Hello good, good evening
How are you? good so hmm
so welcome everyone.
So now we have three choices,
so I will give you a lot of choice and ask you to raise your hand
so you can get a little bit exercise with your hand also
so three choice: the first is practiced meditation first, we practice together,
second
maybe I will tell you my story how I learned meditation, third
how to meditate.
So, which one first?
Practice first raise your hand, ok.
My story about how to learn meditation, mmm... how to meditate?
Hmm many of you don't like to meditate
ok
I think my story about how to learn meditation
so
When I was young, around
seven, eight years old, I had the panic
panic attack
so I was looking for solution and then
my father was a great meditation teacher so
I thought "maybe I should learn meditation for my father"
but first
I thought "oh, maybe I'm too young to learn meditation"
so I discussed with my mom "should I ask?
to
teach my father
to me
meditation technique or not?" and
my mom says "yeah! good idea"
but I still thought "oh, maybe I'm too young,
my father say oh you're too young, or maybe you´re stupid, you know, I will not teach you meditation"
so, I was afraid
so then
one day my father said "hmm
you want to learn
meditation, right?"
I said "yes, who told you?"
and my father said "your mom did"
so, my mom asked my father on behalf of me without my permission
so but he was so happy, he said "Wow good you're very young
But are you interested to learn meditation?
so
You can ask me any question and I will teach you meditation".
So, the first
I learned meditation,
which is breathing meditation,
watch breath,
one of my first meditation training
but what I found is very boring
I sit there and watch breath
breathing in
what time? Oh no
All my friends are playing down there, you know, and I can hear their voice laughing
but I was sit there I
thought it's already 15 minutes
but I did 5 minutes only
so I
like the idea of meditation, but I don't like the practice of meditation feeling very bored.
So
when I meditate
It is a I have good feeling after that it helps for my panic
but then I cannot meditate too long
so my meditation is on and off, and
my panic also up and down, up and down, up and down, like stock market.
So
when my panic comes
I try to meditate so what I do is
so when the panic comes I said "Hello panic, get out, I'm meditating"
Breathing in and
panic become stronger, sometime louder
so then I
was little bit disappointed, you know, I thought "meditation it helped helps my panic
but actually not", then I went back to my father
and I told all this my
experience about the meditation, with my father, and my father said "don't
say get out to panic.
So you have to welcome the panic".
For the meditation, panic
doesn't become obstacle for meditation, so
panic it's ok, not panic it´s ok
I thought "Wow,
interesting".
So then I change my style, a style of meditation a little bit
so what I did is I begin to say welcome to my panic
so
when when panic comes
I was meditating and I said "hello panic, welcome"
much better
so I was very happy
so that eventually what I did is "hello, panic welcome
(If I say welcome and you will not come again, right?)"
So
my motivation is to become same thing again.
So I
learned meditation when I was 9,
10, 11, 12, 13
so when I was 13 years old in
India a place called Sherab Ling Monastery
so
There they're going to start
traditional three-year retreat for three years
so I asked
His Eminence Saljey Rinpoche one of my
important teacher
to have permission to enter three-year retreat
but I'm I was a little bit afraid
maybe he said "no", because I'm too young and
I asked my father to ask
Saljey Rinpoche, so that Saljey Rinpoche accepted.
Then I can able to join the retreat. So, the main point is
If I can able to go into retreat,
then my laziness will not come,
because I have this laziness always with me, you know,
so then I entered the
three-year retreat.
First, one month,
wonderful,
no lazy, I
was so happy.
One month and one week, lazy begin to come up.
After two months later, oh
lazy is all over the place.
So,
back to
back to before my habit is become less. Although we have sessions, but inside session, first a little bit (laying back) and slowly (doze of to sleep)
So not only that: now my laziness and my panic they too become good friend,
and now my panic become worse
then I thought "what should I do? I
still have
two more years to go
that's the first year, you know, beginning of first year, so I have two years and
nine months.
So I thought "what should I do?"
then I remember the teachings from my father,
and all the other teachers,
they told me that "don't fight with the panic,
make friends, and
panic become support for your meditation, panic become your teacher,
panic cannot become obstacle for meditation". Why?
The essence of meditation is awareness, an awareness
Is like space and
the panic is like cloud,
cloud, or the weather, weather
In the space. So I heard of that
three, four weeks before, there's no storm right? here
so, very cold
snow storm wind and now today wonderful weather, right? I brought good weather
No, no, no, so
the small storm can change the nature of space or not?
cannot change, right? The space cannot change by good weather, bad weather,
blue sky with sun shining or
tornado (oh you don't have to tornado right? Hurricane? No). Sometimes it's not storm
This cannot change the nature of space, space always free always
present
pure, always pure.
So the awareness
is just like that.
And this awareness is
behind of all the thought,
emotion,
perception, feeling, so of course,
behind our panic or so,
panic is just like snow storm.
Five or six weeks before, we have snow storm, right?
weeks before we have snow storm, right?
So I remember all these teachings,
so then I decided to
to say "welcome
Really welcome" from my heart to my panic. I
thought "Ok, now
from now on I'm going to learn
how to live it my panic.
Not try to get it up, not try to block
not try to fight".
