500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 37

[Speaker 1]
Thirty-seven. We're going to go through the nine levels of meditation. This is the stages of meditation chart with the elephants and the monkeys, okay?

So, what we're doing now is a review of our lamrim teaching. We're going to do a two-year review so that you can teach it well, okay? And to start with, there are about sixty pictures you have to memorize, okay?

So, if I show you this picture, you're going to say, the first level of meditation is only occasionally you come to the object, okay? Mostly you are thinking about other things. This girl is thinking about three things.

She got a message, she's checking her lipstick, and she's driving, okay? The driving is the meditation, okay? So, two-thirds of her time is on the message and the lipstick.

One-third is on the driving, okay? So, this is called meditation level one.

[Speaker 2]
And I believe if you really check on a bad day, you never get past one. Me too, okay? On a bad day.

You don't even need to talk about level two.

[Speaker 1]
Your mind is more off the object, much more off the object than on the object, okay? Especially if someone said something bad to you or, you know, you're having some problem with somebody, okay?