2-3 Create the right inner environment for meditation
When we meditate, it is essential to create the right inner environment of the mind. All effort and struggle come from not being spacious. When we meditate, we should also have this state: sit, cross our legs, relax completely, with no hindrances in the mind and nothing to cling to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5-02-e1UvU&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB0gcJCQsKAYcqIYzv When worldly people work […]
2-2 Let go of all attachments
There is a famous saying: "If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear." Finally, slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self. The word “slip” is interesting, as it means to sneak away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTb6wwHJZE8&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=6&pp=gAQBiAQB Because our afflictions will […]
2-1 "Reflecting the light inward" can reveal our true nature
When practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, be mindful of every physical movement clearly and without any emotions. In meditation, there are no emotions. One is mindful of any thought and mental state, as well as any feeling—whether it is the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change, or all-pervasive suffering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xytQfUh38UI&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=5&pp=gAQBiAQB The mind is […]
1-4 Meditation—— Seize the time to meditate
Throughout your life, you're seeking outside of your mind, but can't find anything—just like dreaming, you're toiling in vain. After waking up from a dream, you’ll know that you were toiling for nothing. Whether happiness or fear, whatever is in the dream turns out to be false after you wake up. You were striving in […]
1-3 Meditation—— Awareness needs constant practice
"Training" the mind does not in any way mean forcibly subjugating the mind. From spiritual teachings and through personal experience in meditation practice, the awareness sees directly and concretely how the mind functions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajLPC7L5j5k&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=22&t=20s&pp=gAQBiAQB Then you can tame the mind and work with it skillfully, to gradually eliminate delusion. So it's not subjugating them. After […]
1-2 Meditation—— The way to bring us back to ourselves
Generally we are distracted from our true selves. Sentient beings are grasping at a false self, the five aggregates. Generally we waste our lives in endless activity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvJ5d3ulhM&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=17&t=1s&pp=gAQBiAQB Meditation, on the other hand, is the way to bring us back to ourselves. Meditation is a basic requirement to make the deluded mind disappear and the […]
1-1 We Are Our Own Savior
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. Learning to meditate is learning how to purify the mind and tame the negative emotions with concentration, keeping it objective and clear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3yuSjmcb8&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=16&pp=gAQBiAQB For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your […]