Медитация 2

[Speaker 1]
Okay good, let's go. Sit up straight, pull in your tummy just a little bit, bring your shoulder blades together, open your chest, relax your fingers, come to your breath. Try to learn to come to your breath quickly.

Bring your mind down into your breath quickly. Then try to imagine yourself as you will be a Buddha, and you will see that Buddha directly for the first time, when you see emptiness directly, right after that experience, in the few hours following that experience, you will see yourself as you will be a Buddha, taking care of an entire world. So, I'd like to look at this Buddha as standing on top of the sky, you know, so their feet are, the bottom of their feet are facing the earth, but they are standing high above the atmosphere, standing on the atmosphere.

Venerable Jingmei asked me, what shall we call the press that we have for printing Buddhist books? I said, let's call it standing on the sky press. So you're standing, and you are looking down at your world that you're in charge of, it's your responsibility as a Buddha to focus on this particular world, and help the beings in this world.

So you feel sort of like a mom watching her child in a crib or something. This is your world to help take care of it, and I'd like you to imagine this Buddha is like a moon, a shining full moon, and then down there on the surface of this earth are bodies of water, oceans, lakes, puddles, teardrops, and your light of your moon shines in each one. As soon as the water faces you, you appear in the water like a mirror, like stepping in front of a mirror, but those bodies of water are people who need something.

So I'd like you to imagine the Americas, South and North America, and choose a city that comes to mind, and imagine someone in that city who needs help today, and you decide what kind of help. It could be they just lost their boyfriend or girlfriend or husband or wife, or they just found out that they are very sick, they have serious disease, or they just lost their job, they don't know what to do. You choose a city, and you choose an imaginary person or someone you know in the Americas who has a problem.

And then imagine that you step in front of that mirror, and you become someone or something that can help them. Maybe a dear friend or a child who comforts them, or a teacher, or a little dog. You choose something, and step in front of the mirror of the person who needs you, and imagine you're helping them in a place in the Americas.

Then stay in that body of the friend or the dog in the Americas, and then move your mind to Europe. Look down on Europe, Western or Eastern Europe, and choose a city, and then decide. Think of a person who might need you.

Let's do the whole strip, like Middle East, Africa, Europe, and think of someone who needs something. Choose a city, create an imaginary person or think of a person you know about, say in Syria or something, and come to them as a friend or protector, someone to love. Reflect in that mirror, in that puddle of water of a person who needs you, but don't let go of the one in the Americas.

Keep that one going, and create a second one.

[Speaker 2]
Now move your mind to Asia, North and South, and do the same thing.

[Speaker 1]
Think of any city, choose a city. Ho Chi Minh, Singapore, Jakarta, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing. You choose.

Imagine a person there who has some problem. Don't let go of the first two bodies you took in the Americas and in the strip of Europe and Middle East, Africa. Hold those two, and now choose a city in Asia.

Imagine someone in trouble needs help, or choose someone you know, and step in front of that mirror of a person in need, and appear suddenly in their life as a friend, or a teacher, or maybe as their child, someone they can love, and enter this third body at the same time as you keep the other two. And keep those three bodies going, helping three different people, and bring your mind back to yourself standing on the sky. Those three bodies are still living, helping people, but bring your attention back to yourself as a Buddha standing in the sky.

And then three long exhales to come back, and then slowly open your eyes. Take a good stretch.