500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 19

[Speaker 1]
Number 19, classic problem of meditation number four. In problem number three, what happened? Wait, what was the photo and don't look?

Yeah, the wife was like, distracted, and the husband was busy mind and sleepy mind, okay, in the same photo. Now, what's the next problem in meditation? Yeah, you detect a problem, but you don't do anything.

You say, look, I'm sleepy. Wow, that's interesting. Okay.

Wow, I'm thinking about dinner. Well, what's for dessert? Okay, like you just let it go.

Okay, it's like the fourth formless realm. Right? You just put up with it.

Then, this is what you should be doing. These guys are working at a hospital. Probably somebody's heart stopped and they are running to do something, okay?

So, when you see this picture and Jasmine asks you, what's this picture represent? You're going to say, classic meditation problem number four. After you detected busy mind or sleepy mind, you don't do anything when you should be running to stop it.

Okay. How do you stop? What's the classic method to stop sleepy mind?

In Tibetan, it's sang tupa. Think of something you really enjoy. Think of something that's cool.

What's the classic Lamrim example of something that's cool? Huh? Nope.

Nope. I mean, for this particular meditation problem, very famous solution. Okay, I'll give you a clue, James Brown.

I'm so cool, I could kiss myself. Yeah, how cool am I? Okay, if you get sleepy or depressed in your meditation and things aren't going well and you feel dull and sleepy, there's like 50 people in this room.

You are one out of 50 million people who made it to this room. Okay. So, either you're very crazy or very stupid or you're amazing.

Okay. The whole funnel, okay, of 1.4 billion Chinese. Okay, how many here?

Like six or something. Maybe you're special. Like one out of 200 million Chinese, you made it here to hear the Lamrim.

Okay. So, when you're meditating, the classic method to deal with sleepiness is to uplift your heart. It's called Seng Tup.

Uplift yourself. If you want to, think about your favorite dessert or your favorite song. But the most famous thing to do is to think about how god damn special you are.

Okay, understand? You are one in... You are one in about 100 million people who have a chance after you die.

Okay, you are one in 100 million who have a chance to do this meditation. You are special. You are off the chart.

You're more famous than all those guys. Brad Pitt, Xi Jinping, you know. You're more famous than all of them.

Really, okay. So then you're like, yeah, okay. Then you're not tired anymore.

Okay, got it? What's the classic solution to busy mind? Yeah, think of someone you know who died.

Someone dear to you who died. Okay. And it will bring you down immediately.

Okay, if you're thinking about what's for lunch or... You can't stop thinking about your girlfriend or something. Think about someone you know who died.

And then your mind will go poof! And you can focus, okay?

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
Not doing that is idiom number 19. Meditation problem number 4. You know there's a problem.

The smoke alarm is going beep, beep, beep, beep. And you're like, wow, it's going beep, beep, beep, beep. Okay, all right.

Okay, do something! Okay, run!