500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 38

[Speaker 1]
Meditation level two, idim 38. Continuity means you can stay on the chosen object of meditation for about a minute, and then you get distracted. Still more time off the object than on the object.

This is second level of meditation. So if you want, you know, it's useful to have benchmarks to know how far did I get in my meditation. Then you can judge for yourself.

You don't need a teacher to tell you. Only you can hear the inside of your mind. So, I mean normally.

So, you can tell yourself what your level is. There's nine levels. Level two, you can hold the object for about a minute.

And in the lam rim, why do I have a rosary here? Yeah, good. You can stay on the object for about the time it takes to go through a rosary of short mantras.

Not... Not Heruka. Not that, that's like, OM MANI PADME HUM, OM MANI PADME HUM, OM MANI PADME HUM.

Short mantra, hundred times. If you can hold the object for that long without thinking about something else, then you're at meditation level two. Your progress level two.

Meditation level two. And Pabongka Rinpoche says it's about the amount of time it takes to do a hundred, 108 mantras. And that's hard some days.

It sounds easy, but it's not. Your mind is worse than a wild elephant or a wild monkey. And that's why the meditation poster has monkeys and elephants on it.