Techniques for the Meditation Session and the Break
Lama Thubten Yeshe
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...“Why my uncontrolled mind, or soul, is strongly
tied up with sensational, this body, such so long time, such
combination, uncontrolled mind associated with uncontrolled
body? It seems totally agitated internal environment. When
I was child, I use other people, let them work and take care
of me, my body. Since I grow up, also, having this body, trying
to live in this earth, so much effort. Even just simple sometimes
getting job is so difficult. If I don’t have uncontrolled
this body, even that I don’t need. So, the uncontrolled
body association with uncontrolled mind, I tied up with small
atom. All those problems from deep root by the attachment
ego, ego mind. Ego mind makes you tied up with such condition,
giving no chance internal peace and freedom, freely joyful.”
So when I talk, instead of your sense are occupied another
object, same time, you meditate; when I lecturing, you meditate.
Same time, you checking. Do not listen as school attitude
mind, when you are child.
Even such short time uncontrolled, one hours cannot control
your sense body, that is identified of your own mind. If your
body is cannot keep control, relax environment, nervous system
is not relaxing. Your nervous system is not relaxing, brain
or your mind is not relaxing. That makes interrupting to be
able to see reality, inner peace. When your mind is relaxing,
your nervous system is peaceful environment. There is space
to grow knowledge-wisdom. You don’t need push; there
is method.
Even when you have pain in your knees, the ego mind make
up too big. Like solid, sort of, iron; that pain is iron,
sort of, unchangeable iron, which is totally wrong conception,
unrealistic interpretation. So when you realize that is, pain
is digested into wisdom, and disappear, because your feeling
pain in knee is not itself; it’s the combination ego’s
function and knee association makes this one. When the one
disappears, combination is disappears too. [silence]
You don’t need push to have good meditation. Just close
your eyes and relax as much possible, the mind with just watching.
Do not expecting bad thought coming, good thought coming.
Just relax, just watching: how the thought comes, how goes;
how pain comes, how goes; how the agitated mind comes, how
goes. Just watching. Check up where is “agitated”;
what is “agitated”? When you check up analytically,
by the wisdom, automatically disappear. It goes itself because
agitation is not the bone, not the meat, not the physical
thing. It’s only mental expression. Just don’t
pay attention your sense perception—eyes, nose, hearing,
touch, taste—you don’t pay attention. Better,
close eyes and these thing, just close, natural close, because
the meditator mind is not sense perception. Sense perception
is blind perception. Blind, blind. Sense perception is not
intelligent mind. But the mind totally opened, and aware.
[silence]
When the mind is reach beyond pain, let stay there. [silence]
When you concentrate your mind on feeling, the object feeling
is it disappear. Let stay there…without concentrating
on feeling, sensation. [silence]
The mind is distracted by the external sense object…then
you breathing, you breathing in, you breathing in from the
nose, deep breathing, deep breathing, completely bring in
and pushing down in navel, navel, near the navel—below
the stomach, breath energy is pushing; breathing in, deep
and completely, and pushing little bit down. Then, then, then,
then lower, then lower, sex chakra, the muscles, you tight
and lower energy is, energy coming, and coming from down energy
is meeting below the navel. Even you can touch, your hand.
Then you feel joyful sensation. So the mind automatically
come, concentration on sensation. [silence]
When the feeling pain in the nervous system, then breathe
slowly, naturally out. But mind concentrated on feeling. [silence]
Do five times, bring in breath, and little bit pushing, and
then keep below the navel. Then lower muscles tight. So you
feel energy coming from bottom, and from out, and meeting
together, at the navel. [silence]
Actually, when the two energies are meeting together, when
they’re meeting, there is electricity energy, light
energy vibrating in navel, in navel, below the navel, nervous
system, and it is affective all the your nervous system. [silence]
And feeling blissful…without grasping, concentrated,
with feeling, and unified your mind with feeling. Your mind
sink into that feeling, rather than separate, “I am
feeling blissful.”
When the mind is becoming sluggishness or becoming sleeping,
the energy light at the navel, below your navel, and try to
more clear, bright, visualizing more bright, radiation. So
the foggy mind is disappear. The nature of foggy, sluggishness
mind is perceiving dark view, so that when you visualize light,
it automatically disappears. Do not think this is just only
hallucination. Into your body the electricity light energy
is there. Especially when the energy, two energy meeting,
electricity light is functioning. This is not religious trip;
scientific experience.
