Медитация 18

[Speaker 2]
Okay, now we're ready to meditate, okay ready? Here we go. Number 18.

Maybe you want to do this one every day, one time.

[Speaker 1]
So, relax your forehead, put a little smile on your face, pull in your stomach just a little bit tight, relax your fingers, relax your eyelids, check your shoulders, are they relaxed? And then let's come to our breath. Long exhales.

Let's not count today, let's just watch the exhales. Long exhales. And bring the mind to the center with the breath.

Then we'll start in meditation. Please, look into your heart and connect with your heart teacher there. You know, like kind of sneak into the grain of sugar and sit with them, and just be with them.

No special plan or agenda, just be quiet with them. Enjoy being with your heart teacher. Then during the three-day retreat we won't use our cell phones, and then when we come out of retreat, I think it's Thursday or Friday, we will, most of us will grab our cell phone and text somebody, WeChat somebody.

I'd like you to think of two or three people that you will probably contact with your cell phone or your laptop after you get out of the three-day retreat. All of us have some busy things we have to do, we have plans after this program, but also after the three days. We feel that we will need to write someone, text someone, WeChat.

So try to think of two or three people that you might be sending a WeChat to as soon as you take down your boundary markers, or as soon as you reach the temple. Okay, here we go. Then try to imagine that someone comes up to you and says, oh that's a nice cell phone, and I heard about Huawei cell phones, and how does it work?

And then, you know, we're not scientists, and we have a picture in our mind that we talk into the phone, and we push a button, and then a circuit closes, and electricity goes across some wires, and some of us remember from seventh grade science class, electrons are moving to a pipe or something, and then somehow it comes out of the phone as a signal, and it goes and touches a tower, a cell phone tower, and then there's more electrons moving in the cell phone tower along copper wires, and then another signal goes out and goes to a satellite, and there's more wires in the satellite, and more electrons move, and then signals come from the satellite to my friend in Singapore, to my husband, or my children, and that's how we explain a cell phone. If you and me had to make a cell phone, it would take a thousand years I think, but we have a rough idea how it works, so get in touch with that rough picture in your mind, mostly from seventh grade science class, about how the cell phone is working, because somebody asked you a question about it after you finished your three-day retreat.

How does the cell phone work? And then try to take refuge, which always means look at the deeper causes. What makes the copper carry electrons?

Who made satellites go up into space? Who built the cell phone towers? Why am I able to communicate with people I love and do things I think are important with this cell phone?

And then try to think about the real causes. I don't know clearly all the causes, but I believe it must have to do with helping other people to communicate. Maybe a husband or wife that you know they have trouble communicating with each other, and maybe you help them, or maybe you taught a child to read, or you explained your understanding of Dharma to other people you shared.

So try to figure out yourself what has caused the cell phone, what keeps it working. Now if you weren't meditating, I would ask you if you want to go deeper, but since you can't talk, I believe you want to go deeper. So you can take this meditation to a deeper level and think about messages you're getting nowadays.

Who's been writing you? Who's been posting things that you read? What family members or friends are using WeChat to contact you?

And think about some of the messages you've gotten. I try not to read them before I go to bed, because some of them disturb my mind, good ones and bad ones. Think about messages you get on your cell phone, and try to understand that they are also coming from you.

Good ones that you're getting nowadays, bad ones, what you see on the internet this week, news, entertainment, all the content of your cell phone, not just the cell phone, is also coming from you, and from your proceeds. And all this kind of thinking, all this kind of meditation, is taking refuge, because it will protect you. You can keep your cell phone working if you help others to communicate, and you can only get beautiful messages and see inspiring, uplifting things on the internet if you speak that way to others and you communicate that way to others.

And that's taking refuge. Thank your lama in your heart. That's probably one of the main jobs of a lama, is to keep you thinking like this, and then come back to your breath.

Three long exhales, and then slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch.