.

So there's two categories of people. I think the second category is sadder. I'd rather have given it up than to do it poorly year after year and feel like I'm not getting anywhere.

So in the diamond business, they require quality before speed. And if you try to do speed and don't have quality, they fire you. Because that means the person's never going to...

They're going to keep rushing and making errors that other people have to fix. So I'd rather have somebody slow that does a good job. Because then they'll pick up speed.

And they'll always be good. But if someone's impatient and they keep making errors because they're trying to go too fast, then they just get rid of them because you can't fix those people. So it's better to do a few minutes of very high-quality concentration and then break and do something else for a while, like study the greatest book on emptiness.

And then go back and do some more. And you will build up quickly. If it's high quality, it will build up quickly.

If it's poor quality, it won't. It won't change. Even the time won't change.