So I sat in my room, because I cannot join guru practice we have everyday,
two hours of group practice, morning one hour,
evening or something like that. So when I join group practice my panic become worse, so I stay alone in my room and
really welcome my panic staying awareness
After few days later
Me and my panic become very good friend
I'm I'm feeling kind of like exciting when the panic comes
The symptom is there
You know from here heart beats faster. Boom
and then tight here get dizzy sweating and
Feeling of like
When you're in the aeroplane, then the aeroplane face
Facing the turbulence like this whew like that right feeling like that, but but it doesn't bother me
normally
When the before panic is almost going to start I feel panic or panic
No, it's a coming again. What shall i do. meditate.... breathing...
It doesn't work
Now, ...Halo, Okay, Come , come, come (welcoming panic)
Try it and Oh interesting. awareness still there,
continue awareness..ok
So very interesting feeling
then
Then I can able to join guru practice
There was wonderful
And after few weeks later
Me and my panic become good friend
Then something happens
Something bad habits. Should I tell you bad news?
Not a happy ending
It's okay bad ending
No problem. So the very bad ending is after few weeks later
Panic says goodbye
Me and my panic become very good friend now
When panic doesn't have good heart, super bye, you know
and panic gone
So I miss my panic
Panic become my teacher, my friend
my support for my meditation
So I learn a lot from my panic actually today. I'm here maybe because of my panic
And I really believe this meditation Technic changed my life. So
I believe that can sense other if it was a life
So this life I've been teaching meditation all the time not higher I have passion
okay, so now
my
story about how to learn meditations finish
so now to choice
How to meditate first or practice first
How to first, raise your hand
Hmm, practice or you don't like to practice
Okay, so how to meditate first so as I told you the essence of meditation is awareness, right
So, do you know awareness
So how many of you know awareness raise your hand
And how many of you don't know awareness raise your hand
Okay, and how many of you maybe I know, maybe I don't know, raise your hand
Okay
Actually, I
Think you all know awareness
Should I give you an exam or not?
Yes, so those who says I know awareness, of course, you know, so you pass
And
Those who says I don't know awareness
Do you know you don't know awareness or no?
Those who range those who raise your hand saying that I don't know when it's right
So, do you know that you don't know awareness?
Yeah, that's obvious
So if you know you do more awareness and that is the awareness
So those who says I don't know awareness meaning, you know events so you also pass
and
Those who says maybe I know maybe I don't know, right?
Not sure
Do you know you're not sure?
Do you know you're not sure so there's also events
So you also pass
so actually all of your pass so
Congratulation
So now
No ...Awareness essence of meditation. What is the essence of meditation?
Awareness and you know awareness, right?
Those who know awareness, you know awareness. Those who don't know awareness. (actually) You also know awareness
Those are those who not sure, you (also) know awareness
so as I mentioned before
Awareness it's like space isn't it the space?
Cannot be changed by
cloud
beautiful cloud
ugly cloud
dark
Bright, it doesn't change. It's always there
So now you prove that
The awareness is always there whether you know, whether you don't know whether your doubt
Whether you're not sure
It doesn't change the awareness
So awareness always present always there and always pure
So
therefore for the meditation
It doesn't matter
good feeling like
blue sky with sun shining or it doesn't make
obscured by bad feeling like snowstorm
or
Doesn't change
like mist
temperature laid out
So they all line awareness
Okay
okay, so
Now the problem is we have one big problem
So the problem is
Should I tell you the problem or
You you want to find problem by yourself or should I tell you if you find by yourself is better actually
Quite difficult, but it will stays with you
But if I tell you you understand then after a while you forget
So which one better you want to find by yourself? What should I tell you?
So if I tell you raise your hand, okay
You want to find by yourself raise your head
Okay more want to find by yourself? Okay good
So for that I will give you five minutes of discussion time. No, no no, no
So the discussion topic is
Essence of meditation. What is the essence of meditation?
Awareness, so what is awareness just
Like space right for the experiential voice awareness meaning knowing
You knows what you're thinking what you're feeling what you are doing
What are you seeing
What you're hearing, so just knowing no pure noise
So there's awareness
So you all have awareness all the time?
Before you learn meditation you have awareness, right?
so the essence of meditation is
awareness and awareness is with you all the time
So now the big problem is then why you have to come here to learn meditation?
Yeah, that's the discussion topic
You have awareness all the time
Then why I have to learn this awareness. I'm in the meditation meditation is the essence of
Awareness then awareness will to me all the times there. What's the point?
So what things change after learning meditation ?
i have awareness all the time. So what meditation makes something change
right
so that's the discussion topic and you have to discuss this for five minutes and
You can start to two people three people doesn't matter. Okay, you can talk to strangers. No problem. Don't be shy
Okay, oh
Can you hear me? so, how was the discussion
Got the answer?
