Guided Meditation

0:03 So, greetings, one and all. So, unfortunately, Ajahn Brahmali is still coughing quite heavily. He picked up a bug in Singapore, so that may not be so conducive with the class here. So he's just resting up at the moment. He's got a big tub of ginger, so hopefully that will make a difference. So, with the preamble, I'm supposed to give a little preamble for about 10, 15 minutes. Report an error in the passage at 0:03 Highlight the passage at 0:03

0:33 With the meditation process, why do we bother meditating in the first place? For what? There's a lot of interesting things in the world, a lot of things to get distracted with, many paths you can take, there's many teachings you can choose. So why do we choose to meditate on a daily basis? Or maybe once a week, maybe once a week or maybe just a couple of retreats a year. But one thing you see, which is quite common with people, is when life gets challenging, let's see, challenging, maybe a little bit difficult or a bit stressful, that there's only one factor really. Report an error in the passage at 0:33 Highlight the passage at 0:33

1:23 But easily, probably 50 % of the people who choose to meditate May have some, say, challenging circumstances in life and possibly the other 50% may be really interested in developing the mind, developing essentially deep insight, wisdom, an understanding of life and the universe, developing the, say, could be the Buddhist path or even the Hindu or Muslim path. Report an error in the passage at 1:23 Highlight the passage at 1:23

1:54 So every single major tradition has its meditative component and it depends on your paramita, your past life development which will orientate what direction you move in because essentially your personal karma is going to essentially affect the direction. That you move in, so you may feel, you know, you may feel that you are in control of your life and you make decisions and you have choices and this kind of thing, but you do to a degree, but in some parts you don't at all because you're underlying, what would you call it, you're the sum total of all your past comers, so this life, past lives, especially this life and the last life is going to have the greatest effect on you. Report an error in the passage at 1:54 Highlight the passage at 1:54

2:51 And that will influence the choices you make, decisions you make, the direction you move in life. You can make informed choices, informed decisions, but karma has a very big, what do you call it, big place to play in the direction that you take in life. The people you meet, the friends you have, the family you're born into. Report an error in the passage at 2:51 Highlight the passage at 2:51

3:16 And there's very, very specific, very specific, accurate reasons why you are who you are and where you are and have the parents that you currently have. So these principles are very, very precise. It's not like hit and miss in every theory. It's very, very precise, like a laser beam. The parents that you're born to, brothers and sisters, close friends. Report an error in the passage at 3:16 Highlight the passage at 3:16

3:45 Your abilities, intellectual abilities or whatnot, it all comes from past life and development. And for anyone who has psychic potential, that will come from essentially from samādhi development. So you can develop psychic ability through, essentially the key principle will be meditation, genuine psychic ability through. Report an error in the passage at 3:45 Highlight the passage at 3:45

4:11 Meditation is a key principle, but people will assert that you can also activate psychic potential with things like qigong, tai chi, different energy systems and whatnot. So when you're using the focus, when you're focusing the mind, increasing the energy of the mind, because the whole business with samādhi, that one-pointed, Report an error in the passage at 4:11 Highlight the passage at 4:11

4:41 One point focused sharp attention, one pointed attention as a description of the samādhi state and then from that, from increasing the power of the mind, the energy of the mind, then you have the ability to extend the mind into different realms. You can move the mind in a way where knowledge, Report an error in the passage at 4:41 Highlight the passage at 4:41

5:10 ...becomes manifest to you. You can come to know and see many, many, many different things. So people have very, very good samādhi, I mean exceptional samādhi. It's like you've got the internet inside your mind and you can know and see many, many, many things, a thousand and one things, but super normal things, not the mainstream stuff you see on Google or YouTube. Report an error in the passage at 5:10 Highlight the passage at 5:10

5:36 YouTube, but stuff in relation with past lives and deja vu and what would you call it, psychic healing, the ability to project the mind into different worlds, clear audiences, a vast range of psychic potential is coming from samādhi, you know, samādhi as a basis, you you know, the, uh, the, Report an error in the passage at 5:36 Highlight the passage at 5:36

6:04 Mind, you know, attention is very sharp, energy level is very high, and the hindrances, the underlying defilements of the mind are suppressed. So you have this pure, what would you call it, say a temporarily pure state of mind, and you can do quite a number of things with it. But as one senior teacher, one senior Burmese teacher said to one senior Western monk, who's... Report an error in the passage at 6:04 Highlight the passage at 6:04

