«Дар освобождения», курс 32 «Пустое приходящее, ментальные бомбы», занятие 2

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we're going to meditate. Relaxed face. Little smile.

Eyelids are relaxed. Fingers are relaxed. Shoulders are relaxed.

Pull back a little bit. Stomach is always slightly tight. Not too much, just slight tension.

Try to relax your forehead. And we'll start watching our breath. Long exhales.

After the lungs are finished, exhale a little bit more. When the lungs pause before the inhale, exhale just a little bit more. It's really, really important for not building up prana, chi, and getting nervous from your meditation.

Let's go through the satchang. Collecting good seeds for this meditation. And removing bad seeds for this meditation.

But we'll do it a little quickly. Some mornings you'll be too busy, you won't have enough time to do it. But if you do have time, it's good.

And so, ask one of your teachers to come. Maybe you stay with the same teacher for a few days or a few weeks, or forever, if it's your heart teacher. Or maybe you mix it up and you try a different teacher each day.

If you try a different teacher each day, it's kind of nice because you might find teachers that you didn't remember or you didn't recognize, especially people who hurt you in your life. So, choose a teacher and ask them to come and sit with you. Think of something you admire about your positive teachers.

And this is a mental prostration. Something you would like to learn or be yourself. Then make an offering, especially some improvement you've made in yourself, in the last few days especially.

Then tell your teacher about some mistake you've made in the last few days. Something you're not proud of and something you did which was not very nice. Then ask for teachings today.

Could be Dharma teachings. Could be problems that show you more about yourself. And ask your teacher to stay with you.

This week we're going to do different meditations about the six triggers. Six things which trigger negative emotion in the mind. And we'll do different meditations about the six triggers.

And the tool that we'll use is called Sheshin. You know Sheshin. It's the smoke alarm state of mind that we use during meditation.

It checks to see if you're thinking about something else. Or maybe you're spacing out and you're just not thinking about anything. And then Sheshin is watching the mind.

Sheshin is checking the quality of the meditation. And then Sheshin helps set off an alarm for Temba, which brings the mind back to meditation. So this morning we're going to use Sheshin, watcher, watcher of the mind, to just observe the morning state of mind.

Most people in the morning, their state of mind is pretty smooth. Just like the ocean in the morning. The temperature of the ocean and the land is about the same.

There's not much wind. So observe your mind. How smooth is it this morning?

How gentle, quiet. We're not tired yet. We haven't had a lot of things happen yet this morning, today.

The mind is still pretty fresh, pretty open, pretty relaxed. So use your Sheshin to just appreciate the morning state of mind. Morning is a good time for most people to do things that require a lot of thought, planning.

So just enjoy your mind, look at your mind, like glassy, quiet water. Now I'd like you to disturb this water purposely. Let's recreate a negative emotion.

Let's cause a klesha. And then let's watch with our Sheshin what happens to the calm water of the mind. So I'd like you to think about somebody that you're having a problem with in the last few days or week or month.

Usually it's not very pleasant to think about someone who's causing us trouble. But bring them to mind purposely. And then use your Sheshin to see what happens with the water.

It's very subtle. And meditation is a good time to watch. Usually during the day things are going too fast for us to watch what's happening in our mind when we meet this person.

So let's practice in the morning meditation meeting this person who's giving us trouble. Maybe they reach out to us, or they text us, or we see them directly, or we think about them strongly. So, on purpose, let's shake up the nice peaceful water of the mind by purposely thinking about someone who's giving us trouble nowadays.

And let's see how it feels. How does the mind feel? And we're going to practice this a few times with different objects.

The goal is to learn to feel, detect, with your smoke alarm called Sheshin, that your mind is getting off balance. And perhaps you could start to get angry or have desire. So here we go.

Unpleasant meditation. Bring someone in the mind who's giving you a little bit of trouble nowadays. Remember we're meditating in a group, so try not to move, try not to make noise.

Now please try to come back to the calm mind. We saw how it feels to shake up the water. And let's smooth the water out again.

Try not to think about the person. Send them away from your thoughts. If your thoughts start to come back to this person, then just gently think about something else.

Come back to the quiet mind. Try to send that object away from your thoughts. And come back to this morning clear mind, soft mind.

In the last few months we've been traveling and sharing DCI with people in different countries. And we've taught level six a lot, which is about getting rid of your addictions. Then when you talk about addictions, usually you think about cigarettes or alcohol, drugs, things like cell phones, things like this.

And you think about addictions as something that other people have, like, oh, my uncle is an alcoholic, or my friend is addicted to cigarettes. But Lam Rim says that we're all addicted, we all have addictions. Some of them are legal, some of them are not.

Sometimes the illegal addictions become legal addictions. Some addictions are obvious to other people. Some addictions are private.

