500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 21

[Speaker 2]
Before he starts the Eight Solutions to the Five Problems of Meditation, okay? We just finished the five classic problems of meditation, right? And before he goes on to the Eight Solutions, he makes a note.

[Speaker 1]
He says, even in Tibet, 150 years ago, there were people teaching weird meditations that you can't find in any scripture. So, either the Buddha forgot, or the Buddha didn't know about, Mr. Know-it-all didn't know about it, okay? Like that.

So, even a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, you know, people were making up weird meditations. You know, put this wire on your head. If you see purple color, you're doing good, you know.

Stuff like that. Just weird stuff, okay? You have access to 200,000 scriptures, okay?

If it's not in there, it's probably dumb, okay? And that's exactly what Pabongka said here. He said, use the classics, okay?

Like today, we used Maitreya, and we used Tsongkhapa, and we used Nagarjuna. Stick with these people, okay? They know what they're doing.

Their meditations have lasted for 2,000 years, and many people have achieved Buddhahood from them. So, you don't need to do some weird thing, okay? Stick to what's there, okay?

That's Pabongka Rinpoche's advice in the Lamrim, okay? There's many, many proper teachings on meditation that come from the great teachers of history. You don't have to worry that you...

You don't have to go to some yoga studio and hear some weird thing that somebody made up yesterday, okay? All right. Beware of lesser or made-up presentation.

Lesser means the goal of those meditations is not Buddhahood. If you ask that teacher, why are you teaching me this? I want you to be more calm, you know, while you die.

No, just kidding, okay? So, check what's the purpose of the meditation, and check where they got it from. Those two things.

Two things, okay? Does it have a high goal of bringing happiness to the whole world? Or is it to make you feel better, you know, after you have eaten something bad?

Okay, something like that. What's the goal? Ask the meditation teacher, what's the goal of what you're teaching me?

If it's not minimum giving you a better next life, it's not Buddhist. Okay, got it?