6:33 I think he's up in the north of Thailand now. He's no longer a monk. But that particular teacher, he warned him about the destructive, say, nature. So even for people who are able to develop psychic ability through the Paiok system, Burmese Paiok system, where you're looking at, you're putting in significant effort and you know very very I wouldn't say absolutely strict instruction, but very clear, articulate instruction with very, very good teachers, with Payog, and the potential for psychic ability may come up with certain people, depending on the quality of their pāramī. Report an error in the passage at 6:33 Highlight the passage at 6:33

7:19 But his attitude was that any psychic potential which comes up, it's more of a distraction than anything because... It's not the true path. The true path is the full purification of mind of the defilements, the realization of deep states of insight, wisdom and whatnot until you break through to the path completely. Report an error in the passage at 7:19 Highlight the passage at 7:19

7:47 So any underlying psychic potential, if you're not careful, is going to be a hindrance. It's going to distract you. It could essentially lead you down the garden path and you can waste a lot of time just playing with this stuff, playing with psychic potential, the way people play with their phones for hours on end. Report an error in the passage at 7:47 Highlight the passage at 7:47

8:10 It's not quite the same, but it's slightly similar in its nature. But as you all know, people will come to meditation for quite a number of different Report an error in the passage at 8:10 Highlight the passage at 8:10

8:26 And you usually find that the vast majority of people over time, it could be easily over 3, 6, 12 months, regardless of their intentions and the purpose and whatnot, will definitely get some benefit on some level. There could be many benefits or there could be a handful of benefits on different levels according to their own... Report an error in the passage at 8:26 Highlight the passage at 8:26

8:54 Personal preference, their nature. But essentially you can't lose. So every five minutes you put into meditation, what would you call it, polishing and brightening the mind, so to speak. It might take you 10 to 20 years, but you can't go wrong. Every single five minutes that you put into practice, it all has value. Report an error in the passage at 8:54 Highlight the passage at 8:54

9:16 It's like the, what do you call it, the water barrel. Report an error in the passage at 9:16 Highlight the passage at 9:16

9:49 They're going to see the power and the inertia and the potential of all the practice they've done, all the precepts they've kept. Every day they've made an effort with the precepts. Every day they were able to meditate or do chanting or read a sutta or two. It all has the potential to move you further down the path, just a little bit more every single day. Report an error in the passage at 9:49 Highlight the passage at 9:49

10:18 But you'll see the power of that when you leave this life. And the vast majority of people, anyone who's a practitioner, virtually the vast majority of them, 99-point-something percent will attain to, say, the higher worlds, the deva-loka realms. And because of the incredible lifespans, if you're very focused and you maintain your Report an error in the passage at 10:18 Highlight the passage at 10:18

10:48 Resolve. Realistically, you could break through from the Deva local realms without great difficulty. And I've mentioned this multiple times, but you've got incredible lifespans in the Deva worlds. I think the minimum from memory a long time ago was about maybe 9.7 million years. First Deva local realms. So, you know, you've got the potential easily, easily to break through. Report an error in the passage at 10:48 Highlight the passage at 10:48

11:14 to the first of the enlightenment stages, if not much, much further than that, and then bring this whole process of karma and rebirth to an end. Report an error in the passage at 11:14 Highlight the passage at 11:14

11:27 Okay, let's see what we're going to do with the meditation. What we'll do is, maybe we'll do just a gradual focus. Something which you might find very, very useful, and I do this a lot, is I do this anicca principle. So when I'm meditating, whether it's walking, sitting, or cleaning around the kuti, walking back and forth, going for a walk or whatever, I use this anicca principle, which you can use, you can do it once. Report an error in the passage at 11:27 Highlight the passage at 11:27

12:10 Maybe every five minutes. You may think this is complete nonsense, but you can do this once every five minutes and you do it 18 hours a day. So you recollect the mantra when you remember. So even if you forget, as soon as you remember, recollect once mantra and then you keep that going all your waking hours. Report an error in the passage at 12:10 Highlight the passage at 12:10

