Медитация 5

[Speaker 1]
Okay, check your cell phone. In Guadalajara they have a good custom right? If your cell phone go off they charge you 50 US dollars.

It's good money, what do you call it? Fundraising. Blow your nose.

[Speaker 2]
Relax your shoulders, push your shoulders back, chest out.

[Speaker 1]
Little smile. Relax your fingers. Tummy a little bit tight.

Eyelids relaxed. Forehead relaxed. We're going to start the meditation a little bit differently.

We'll do the ten breaths. Try to watch ten breaths out and in without thinking about something else. Then this morning we'll start, you're on your deathbed, and you are telling your friends and family which things, which of your possessions each person can have.

So just a few minutes there. When the time comes, on your deathbed or before, to give away your things, what will you give away? And to whom will you give it?

So we'll start there, just for a few minutes. What things will you give of all of your things to whom? I'm going to start with you, I'm going to start with you, I'm going to start with you.

Then imagine you're lying on your back and you begin to die. Hands and feet getting colder. No feeling.

Cold spreading up your arms. Trouble breathing. Finally the nostrils close, the mouth closes, and the eyes close.

And it's dark but suddenly you hear a loud noise like an earthquake. It feels like the whole ground is quaking. And then you see mountains of stone around you falling.

The earth is opening up. Terrible noises of mountains, smashing against mountains, falling towards you. You run, for example, down this valley, past the temple, and then huge tsunami appears.

And it takes you across the desert in deep water waves. You're fighting to stay on top. And then suddenly the waves leave you in an empty desert.

And the sun is burning down. And then wraps your body in flame. You're burning in the middle of flame.

You keep moving across the land. And then a hurricane comes, tornado, tearing at your body with a loud noise. Knocks you down, you get back up, keep going.

Then the wind dies down, gets quiet. You're walking across the land. Far away you see water, mirage.

You walk towards it. And you step up to the mirage. You step through the mirage.

Then on the other side you're wrapped in smoke, fog. You're walking, but it's all smoke, can't see anything. You feel very alone.

No one is with you, no one can be with you. You feel very lonely, frightened. Then in the smoke you start to see sparks, random sparks all around you, through the smoke.

You keep walking. And you see a steady light in the distance. It's not moving.

As you get closer you realize it's a candle flame that's not moving at all. But as you get closer, you become smaller and smaller. Your mind is becoming smaller and smaller.

And now the flame, candle flame is as tall as you are. You keep moving towards the candle flame. And then suddenly you're inside the flame.

And then you come out on the other side of the flame. And again it's dark. But in the distance, on the horizon, it's like day is breaking.

Slowly the sky is becoming light, white light. You keep walking towards that light. And in time you're surrounded in a soft white glow.

You keep walking. And you come to a place where in the white on the horizon there's red coming, dark red light. It's getting bigger and bigger.

And as you walk towards it, then you're wrapped in red light. You walk towards the horizon, through the red light, and suddenly everything is dark. And now go deeper into the darkness.

More dark. Very, very quiet. Very, very small, like a tip of a needle.

Your whole world is dark. And then you see some crystal, something crystalline, like clear glass. And then everything is appearing to you as emptiness.

Sheer emptiness. Nothing else. No white, no red, no black.

Pure emptiness. And you understand. You recognize it as emptiness.

And it's not a color. It's not a shape. It's the fact that nothing is coming from its own side.

And there's nothing else. Then try to feel some joy, happiness, deep pleasure, deep happiness. You are close to becoming a Buddha.

You are close to helping all beings. The old life is finished. And this is the new me.

This emptiness is my essence. And it gives me the power to help every living being. Stay here for a few minutes in the body of a Buddha which is emptiness.

And please come back to your breath. Please don't move. Three deep breaths.

Exhale first. While you're taking these breaths, imagine that the out-breath, on the out-breath, you are offering all the good karma, all the good seeds you made during this meditation to other people, all the people in this world. May they learn these things.

May they learn to become Buddha. And you can slowly open your eyes.

[Speaker 2]
Take a stretch.