Meditation practice
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No escape, no problem. We already have everything we need. There is no need for self improvement. All these strips that we lay on ourselves, the heavy duty fearing that we're bad and hoping that we're good, the identities that we so dearly cling to the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds never touch our basic. Well, they are all like clouds that simply block the sun. But all the time, our rooms and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye from being fully awake, looking at ourselves. This way is very different from our usual habits. From this perspective. We don't need to change. You can feel as rigid as you like and you're still a good candidate for enlightenment. You can't feel like the world's most hopeless basket case. And that feeling is your wealth, not something to be thrown out or improve the bond. There's a richness of all this melly stuff that we all so dislike and so little desire, the delightful things, what we love so dearly about ourselves, the places in which we feel some sense of pride or inspiration. These also our wealth with the practice is presented in this book, you can start just where you are. If you're feeling angry, poverty, stricken or depressed, the practice is described here were designed for you because they will encourage you to use all the unwanted things in your life as the means for awaking compassion for yourself and others. These practices shows us how to accept ourselves, how to relate directly with suffering, how to stop running away from the painful aspects of our lives. They show us how to work open heartedly with life just as it is when we hear about compassion, it naturally brings up working with others, caring for others. The reason we're often not there for others, whether for our child or our mother or someone who's insulting us or someone who frightens us is that we're not there for ourselves. There are whole parts of ourselves that are so unwanted that whenever they begin to come up, we run away because we escape. We keep missing being right here being right on the dot We keep missing the moment we're in yet. If we can experience the moment we're in, we discover that it's unique, precious and completely fresh. It never happens twice. One can appreciate and celebrate each moment. There is nothing more scared. There is nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there is nothing more only to the degree we've been gotten to know our personal pain only to the degree that we've related with pain at all. Will we be fearless enough, brave enough and enough of a warrior to be willing to feel the pain of others? To that degree, we will be able to take on the pain of others because we will have discovered that their pain and our pain are not different however to do this, we need all the help we can get. It's my hope that this book will supply that help the tools you will be given are three very supportive practices. One basic setting, meditation, shaman, visa meditation. Two, the practice of talking in and sending out called to three. The practice of working with slogans called the seven points of mind training or all these practices awaken our trust that the wisdom and compassion that we need are already within us. They help us to know ourselves, our rough boards and our smooth boards, our passion, aggression, ignorance and wisdom, the reason that people harm other people. The reason that the planet is polluted and people and animals are not doing so well these days is that individuals don't know or trust or love themselves enough. The technique of sitting called Samantha Vibiana tranquility in sight is like a golden key that helps us to know ourselves. Samantha Vibiana meditation and Samantha Vibiana meditation. We sit upright with legs crossed and eyes, open hands, resting on our thighs. Then we simply become aware of our breath as it goes out. It requires precision to be right there. With that breath. On the other hand, it's extremely relaxed and extremely soft sane. Be right there with the breath as it goes out is the same thing as sane, be fully present, be right here with whatever is going on. Be aware of the breath as it goes out. We may also be aware of other things going on, sounds on the streets, the lights on the walls, These things may capture our attention slightly, but they don't need to draw us off. We can continue to sit right here aware of the breath going out. But being with the breath is only part of the technique. These thoughts that run through our minds continually on the other board, we sit here talking to ourselves. The instruction is that when you realize you've been thinking, you label it thinking when your mind wanders off, you say to yourself thinking whether your thoughts are violence or passionate or full of ignorance and denial, whether your thoughts are worried or fear, whether your thoughts are spiritual thoughts, pleasing thoughts of how well you are doing comforting thoughts, uplifting thoughts, whether they are without judgment or harshness, simply label it all thinking and do that with honesty and gentleness. The touch on the breath is like only about 25% of the awareness is on the breath. You are not grasping or fixating on it, you're opening, letting the breath makes the space of the room, letting your breath just go into space. Then there's something like a pose a gap until the next breath goes out again while you're breathing in. There could be some sense of just opening and waiting. It's like pushing the doorbell and waiting for someone to answer. Then you push the doorbell again and wait for someone to answer. Then prop up your mind wanders off and you realize you're thinking again at this point, use the labeling technique. It's important to be faithful to the technique. If you find that your labeling has a harsh negative tone to it as if you were saying damn it, that you're giving yourself a hard time, say it again and lighten up. It's not like trying to down the thoughts as if they were clay begins instead be gentle. Use the labeling parts of the technique as an opportunity to develop softness and compassion for yourself. Anything that comes up is ok in the arena of meditation. The point is you can't see it honestly and make friends with it. Although it's embarrassing and painful, it's very healing to stop hiding from yourselves. It's healing to know all the ways that you're sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny close off c people