Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Be Aware of Your Own

Meditation and Going Beyond Mindfulness - A Secular Perspective

So now we have three choices, 

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 choices: 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, how to meditate? 

I think my story about how to learn meditation 

When I was young, around seven, eight years old, I had the panic attack, so I was looking for solution 

My father was a great meditation teacher so 

I thought "maybe I should learn meditation from my father" 

But first I thought "oh, maybe I'm too young to learn meditation" 

So I discussed with my mom "should I ask? my father to teach me meditation technique or not?" and my mom said "yeah! good idea" but I still thought "oh, maybe I'm too young, my father may say, oh you're too young, or maybe you´re stupid, I will not teach you meditation" 

so, I was afraid, so then one day my father said

you want to learn meditation?" 

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 but he was so happy, he said "Wow good you're very young 

But are you interested to learn meditation? 

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 breathing

All my friends are playing down there, you know, and I can hear their voice laughing 

but I 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 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 

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, I thought "meditation 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. 

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 changed my style of meditation a little bit 

What I did is I begin to say welcome to my panic 

so when panic comes, I was meditating and I said "hello panic, welcome" much better, so I was very happy 

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 

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, 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 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, 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, and awareness is like space and the panic is like cloud, or the weather

Weather: sometimes very cold, snow storm, wind and now today wonderful weather. I brought good weather 

The small storm can change the nature of space or not? cannot change? 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? 

weeks before we have snow storm? 

So I remember all these teachings, so then I decided 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 with 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 aware

After few days, me and my panic become very good friend 

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 I can able to join guru practice 

There was wonderful 

And after few weeks later 

Me and my panic became good friend 

Then something happens 

Something bad happens. 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 became very good friend now 

When panic doesn't have good heart, super bye

and panic gone 

So I miss my panic 

Panic became my teacher, my friend, my support for my meditation 

So I learned a lot from my panic actually. Today, I'm here maybe because of my panic 

And I really believe this meditation technique 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 two choices

How to meditate first or practice first 

OK, so how to meditate first, so as I told you the essence of meditation is awareness

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 

OK, and how many of you maybe I know, maybe I don't know, raise your hand 

OK, actually, I think you all know awareness 

Should I give you an example or not? 

Yes, so those who says I know awareness, of course, you know, so you pass

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 awareness so you also pass 

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 awareness 

So you also pass 

so actually all of your pass so 

Congratulation 

So now ... Awareness is 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 who not sure, you (also) know awareness 

so as I mentioned before 

Awareness it's like space

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 you 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 (hide) by bad feeling like snowstorm or doesn't change like mist temperature laid out 

Awareness is like sky, space, sun

Now we have one big problem 

Should I tell you the problem or you want to find problem by yourself, if you find by yourself is better actually 

Quite difficult, but it will stay with you 

If I tell you, you understand then after a while you forget 

So which one better you want to find by yourself? Or should I tell you? 

So for that I will give you five minutes of discussion time.

So the discussion topic is, 'What is the essence of meditation?' Awareness, so what is awareness just like space 

Awareness meaning knowing 

You know what you're thinking what you're feeling what you are doing, what are you seeing, what you're hearing, so just knowing 

So there's awareness 

So you all have awareness all the time? 

Before you learn meditation, you have awareness 

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 learn meditation? 

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. Awareness is with me all the times. What's the point? 

So what things change after learning meditation ? 

I have awareness all the time. So what meditation makes something change

So that's the discussion topic and you have to discuss this for five minutes

You can start to two people three people doesn't matter. Okay, you can talk to strangers. No problem. Don't be shy 

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?

So for myself, I like to be aware of my awareness and as much as I can and I want you to teach how to be more aware 

You don't need more awareness because you have awareness all the time 

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

We were discussing 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 life. I found my awareness like shooting star

That's where I am now, maybe I'm just attached to that 

Being aware and I try to find some answer how to continue so we're of space-like awareness rather than the wind 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.

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.

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

We were discussing how awareness is a mix between physical sensations and mental thoughts so it 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

A sort of a different platform where you're aware of both your thoughts and your sensations and the fact that because these have 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 (natural) 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 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 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. 

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? 

To realize for yourself 

Well, along the lines, a fool who persists in his foolish shell become wise and it's 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 or to exhaust the seeker.

So you all , these questions. This is is the purpose of it simply of meditation.

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 

Only time I ever achieved a very deep peace in meditation was through going straight through the middle of some very painful things and I wasn't 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 

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 

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.

We have awareness but then we don't know how to keep awareness but here 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 

How can we do that awareness without judgment 

Awareness connected with the feeling and awareness without the loss into the cloud 

How we can do that so 

If we say normally, I need awareness, don't loss 

Be peace; 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 


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 

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 

thank you very much for all of you coming and 

This time 

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