More confused ? or Good
Not many people more confused. Mm-hmm ...normally more confused better
Anyone want to share your answer? and How many of you got the answer
Anyone want to share your discussion anybody yes. Yes
Microphone
Thank you
Yes, okay
so
You spoke about awareness of awareness and awareness of unawareness
Some of us are aware that we're unaware and others are aware that we're aware and if we're aware that we're aware
We're also aware that we run away
Is that confused enough for you?
and
so
for myself, I I like to be aware of my awareness and an awareness as much as I can and
I I want you to teach me how to be more aware
you dont need more aware
because you have awareness all the time
well when my mind wanders
I'm aware of where my mind is wandering, but I'm not aware that I'm here.
i want to be here all the time
Is that a tall order, okay. Okay good next
Thank you, thank you so here
Yeah. Hello over there
so what we were discussing actually four years ago before my daughter was born I was
Meditating and I found my awareness was really like seeing the clouds
Coming staying and going now. My daughter is two and a half years old
I have a very busy busy life. I found like my awareness like
shooting star all right is and
That's where I am now, all right, maybe I'm just attached to that
Being aware and I try to find some answer how how to continue
Thank you
somebody yeah
Ah good one
Coming I mean he's running
Very fast
Okay, the first lady there and then the second lady there
Well to put simply to beware without fixation so we're we're of
space-like
Awareness rather than the wine has been constantly trapped in the clouds. So you you're saying that normally we have fixed
Maybe a fixation but now we need to learn without fixation awareness. That's right
So when this gets whatever there's cloud it tends to get caught up in the cloud
so to be aware of the space like
Okay clouds is the content of awareness I
Think
Meditation is for you know?
We're already quite aware of certain things to varying degrees or aware about we're unaware and for me. I find that it's about
Accepting why I'm aware of so sometimes those two things can be at conflict. But if I meditate they become more together
Okay, yeah
We were discussing how
awareness is a mix between
physical sensations and mental thoughts so is
a
Unity rather than a separation and so many people are aware of what they're thinking but they are
disassociating with what they're feeling and this is I think
the real
Way
to us X
sort of a different platform where you're aware of both your thoughts and your sensations and the fact that
Because these has evolved the the sort of
Thinking part has evolved a lot more than the feeling part
Especially in the world that we're living in that we're constantly thinking
but really the feeling part is the most primordial part of our beings so to really
Be aware
we ought to be in a place where we have a
Sort of awareness of both our physical sensations as well as our thoughts
Okay, so up there and then here
So
It's thinking why do we why do we meditate we already have the awareness before after during?
But we suffer
So I think it's something to do with suffering and trying to find
the cause of suffering or the root of suffering because it's it's there now in our awareness and I think
Suffering is something we want to deal with so
Meditation whatever it is is targeted at that. Okay, okay
Yeah. Oh
Yeah, sorry already, okay, so I came here because I
Am seeing awareness as a state of mind to reach and
Like looking for ways to how to not to see it as a state of mind to reach
Rather not to see it as an achievement, but naturalize it
That a clarification?
Yeah
So one microphone, please come down one microphone here. Yeah
Is it
To realize for yourself
Well along the lines of the fool who persists in his foolish shall become wise and it's
(pardon) to sort of run yourself out of steam
Chasing something that is always like beating a drum in virtue in search of a future
If so, you can come back and just know the thing for the first time basically to exhaust yourself
All right, or to exhaust the seeker. Mm-hmm
So you all , these questions. This is is the purpose of it simply of meditation. I will not give any answer. Okay?
Questions in later
Yeah
When we were talking about this, so the problem is
perhaps the conceptual mind that we
Kind of in the school taught to kind of label things and give you know abstract
you know the things we
aware into concepts
Labeling them and then those are very useful in our daily function to achieve things to solve problems
But that also make our mind
kind of lose touch of the
reality and
So I think so. We thought that's a problem why we already have awareness still come here to learn so
Last one
It seemed that the only time I ever
Achieved a very deep peace in meditation was through going straight through the middle of some very painful
Things so and I didn't be able to do that at will so I don't have great meditation
But you need to look for one big pin pudding
No, I just don't know how to work with them properly
anyway
the other thing that
struck me very much when we were talking about awareness is I work with some people who have suffered very greatly cuz I'm a
counselor and great traumas and they'd their awareness they could have
well with all of us if it can happen to anyone the awareness splits off from the presence to such an extent that
It really goes somewhere else
sometimes
people don't remember
What they experienced it's like having two or three personalities
So this is called dissociation and it seems like the opposite
it's like
When something is so painful, we can't keep our awareness with it
so that's a theme of
Staying with containing the pain the suffering seems to be as something's on my mind. Okay?
Okay, good. Thank you for all of you
so
So there's many people give wonderful answer so the answer is about
We have awareness
but then we don't know how to keep awareness but here or we don't know how to
make with be with
non-judgmental awareness
We have too much in the head cannot be in the feeling
So and so on right
so
now how
How can we do that awareness without judgment
awareness connected with the feeling and awareness without the
Loss into the cloud
Right how we can do that so
if we say normally I need
awareness
don't loss
Be peace
No
Don't follow thought in emotion, it doesn't work
This is become similar my meditation first my first meditation
But I say hallo panic get out
I'm meditating. Oh
It's coming coming at me. No, Good no Good, you (panic) keep quiet. And the panic become louder
So the most important point is
We all have awareness
Doesn't matter your panic or not panic awareness always there even while you have panic awareness
Very pressing and free. Why are you having panic and
Before you learn not only that before when you learn meditation you have awareness, right?
