500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 35

[Speaker 1]
Now, most of the items I tried to split them up, but this one was, the parts are too short to split up. Okay, so I didn't want it to take up seven or eight different pictures. Okay, so this is one of the few items that I tried to put seven or eight things together.

These are called the meditation posture, correct? Meditation posture. And it's called the posture of Vajracana, which is the Buddha of appearances.

Why? This Buddha has an extraordinary ability to look like a normal person. Like, right, Adriana?

Okay. We know. Okay, so this Buddha is called appearances, meaning they can take many appearances.

All your friends could be Buddhas, okay? Vajracana. Vajra means many different.

Lochana, loch or roch means to shine, like roch's head, shining.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, me and JB.

[Speaker 1]
So there are seven or eight parts to the meditation posture. Somebody give me, give me some of the seven. Eyes closed or slightly down, but don't look at anything.

And if you choose to open your eyes and look down, don't do the natural thing and lower your chin, because then you will get sleepy. Okay, first thing eyes. I don't care the order, give me any order.

Straight back like a stack of coins. Chin level, good. If it goes too high up, you get, sorry, gupa, you get a distraction, busy mind.

And if it's too far down, you get sleepy, normally. Okay, next. Shoulders, yeah, equal.

I have a good friend who meditates like this, and it's not good for your prana. Okay, next one. I don't think belly is in there.

Huh? Legs, yeah. Legs, whatever is comfortable.

Okay, sit on a chair if you have to. What do DCI people say about sitting on a chair? Buddha didn't have a chair.

Okay, next one.

[Speaker 2]
Hands. Yeah, you have many options, you know that. We're missing one more.

Smile. Huh? Tongue, yeah, natural position of tongue in the mouth.

Okay. And then eight, if you add eight. It's breath.

Behind you?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, your breath. Okay. Okay, so you guys all know that.

We don't have to go through it. But I was looking at recently at ACI course three. For some of the meditation stuff, because I took it from Tsongkhapa's Lamrim, it's better than Pabongka's Lamrim for some of the meditation stuff.

So if you're going to teach meditation, use the ACI course also. Okay.