500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 31

[Speaker 1]
Now, Pabongka Rinpoche goes into the three different kinds of meditation which actually boils down to three different kinds of meditation objects, yeah. Okay, really it's just a discussion of meditation objects. As a meditation teacher, you will find that a lot of beginner students are surprised that you're talking about a meditation object.

They thought they were supposed to empty their mind. So when you say selecting your meditation object is an important meditation skill, you often get some objections from baby meditators. They're like, oh, I thought I was supposed to have no object.

Which is not possible. So, selection of your object is an important meditation skill. Basically, there's three kinds of objects.

Here's the first one, a mental list. The person I know who I think of when I teach this is Jeffrey Tso in Taiwan. He's a very interesting man.

When I met him, he was a small level worker in Dupont Corporation in Asia. And, but he has good focus because he's an Aikido master. And he's a very, very, very sweet man.

Very gentle man. And extremely Dharma heart, you know. So anyway, I met him every year.

And in time, he would meditate every morning. He became the head of all human resources for Dupont in Asia. He has 15,000 people working for him.

And I said, how do you do that, Jeffrey? Two things happened, okay? Michael will appreciate.

We were driving from Taipei to Taichung. He took off his annual vacation to drive me around Taiwan. And I said, what's your last name mean?

What's Tso mean? Because, you know, I know Wang and I know Chen. But I never heard Tso.

He says, oh, it means the man who uses his left hand. Which is very important in Tantra. Anyway, so I'm like, okay, yeah, all right.

And then I said, how did you get to be the head of 15,000 people? And he said, this meditation, mental list meditation. I use it every morning.

And I plan my whole day sitting on my meditation cushion. I plan my spiritual day and I plan my business day on the cushion every single day for many years now. I think it's been 10 years or something.

And so that's called a list meditation, okay? What are the idioms for meditation? What are the eight antidotes?

What are the five problems? What are the six conditions? What are the five qualities of a good meditation place?

You know, you read through a list or a procedure one by one, okay? That's the first kind of meditation. In Tibetan?

Shargon, okay? Shargon means let them come up one by one, okay? All right, so that's easy.