Lecture Dalai Lama XIV-th.
School of the Golden Rod of Wisdom.
Ithaca, New York.
I am very happy to come to your center. Something that I know about your activities here, I admire your views and purpose - to know many of the system. I intend to explain briefly and in general terms, the individual moments, and then we will be able to chat informally. If you ask: "Do the right people?", I respond: "Yes, have."
What does it mean - to have human rights? Submission of them occur on the basis of actual manifestations of congenital I have in our minds and is that we naturally want happiness and do not want suffering. It is a thirst to be happy and not suffer the argument is the basis of the existence of human rights.
Many levels of happiness is possible to achieve, and suffering can be relieved. Millions and millions of people in this world are seeking a way of gaining happiness and eliminate suffering and believe they found - the best way. All the great scheme of world development, ie, 5-year or 10-year plan, due to the desire of happiness. Gathered here today are looking for tools that are different from normal in the provision of happiness and reduce misery. We are mainly engaged in technology, in which - the ability to change the internal thinking.
In the past, many wise men presented the technology fixes, exercises, transformation of consciousness, and for us it is very important respect, all of which are taught to love and pursue common goals. Pochitaya and studying the different systems, each a unique, useful and most appropriate technology to him to practice them. We must do this because these teachings are not of much until will not be fulfilled in our daily life.
Areas of philosophical thought can be applied to teaching the discipline of mind and consistency of its findings. But meditation - it is very important, especially in the early stages of development. Perhaps today, when I will explain this topic, we could proceed to the practical exercises.
First of all, pay attention to your posture: the legs fold in the most comfortable position, keep the spine straight as an arrow. Place your hands in the meditative position of equilibrium: at a distance of four fingers below the navel, place left hand under the law, and the thumbs to connect, so that they form a triangle. Such placement of the hands associated with a point inside the body, from which derives the internal heat.
The slope slightly neck, leave alone the mouth and teeth, as usual, and tap the tip of tongue palate top teeth. Let your eyes look closely, and is free to do so, that they were aimed at the tip of the nose, they can be turned, and on the floor in front of you, if it looks more natural. Do not open your eyes too wide and not forced to cover them, leave them slightly open. Sometimes they are closed in themselves, that's OK. Even if your eyes are open, when your mental consciousness is firmly established at the facility, seen through the eyes will not disturb you.
Those of you who wears glasses, remember that when shot glasses smutnost for you to be less dangerous in the initiation and the more dangerous with relaxation. Can you discern when a wall in front of you? When you try to define what is less dangerous - excitement or distraction. Such solutions can come only through your own experience.
To meditate on the object of contemplation, there is division in the external and internal. Let us begin to meditate on the external object contemplation. For example, this may be the body of the Buddha - for those who like to look at the Buddha, or a cross - for those who like it, or some other suitable symbol. Thoughts provide the facility of approximately four feet (~ 1.3 m) in front of you at the height of the eyebrows. The object should be of approximately 2 inches (~ 5 cm) in height, and emit light. Try to embrace it as a grave, as it will calm you, and his brilliance will disturb you away. When you focus, to work in two directions: first, the object of contemplation clear, and secondly, to make the vision of its sustainability.
Is that something your mind? Concerned about whether your eyes sense objects in front of you? In this case, will be right to close them, but with closed eyes is not whether you reddish vision? If you close your eyes, you see red and you are concerned, as you will see first hand, it means that you too are involved in processes of visual consciousness. Then you should try to divert attention from the vision and translate it into mental processes of consciousness.
The reasons hindering the sustainability of the facility contemplation ranging it is either to initiate or, speaking generally, in the scattering. The challenge - to stop it, send your mind strictly inside so that the intensity of apprehension began to fall. Cancel mind thoughts of the outside help that forces you to be more reasonable and a little sad. These thoughts can help you enhance the perception of an object, because the consciousness of being too thin. In order to reduce or lose something, you better learn to stay at the facility contemplation.
Is not enough just to own sustainability. It should also be clean. Finding purity prevents relaxation, which is caused by excessive inclinations consciousness. First, the mind becomes lax and this can lead to apathy, which, losing the object of contemplation, as it gets you into the darkness. From this you can even fall asleep. When this happens, it is necessary to raise or increase the capacity of perception. Technically, it looks like this: think of something pleasing to you, that gives you joy, or submit your thoughts on the high ground, where a vast overview. This technique will make snikshy mind the possibility of setting an object multiplied.
Through your own experience, it is necessary to determine if the ability to perceive becomes too excited or too relaxed, and pick the best practices for reducing or increasing, respectively.
Object of contemplation to the visible, you should be kept in the minds of attention. For all these you to watch, as if from a corner until you see the object clearly and firmly. The ability to engage in such podsmatrivaniem called introspection. It occurs when achieved strong sustained attention, but to the alien features include self prismatrivanie from time to time for the mind - whether he abides by the excitation or relaxation. When you will develop good attention and introspection, you will be able to grab the causes relaxation and excitability before they begin to act, and to prevent their occurrence.
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