500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 39

[Speaker 1]
IDAM number 39, it's called patch-like meditation, okay? LEMPA GYAP in Tibetan. And what it means, it's better than it sounds, okay?

I remember when I was younger, a hundred years ago, I thought it meant much time off the object and patches on the object, but it's the opposite. So what? Yeah, the patch is the time off the object.

So the patch is shorter than the time on the object. So you're improving. By level three, your meditation is improving.

And you have long periods on the object, and then you have patches where you're off the object, okay? But they're shorter than the periods on the object. If you get good at meditation, I think you can actually feel a kind of glue to the object, you know?

You feel like your mind, as I said before, there's two feelings. One is, I'm on the object. The other is, I'm really enjoying this, being on this object.

So, you know, one is to be glued to the object, and the second is to sink into the object in a very enjoyable way, okay? So if you get to the second feeling, where it's just fun, and you're enjoying the experience of meditation, then that's what it means to be on the object. It doesn't mean just contact with the object.

It can mean like your finger pressing on something. Like, it feels like this when you're on the object.

[Speaker 2]
And then when your meditation gets better, you feel like you sink into the object, and you feel, it's kind of pleasant, okay? Okay, so patch is on or off? Off.

Okay, good. That's all you have to remember.