12:30 Some people think it's complete nonsense. How can you possibly, possibly get any mindfulness? Any focus, any increasing awareness, peripheral awareness from that. I can do this once every five minutes and I can do it 18 hours a day. I can stop walking and sitting meditation completely for weeks on end and just do this simple little practice, one mantra every five minutes and I can hold the meditation together to a very, very significant degree. Report an error in the passage at 12:30 Highlight the passage at 12:30

13:01 Come back to the monastery, sit meditation. The first meditation is reasonable. And the second one is quite peaceful. You guys would definitely not be dissatisfied. So don't ever underestimate this kind of baby samādhi, very, very light. But you can work. You can work and function at full speed. Your memory is not impaired. Peripheral awareness is not impaired. Mind speed and whatnot is not impaired in any way. Report an error in the passage at 13:01 Highlight the passage at 13:01

13:30 So it's very, very useful, very incredibly light practice that you can do. All your waking hours, seven days a week, because many of you guys are working full time, you have families, children, responsibilities and what not, so this very, very light practice and you contemplate, so in between the mantras, so you do a mantra, roughly one mantra based on the changeability. Report an error in the passage at 13:30 Highlight the passage at 13:30

14:01 It could be feelings or emotions are changeable, perception, consciousness, forces, energy. It could be goals, ambition. Absolutely anything is changeable. So you just choose one little mantra once every couple of minutes, three to five minutes, all your waking hours, seven days a week, and within a couple of days you will see it working and it will sharpen you. Report an error in the passage at 14:01 Highlight the passage at 14:01

14:26 It will make you sharper, faster. faster, a bit more intelligent. There are advantages with this kind of baby samādhi, very, very light samādhi, but you can do your insight because it sharpens and increases your peripheral awareness, your internal awareness that you can contemplate, you can investigate and come to an understanding of things, both inside the mind and body and what you see. Report an error in the passage at 14:26 Highlight the passage at 14:26

15:23 Then, you know, that wisdom insight is the pinnacle of the pyramid. That's what you're aiming for. Everything, all the foundation principles are aimed at developing your wisdom and insight. And when it comes to paramita, that's the one which will take you a long, long way. So everything that you do, the wisdom and insight, and especially that changeability principle, the Buddha said over and over and over again, and the forest masters say exactly the same thing repeatedly. Report an error in the passage at 15:23 Highlight the passage at 15:23

15:50 repeatedly the contemplation of anicca, dukkha, anattā, so What would you call it? Unsatisfactoriness. You can contemplate it when things come up, when it's absolutely obvious. Changeability is very, very easy to work with. I find it quite positive. I don't feel any real negativity with it, hardly at all. Emptiness, you've got to be a bit careful because you can get a bit lightheaded. Report an error in the passage at 15:50 Highlight the passage at 15:50

16:15 What would you call it? A little bit too spaced out. You've got to be careful with this kind of thing because you could... Walk across the road in front of a car. You do that kind of stuff all the time, that emptiness principle. And you could make mistakes and you could have accidents, this kind of thing. Report an error in the passage at 16:15 Highlight the passage at 16:15

16:30 But changeability keeps you aware, sharp, changing phenomena inside the mind and body, changing phenomena around you. So you're not going to walk across the road in front of a truck. You're not going to do really, really silly, silly, dangerous things with this kind of baby samādhi. It keeps you sharp. Report an error in the passage at 16:30 Highlight the passage at 16:30

16:47 keeps you aware to a degree anyway so what we'll do is if everyone they just get themselves into a comfortable posture make sure the back is straight head is upright and comfortable nothing tied around the throat wrists or the tummy make sure you can breathe fully into the chest section Report an error in the passage at 16:47 Highlight the passage at 16:47

17:15 The best position always is to have the hands together. The best meditation will usually be with hands together and the ankles crossed or just the feet touching because you're forming a circuit. The body's forming a circuit when it comes to chi, when it comes to samādhi. And maybe for the first... Let's see now, first, maybe, say roughly about, maybe the first, say, we're going to do at least three quarters of an hour. Report an error in the passage at 17:15 Highlight the passage at 17:15

