«Дар освобождения», курс 31 «Как сделать свой ум прекрасным местом», занятие 2

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[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's go. We'll start the meditation by listening to the sound of the air conditioner. And don't forget, try not to move.

When the body moves, then the mind moves also. So we try to keep our body without moving, like a stone, and put our mind on the air conditioner. Now please try to focus on your heartbeat.

Dingo inside of the heart, like a beautiful sunlit apartment. And then deeper into the center of the heart, the heartbeat sounds far away. And then put your mind inside a single sugar crystal.

Now expand your mind as wide as the ocean. Now expand ocean and sky. In the next step, the sixth step, we try to turn the mind off.

So any thoughts that come in the mind, just find them and block them. And any pictures that come in the mind, then find them and block them. Try to make the mind silent.

We'll stay here a little bit longer because it's new. Eighth step, as the mind thinks about things and pictures come to the mind, just let them go. Don't try to fight with them.

But also don't connect with them. Don't connect with them. Keep the mind quiet.

Let the thoughts come and go. But don't think about them. Now we start the real meditation.

Now we begin the real meditation. Level nine, and think about one of your teachers. Could be any teacher in your life.

Could be your mom or your dad, who are your first grade teachers. Could be a school teacher. Could be the person who taught you your job.

Could be a spiritual teacher. Could be a great teacher from the past like Buddha. So think of one of them and ask them to come and sit in front of you.

Try to make them real. They are breathing. They are warm.

They are smiling. They are looking at you with happiness. Imagine your teacher.

Now think of something about this teacher that you really appreciate. If it's your parents, maybe it's all the kindness they give to you. Or maybe they are especially patient.

Or maybe they like to help other people. Or maybe they are a very responsible person. Or they like to work hard to help other people.

So think of just one quality that you really enjoy about this teacher. Now the teacher is like the pen. What we see in the teacher is coming from us.

This is the meaning of cause and effect. This is the meaning of dependent origination. I have seeds in my mind.

And when they open, I see this beautiful quality in my teacher. Somebody put those seeds in my mind. Somebody put those seeds in my mind.

And that person is me. So sometime in my past life, I must have done very similar good things to my teacher. If my teacher is very helpful to other people, then in my past life, I must have been very helpful.

So now we're going to go on a little trip to the past life. Maybe we can't see the past life directly, but we can guess what we did. If my teacher is very helpful to other people in this life, then in the past life, I must have been very helpful to other people.

So we cannot remember directly perhaps, but we can imagine. And anything we can imagine is also coming from our seeds. So it won't be very wrong.

So now try to imagine your past life. Relax. Have fun.

You can imagine any time in history. It could be any country. You could be man, you could be woman, you could be animal.

Go to the past life. Imagine when you were very helpful, or whichever seeds you planted to see your teacher, and find what you did. When we do this meditation, sometimes we find the person in the past life, and we stop.

But don't do like that. Imagine what was this person doing. Imagine two or three specific incidents which really happened, and play it like a movie in your mind.

Oh, I'm being so helpful to other people in Chang'an, in the Tang Dynasty. And I'm dressed like Tang Dynasty person. Maybe I work for the emperor.

And I'm helping Xuanzang to translate the books. You imagine. Make it fun.

Make it beautiful. Sometimes we will get sleepy, we will think about other things. When you catch your mind thinking about other things, just be happy, bring it back to your movie.

Okay, we'll spend some time here, and after that we'll take a break. So relax, have fun. Okay, here we go.

Then slowly bring your mind back to your teacher who's sitting in front of you. Appreciate where this good quality came from. Those old seeds are opening in your mind.

Small pictures are coming out. They are coming out of your mind to the person in front of you. And that's why we see a nice person.

Be happy, because now we understand where this person's coming from. And that means we can keep them. We just keep planting the same seeds.

It's easy. Then we'll take three big exhales slowly. Don't forget this special exhale method.

Okay. When the exhales finish, push out a little more air. Okay, three big exhales.

And then slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch. We're going to have questions and answers, Nick.

Thank you. Drink something, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Good morning, Nick. I have two questions. One is, when you were doing the meditation yesterday, when you were exhaling, did you pause for a moment and then exhale as much as possible?

And then when you were doing the meditation, for example, when you were doing the meditation just now, did you do it consciously or did you just do it when you were telling us to do it?

[Speaker 1]
I have two questions. The first question is, you told us that we are doing them during meditation when we breathe out. When our breath stops, we push out extra air.

But just now you also reminded us to do so. So my question is, should we keep doing that during the meditation or just do it when you remind us to do? Very, very nice question.

And if you can do it often during the meditation, you won't get nervous. If you don't do it, then the air will collect in the lungs, and the air and the prana are connected. And then the prana will increase.

And you will start—maybe you feel tight in your chest, or your hand's a little bit shaky, or there's a special headache, meditation headache, like in the jing they call, come, come, come, come, come. You will get a little bit headache. So if you feel, or you cannot sleep well, or you can sleep too well, then learn to do it all the time.

Yeah, even if I don't remind you, you should do. Okay, second question.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So during the Lion Dance meditation, when we imagine, visualize the ocean, are we looking from above the ocean, or are we in the ocean, deep in the ocean? Nice question. I think you must be meditating if you have these questions, and not thinking about lunch.

Thank you. Your mind becomes the ocean. So, it's kind of like the mind goes, hmm?

Good translator. Then, should we say, sometimes it helps in the ocean meditation. In the ocean meditation, if you imagine a very quiet ocean, and someone drops a small stone in the middle, where Geshe Michael's shining spot, guan, someone dropped a stone here, in the middle of the ocean, then the ripple goes like this, and you can follow the ripple.

How far? Part of your mind go to Los Angeles. Part of your mind go to ...

What's that pearl city? Zhuhai. Zhuhai.

Okay? It's expanding, expanding. So, sometimes you can use the ripples.

Ripple. Okay? And your mind going farther, farther, farther, farther.

Okay. So, you are not looking down on the water. Your mind is the water.

Cool?

[Speaker 2]
Very cool. Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Okay. Other question?