When you never heard of meditation still you have awareness awareness born with it
since childhood
But the problem is no no, I will tell you them. Yeah
Should I tell you
This is a big secret, you know
So you need to promise that you will never tell anyone
Promise promise
Yes, you can
It's in my books, you know
Okay, the secret is
You all are very
Secret
Okay a secret actually there's no secret
Okay, I will tell you a secret
We
Though we have awareness, but we are not recognized our own awareness. So that's that's the secret
so
There's no problem that whether we have this awareness or not
There's no problem. It's just like space
Whether we have space or not, there's another issue
But the issue is
We don't know space and we are lost with a cloud
loss with thought and emotion
So now how to be with space first. We have to recognize awareness and
That is it to maintain there is a cognition and there's the meditation technique
So we're alone eyes, but we forget we lost
But again, come back pocket come back. Okay, so
if you continue to maintain the recognition of awareness, that's the
The result of meditation
Then your mind become
Completely free the freedom what we call liberation
Tribal mine walkable mind mind become more calm peaceful
Not just peaceful and calm not just peaceful and calm become walkable. So all these quality comes
just
release awareness and maintain that recognition
so once you recognize and try to maintain the awareness that
maintained the recognition then
you will have a
lot of discovery
within yourself Wow
One moment for you. Cool
One moment. Aha moment
aha
Each time there's aha
The awareness will open up
Now our awareness narrow small and it's become less higher
baby, baby easy to cry
Like something slightly wrong not happy slightly, right? Oh, you're almost like Explorer Oh
Sometime you become frozen or you almost become melt little bit hot
Maybe outside don't see people don't see you but inside you're maybe crying aside
Inside crying so
Now our mind is like that so what I call monkey mind
But as you connect with your own awareness
Nobody's awareness is your awareness and you have this you have it it's with you. So once you're
Recognizable open up and
Then you don't need to blocked or in emotion. Not necessary
Even you achieve thoughtless or a more emotionless meditation. It is not a good meditation
You may become little bit like a zombie
Maybe happy zombie. No
So not
not use
Not not too much use of it
So therefore what we call the real meditation you don't need to meditate
You just connect with your own awareness. Okay
So how to do them?
So that we have to practice step by step so first
We cannot really connect with the big awareness. So we have to connect with piece of awareness
So for there now, we will do meditation practice. Okay. So now how to practice meditation
First, please raise your hand like this, so
Do you know your raising hand
Yes, so there's awareness
So knows that your just be to be aware of that you're raising hand, okay
is
there any
sensation in your hand
What kind of sensation?
Cooling sensation raise your hand right in I'm sorry left hand
Okay
You know, there's cooling sensation, right?
So there's awareness or warm or heat sensation raise your left hand
Okay be aware of that so that is also awareness and
How many of you there's no particular sensation in your hand, raise your hand
Okay, if there's no sensation
Just know that there's no sensation and that is also meditation
Okay
so now how many of you
having pain around here
Please yet
Okay, do you know pain
So that's the meditation also
You're aware of the pain be aware of pain
No need to look for Pleasant unpleasant
It's also here
Pain is unpleasant feeling so just be aware of that pain. Okay?
So now put your hand down
Feeling relaxed
Pleasant feeling, right
You know that pleasant feeling
there's also awareness
so
now
in the awareness
Warm is ok,
Cool is ok,
No sensation also ok, pain is ok
relaxation also ok.
All these are in the awareness
right?
so you just need to keep connecting with awareness and
done
Doesn't matter what kind of sensation pleasing, unpleasing, neutral
positive , negative
virtual, neutral, It doesn't matter any kind of sensation. Just what do you have to do just to be aware of it, so
That's the meditation,
understand ?
Ok, now we will do some more meditation exercise. So hold your hand like this:
Any sensation ?
Maybe there is sensation. Maybe there's no sensation. So be aware of whatever there in your hand, ok?
Join both of your hand be aware of tactile
And now rub
What do you feel?
Warm, right? so, faster
Now heat, we'll aware of heat
ok
What do you feel? tingling, right? Be aware of tingling and cooling also
Ok, now left hand put down, and keep your spine straight and
And
Bring your hand close to your forehead
Almost touch to your forehead the hairs are touching (how do you call ? pores,tiny hair)
It's almost touching, feeling of tingling or itchy
Something like that, right? So
Now, please close your eyes
and
Please be aware of any
sensation in your forehead
You know your right hand also put down continue close your eyes
And continue to be aware of any sensation in your forehead
Pleasant sensation
unpleasant sensation
neutral
Even there's no sensation. It doesn't matter. Whatever
there in your forehead
To be aware of it
And now please move from your forehead to top of your head
And release muscles on the top of your head and
Be aware of any sensation on the top of your head
Now from top of the head to the back of the head
Relax your pick up head
Be aware of sensation
Now please be aware of your face, entire face, relax muscles in your face
cheeks, chin, ear
now
And to be aware of any sensation in your face
Relax your name to be aware of any sensation in your neck
Relax your shoulder right and left and be aware of any sensation in your shoulders
Relax your back from upper back to lower back
And to be aware of any sensation in your back
Relax your chest and stomach
To get to be aware of sensations in your chest and stomach
Relax your arms right and left and be aware of any sensation in your arms
Relax your legs right and left legs and be aware of any sensation in your legs
Now please relax entire your body be aware of
Sensation
in your body from head to feet
And
If you cannot relax, no problem just be aware that you cannot relax
So, you know you cannot relax that means you are relaxing
So relax is allowed not relaxed is allowed
Pleasant sensation is allowed no
Pleasant sensation is allowed
tightness allowed
and
Openness is also allowed everything is allowed
Don't worry there that there's
Mistake or
Maybe you don't know how to do
If you feel that your mistake
The mistake is in the Venice
So awareness is beyond mistake. It's
always free
It's genuine. It is pure
Just like space
So be yourself, don't worry
You don't have to pretend to be somebody or someone just
Be yourself be free
You want to cry you can cry you want to laugh you can laugh
If you cannot find awareness
Then that is also awareness awareness cannot find awareness
So
There's no
Need to worry that
Whether you're doing right or wrong
Right is in awareness brown is also in awareness
So be free
And be yourself
Now, please open your eyes and
Rest your mind just in bear awareness
Oh, okay. How is it
Easy or not easy easy raise your hand
Not easy raise your hand, so if you feel not easy, you know, it's not easy. So there's awareness
And how many of you confuse
Raise your hand
Do you know in your configs?