or you build little ways, you can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness by knowing yourself. You're coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together. So when you realize that you're talking to yourself, label it thinking and notice your tone of voice. Let it be compassionate and gentle and humorous. And then you will be changing old stock patterns that are shared by the whole human race. Compassion for other beings with kindness to ourselves. Practice the heart of this book is the practice and teachings. The practice or mind training has two elements. The practice which is to meditation and the teaching which comes in the form of slogans. The basic notion of Jung is that we can make friends with what we reject what we see as bad in ourselves and in other people. And the same time, we could learn to be generous with what we cherish what we see as good. If we begin, if we begin to live in this way, something in us that may have been buried for a long time begins to ripen. Traditionally, this something is called or awakened heart. It's something that we already have but usually have not yet discovered. It's as if we were poor, homeless, hungry and cold. And although we didn't know it right under the ground where we always slept was a pot of gold. That gold is like our confusion and misery come from not knowing that the gold is right here and from always looking for it somewhere else. When we talk about joy enlightment, waking up or awaken by the all that means is that we know the gold is right here and we realize that it's been here all along the basic message of the Lord John teachings is that if it's painful, you can learn to hold your seeds and move closer to that vein, reverse the usual pattern, which is to split to escape, go against the grain and hold your seeds. Jong introduces a different attitude toward unwanted stuff. If it's painful, you become well and not just to endure it, but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you, you will learn to embrace it. If an experience is delightful or pleasant, usually we want to grab it and make it last. We're afraid that it will end. We're not inclined to share it a lot. Teachings encourage us if we enjoy what we are experiencing to think of other people and wish for them to feel that share the wealth, be generous with your joy, give away what you must want, be generous with your insights and delights. And instead of fearing that they are going to slip away and holding on to them, share them, whether it's pain or pleasure through practice, we come to have a sense of letting our experience be as it is without trying to manipulate it, push it away or grasp it. The pleasurable aspects of being human as well as the painful ones become the key to awaken by. There is a saying that is the underlying principle of Tongling and slogan, practice, gain and victory to others, loss and defeat to myself. The Tibetan word for pride or a which is, is literally in English, me victorious, mean first ego, that kind of mean victorious attitude is the cause of all suffering in a sense. What this little saying is getting at is that words like victory and defeat are completely interwoven with how we protect ourselves, how we guard our hearts. Our sense of victory just means that we guarded our heart enough so that nothing got through and we think we won the war, the armor around our soft spot. Our wanded hearts is now more fortified and our world is smaller. Maybe nothing is getting in to scare us for one whole week. But our carriage is weakening and our sense of caring about others is getting completely obscured. Did we really win the war? On the other hand, our sins of being defeated means that something got in something touched our soft spot, this vulnerability that we've kept on on for ages, something touched it. Maybe all that touched. It was about a fly, but we have never been touched in there before. It was so tender because we have never felt that before. We now go out and buy bad lucks and armor and guns so that we will never feel it again. We go for anything, seven pairs of boots that fit inside each other. So we don't have to feel the ground 12 masks. So no one can see our real face, 19 sets of armor so that nothing can touch our skin. Let's alone our heart. These words defeat and victory are so tied up with how we stay imprisoned. The real confusion is caused by not knowing that we have limitless wealth and the confusion deepness. Each time we buy into this wind lose logic. If you touch me, that is defeat. And if I manage to honor myself and not be touched, that's victory. Realizing our wealth would end our bewilderment and confusion. But the only way to do that is to let things fall apart. And that's the very thing that we read the most, the ultimate defeat. Yet letting things fall apart would actually let fresh air into this old stale basement of a heart that we've got saying loss and defeat to myself doesn't mean to become a masochist. Kick my head in to true me and dear God. May I never be happy. What it means is that you can open your heart and your mind and know what defeat feels like. You feel too short, you have indigestion. You are too fat and too stupid. You say to yourself, nobody loves me. I'm always left out. I have no teeth. My hair is getting gray. I have blotchy skin, my nose runs that all comes under the category of defeat. The defeat of ego. We are always not wanting to be who we are. However, we can never connect with our fundamental wealth. As long as we're buying into this advertisement hype, that we have to be someone else that we have to smell different or have to look different. On the other hand, when you say victory or others, and instead of wanting to keep it for yourself, there is a sense of sharing the whole delightful aspect of your life. You did lose some weight. You do like the way you look in the mirror, you suddenly feel like you have a nice voice or someone falls in love with you or you fall in love with someone else or the seasons change and it touches your heart or you begin to notice that the snow and environment all the way the trees move in the wind with anything that you want, you begin to develop the attitude of wanting to share it. And instead of being stringy with it or fearful around it, perhaps the slogans will challenge you. They say things like don't be jealous and you think how did they know or be grateful to everyone? You wonder how to do that or why to bother some slogans such as always meditate on whatever provokes.