NAM SHES NYING PO RGYEN — комментарий Чже Цонгкапы на Abhisamayalamkara

[Speaker 1]
We're going to practice Lion's Dance as much as we know already. I'm going to just give you a brief description of the third. Oh, we're on the second, sorry, second of the formless, right?

And I'll take you through the whole thing again in order, okay? So don't worry about it. This morning we'll go through everything we've done so far in meditation.

Yeah. So, let me describe it first and then we'll try to do it together, okay? The first ...

by the way, the whole thing is called the Lion's Dance.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
We're starting in the desire realm state of mind, which is like tasting cappuccino, listening to air conditioner, okay? Then we're going to go, you know, through the form realm levels, form levels. Focusing on our heart, which is still has a component of physicalness.

We're still aware of physicalness, okay? Then we'll go into the formless, formless, formless meditations, okay? And the first one we did yesterday was called Endless Space, okay?

And it's that feeling of ... the body is anesthetized, okay? The body is numb.

No awareness of form. And then we expand the mind as far as space, and you can keep going. It's like if you dropped a stone in the middle of this lake, and then it would just keep going.

The ripple would just keep going like that, okay? Then the second formless ... oh by the way, when you go from desire to form, you compare something to something, you see?

There's this desire, oh I don't want to listen to the air conditioner anymore, I want to go someplace more quiet. So that's the basic idea between these realms, okay?

[Speaker 2]
And when you get to the end of the form realm, and you're deep into your heart, and your mind feels ...

[Speaker 1]
how should I say? Even the feeling of happiness is gone. Your mind just feels ...

how do you call it? Flatline. The feelings are flatline, okay?

And at the last part of the form realm, your body is almost like somebody gave it a shot, like numb, anesthetized, okay? Then you compare that body, that physical heart, to no physical, okay?

[Speaker 2]
And it ...

[Speaker 1]
so it's another transition, because you're comparing where you are, with where you could go, you see? And that's why you move from the form realm to the formless realm. Like, even this numb body is too gross, and I want to go somewhere more subtle.

And the difference between the first formless meditation and the second formless meditation is again, a comparison. The feeling in the first formless realm, for me, is like ... as I said, I feel horizontal.

I feel like a lake, the top of a lake, and my mind is just going out in a ripple, and it's not going to stop, it's still going, right? Then in the second formless realm, okay? That's where we are this morning.

I'm going to take away the image of form, and I'm just going to think about the state of mind that's riding that image going out, you see? Drop everything, just think consciousness. Consciousness going like this, not some kind of image of a lake or space, okay?

When you go from the first formless realm to the second formless realm, it's because you're dissatisfied with space, and you want something more subtle, and that's consciousness, okay? Okay, got it? So, before you dropped the air conditioner because it was too ...

gross, and you wanted something more subtle, which was your heartbeat. And now you're ... it gets very subtle, okay?

You are dropping the image of endless space, because endless consciousness is more cool, more subtle. And again, it would take about an hour to make this transition, okay?

[Speaker 2]
So, we're going to pretend ...

[Speaker 1]
we're going to visualize we are moving from first formless to second formless, but actually we're halfway in the air conditioner still. Are these levels a goal? No, okay?

Don't get distracted, okay? Don't spend all your time looking at the car at the airport when you could be riding home in Susana's car, okay? Okay.

So, why are we ... why are we practicing them? It's like if you're an Iron Woman in a Colorado competition.

She won the competition in Colorado. Yeah, in Colorado recently right? Anyway, so you run in a lot of crazy places if you want to run in a normal place, you see what I mean?

You run up and down big mountains if the race is going to be held on a small mountain, okay? So, just for training purposes, maybe you run up and down this mountain here, even though you're going to run a flat race in Colorado, you see what I mean? There's a second purpose to practice these, can you guess?

What? He says seeds, seeds is okay. What's a negative purpose?

No, you don't mistake it for emptiness, you see what I mean? You don't go there by accident one day and you say, oh I saw emptiness, you know? Or you go to some teaching and the teacher describes form realm number three, and you're like, and they call it emptiness, you see what I mean?

Then you know, you can say, oh yeah, I tried that, I know what it is, our teacher took us there, that's not emptiness, that's just a car, a fancy car, you know? And I think if, if you practice these nine, right? Ten, it's going to be ten.

And then you go to meditation classes by anybody, whatever, what you hear will be in one of those ten. And Tsongkapa starts out his summary by saying, NYON MONGS CAN GYIS BSAM BRTAN RNAMS What's it mean? Yeah, these states of meditation are, are still negative states of mind.

They are still link number one. So, if you practice them, then you can, then if you go to some weird meditation class and they, they talk for a long time about something, you can, you can, in your mind, of course it's not polite to say, oh that's just a stupid mistake number three, you know? But at least yourself, you won't, you won't be attracted to just doing that, you know?