500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 17

[Speaker 1]
Okay, idim 17. We're doing good. We have two minutes, we have two more.

Losing the object, what's the picture? She lost her high heel shoe under the bed. Okay, and this means, this often happens to me, I'm meditating on my teacher and their head turns into a donut.

It's like supernatural. I've got this beautiful head and then the hole forms in the middle and it's got maple icing on it and I lost the object. You just totally lost the meditation object.

This is the most basic problem you can have.

[Speaker 2]
If losing the meditation object is an important meditation problem, what does that say about an important subject of meditation?

[Speaker 1]
Choosing your object, selecting your object. You cannot, it's like you have a telescope but you don't decide what you want to look at. So, meditation is a tool, it's not a goal.

The eight elevator stops are a tool, they're not a goal. You won't get an American breakfast in the eight elevator stops. So, you have to select a meditation object.

If you want to know why it's not possible to meditate without a meditation object, you should ask Professor Nick Lashaw to talk about his famous translation of Nagarjuna who spent a long time on this question. Because there are people in history who said, there is no object. For a great meditator, there is no object.

It's just blank. And Nagarjuna and Professor Lashaw's book by Gyaltsabje, you should ask him to teach it in Guadalajara for example. You should teach that subject in my, unless you've done it already, I don't know.

It's a great section of his book. His book has a great, great section on the wrong viewpoint that you don't need a meditation object. So, the second meditation problem implies that you should be choosing an object before you start meditating.

Are you going to meditate on your teacher's face? Are you going to meditate on the six kinds of suffering? You've got to choose before you close your eyes.

Got it? Alright. And then you've got to stay on it.

Glue your mind to the object. Meditation means the ability to stay on the chosen object. That's what meditation is.