If you can if you know you're confused there's also awareness
you're connecting with others so you allow to be confused and
confuse confusion become
object Oh awareness just
Like cloud another cloud
So
Thought emotion sensation perception everything can be in the wareness
So therefore of course panic is one of them painting is like horican orchid, right?
So hurricane come from space stay in the space, this is all back into the space
Hurricane is changing by space cannot change
So panic come from the rareness stay in awareness dissolve into awareness, but awareness doesn't change
depending centric
Right
So
Next time if you feel panic
bring awareness to the body and
special for the sensation
so for the panic the sensation of
You know how to describe
Similar
Great
So I don't have to tell you
And when you feel angry go back to the sensation
body sensation
When you feel worried
back to the body
when you feel
the fresh scent and when you feel pleasant, so
Aware a pleasant so what happens by awareness if you connect with awareness again and again
automatically negative emotion will purify it and
Your what we call we all have this basic goodness our
Innate goodness
basically will
manifest
So if you connect more with awareness compassion will manifest
clarity will manifest
joyful
non-conceptual mind
Although
creativity your inner talent talents also will
increase
Just aware. Be aware
The practices look like boring
Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah
They are
What again be real?
Today Isabella tomorrow also be over
Next Monday. Oh, I
Come here to learn meditation for feeling to help happiness. But this teacher
Technique
We are there how can this be aware and the happiness connection? You know, I
Cannot find connection between happiness and be aware
Many people ask me a question I come here
To learn meditation to be happy
But you teach me boring stuff
Which is what's your breath
Be aware of your breath
and the
Sensation sometimes there's not good sensation, you know
So a
Key point is for example
When you see the river
That means you're out of river
Isn't it?
If you if you have fallen into the river carry by river, can you see river?
You cannot see it you
Kind of feel like you're falling
But you cannot see the river, right
But when you see river that means you're out of river
So
When you see the panic
You not become under control by a name
But panic still might be there
the symptoms do there so
When you see the river, you don't have the block the river
Isn't it?
Let's give a continued
But for you, okay. Hmm doesn't matter river is calm or clear clean
or dirty and recall
Turbulence it doesn't matter but if you fall in the river come realize it better
Daddy and
Travelens, you know not so good and special a river has balls, you know
Our very own boulders boulders danger and if you ever become waterfowl
You die, right?
So normally these negative emotions
Has a lot of influence
for us
Positive emotion is the better. Peace is good
Panics no good because we are lost with it we have won with it we have won with this emotion
We are we are lost in the river carry by river. So what erful is not a good idea
But if you seeing the river
That means you're out of River. So then what erful is great, right?
Many people, you know take time off as boss to see their waterfall, right?
Spend a lot of money
To see the order what for?
So you can see another wonderful
Without spending too much money or free, you know
So three inner waterfall wonderful in hmm
So if you see the television you are not in the television
Some like that
So then slowly slowly you can find this awareness everywhere
we thought with feeling with the emotion with sensation and
You can see all this are coming in awareness stain awareness dissolve into awareness
Awareness the basis always there and awareness the free
Just like space
so
Therefore
So therefore as I told you before
the meditation actually we don't have to meditate just
recognized awareness and
Maintain that recognition with object now first object is the body special this sensation
Many of you will know this miss understand about meditation some people think meditation meaning thing of nothing
right
consultation
In Asia many people think meditation is like
Breathing
Keep quiet I'm meditating
So
so if Todd comes
Become big problem, you know and you're telling yourself
chanting
And in the rest
Should I tell you
No problem meditation like this
Please
So looking for peace and peace you will say I'm busy you
Need to make a point minimum
Feasible not come or some some people they realize
Yeah, so maybe I will teach you one very special meditation
What is the special food in England
Pasta fish and chips
Any good vegetarian dishes
But
Chips cheese and beans
Chips cheese beans
Mmm, so I will teach you
There is special meditation and this meditation called chips cheese beans
Okay
so 301 to learn
Chips she's been this meditation
quite long
Chips and beans, okay
chips and beans meditation
so for the chips and beans meditation
There's one rule
The one rule is you're not allowed thing of this. She's
Chips and beans not allowed thing
You can pick up anything else
fish and chips
Also, okay you can think
You can think about pizza humble
Salad
potato
Whatever you want and you can even think about your past history future plan
Every anything is okay except cheese beans
chips she's chips beans
Can nothing not allowed okay for one minute if you think of one second you will launch this meditation
So we be prepared, so please keep your spine straight
Please close your eyes
Now relax your body
And be aware of sensation in your body from head to feet
Laughing you can watch the feeling of laughter
Okay now the main part of meditation so I will say 1 2 3
So when you hear 3 not chips cheese beans
1
Two three matchups cheese beans
We thing of this one second you lost meditation, okay, she's chip-ins one second you lost meditation
Don't say that don't think about cheese cheese beans, okay?