But they all have one quality, and that's they disturb your mind. So if I'm in the prayer last night, and I'm addicted to cookies, then when I eat the cookies, I don't feel like sharing them. I want them all for myself, and I eat too many, and I can't stop.

So addictions hurt myself, and they hurt other people. It's different from enjoying a cookie. So there are some people in this room who don't have cookie addiction like Geshe Michael has.

They can eat one cookie at the Lama Choopa, and they feel happy, and that's enough. And their mind is soft and glassy, smooth. It's not disturbed.

Geshe Michael, when he eats a cookie, his mind starts to get disturbed. So I'd like you to think about something you might be addicted to. For me, maybe it's cookies.

But the Lamrim says all of us have some addiction. So think about, what am I addicted to? It means I can't stop wanting it.

I might hurt or inconvenience other people to get it, and I wouldn't want to share it. So think about one thing that you're addicted to. It could also be emotional addiction.

I like people to praise me. I get upset if they don't praise me. Things like that.

Okay, go ahead. We're not going to meditate much longer, maybe five more minutes. And now I'd like you to bring that object to mind.

Let's see what it does to the soft, smooth mind when you think strongly about the thing you're addicted to. So before, we were purposely disturbing the mind by thinking about someone we don't like. Now we're going to think about the thing we might be addicted to.

And I'd like you to watch the mind, the peace of mind, the smooth mind, and see if the mind gets stirred up, agitated. And I'd like you to compare that agitated mind to the one we had before with the angry person, or the person we don't like. Is the agitated mind the same, or is it somehow different?

Okay? So if you bring to mind somebody you're having a problem with, or you bring to mind cookies or something you have an addiction to, is the effect on the mind the same? Does the mind get stirred up exactly the same, or is it a little bit different?

Okay, we'll do this for about two minutes, three minutes, and then we'll stop. And then I'd like to hear from some of you. Is the stirred up mind the same, or is it somehow different?

And please take three deep exhales. Don't open your eyes yet. You can use those last three exhales as an opportunity to do the last meditation, preliminary, which is to give away the good karma of your meditation to other people.

And then slowly open your eyes. Take a stretch. Drink something, if you have, okay?

You're in the desert and you have to keep drinking, okay? If you want to get something to drink, you're welcome to. I'd like to hear from people about that question, and then we'll take a break after that, okay?

We'll take a pee-pee break after that. That's also disturbed water. So, what's the difference, okay?

Did you find a difference? You know, the mind is ... morning mind is smooth, kind of gentle, and then we thought about somebody we're having a problem with, and we watched it with our what?

Sheshin? And we saw the water start to go like this, you know? Then we tried to bring the water back to normal, and then we brought in the cookie or the object of your addiction, whatever is your addiction.

It could be an emotional addiction. And then the water got stirred up again. And my question to you is, and what I'd like to hear from people, is there a difference between those two stirred up waters?

And Yelena is going to start I think, okay? Cool. Anybody else?

Let's do five or six people, eh? Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I like it.

Anybody else? Rachana? I don't know.

Wait, say again, I couldn't hear. Can you turn it up a little bit? Yeah.

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

[Speaker 2]
It was like all of a sudden, the water was calm, it was normal. It was almost like people came to meditation.

[Speaker 1]
Pasha, Pasha, behind you.

[Speaker 2]
Cool.

[Speaker 1]
Anyone else?

[Speaker 2]
The same. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Okay, yeah. Anybody else?

I'm curious, I'm curious if the shaky water is the same. Is the disturbance of the mind equal or not? But, your own answer.

Okay, yeah. You failed in the meditation. Anyone else want to share?

Don't be shy. Cool. One more.

Two more, three more. Cell phones. Okay.

Luka first, Haso second. Okay, ladies first. Quite tight?

Yeah, okay. Yeah, the breath changes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, Haso.

[Speaker 2]
It was difficult.

[Speaker 1]
And then when I went to the addiction, I thought of this like sorrow, laziness or dullness, that I can't see how I'm addicted sometimes to just don't work on the real target. And then I compared those two, yeah, for some reason like shakes, subtle shakes, deep shakes, they are the same somehow, but I guess when they grow up, they have their own particular state, something like that. Okay, cool, cool.

Anybody else really want to say? No. Okay.

We're gonna take a break, but I'll leave you with one thought, okay? And the Lam Rim, then we're gonna do the Lam Rim, and it's gonna talk about it. So, are those two shaky water minds, are they both equally maybe gonna cause you to hurt someone?

Okay? To do something to somebody else, okay? Are they equal?

It's the irritated mind, and the shaky I want more cookies mind, are they equal, that maybe in the next five minutes you will hurt somebody, you will say something to somebody, or you will do something to somebody, okay? Think about that during your pee pee break, and when you get back, tell me what you think, okay? All right.