500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 15

[Speaker 1]
IDIM 15 is try to develop sheshin, right? Sheshin, a small part of your mind which is watching the rest of your mind. Try to monitor the talk going on in your head.

Learn to listen to the talk going on in your head as if you were coming, as if you were inside another person's head. You see what I mean? Pretend you're not yourself and just listen to what you're thinking.

You'll be shocked. I hope Ben Kramer falls off the throne today because his explanations are so good. And then you're like, wait, but you have the thought but you don't hear it.

You see what I mean? Thoughts come up and you don't know you're thinking them. So learn to look at your mind as if you were entering from another person, as if you're another person listening to Geshe-la's thoughts.

Try to imagine how it would sound to your students if they could know how you think. They would all run back to China. So, the sixth condition of meditation, of good meditation, is day to day, hour to hour, try to get used to listening to what your mind is saying and try to correct it, try to fix it, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Don't be in the thoughts. Watch the thoughts, got it? It's a difference.

Learn to do the difference, okay? That's the sixth condition of a good meditator. We got five more minutes, right Tim?

[Speaker 1]
Am I right? Okay. IDIM 16 We're about to do the five problems of meditation, classic problems of meditation.

Everybody has them. The great yogis, the great meditators, for two and a half thousand years, they made a list of the top five meditation problems that everybody has. And there are how many solutions?

Eight. The DCI people here, I think you're appreciating how much of DCI comes from Lamrim, you see? So, these teacher training programs, DCI Lamrim Meditation Guide, ACI Course Teacher Guide, ACI Meditation Studio, Masters, they're all going to overlap in different places, okay?

If you go to the DCI level three, you know all this stuff already, okay? So, there will be things that overlap and there will be things that don't overlap. All right.