«Дар освобождения», курс 34 «Победа над негативными мыслями», занятие 4

[Speaker 1]
Okay, here we go. And please close your eyes, relax your eyelids. Small smile.

The smile helps a lot. The hands are relaxed. Pull in the stomach a little bit.

Shoulders go back. Forehead is relaxed. And in the lion's dance, we don't start with our breath.

We start with the sound of the air conditioner. So, listen to the sound of the air conditioner. Rest your ears on the air conditioner like you rest your head on the pillow.

Then let's come to the sound of our heart beating. Then let's go inside the heart. Beautiful sunlit meditation room with fresh air.

The walls are beating. And now into an inner room in the heart. Again, it's a beautiful meditation room.

Lots of sunlight. Fresh air. And the heart beating sounds far away.

Our concentration is deeper. Then I dip my finger into a sugar pot. I pull out a single grain of sugar.

And I put my mind inside the sugar grain. And surprisingly, the inside of the sugar grain is also a very elegant meditation room. And now the Pacific Ocean is inside the sugar cane.

Huge, huge, covers the whole world. Very deep. Very calm.

Inside the piece of sugar, and that's my mind. Now I add the sky. Very high, very wide, very peaceful, very blue.

Also my own mind. Now I turn my mind off, like a light. If thoughts come up, I block them.

Again, I turn my mind off. But when thoughts come up, I just let them fade away like clouds in the sky. I don't connect to those thoughts.

Now we begin the real meditation. Never do those other steps without the real meditation. If you don't have a lot of time and you have to go do something else, then you can skip all the steps we did so far.

But don't skip the meditation with the teacher. Those other ones are just to warm up the meditation muscle. Now we invite one of our teachers in our life.

Please come and meditate with me. Could be our first grade teachers, mom and dad. Or your favorite school teacher.

Or the one who taught you your job. Could be your wife, could be your husband, could be your children. Could be historical Buddha or Nagarjuna or someone like that.

But they are real. They are sitting in front of you. Very happy.

Your eyes are closed, but their eyes are open. And they're looking at you with a lot of love. They're very happy you are meditating.

Traditionally, we see their outline first. The silhouette. Then we fill in the eyes like we are a painter.

We fill in the eyes. Then we fill in the rest of the face with a big smile. And then all the details of the body.

Then we can add the other senses. They smell very fragrant. Their body is very warm.

Their chest is moving with the breath. So it's a real person. Now let's think of something about them that we really love.

For example, maybe they are a very patient person. Or maybe they like to help the sick or the elderly. They are just like the pen.

That teacher comes from my seeds. So if I see a very patient or compassionate person, like the pen, those qualities are coming from my seeds. Could be I did something in this life to see this good teacher.

But probably something from my past life. Then I don't have the power to see my past life directly. But I can guess what I did in my past life.

If the teacher is very patient, then I was patient in my past life. If the teacher is very compassionate, then I was compassionate in my past life. So even though I cannot see the past life directly, with my third eye, with my eye of intelligence, I can guess what I did before.

I can guess what I did before. Could be hundreds of years ago. Maybe Tang Dynasty.

Or some other country. Maybe my body was completely different. I was a man or a woman.

My skin color and my eyes were different. I was living in a different culture and a different family. So let's make fun movie.

Anything you want. Anything that comes in your mind. Anything that appears in your consciousness.

If a picture comes in your mind, it means you have those seeds. So let's use those pieces of pictures to create a story about my past life. Be fun.

And use big vision. You were amazing person. You were helping many, many people.

And you were very peaceful and spiritual person. Okay, let's go to the past life. We will spend a little bit extra time here if you start to think about something else like your travel plans or your lunch plans.

That's okay. That's normal. Then slowly bring your mind back to your movie.

Okay, here we go. Make a nice movie. And let's come back to sitting in front of our teachers.

Then look at their qualities in a new way. Those beautiful qualities are coming from my seeds. Still I love them very much, of course.

But I'm also very happy that I have those good seeds. I will try to keep planting good seeds. Let's share those seeds with the whole world.

We worked very hard this week in Bali. We spent many hours in class. Many days we were tired.

The place was nice, but it's not my home. Maybe the food is not what I'm used to. But I worked hard.

I made a lot of good seeds. And I would like to offer those to the whole world. Maybe in the future, all the people in the world can come to a program like this.

So, let's take three deep out breaths. And the seeds are riding on the out breath. Like beautiful golden light.

And I offer it to the whole world with a prayer. May you also be able to come to a program like this in your lifetime. Okay, here we go.

Three deep out breaths. Golden light. Seeds.

Good seeds. Always in meditation, from beginning to end, deep, deep exhales. Push out a little bit extra breath.

Then you won't get nervous in the meditation. Okay, thank you. Let's open our eyes.

Take a good stretch.