Танец льва: медитация для Колеса жизни (2017, Мексика), занятие 7

[Speaker 1]
We're going to go do the lion's dance, okay? All the way to the end. So get ready to meditate.

Turn off your cell phone. Cough now. Grrrr.

Grrrr. Grrrr. Good.

Okay, here we go. So get in a comfortable position. Some place where you won't have to move for a while.

Relax your forehead, and try to keep it relaxed while you're meditating. Relax your mouth, corners of your mouth. Push your shoulders back a little bit.

That means the hands will come back a little bit on the thigh. And the fingers are relaxed. Little smile.

And slowly come to your breath. We'll count ten slow exhales.

[Speaker 2]
Ten slow exhales.

[Speaker 1]
Then we'll come to desire realm state of mind. You can focus on the air conditioner. And the small noises in the room outside.

Now compare that sound to the beating of your heart. Get in touch with your heart and with the air conditioner at the same time. Now, leave the air conditioner and go all the way to the heartbeat.

Leave the air conditioner completely and go to the heartbeat. First form realm.

[Speaker 2]
First form realm.

[Speaker 1]
Now decide to go into the heartbeat.

[Speaker 2]
Instead of watching the heartbeat.

[Speaker 1]
So no more noticing the heartbeat. No more checking the heartbeat. Go into the heartbeat.

Be aware of the pleasant alignment of your body. And be aware of what a relief it is to get quiet. Now we'll move to the third form level.

Drop the feeling of pleasant silence. And go into a neutral feeling. Mentally.

The mind is watching very strongly to see if there's any distraction in the mind. And you're very sensitive to pulling the mind back if the mind goes someplace else. The body still feels really good to be so straight.

But the mental feeling is neutral. Fourth form level. Drop the pleasant feeling of the body.

The body becomes numb. No sensation in the body. The mind is neutral.

Feeling. And stay on a single point of focus. Now, first formless realm level.

Expand that single point to all of space. Send it out in all directions. Expand it to all space.

Second formless realm level. Drop the space. Leave the mind.

The mind is now infinite. Spread out to infinite points. With no awareness of space.

Third formless realm level. Make a decision to drop the awareness of the mind. And just stay in nothing at all.

Now decide for the fourth formless realm. I don't even want to make the effort not to hold anything. Not to hold anything is a kind of darkness.

Holding to something is a kind of distraction. And I choose neither.

[Speaker 2]
I will go to a deeper silence.

[Speaker 1]
Neither holding even my mind. But also not making any effort not to hold it. Now we'll go farther.

Into a meditation on emptiness. And for this, please bring an image of your teacher, your own heart teacher. Bring them to your mind.

Imagine they are sitting in front of you. To help you keep your focus, you can keep your mental eye on their eyes, looking at you with love. Now think about where that lama is coming from.

Even the imagined picture of them in front of you is coming from a karma seed opening in your mind. Then try to picture that karmic seed opening. A small silver seed in your mind.

And it opens. And a picture made of light, a small picture made of light comes out. And then it presents itself to your mind.

And then you see your lama's face and eyes looking at you.

[Speaker 2]
And you see your lama's eyes and face looking at you.

[Speaker 1]
Try it three or four times to see the seed open and the picture coming out and showing itself to your mind. Now focus on that seed, silver seed in your mind. And relax.

Hold the silver seed. And then let your mind begin to imagine. How was this seed planted in my past lives?

Start building the movie of the events that planted this seed of your current lama. Relax. Don't try too hard.

[Speaker 2]
Let images come up in your mind about the past life.

[Speaker 1]
And if something interesting comes up about how I possibly planted this seed for this life, then follow it and make a story about it in your mind. Be creative. Incorporate all the seemingly random images that come up in your mind about your past life.

We'll stay here for about five minutes. And then we'll finish the meditation.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe in that lifetime you did these meditations.

[Speaker 1]
And please come back to your teacher's face and the eyes that love you. Three long exhales to give away the good karma to this world.

[Speaker 2]
Three long exhales to give away the good karma to everyone in this room.

[Speaker 1]
And then you can slowly open your eyes.