Серия «Сутра Алмазного огранщика» — Мастер Камалашила: медитации на «Сутру Алмазного огранщика», часть первая (Аризона, 2016), занятие 7

[Speaker 2]
So relax your mouth, relax the corners of your mouth. Try to get a little smile. When people concentrate, they scowl and it doesn't look nice after a few years, so try to lift up the corners of your mouth a little bit.

It puts less pressure on the chakra on your forehead.

[Speaker 1]
Relax your eyelids, relax your fingers, pull in your stomach slightly, spread your wings, bring your shoulder blades together a little bit. That will move your hands up your thigh. We're going to do ten minutes on being totally still, like a statue.

Your chest can move slightly with the breath, your diaphragm, but see if you can not move your fingers, not move your face, not move your eyelids, not move your feet.

[Speaker 2]
Focus on your body for ten minutes. Every time you get distracted, come back to your body and scan it. Am I moving anything?

And I would like to see a whole room of statues like those Chinese statues at Xi'an.

[Speaker 1]
Here we go.

[Speaker 2]
If your feet fall asleep, if your legs fall asleep, it will hurt for a few minutes. Don't move.

[Speaker 1]
Then they will fall asleep and you can sit for hours. So if something hurts, just stay with it and get over it and it will stop hurting after a while. Then please start watching your breath.

The exhalation comes out of your forehead, lower part of your forehead. Try to find the spot in your forehead that helps you focus. The inhalation comes down your shoulders, down, narrowing either side of the spine, down to the area of dantian, below your navel.

And then push your navel towards your spine, a small constriction of the lower abdomen, and push the air back up your spine and out your forehead. And we'll sit here for about ten minutes. Long exhales.

Now please start to focus on the Buddha standing on the sky, brilliant golden color or whatever color you choose. It's your face, it's your body.

[Speaker 2]
You're looking at it from the viewpoint of outer space, so you're on the same level.

[Speaker 1]
And it's very far away, but you can see it up close. And start with the silhouette, the eyes, fill in the face. We'll do about ten minutes.

Halfway through I'll let you know, and you can switch to making a perfect personality. This is you, future Buddha, taking care of the whole world, with your teacher. Just five more minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Concentrate on the personality. Remove one by one all the bad habits that you have.

[Speaker 1]
And you can sort of appreciate how the face changes when you remove them. Just five more minutes. And please come back to your breath, three deep breaths.

Dedicate your shamatha to helping other people. And then you can open your eyes. Stretch.