500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 42

[Speaker 1]
Forty-two. Meditation progress level number six. Danger of subtle agitation due to uplifting the mind too strongly to escape subtle dullness.

You noticed that you were losing interest in the object. You weren't surrendering to it. You weren't enjoying it.

You weren't really having a good time. You were just holding it there until the insight timer goes off. And then you try to uplift your mind.

A lot of the problems of meditation are by over-correcting. Okay, the car is going this way and you pull this way too far. So, the corrections get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.

But it's common when you feel not so interested in the object, you try to excite yourself about something, you know. Think about the... For me, it's always food.

I don't know. Think about the churro you're going to have next week or something. And your mind will...

What do you call them in Argentina? Churro? Same.

But it should be with dulce de leche. That's my favorite thing in Argentina, except for pasta.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so you have to excite your mind.

[Speaker 1]
You have to do something to excite your mind. But usually you will go too far. Usually you will go too far.

Why the picture? Yeah, sometimes it's called water under the ice. So, you know, you've been trying to get this boy to call you for six weeks.

Then he calls you at one o'clock and he asks you out. Then at 1.30 you try to meditate.

[Speaker 2]
And you're an experienced meditator and you're pretty much on the object. But there's this stuff going... Under the conscious mind there's water flowing, which is the excitement you have to see this guy on Friday, you see?

So, it's not conscious. It didn't come into the conscious mind. But there's a restless feeling under the ice, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And it can break through at any time. And you will drop down a couple of meditation levels. You see what I mean?

So, you're holding the object. You're trying really hard to keep the object. But there's this excitement in your mind from something that happened.

And it's not gone. It's just out of sight. But it's running in your subconscious mind.

And when it breaks out you will drop down to a level something else. I don't know. Probably level four or something, okay?

So, it's a restless feeling that's under the subconscious mind and it's ready to break out any time. We call it water under the ice, okay? It's much less common than saldanas, because how often does a guy call you?

Just kidding. Alright. I mean, we don't have the...

It's a nice problem to have, right? Okay. Alright.

Something that you're excited about.