Okay done no, I just relax
Okay, how is it easy or not easy easy raise your hand
Not easy raise your hand
Big problem
Yeah actually is not easy when you say don't think our mind will think
So when you say no
cheese chips beans
then we will think about
cheese chips beans and
many many different kind of cheese chips
Beans will come and they become more clear more fancy
loud
Right. So when you meditate you when you say chanting concentration, peace
Doesn't work
So many people looking for I'm meditating and I need non judgement state
So don't judge. Oh just come in on us. This is a meditation not judge
Not judge
So then just will come oh, I need to connect with heart no head one two three
Then how to say oh I'm busy, you know, you have to make appointment then I will see whether come or not
So for the event, it's not it
Everything is allowed in the wareness. So it's not it is the real not judgement
You don't have to meditate just is allowed, right?
So then it's not judging
That's okay not judges. Okay hat is okay hediye, so
Everything's okay. So then there is the freedom
There's non-judgmental and that is really connected with the developer of heart. The awareness is the deeper level of the heart
so
Then meditation has become very easy
right
so
now I will teach you one meditation technique so sometimes we need to
We need option because although meditation is very easy, but after some time we feel bought
Again the sensation
yesterday also sensation today
gosh sensation again, I
like the idea of meditation, but I don't like the practice of meditation so
If you felt like that then need to change it's a technique need to change so another training is sound meditation
So how many of you want to learn sound meditation raise your hand?
Mmm, good for the sound meditation. There are two steps
One how to listen to sound second sound meditation, okay
So first how to listen to sound
So, can you hear everybody if you can hear this sound raise your hand
Mmm now you know how to listen
So the first step is finished
And
Should I teach you second step
Second step has the one big secret so
Should I tell you the secret the secret is
The secret is sound meditation is already done
Finish
You understand or not?
How many of you not understand the secret raise your hand
meaning
Meaning is I ask you can you hear the sound you say? Yes
So that is the sound meditation
You are there oh
so
right
The ear and mine both listen to the sound. That is the sound meditation
Only the object is different
The essen is same the awareness the awareness
It's just awareness is the one
but when you
Use awareness with the body or sensation. Then it become awareness of the body awareness of sensation
Now you're using sound and it becomes sound meditation and it it can be
visual object can be smell
test
Sensation even thought any emotion also but thought emotion if you are new to meditation
You have to wait for a while
first you have to do this space this
foundation meditation like
Feeling sensation sound this one first. Okay. So now we're going to practice this sound meditation together
So please keep your spine straight you can
if you have
back pain you can use chair like me as
Long as if you can keep your spine straight little bit straight, you know, don't worry little bit like this
The river like there the river like that. No problem
So just a little bit relatively keep your spine straight
Loosely they are loosely
loosely keep your spine straight and
Close your eyes
So first relax your body and
Relax meaning not release is also allowed
And be aware of sensation sensation from head to feet
Now please listen to the sound
Okay now finish how is it
So some meditations better or the meditation with the sensation fits better
Sound better rescue him
Okay body sensation dress your head
Okay, so is it depends on the personality?
So if you feel body is more easy. You have to begin with the body a
Sensation in the body if you feel sounding some more easy, you need to begin with sound force. But even you feel sounds good now
tomorrow
Okay
next day, so so
nice day, gosh
sound
So you will feel you will feel bored and then back to the body you feel all nice. I
thought mmm I have
particular connection with Sun not the body, but it
Sound is a better
You will feel like that out of after few days later. So there's normal so you need to change
Different training although there's many different training, but actually only one right
What is the one?
Awareness. So another important thing is awareness is important, but
When you listen to sound you are not particularly thinking about awareness, right?
and not need also because you
Already recognize awareness. I told you
Event is important
The recognition of awareness important I already introduced you of Venice so that view stays
back of your head back of your mind
behind your heart the view and
Then the motivation that you want to meditate with the sound that that's the meditate that's the motivation
So this view and meditation change
The quality of the lesson listen to the sound automatically
So you didn't have to worry look for master rest awareness. I can hear sound
but awareness we're
Not necessary to look something extra
Yeah, but then there's later the
Awareness without object or something like this step by step. You can practice in the future
Okay, so I think we finished today here the talk
What time no, yeah
so actually I
Came to London
My book publisher asked me to come here
To say something about the book
But unfortunately book is not ready yet
and
Even title isn't already
But book writing is finished
It's about the Bardo part Oh dead end time
This will be the number fourth number of number fourth book
fourth book
Sorry about my English, you know
Do you understand my English?