This is so simple, isn’t it? You breathing energy slowly
and deep; you bring all they way down in your navel, below
your navel, and a little bit pushing, and then the lower muscles
tight, the energy coming from the lower then meeting below
the your navel place.
From the navel, electricity energy light vibrating all your
nervous system of body, vibrating into your heart, vibrating
into your neck, vibrating in your brain; vibrating in your
leg, and knee, feet. That way sometimes you feel the unity
of total, sort of, total unity; electricity light energy.
Let stay there, if that way feel.
When you meditate, mouth is closed, closed mouth. Breathing
is only going, coming from the nose. Naturally closed. Natural.
If you want now session breaking, then you get up slow, with
feeling. Perhaps your fingers put this way. This way. And
go, when you walk, you go with feeling; just relax, go. Go
pee-pee and come back with consciously, with feeling. All
meditation, dear; sure. Your walking is meditation; you sit
down is meditation. All becomes meditation. That’s all.
So simple. Meditation does not mean always sitting, do nothing.
You walking can be totally conscious, and that is also meditation.
So, you can go now, breaking time, perhaps. Thank you. And
then slowly come back. So, now pay more attention inside feeling.
Don’t forget the blissful feeling at the below your
navel.
[session break]
Do not expect your concentration is perfect on sensation
feeling. Like we nail on the wood. [silence]
But outside, relax; inside, be mindfulness. When the other
thought come, when distraction come, your mindfulness wisdom
penetratedly watching, or observing, how the ego mind identify,
how the reaction. Be fully conscious. When the thought object
disappear, let stay mind without thought. [long silence]
When the old, desirable experience memory comes, mindfully
observe how ego grasping or identified, or…. [silence]
Instead of rejecting, you feel. When you try to feel, itself
disappear and digested. When your mind reach beyond the grasping
experience memory, just leave there; let stay there. [silence]
When old bad experience memory and guilty memory and depressed
memory comes, the mindfulness wisdom watching and observe,
how the ego rejecting, how the ego mind rejecting. [silence]
You can see, ego mind want immediately escape from the bad
experience feeling, rather than face and want know what its
nature is. [silence]
The ego mind, when see desirable experience, magnetically
tied up or drawing, running that side. Don’t want to
search reality, what is. So the bad experience comes, want
escape immediately. Even one minute feels [like] one year.
That is ego mind. Unrealistic, according reality or nature.
And countless lives, or, since you born up to now, accumulated
into your mind. Unbalanced, unequally, and makes automatically
agitated, which we call dualistic mind. Making judgment, such
superficial imagination, rather than seeing reality. [silence]
According reality, ego mind painted on the reality, and hallucinate
and judging, “bad and good.” Not realistic, almost
cheat us—our basic nature cheat us; ego mind cheat us—by
giving hallucination ego’s projection on the reality.
[silence]
If the mind reach beyond the bad experience memory, beyond
good experience memory, let stay there and let go. [silence]
So you can see, the guilty mind is manifestation of ego mind,
rather than wise, wisdom mind. [silence]
So, you don’t necessarily to pushing to control mind.
Just be wise, trying to understand the function of the ego’s
movement, identification. Automatically, you control. So your
mind healthy and happy. That’s all. So simple. Mind
control also nature, is the natural, is natural thing. Not
artificial, you know, pretending. [silence]
So, even session break time, session break time, as much
possible, mindful. Even if you love your friend, you be wise.
You just talking conversation is you helping your friend or
not, you check up. OK? You check up that. You really love
your friend, and that is conversation make your friend make
happy? If make happy, of course, of course. You be wise, which
way you want help your loving friend, which way you want help?
Best way you help. Be wise. Don’t think, “If I
not talk, my friend freak out.” Must be silly mind;
ego freak out. Not the realistic mind freak out. It’s
good; let ego freak out; then ego can easily recognize time
this. True, isn’t it? Many times we want help our best
friend. But our ignorant mind making more agitated. Instead
of helping, it disturbing. We know. So, we be careful this
time too. If need, some are disturbing mind, want to have
some question, according, psychological, mental treatment,
of course, you speaking worthwhile. But not just emotion conversation;
it’s not worthwhile. So, therefore, session break time
is also becomes session. It depends on your mind. For sure,
in session break time is becomes meditation. It’s possible.
Try, that also meditation. So worthwhile.
In Tibet, we emphasis very much during session break time,
you be careful. Not go old habit mind. Otherwise like that,
you making sweeping here, clean, clean, clean; when the session
finishes you put again old dirt here, PAM! Then when the session
comes, you again like that! So, OK. I think, very simple.
Thank you so much. OK. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank
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