Серия «Сутра Алмазного огранщика» — Мастер Камалашила: медитации на «Сутру Алмазного огранщика», часть первая (Аризона, 2016), занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
Meditation, okay? Relax your mouth. Relax your hands.

Hold on your stomach a little bit. Then slowly come to your breath. Then count your breaths to ten, without thinking of something else.

Then please bring your teacher to this place in front of you, your personal teacher. So you are sitting knee to knee, and with your mind's eye, look at them and think about something you admire about them. And sit for a few minutes and enjoy that thing.

It's a prostration in the mind. Then make an offering to your teacher. The traditional offering is the sky filled with flowers.

Another good offering is something good you've done in the last few days. Then make a confession to your teacher of something negative you've done in the last day or so, that you're not happy about. You want to clean it, so you tell him.

Then try to think of another thing that you did well yesterday, some good news to tell your teacher, or someone you saw did something very nice. Then ask your teacher to teach you, then ask your teacher to stay with you. Then I'd like you to take a stretch, then we'll start meditation.

This week I'd like to do some shamatha meditations, and we'll start with this one. So you have to get very settled. You guys are tougher than the last week's people, so we're going to meditate a little longer, okay?

So every meditation needs an object.

[Speaker 2]
The object of this meditation, first one, and it'll get more complicated as we go. First one is your body, and I would like you to meditate on just not moving your body, okay? So the object of this meditation is very basic.

It's just your physical body. You can move your chest to breathe, okay? And your diaphragm and all those things.

But I'd like to see if you could not move any other part of your body, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And we'll stay here for 15 minutes, okay?

[Speaker 2]
So it's a little bit long for this kind of meditation, so get comfortable as you can. Like, if you have to make some adjustments to them now, please, please, please don't move your body, okay? Just decide your body is like a stone.

If something hurts, just ignore it.

[Speaker 1]
Here we go.

[Speaker 2]
There'll be a little bell ring. 15 minutes. Don't move your body.

Please don't move your body. There's no grand object in meditation, just your body.

[Speaker 1]
Every time you wonder what you're meditating about, come back to your body. Am I moving my body? Even a slight bit, even the fingers slightly smile.

Okay, take three deep breaths.

[Speaker 2]
Please don't move. Three deep breaths. Focus on the exhale.

Then you can stretch. Open your eyes.