Coach, thank you. So
Next year will come out so the title not sure now so in the book
There's a lot of story about
while I'm going to retreat
The first month I almost died
there was a foot poison and
So I had this wonderful experience
So it's a really related with the Bardo type talked about this in the book and
Next year
It will come out. I think so tomorrow. I'm going to meet with a my publishers publishers here No
Okay, so tomorrow
Yeah, so now the session for Q&A
You're going to reach for someone
Directly
Basically you can either use the mic to ask questions or if you prefer to
Write your questions down and give them to the volunteers. You can do it that way and the volunteers will bring them down to us
So if anybody wants to kick off
Okay first here
Yeah, I don't think you're in poacher. I
Was wondering when that when attending to the feeling in the body regarding a sensation
Sometimes a feeling can be so strong that it overwhelms you and then even if it's anger or something
There's no way to stop it
What is the difference between
Being aware of it or
Being stuck being aware of being stuck to it. Mm-hmm. Okay, so
although as I mentioned before
Awareness is always there never change
but
for the practical level
We are not connected with the awareness at the beginning. Although we have or we are not connect with our own awareness
so
We need to practice step-by-step step-by-ste step-by-step
So at the beginning when we have strong emotion
Then we cannot aware we feel overwhelmed
That's okay completely. So what we call there are four techniques
kind of like four
Four ways not for ways for
For approach maybe
So the first is I already mentioned back to the sensation
there's the emotion meditation also, but now
sensation back to the before the emotion meditation be aware of sensation is important without
aware of sensation you cannot practice
emotional meditation so sensation
Be aware of sensation now. It's very important. So
That's the first one what we call watch so there's four is watch
Try something different
Step back take a break for things
So watch, you already know.
Second. If the emotions becomes overwhelming, the sensation through stone, huh?
Empty
Pain hurt and
blessing cannot breathe
Feeling like I'm going to die now. There's many feeling so then you can stop
Then try something different number two turn focus on sensation listen to sound to change your focus
Okay when you listen to sound feels better
Come back again. Okay
Hold on. Okay. Stop listen to a song or watch your breath or even in the sensation in the body
don't watch the
pain area watch the numb area numb meaning maybe in the knees or hand or and
the the neutral sensation
neutral
Pad part of the body where there's a neutral sensation you can aware of that. So this is the try something different
number three step
back
meaning
when I practice
Meditation with my panic what I did is pay panic get out
I'm watching you, right?
so that
motivation or that
aberration fear fear or panic
Sometimes what I call panic a panic
it's stronger than panic and
These are the behind
Supporting the panic stay in the behind of the panic. So don't watch panic watch the fear of any aversion or
the resistance
or the belief
There's some background belief
So let's step back
Number three and sometimes even you do that doesn't work then check a brick
Most easy one, you know, you don't know how to do that, right?
We should take a break sometime
Do some physical exercise
and special physical exercise is really good if you have a stone painting or depression or
unhappy or too much emotion up and down do physical exercise and
Read booze or sleep or sometimes tire exhausted sleep. So take a break
so the four things but
There's the one thing which is sometime what we call energy movement
So and there's a movement is after some time
When you meditate after some time, then you feel something on your head the heat comes heat
Moving opening closing or from your spine this tingling
Something like going up and down or from your stomach. There's one
Feeling comes sometimes there's a vibration in the body
sometime pressure from forehead throat heart center strong pressure
So they had a sign of energy movement. So and as a movement has four things
the physical
sensation which is I just told you and
Number the second is sensory perception see something colors
shapes
visions or hear some sound
Music
messages
smell test
So these are five sensitive perception and number
Three is the sense of energy
Positive energy here negative in here
this
Teacher has blessing good
Energy that teacher has bad energy giving me obstacle
Someone is you know controlling me or spying on me or giving blessing on me something like
And the last one is emotion up and down
so this
Is not a bad, it's good what we call
transformation or prana Bindu Nadi meaning prana many energy
bindhu meaning like cells
nadia meaning nerves
So these are transforming when you meditate
So the for the for the process then we have this energy movement
So energy movement can be sometimes strong emotion comes filling up when you meditate
Sometime good sometime more angry. I have a meditation to get dizzy, you know, I
Suppose meditation is a benefit for me, but it may close for me, you know
So but it's a good sign. You have to recognize this energy movement. That's really important
If you don't recognize this energy movement, if you feel like something wrong with me or or I'm enlightened
I'm special
I'm crazy. Then. It's become problem. So actually, it's not problem
Next
If you could go back in time and speak to the eight year old you that was just beginning to learn to meditate and
You could give them one piece of advice about
meditation
What would you tell your younger younger self?
except the panic
Someone there, no, okay. Well there
Thank you and Butchie
Well, I started meditation several years ago and in 2014
I attended this 10-day Vipassana ten Davey passion a retreat and
for me, it was really like a door opened and and it was really for me changed my life and
Then my daughter came and my life become very chaotic
now I felt as I said, you know the awareness is like
it it's just I
wonder if I have this attachment to you know, the experience I had before I
Wonder how should I proceed?
Thank you. Don't try to bring the past experience again
so
experience sometimes wonderful
next day gone and
Then some people they really like that wonderful experience
So we try to bring back that experience. So don't try to bring that experience. You continue to be aware that
Experien may not come again, but come in a different form
different experience so
That's really important. And another important is maybe you can
meditate while you are having
problem with your daughter
You need to build up this habit habit
so maybe
You need to choose one particular event
maybe
whenever you are having
Lunch or dinner or whenever you are having something with your daughter that time
remember in meditation particular time
Today also try to remember you will fail next day. You will fail fail is good if you feel more that's better
So you're Chinese so in Chinese what you call failure is the mother of success, right
Oh, yeah, sister. Bye
Survive
Thank you, so
Try again. Try again. Then you will build a new habit. So once you
success with that particular one event
Then is equal to other habit also
So you everybody can build a habit new habit so you can meditate
everywhere any time under any circumstances
Eight years eight or nine years before I came to UK and I own the television and I saw the advertisement
about
mobile mobile phone company and
They said you can use this
Brain or company everywhere any times even in the mountain?
