«Дар освобождения», курс 24 «Пустой Будда — высшая защита», занятие 12

[Speaker 1]
Okay, there are three meditations you should practice when you get home. The morning meditation we did this morning, and here's the second one. Clear your throat.

Then please relax your forehead. Relax the corners of your mouth. Relax your eyelids.

If you want, you can leave them cracked open just a little bit. If you get sleepy in the afternoon meditating, you can crack them open just a little bit. Relax your fingers.

And push your shoulders back a little bit. Tighten your lower stomach just a little bit. And then come to your breath.

Long exhales. Inhale will take care of itself.

[Speaker 2]
If you think about something else, then don't get upset. Just calmly bring your mind back to your breath. Don't fight the meditation.

[Speaker 1]
Then imagine, try to think, where will I die if I lay in bed? Which bed will it be? Maybe the bed at your house.

You are laying in the bed, very sick, very weak. You cannot raise your head. And of course your family is looking down, very worried.

Very sad.

[Speaker 2]
Crying.

[Speaker 1]
Holding your hand.

[Speaker 2]
Then you close your eyes.

[Speaker 1]
And it's difficult to breathe through your nose. The nostrils are closing. Then finally you don't have the power to breathe.

And the sounds of your family crying, it starts to feel more far away and difficult to hear. And some cold coming up your hands and feet. All the way to your heart.

[Speaker 2]
And the heart stops. It's very quiet now. Then suddenly you are running down a mountain.

[Speaker 1]
Very loud noises, the pieces of mountain are falling near you.

[Speaker 2]
You are running. Try to escape from those stones.

[Speaker 1]
Running faster and faster, stones are rolling all around you, big ones. Then the sound of a huge wave, tsunami. Behind the mountain.

And it comes around the mountain, you see a huge wave coming towards you. And you try to run. But finally it catches you.

Knocks you down. And the water carries you away.

[Speaker 2]
Across the empty land.

[Speaker 1]
You are fighting to stay up to breathe. But the water keeps knocking you under. And desperately you are trying to breathe, fight your way up.

The water is carrying you away. And finally the water gets more quiet. Suddenly your feet touch the ground.

And the water drops lower. And then it pours away. You are standing on dry land.

You are walking across a large desert. Now it's very hot. The sun is burning you.

Very dry.

[Speaker 2]
Still walking across the desert in the very hot sun.

[Speaker 1]
And you feel thirsty. Then you see some water far away. And you feel some hope.

And you start to walk towards the water. Across the hot desert. But as you get closer, you can see it's just a mirage.

[Speaker 2]
There's no water there. You walk up to the mirage.

[Speaker 1]
And then into the mirage.

[Speaker 2]
And you walk through it.

[Speaker 1]
And on the other side, it starts to get smoky, foggy. Some kind of very thick smoke or fog. It's difficult to see much.

You just keep walking through this thick fog. And then suddenly you can see sparks in the fog. Some high, some low.

[Speaker 2]
Bright sparks.

[Speaker 1]
Like when someone hits you hard on the head, you can see something like that. And you keep walking.

[Speaker 2]
And then suddenly, far away, through the smoke, you can see a flame.

[Speaker 1]
Like a candle flame. And the smoke goes away. And everything is very dark.

[Speaker 2]
Behind you, all dark.

[Speaker 1]
Above you, all dark. If you look down, you cannot see the ground, just dark. And it feels more narrow.

[Speaker 2]
It feels like you're in a tunnel.

[Speaker 1]
And as you look ahead, you see the flame. You can see it's a flame, but it's not moving. There's no wind.

Very still, very quiet. You're walking towards this flame. And as you get closer, the flame gets bigger.

And when you get very close to it, it's as big as you. And you walk through it without any heat, no fire. You can walk through the light.

And on the other side, very dark. Behind you, dark. Above, dark.

[Speaker 2]
Deep darkness.

[Speaker 1]
Then on the horizon, you can see just a tiny bit of white light. Very soft. And as you get closer, it becomes larger.

Soon it covers a big part of the sky in front of you. And then finally, the whole sky is soft white color. No sun, but just a soft white color.

And then in front of you, a red color starts to come like a sunset coming this way. And the color is more and more red. Deeper red.

And then finally, the whole sky is red. Below you is still darkness. Behind you is still darkness.

[Speaker 2]
Above you, red color.

[Speaker 1]
But then the darkness rises from the earth. And the red gets smaller and smaller. And then again, everything is darkness.

[Speaker 2]
And you sit down.

[Speaker 1]
And when you sit down, the darkness gets deeper. And then even deeper. Then the darkness has a crystal quality.

It's still dark, but it feels like glass. Then far away, you can see your heart teacher. They're sitting down.

And they come closer and closer. And finally, they are sitting with you.

[Speaker 2]
Knee to knee.

[Speaker 1]
When you look in their eyes, they are very happy to see you. And then you feel not scared anymore.

[Speaker 2]
If my teacher is here, then everything will be okay.

[Speaker 1]
And you just sit together, meditating together.

[Speaker 2]
We'll stay here for a few minutes. Sit with your teacher.

[Speaker 1]
It's not a picture. It's not a video.

[Speaker 2]
It's a real person. You can feel the warmth of their body.

[Speaker 1]
And a very unusual fragrance. Like a very beautiful flower. Very delicate, very subtle fragrance.

And sit with them for a few minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Then come into your mind. Inside your mind, there's an image of your teacher. There's an image of your teacher.

[Speaker 1]
It's three dimensional, like a statue. It's not a picture. Like a small statue of your teacher.

And it's made of light. And from the inside, light is coming out. And it's quite bright, like good gold.

And this is what comes out of a seed in your mind.

[Speaker 2]
It's a bright image.

[Speaker 1]
And it feels small. Inside your mind, smaller than the nail of your little finger. There's a bright, three dimensional image of your teacher.

And you can let your focus leave the outside nama. And bring the focus to the image in your mind. This image came out of a very good seed.

And stay with this image for a few minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Inside my mind, small statue of my teacher made of light.

[Speaker 1]
Then try to think of what made this good seed. When did I share Dharma with other people? When did I try to help other people understand the four steps that created this seed?

That created this picture of my teacher? Try to think of three times when you shared with other people about doing something good for someone else to reach your own dreams. Then you can slowly come back to your breath.

[Speaker 2]
Three deep exhales. Very slow.

[Speaker 1]
Don't move yet. And slowly you can open your eyes.

[Speaker 2]
Take a stretch.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, very nice meditation. Thank you. You're so quiet.

[Speaker 2]
I want to take the Hilton staff to my house to make my bed every day and make me cappuccinos.

[Speaker 1]
And I want to take you to meditate with me because you're so quiet. Such good focus. Thank you for that.

Nick, you have a microphone? Let's do some questions. Where is Hasso?