Танец льва: медитация для Колеса жизни (2017, Мексика), занятие 6

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so let's meditate, and let's go up to second formless. I really like this babysitting arrangement. The kids are out in the open under the beautiful trees, and they get to play with each other, and the parents are listening to the class.

That's a cool system. Okay, here we go, ready? Make sure your phone is off, please.

Then relax your forehead, relax your eyelids, and have a little smile. Pull in your stomach, relax your fingers, and then we'll come to a desire realm state of mind, and it's very easy. We can just focus on the air conditioner.

And now compare that sound to the sound of your heartbeat. Then go into your heartbeat. Be the heartbeat.

Notice how quiet and pleasant it is, like being at Lake Chalapa. It's so quiet and pleasant compared to the noisy Guadalajara City. So, we're in the second form realm meditation.

There's no awareness of the air conditioner anymore. And even looking at the heartbeat and feeling it in a strong way is gone. And we are inside the heartbeat.

The body feels very light and strong. And there's a feeling of very pleasant to be so quiet. We'll stay here for a few minutes.

Now you think, oh, I'd like to go deeper. So, now the pleasant feeling of the second form level, mental feeling, that's also a kind of distraction. It's nice to be quiet.

It's pleasant to be quiet. But I want to go deeper. The feeling of pleasantness in the quiet is a distraction.

And I want to go deeper. So, we're going to try to compare the feeling of pleasure about how quiet it is in this meditation. Compare it to a state of meditation where you've gone beyond that pleasant feeling, and now your mind is just sort of numb.

And move into that place. Third form realm. No longer thinking about how nice it is to be quiet.

The body still feels good and straight and healthy. Now, we're going to drop all feeling of the body. The mind is already deeper than feeling good.

And now we're going to drop all sensation of the body as if the body were numb. Form realm number four. Go deeper.

Forget everything about your body. Everything is the quietness of the mind, and there's even no feeling about it. It's just quiet.

No emotion about it. Just quiet. Now we'll move to the formless realm.

I don't want to be limited by a body. I will send my meditation away from a single place. And my meditation will cover all space.

Endless space. So, now expand the meditation infinitely in space. Now, think, I don't want to be limited by limitless space.

My mind itself is unlimited. I don't need to be limited to even all of the space there is. I can go beyond all place there is.

I can just be my mind. Limitless mind. Without reference to space.

So, I choose to go to that quieter place. Now we'll go to formless realm number three directly. Thinking about my endless mind, even without reference to endless space, is still a distraction.

I could go deeper. I could drop thinking about my mind. I could drop being aware of my own mind.

And I could go to a deeper place. Nothing. We'll go there.

More quiet. Let's go to the last formless level. At the second formless level, it was a distraction to think about my endless mind.

But at the third formless level, it was a distraction to try to not think about my mind. So, I will go to a more quiet place. Formless level four.

No more thinking about my mind. And no more trying not to think about my mind. Go beyond nothing.

[Speaker 2]
Deeper.

[Speaker 1]
To where nothing was possible anyway. Most quiet place.

[Speaker 2]
We'll stay here for a few minutes.

[Speaker 1]
Then please come to your breath. Three deep breaths. And then you can slowly open your eyes.