You know, so I thought this is very good advertisement for meditation. I
Changed a little bit
You can meditate everywhere anytime even in the city
So while you're driving so in London a lot of one-way, right?
So you go. Oh another one way. Oh, yeah. No no way
So you have a lot of time
Or traffic jam is the best
Time for meditation, you know, you have to be in the gym for one hour
So you will have good meditation session one hour
So whenever travel gem meditate or you go to your home whenever you're open refrigerator
awareness refrigerator refrigerator
I'm going to turn it -
Something like that so you need to build up habit meditate everywhere anytime. Hmm
How do you practice detachment
detachment
so
this practice you allowed to have attachment and when you feel attachment watch the sensation in the body, I
mean to people and
Materialistic things and just everything else in general not meditation
Attachment about something or detachment. Yes
how do work with attachment right so
When you attach up the the people or money or whatever idea the sensation comes in the body
Chips beans
So there sensation so we have to watch the sensation in the body
So beer just just use the sensation as object of the awareness
Your mind sure mine. You don't have to say not husband. No attachment
If you said no, it does not touch. It does involve much
Some now attachment becomes stronger
But if you really lost with it, you mind. Oh
Then you will you will see them
Like this, you know
Try this. Everybody try this little bit like this cross your okay collapse one eye
Okay, now look at this thumb
So this is the object of your attachment. Okay. So now look at the tongue look at them. Bring close to your eyes close
close close
Clothes loss
Now whole world becomes. Um
You're gonna see only time so there's the attachment
It's really small right
That's the not only with them the
Things
even idea
Anything so once we go in there and then we make it bigger
And then we see the opposite. Oh, if I don't have this big problem. Yeah, I have this the wonderful
Oh, I wish I hit him more. What should I do? You know?
so
We have to know this is a crazy hour of mine. We make mountain out of more
More here, so
The perception how create this
attachment
So first is a view second for the meditation just watch the sensation. You don't have to say yes or no
Yes, what's what it's just watching it. Aha. It will helps number three
Bring that inhabit
the view and
awareness into everyday habit
So then you don't have to do anything without attachment. It will liberate by yourself
This question
Somebody yeah, yeah
Is it not?
Meditation awareness and sleep have become best friends. I tend to fall asleep
Every time I meditate how do I stop falling asleep during meditation?
So that's good if you
Especially in a night if you cannot sleep then just meditate
You can
combine
Meditation and sleep together so how to do that when you meditate then the sleepiness will come, you know sleepiness
Feeling little bit like drowsy
drunk
Unclear like that kind of feeling right so watch that feeling
We are aware of
feeling of sleepiness
Let's see, maybe I will have the sleepiness
If you realize then Silla business will come
No liver Vasilievich, so just feel this luminous
Good morning
So when you just relax then the feeling of sleepy
Drowsy unclear just being with a feel it just feel it. Feel it continue to be aware of it
If you are lucky
the moment of you fall into sleep
If you still maintain that awareness, then the slip will catch the awareness
Then all the slip become meditation
So you sleep one hour, you're meditating one hour
but
But you maintain the awarenes and a silicone and the moment of sleep if you mind go to the chips beans
No cheese chips beans so then is normal sleep
but but still benefit because at the beginning you are with awareness and
Special if you practice the awareness
When your mind going to the sleep?
That really affect the subconscious mind the unconscious mind. So it is the
That meditation is really benefit for you
We all have awareness from childhood but it's very difficult to teach awareness or mindfulness to a child
How can we at least start teaching them from young age? Yeah, so
for the child you have to
know how to
approach them
not like
how to say
giving order
it doesn't walk and
Then if you give too much order then they billable resist it
next time when they hear meditation, ah
Then no good, so you have to make it something like a reward fun
Playful and don't meditate too long for Chaya only few
Few minutes maybe us them for example in the bell
So when the
Bell sound going higher and higher us
Kid, raise your hand raise him
and then lower the volume of sound and then let
And awareness the body maybe put something
Object let keep lying down and put something on the belly and feel it that object maybe
dinosaur or
something
so
Feel something like that
As a cancer patient, could you give me any suggestions or advice from the Buddhist field?
How to chant every day or Sutra to do every day. Yeah, so
if you have diseases you need to change the motivation, so
The view and
Motivation these two are the really important factor. So the motivation
to
Want to heal the disease?
and the view is the
Awareness is a boon disease
so try to understand that and just whatever your
the
Feeling that the sickness which part a body you can scan awareness
So when you move your awareness with the
With the meditation with your body, so there's
What we call Pranab into nadi they all are moving so the oxygen the blood
the this the scannable a
sense of healing also comes
so it it will helps and special if you
Want to do any mantra we use normally put a medicine mantra one hunter called IATA
um, they can typically
Mohab behind the other some of that I saw so you can look in the internet you can find
So you can chain that one. Okay. Thank you
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