17:55 Okay, so we'll do maybe, say, 15 minutes on the tummy section. That'll help ground you. And then we'll go to this very sharp focus around the feelings around the mouth. There's a lot of nerve endings. It's very, very distinct. Some people can't go to the nose tip. It's kind of laser beam focus. It's just too sharp. So if you go around the mouth section, it's quite a good focus, but you can feel it constantly. Report an error in the passage at 17:55 Highlight the passage at 17:55

18:29 The sensations are quite sharp. But if you're able to, what I would recommend you do is you start with that initial principle, so focusing on the tummy, the tummy expanding, contracting, but you add that, in the beginning you add that changeability mantra. If you want to see good results fairly quickly, you don't want to be sitting for 30 minutes, an hour, even before you start to see any decent practice. Report an error in the passage at 18:29 Highlight the passage at 18:29

18:57 It's good to get it rolling quite early, so that Anicca principle, the changeability principle, you can choose something like, it can be anything, but things like feelings are changeable, that's tangible, feelings are changeable, that's tangible with most people. So focusing on the tummy, and then as you breathe out, breathing out, feelings, and then breathe in, then breathe out, a changeable, breathing in, breathing out, feelings, breathing in, breathing out. Report an error in the passage at 18:57 Highlight the passage at 18:57

19:27 But you can do any mantra that you want, but that one's tangible. Most people can relate to that easily. And then focus on the tummy section, and we'll do that for 15 minutes, and then we'll do 30 minutes on focusing on the mouth section, which is the same principle, just a little bit sharper. Report an error in the passage at 19:27 Highlight the passage at 19:27

19:53 So please make a start. Report an error in the passage at 19:53 Highlight the passage at 19:53

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26:24 So as you focus on the abdomen, the tummy section, just follow the feelings. Look at the feelings. Meditation is a feely, feely practice. So watch the feelings as the abdomen rises and falls with your changeability mantra together as you choose. If Report an error in the passage at 26:24 Highlight the passage at 26:24

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34:09 you find that you're still thinking excessively, That your thought processes are essentially driven by one's emotions. So you need, in order to stop a particular, say, line of thinking, maybe you say like an attachment, an experience, could be anything with family, work, the past, you know, when you were young, you know, with mum and dad. Report an error in the passage at 34:09 Highlight the passage at 34:09

34:36 And this thing keeps persisting. It's all part of your karma. It keeps persisting. You need to understand everything about that experience. So, for example, maybe you had differences with your boss and it keeps persisting for days, days, weeks on end. It's in the meditation every single day you practice. The reason why it persists is because it's not fully or almost fully understood. Report an error in the passage at 34:36 Highlight the passage at 34:36

35:03 So what happens is it keeps circling, it keeps coming back to you, it keeps knocking on the door of the mind. you know knocking on the door i'm i'm I've come back to you. I'm here again. You haven't examined me. You haven't looked into this. You haven't come to an understanding of a particular experience and it keeps returning to you. So this is the test. If you have a particular experience and it doesn't stop, it keeps coming back again and again and again. Report an error in the passage at 35:03 Highlight the passage at 35:03

35:35 a hundred and one times, a thousand and one times. This experience is telling you it has not been understood. You haven't examined it thoroughly. You haven't examined it from multiple angles. It's still unresolved. It's still not complete, not completed, and there's still residue left. This is a test. This is a test of insight. Report an error in the passage at 35:35 Highlight the passage at 35:35

35:59 So not to underestimate people's experiences because they can be very, very intense, very heavy, very serious, but this is the test for every single one of us, including the monastics, the long-term lay disciples, beginning meditators. If you can't let something go, that means that your insight and understanding into that experience is not, what would you call it, fully, say, fully understood it's not you haven't There's something which is hidden from you. You haven't seen it completely. There's something which is still lurking under the surface, something remaining, unresolved. Report an error in the passage at 35:59 Highlight the passage at 35:59

36:44 This is a test. If you've got something happening, you could have had a breakup. Breakups are very, very heavy, heavy experiences with multiple, could be a dozen feelings, could be... If you can't let that person go over 3, 6, 12 months, it means that the experience is not fully understood. You have not examined every possible angle, every possible feeling. And this will be completely obvious to you. Report an error in the passage at 36:44 Highlight the passage at 36:44

37:23 If it keeps persisting, it has not been fully understood. Report an error in the passage at 37:23 Highlight the passage at 37:23

37:56 persisting in the mind, you've got to look at that and examine that. And then at least 30 seconds of insight and then back and forth, back and forth. I do this all the time, constantly, constantly. This is what gets you results. You don't want to be sitting one, two, three, four hours, wasting... You know, samādhi is useful, but the whole purpose of samādhi is to bring you insight. That's the high purpose of this path. But anyway, just put it to the test and see what you think. Report an error in the passage at 37:56 Highlight the passage at 37:56

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39:14 Okay, we're going to sharpen our focus now. So I want you to focus on the feelings around... So we're going to focus on the feelings around the mouth, which is very clear, quite sharp, and then keep doing that mantra, that changeability mantra, the mantra of your choice, in a very, very comfortable, spacious way, with the breathing as you choose, you know, it has to suit you, and we'll do that for the remainder of the session. Report an error in the passage at 39:14 Highlight the passage at 39:14

39:44 So Report an error in the passage at 39:44 Highlight the passage at 39:44

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48:24 we're coming towards the end of the session, so just look back, reflect back and see What makes a difference for you? What skillful means approach you use which helps you to get, say, reasonable results when you sit meditation? Report an error in the passage at 48:24 Highlight the passage at 48:24

48:50 So I'll ring the gong three times. You can open your eyes when you're ready. So Report an error in the passage at 48:50 Highlight the passage at 48:50

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50:04 if any of you guys got any questions at all with meditation or anything else, Please take the floor. Report an error in the passage at 50:04 Highlight the passage at 50:04

50:25 Ajahn, why is it that monks can meditate very strongly and get a good practice and they can have an understanding in past lives? Why is it that generally ordinary people just don't get to find out about past lives because it just doesn't come up? the main thing which will the only reason why the monastics Or long-term lay disciples, say in community settings, can get access to, say, psychic potential recollection of past lives. Report an error in the passage at 50:25 Highlight the passage at 50:25

51:07 The bottom line, it comes down to samādhi power, so the ability to still the mind. Really, we're talking about, you know, quite deep, profound meditation. meditation, the... Report an error in the passage at 51:07 Highlight the passage at 51:07

51:19 The underlying defilements of the mind, the five hindrances, all the stuff that we think about, it's got to come to an end. It's got to stop completely. To be absolutely specific, the mind has got to be still. No thinking at all. The mind is one-pointed, sharp, bright. Some people, the mind can be incredibly bright with light, much, much brighter than the sun. Report an error in the passage at 51:19 Highlight the passage at 51:19

51:45 It's a different kind of light, the way they explain it. But when you stop the mind, you stop the mind thinking and you stop normal human emotions and the mind is still, then that mind which has energy, has power, has the ability. The way one of the forest masters explained it is basically your mind is like a computer and you can just go back, back, back, back, back. Report an error in the passage at 51:45 Highlight the passage at 51:45

52:23 could recollect 80, was it 84, let me get this right, there were multiple, multiple expansions and contractions of the universe. It might have been 84, correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't checked it for a while. But the... Report an error in the passage at 52:23 Highlight the passage at 52:23

52:41 The power of the Buddhist mind was such that he could go back to 84 eons, expansions and contractions of the universe, which shows you what the potential is. But for mainstream disciples, say roughly in the current age, within the last 50, 100 years, essentially you've got... The minimum level is Upacara Samādhi. The hindrances have got to be suppressed. The mind has got to be still. Absolutely still. Report an error in the passage at 52:41 Highlight the passage at 52:41

53:18 No thoughts at all. No normal human emotions at all. The mind is one. It's solid like a rock. There's none of this like... I can't say things like, I was one pointed, one pointed, but I'm still aware of the five senses. That's not the case at all. You're deep, deep, deep in the mind. Your attention is unified inside the mind. There is no five sense input externally from the world at all. Report an error in the passage at 53:18 Highlight the passage at 53:18

53:50 There is only the mind. There is only one element, major element, and that's the difference. So the practitioner having achieved jhānas, that could be that they would come to understand? You've got the potential for it. So if you've got that, even Upacara Samādhi, there's enough energy, there's enough sharpness, there's enough power of the mind to go back, go back into past lives. Report an error in the passage at 53:50 Highlight the passage at 53:50

54:21 The potential's there. Yeah, but that's, yeah, that same principle, you've, the jhānas, Upacara, yeah, definitely jhānas, there's enough power in the first jhāna to take you all the way through to... they... Report an error in the passage at 54:21 Highlight the passage at 54:21

54:37 The fourth enlightenment stage, the full purification of mind. So the jhānas are crucial. People will argue you can't realize the path without them. Some forest masters say you need, upacara samādhi might be the minimum, but that's not what the Buddha said. The Buddha said full samādhi, which is the jhāna levels. Report an error in the passage at 54:37 Highlight the passage at 54:37

55:06 But the thing is that if you have that potential, because people, whether it's monastic or lay disciple, people have different potentials, they have different pāramī, past life development. So you may get a lay disciple who's a young person and has got pronounced psychic ability in different areas, but they just didn't get lucky or whatnot. Report an error in the passage at 55:06 Highlight the passage at 55:06

55:31 You know, they worked. To get that level of ability, you've got to be meditating at least probably 30 years. I mean, I've been doing this for 30 years. I don't have psychic ability. So you're looking at easily probably maybe two lifetimes to get that, to look at, to get multiple abilities in different areas. Report an error in the passage at 55:31 Highlight the passage at 55:31

55:52 You may not be able to go back 10 lifetimes or five lifetimes. You can recollect the last one. You can have incredible samādhi for lifetimes, two, three lifetimes. Report an error in the passage at 55:52 Highlight the passage at 55:52

56:26 Copyright © 2020 Mooji Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. samādhi but the whole purpose of the samādhi is to bring you um insight they've had There's been a handful amongst top class meditators in Thailand where they got stuck in that samādhi for years, maybe even five years, ten years. And because you've got mastery of it and your mind is pure, bright, it's absolutely as pure as the driven snow. Report an error in the passage at 56:26 Highlight the passage at 56:26

57:07 People will look at you like you're a saint. You walk and talk like a saint. You've got a degree of insight knowledge. You just look and sound fantastic 24 hours a day. Report an error in the passage at 57:07 Highlight the passage at 57:07

57:20 But even people in Thailand, even people, there have been monks, mainly monks in Thailand and possibly even nuns who get caught in the samādhi trap even for five years, ten years. So a meditation master will see through that. He will see that the work is not complete. He will see that this person is stuck. That same thing, getting caught in the bliss, the incredible peace. Report an error in the passage at 57:20 Highlight the passage at 57:20

57:47 you can get psychic potential coming from that but you can still get stuck in that it still can be a trap and you have to use that that profound meditation it's you know the whole purpose of the samādhi is to is to get you inside deep understanding and get you enlightened that's the that's the purpose purpose. Report an error in the passage at 57:47 Highlight the passage at 57:47

58:13 There's no method in what I'm about to say. It's quite well known that people who are of unstable mind get psychic understanding. Oh, not really. I worked in mental health and I've met many, many, dozens, dozens, dozens of people with schizophrenia, manic depressive, all sorts of, what do you call it, psychological disturbances. Report an error in the passage at 58:13 Highlight the passage at 58:13

58:46 If you can prove, not just to me, but if you can prove... To anyone in this room, you can prove to your friends. You might be unbalanced and unstable and you can say, I hear and see many, many things or different experiences. You can describe them in full detail, in color, full detail. But if you can't prove these things, if you tell me or you tell anyone else in this room that you've got abilities, that you've got knowledge, you've got profound knowledge, I can see things, I can hear things, retrocognition, deja vu, clairaudience, all sorts of amazing, interesting stuff. Report an error in the passage at 58:46 Highlight the passage at 58:46

59:27 If you can't prove this at all, basically, you're a fake. If you are so incredible, you can prove this to other people, not just to me. I can see through this stuff very quick. But if you can't prove to your friends here, Close friends or dharma practitioners, what you know and see, then essentially you're faking it. Report an error in the passage at 59:27 Highlight the passage at 59:27

1:00:01 Sorry? One of the deceit... Yeah, Report an error in the passage at 1:00:01 Highlight the passage at 1:00:01

1:00:11 that's right. Yeah, that's a big one. That will basically finish you completely. If you've got full intention, you intentionally lie. That will finish you. Report an error in the passage at 1:00:11 Highlight the passage at 1:00:11

1:00:36 You mentioned earlier that if there's an issue or something that keeps coming... Report an error in the passage at 1:00:36 Highlight the passage at 1:00:36

1:00:54 Say, for example, anything which is significant in one's life. It could be very, very important to you. It could be something which is close to your heart, this and that. It could be family, children, this and that. But you go to sit meditation, it just keeps coming up 101, 1001 times. The reason is... Report an error in the passage at 1:00:54 Highlight the passage at 1:00:54

1:01:20 Because it hasn't been explored. So your personal experience is at the centre and what you need to do is you go 360 degrees. You examine that experience from every possible angle and you may have to do this 25, 50, 100 times over the course of a month, one, two, three years before this thing will stop. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:20 Highlight the passage at 1:01:20

1:01:47 Because as I mentioned, this is the test. If you have something, and it could be a close connection with your child. These things are not to be underestimated because you've got very, very tight karma with the people who are close to you. But if you can't let go of mum or dad or one's children, it could be anything at all. It could be anything of great significance. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:47 Highlight the passage at 1:01:47

1:02:11 But if you can't let that thing go, it means... You have not fully understood it. There's things which are still hidden from you, things that you may not necessarily have understood at this point in time. Because the karma that you have with other people, it's incredibly complex. Say, for example, you come into a family and you could easily have 15, 20... Report an error in the passage at 1:02:11 Highlight the passage at 1:02:11

1:03:12 The emotions are key. Don't think, oh, well, I think like this and I think like that. You go to the emotion because that's what's driving your thinking process. That's the energy. That's what you need. That's the key. So feelings, emotions, they drive the whole course of a human being's life or any being in the universe, say. Report an error in the passage at 1:03:12 Highlight the passage at 1:03:12

1:03:36 And then you explore. You have that experience. And you explore it completely from multiple, multiple perspectives. And then you drop it for maybe five minutes. And then you go back to the peaceful meditation for five minutes and then go back to the experience again. And then you may have to explore it for 30 seconds or maybe a minute. Report an error in the passage at 1:03:36 Highlight the passage at 1:03:36

1:03:59 Back to the peaceful meditation and then back to the experience. And you may have to do this like... You may have to do this a hundred times or more. Report an error in the passage at 1:03:59 Highlight the passage at 1:03:59

1:04:20 Emotionally you've got to understand, in essence, why do I feel this way about my child or about my dad, about my boss at work. This is the energy driving this experience. Why do I feel this way? And there could be a dozen feelings. There could be a dozen feelings between you, dad, your child, your boss. And you take one feeling at a time and you need to understand everything about that feeling. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:20 Highlight the passage at 1:04:20

1:04:53 And then you take the second feeling, connect it with that person, and you understand everything about it. You know, third, fourth, fifth emotion. So without getting overly complexed, that's the way you approach it. And you'll get better. You'll get faster, sharper. And your awareness will increase. Some people can have difficult stuff they're working with, but when they develop their skills with problem solving or stuff which is very close to you, you just can't let it go. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:53 Highlight the passage at 1:04:53

1:05:23 You go through a divorce and you just still can't let that person go, even though it's painful, a lot of painful emotion. You take one emotion at a time, understand everything, everything about that feeling, and then move to the second feeling. Then the third feeling. There could be a dozen feelings connected with this person. And then you go right through, right through it. And so you've taken it to its limit. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:23 Highlight the passage at 1:05:23

1:05:49 You've exhausted it. I can't think and reflect anymore about this thing. And then you just drop it. And then you go back to the peaceful meditation for at least five minutes, maybe even ten. It all depends what suits your soul. And then you go back to the personal experience. But it could take a full 12 months. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:49 Highlight the passage at 1:05:49

1:06:07 Easy. It could take 12 months or even two years before you can abandon, before you can let this stuff go, because you've got lifetimes of karma with these people. All your family, all your close friends, you've been with these guys for multiple, multiple lifetimes. This is why you just can't drop them. Report an error in the passage at 1:06:07 Highlight the passage at 1:06:07

1:06:25 You just can't let them go so easily. Report an error in the passage at 1:06:25 Highlight the passage at 1:06:25

1:06:36 Okay, I think we'll call it an afternoon. We'll catch up with you guys later. Report an error in the passage at 1:06:36 Highlight the passage at 1:06:36