500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 41

[Speaker 1]
8m41, progress level 5. You don't get obviously not engaged in the object, not enjoying the object, but there's a danger of subtle dullness. Somebody tell me why this photo is a good one.

Well, it looks like meditation, okay? That's the danger, okay? It looks like, it took me many, it took me about an hour to find this picture.

She's on the object. I don't know, her boyfriend said something to her. She's thinking about it, but she's, it's, she's no, her eyes, she's, she's not bright on the object.

She's not very into it, okay? Subtle dullness, okay? When I hear that people have been forced to meditate for two hours or something, I feel certain that they've had subtle dullness for about an hour and 58 minutes, okay?

So keep your meditation short, okay? When you're ready, that's why the Lion's Dance Lord Buddha made it with five rounds. Do one round.

I was in meditation yesterday, I could only do half a round. You know, it was getting really bad. I said, I'm going to stop after half a round.

Nobody's here.

[Speaker 2]
Let's just stop. I said, this is going so bad. Let's just call it off.

I'll come back to you in the evening, you know? It was in the afternoon. I was like, this ain't going to work.

I stopped it after the fourth, I stopped it after the crystal. I got to the crystal, it was really bad. It was like sugar crystal on a donut or something.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so subtle dullness. Watch out for it, okay? You didn't lose the object.

You are still meditating about your Lama, but you're not having fun, you're not engaged, you're not really interested. It's all very dull. Emotionally dull, okay?

It doesn't mean the Lama's face is gray or something like that, okay? It means emotionally dull, okay? You don't feel excited or interested in the object, okay?

That's subtle dullness, and usually it's because someone forced you to meditate too long, okay? All right, yes? What's the difference between this and idam 30?

Yeah, exactly the same. Exactly the same, yeah. Yeah, 30 comes to 42.

By the way, some of them will overlap, except 41, right? Okay, so it's a good point. Sometimes they will overlap.

You should present, as a subtle dullness, before you teach them the levels of nine levels, you see what I mean? Because it's something that's dangerous for everybody. It's so common that meditators have subtle dullness that you should teach, you should warn them early.

That's why 30, it came in 30 also, okay? 31, 30.