AGOL 26, Ведомая медитация 5 — стенограмма

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's meditate.

[Speaker 2]
Check your phone.

[Speaker 1]
So, relax your mouth, and suck in your stomach just a little bit. Relax your eyelids. Relax your shoulders, and your fingers, and your forehead.

And then, come to your breath. We'll focus on our breath for a few minutes. Long exhales.

And try to keep the mind on the breath.

[Speaker 2]
Then, ask your lama to come and sit with you.

[Speaker 1]
Make a lama offering, something nice that you did yesterday. Then, confess to your lama something not so nice you did yesterday. Then again, something beautiful you did yesterday, tell your lama.

[Speaker 2]
Then ask the lama to keep teaching you.

[Speaker 1]
Ask lama to stay in your life. Then, please bring your mind back to the three good things we talked about yesterday that you did. One was from early in the day, one was from the middle part of the day, and one was later in the day.

Try to remember the first one, the one from the morning. And then try to remember the fantastic, huge result that could come thousands of times bigger from that good thing you did in the morning. Then try to remember the thing from the middle of the day.

And try to remember the result which is thousands of times bigger in a few months. And then try to remember the thing in the evening, and the result which is thousands of times bigger than that. Then, this morning I'd like to do the opposite.

All of us have some problems in our life, some troubles. And let's say I have a problem with some person. Let's say I have a disagreement with some person.

And it's been going on for a while, and it's pretty strong, like I haven't been able to make friends with this person, and we still have a lot of tension between us. And if the second law of karma is correct, then the thing that bothers me about this person, it's coming from something I did. Maybe long ago, maybe a year ago.

[Speaker 2]
And what I did was maybe 1% of what I see now.

[Speaker 1]
Like if this person talks too much, every time I want to say something, it's difficult. They always talk, and I don't get a chance to talk. Then if I follow that bad result into the past, back into the past, and I try to find a cause which is only 1% of this size, it's like I'm looking at a tree, and I'm trying to imagine this tiny seed that it came from.

So what I'd like you to do now in your meditation, choose one problem you have nowadays, and then trace it back into the past, maybe two or three months ago. Something I did, which was only 1% of what I'm seeing now. So if I'm at the retreat in Chapala, and every time I have breakfast with this person, they are always talking.

They don't let me talk. If I take my mind backwards three months, back to, let's say, April, then can I imagine that in April I interrupted my wife or husband or friend just once while we were eating dinner? And they were talking, and I just interrupted one sentence.

That's all. Just one sentence I interrupted. And that seed grew thousands of times for three months, and now I'm at the retreat in Chapala.

Every time I have breakfast with this person, they are talking for 45 minutes without—I have no chance to say anything. So instead of imagining a good seed today, which grows a thousand times in three months from now, we're going to take a bad result, which is happening now, and trace it back to the past 1%. So, take the biggest problem you're having in your life right now, and trace it back.

Maybe you don't remember interrupting your wife in one sentence, but trace it back and try to imagine what was the seed. And we're going to be quiet for about five minutes.

[Speaker 2]
And let's work on the biggest problem we have.

[Speaker 1]
Now I'd like you to take the second biggest problem you have. I don't know. Maybe it's a financial problem.

And take it backwards in time. Go back maybe three months.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe you had a chance to help someone with a small amount of money, and you didn't do it.

[Speaker 1]
So, find the 1% seed three months ago of the 100% result that you have now. Even if you don't remember exactly refusing someone some money, use your third eye, the eye of logic, and try to imagine what you must have done three months ago, or 1% small seed to have the problem you have today.

[Speaker 2]
Now a third problem.

[Speaker 1]
Something that's giving you trouble nowadays. Maybe a health problem. You have some kind of pain in your body, or you feel part of you getting older.

And again, try to bring your mind back three months ago. Find the 1% cause, small seed. If you can't remember it, then use logic.

Just guess. And try to picture yourself making that mistake three months ago. Maybe your friend was feeling sick, and you didn't really help them very much.

And that was the 1% cause. And now it has grown into some pain in your body. Find a third problem, and the 1% seed.

Then please come back to your breath. Three long exhales.

[Speaker 2]
Imagine you are sending the good karma of your meditation to other people.

[Speaker 1]
And then you can slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch.