Dispelling Darkness

0:01 This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness and who knows the path of peace. Let them be able and upright straightforward and gentle in speech humble and not conceited contented and easily satisfied. Report an error in the passage at 0:01 Highlight the passage at 0:01

0:30 Not busy with duties and forego in their ways. Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful. Not proud and demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. Wishing in gladness and in safety, may all beings be happy, whatever living beings there may be, whether they are weak or strong, or meeting none, the great or the mighty, medium, short or small, the seen and the unseen. Report an error in the passage at 0:30 Highlight the passage at 0:30

1:26 Those living near and following, those born and to be born, may all beings be happy. Let none deceive another or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or healing wish harm upon another. Report an error in the passage at 1:26 Highlight the passage at 1:26

1:57 Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish her living beings, radiating kindness over the entire world, spreading upwards to the skies. And downwards to the depths, outwards and unbounded, free from hatred and ill will, whether standing or walking, seated or lying down, free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection. Report an error in the passage at 1:57 Highlight the passage at 1:57

2:51 This is said to be the sublime abiding by not holding to false views the pure heart and one having clarity of vision being free from all sense desires is not born again into this world. Report an error in the passage at 2:51 Highlight the passage at 2:51

3:24 The time will be over to you, Ajahn. Okay, thank you. So everyone can hear me? Everyone's okay? Report an error in the passage at 3:24 Highlight the passage at 3:24

3:37 Excellent. Okay. So I've been feeling in touch and drawn to talk about, we just passed the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere. So I'm kind of... I want to talk about darkness. So before I start, I was asking people, can we turn off the light here? It's too bright. But I know they have to turn it on for the video. Report an error in the passage at 3:37 Highlight the passage at 3:37

4:08 But if you look outside, it's full moon. It's actually full moon outside. It's very, very beautiful, especially where I am. I'm in the forest. So I feel the darkness more, that the light comes later. Report an error in the passage at 4:08 Highlight the passage at 4:08

4:28 In the morning, and the light disappears earlier in the evening. And that sense of darkness, sometimes it's easy when it's dark outside, and it simply re-echoes, we echo inside. There's also a sense of darkness. Report an error in the passage at 4:28 Highlight the passage at 4:28

5:01 Negative emotions, grief, loss, despair even. But I want to suggest that maybe darkness can be an invitation to a different kind of inner emotion. It's an invitation that when outside environment is dark, it actually invites us to go in to find our own light. Report an error in the passage at 5:01 Highlight the passage at 5:01

5:31 And that process is... in many ways you know it's what the meditation is about um the Buddha gives the simile that consciousness is like a light it's like a light and whether we can whether everyone can connect with that or not but um the it is there so it's an invitation can we can we look for it can we connect with it but outside can be dark but there's still a light inside and there's a very beautiful sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya is kind of this well my interpretation anyway it kind of uh tell that pattern uh pretty well that's the uh churrasunyata sutta it talks about like um uh it's all about the meditation that when to regard what is not here here as empty. Report an error in the passage at 5:31 Highlight the passage at 5:31

6:38 and what remains as Report an error in the passage at 6:38 Highlight the passage at 6:38

6:49 but there's a progression of just simply slowly turning off the light yeah become empty slowly turning off the light of the external things and slowly coming back in to what you actually know what you actually experience and it described this very beautiful progression so it was something like i can't remember the exact detail of the sutta but then the the idea of it is like well what if i'm in a monastery so you'll be in your home or wherever you are what wherever outside of the monastery whatever outside of your home you know that that can be is well that can be empty so it's relative idea of emptiness so that can be empty so my interpretation is like what is like it's like is that turning off the light yeah it's not here anyway and turn it off and then turn the light of the consciousness coming back to the present that you actually what you're experiencing where you are and And it's not that kind of pushing away. You're not pushing away, you know, your thinking or the past and the future. Report an error in the passage at 6:49 Highlight the passage at 6:49

8:15 But you simply, it's like when you go to the bathroom. You go to the bathroom, okay? And when you leave, you turn the light off. The bathroom doesn't disappear. But you don't need it now. You're in your living room, you're in the library, you're in wherever you are. Like you simply turn off what you don't need right now. So you're not pushing them away, you're turning off. And there's a progression. Report an error in the passage at 8:15 Highlight the passage at 8:15

8:44 And once your awareness is where you are, say it's in your house, in the monastery, and as you get deeper into your situation, then again, then you may want to turn off the light of other rooms, not just the bathroom. Other rooms that you're not physically in. So you don't have to pay attention. You don't have to pay attention to things that is not here. Report an error in the passage at 8:44 Highlight the passage at 8:44

9:12 So even just a moment ago, that's in the past. Another place in your house, you're not there. So you can turn off the light. Report an error in the passage at 9:12 Highlight the passage at 9:12

9:23 So progressively, eventually, you come back to what you can know and see. So even in this house, you come to a room. And eventually you can come to, in this house, in this room, I'm not paying attention to everything in this room. It can be just what immediately in front of me right now, what I can see and what I can experience right now. Report an error in the passage at 9:23 Highlight the passage at 9:23

9:48 And the rest of it, again, as the meditation, naturally, this is a natural process. You're not actually making, not literally trying to force the light to be off. But it's a natural progression of the mind where you pay attention to more and more center of your experience, the center of your presence. Report an error in the passage at 9:48 Highlight the passage at 9:48

10:11 And what is in the periphery starts to drop off. Now, the danger of that is some people may experience that coming back in instead of light. they experience darkness they experience the difficult emotions then whatever it is maybe just still remnants of the sadness that you you experienced before and that's that's nothing wrong because that's actually happening right now but what i'm suggesting is this um this direction of the mind that we're talking about the mind coming back inside you're letting go of chasing after things outside the energy that you used to put in to the world is coming back in and that energy has the power to soften care and transform whatever darkness that you're actually experiencing inside so all you have to do you stay with it it won't be dark in the moment you will just be a tiny bit It's a bit more relaxing. It's not going to happen straight away. It's not going to suddenly have this bright light inside for a lot of people. Report an error in the passage at 10:11 Highlight the passage at 10:11

11:37 Maybe you do. But for a lot of people, when you first come back in, it can be just dull. It can be just gray. It can be really dark. That doesn't matter. You stay with it. And the energy coming back in is transformative. And it's generative of your own life. It's feeling. It's fueling. That inner light that you have been perhaps neglecting during the day, neglecting while you're busy with other things. Report an error in the passage at 11:37 Highlight the passage at 11:37

12:09 And that process of slowly transforming your inner world, slowly brightening and softening your inner world is actually very joyful because you're coming from diversity. Coming back in to simplicity. There's a kind of joy with the simplicity. Report an error in the passage at 12:09 Highlight the passage at 12:09

12:40 I remember when I was a kid, maybe five or six, and one of my favorite homework was, I was given a homework that all you have to do is to color this page, different sections, different sections. And all I have to do, I just have to color it. And that was my homework for the day, or for that class or something like that. I remember just thinking, like, that's all I have to do? Report an error in the passage at 12:40 Highlight the passage at 12:40

13:15 It's so easy. There's no way of, like, thinking that, like, I can't do it, I'm not good enough, or, like, how am I going to finish it before tomorrow? It's the simplicity of it. I just have to put color on the paper. So that kind of joy is possible in that simplicity, just coming back in. What is simpler than just one moment, than one breath? Report an error in the passage at 13:15 Highlight the passage at 13:15

13:46 And breathing, I don't even have to breathe. Breathing happens by itself, so it's easier than coloring. And that joy of that simplicity is available, whether you feel it or not, it's available in this process of meditation. I mean, just today, I just finished making two meditation stools, wooden stools. And the person who was helping me, she was like, I told her we have to vanish it, then we'll be finished. Report an error in the passage at 13:46 Highlight the passage at 13:46

14:17 And she said, that's the best part. And I said, why? You like vanish so much? And she said, no, that's the easiest part. I said, yes, that's exactly it. That's just one stroke at a time, you know, one color at a time. One breath at a time, one moment at a time, and that it builds, it builds that inner light, that it builds very slowly, especially if you practice and meditate consistently, it just, it builds, and the consistency of it, and the experience of even just transforming a little bit in your own experience of your own. Report an error in the passage at 14:17 Highlight the passage at 14:17

15:02 in the world is um it's transformative because a lot of the time the feeling we have is darkness doesn't end yeah when we start to have the experience that it changes and it changes for the better and eventually become joyful and also become light that process it is um it's beautiful and it's enjoyable And it really changes us. And the possibility, what is available at the end is this really luminous mind. Report an error in the passage at 15:02 Highlight the passage at 15:02

15:44 In the tradition, they call it the limiter. But also in the suttas, they have this phrase called the bhupasara citta. This luminous mind, inside, as you consistently building and feeling. Kindling and joining the energy inside. And after a while, it builds more than that. It builds a kind of trust inside. Report an error in the passage at 15:44 Highlight the passage at 15:44

16:22 If our experience is consistent when we come inside, we experience actually is joy. Eventually becomes joyful. Experiences light. Report an error in the passage at 16:22 Highlight the passage at 16:22

16:37 We start to trust that my life is safe. It's not just okay, it's safe. In my experience, it's actually goodness when I go inside. And that kind of trust, no one can give it to you. And no one can take away from you. And it's something that eventually is more than just... And understanding and knowing for yourself, because if our mind, our consciousness, is actually an experience of light and joy, then everybody else who has a consciousness, which is everybody, they also, inside, is experience of joy and goodness. Report an error in the passage at 16:37 Highlight the passage at 16:37

17:31 And we start to trust humanity. It's not just trusting me. I am good. But you start to trust so much more through this process. And it's absolutely transformative and beautiful when it happens. Report an error in the passage at 17:31 Highlight the passage at 17:31

17:51 But then the most important thing is the process leading to it. Every step, when we come back to this moment, when we come back to the breath, when we turn off the light that is not useful, that is not helping us, The past and the future, the imagination and the whatever else, why it's not here, we come back to something that's actually present and I can experience one breath at a time, one moment at a time, then eventually we don't have to fear for the darkness of the world. Report an error in the passage at 17:51 Highlight the passage at 17:51

18:29 Because it's possible, it's possible that darkness is simply an invitation to find... The kind of light, the source of light that is more meaningful, that's actually more beautiful and more joyful for us. And that's an invitation. It's not complicated. It's not complicated. It's just like coloring. It's just like turning off the bathroom light. It's just like vanishing a piece of wood. Just one breath at a time. Report an error in the passage at 18:29 Highlight the passage at 18:29

19:04 One more breath at a time. And everyone can do it. Okay, so if you just find yourself a comfortable position, just Report an error in the passage at 19:04 Highlight the passage at 19:04

19:40 make sure that your legs are comfortable, they're not squashing each other, or I don't know what you're doing, but make sure they're comfortable so that you can sit for half an hour, 40 minutes or so. And Report an error in the passage at 19:40 Highlight the passage at 19:40

20:15 notice that your sitting bones are... and notice the Report an error in the passage at 20:15 Highlight the passage at 20:15

21:00 position of your spine hold Report an error in the passage at 21:00 Highlight the passage at 21:00

21:09 it in a way that is comfortable for you comfortable for you to breathe comfortable Report an error in the passage at 21:09 Highlight the passage at 21:09

21:21 so that your abdominal organs and and inside doesn't feel squashed together unless it's comfortable for you for them to be all squashed together but put in a way that is comfortable so you um you're not somehow restricting the breathing or uh you feel too much pressure in your in your trunk on your body unless Report an error in the passage at 21:21 Highlight the passage at 21:21

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22:37 you notice your your body your back Report an error in the passage at 22:37 Highlight the passage at 22:37

22:45 Your shoulders, notice that you can just relax your shoulders. Report an error in the passage at 22:45 Highlight the passage at 22:45

22:55 Not trying to relax, but simply just, you can just breathe out and just let it happen. Just let the shoulders let go of all the tension accumulated during the day. And as you breathe out, just drop it. Just let it go down with the breath. Report an error in the passage at 22:55 Highlight the passage at 22:55

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23:56 Notice the position of your arms. in your hands you Report an error in the passage at 23:56 Highlight the passage at 23:56

24:09 can try a few different positions put in a way that is relaxed and comfortable notice Report an error in the passage at 24:09 Highlight the passage at 24:09

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24:55 the muscles in your neck and Report an error in the passage at 24:55 Highlight the passage at 24:55

25:02 for some of some of us it can be a little bit tense and again you can just uh just let the tension relaxes with each algorithm so Report an error in the passage at 25:02 Highlight the passage at 25:02

25:22 for each With each breath, it just relaxes just a little bit more. And hold it in a position that it's not straining you further. Report an error in the passage at 25:22 Highlight the passage at 25:22

25:37 You can move it a little bit and find the right position for you. You Report an error in the passage at 25:37 Highlight the passage at 25:37

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26:25 can pay attention to the muscles around your arms. Report an error in the passage at 26:25 Highlight the passage at 26:25

26:37 If you feel that there's a lot of tension there, there's tension around the... Report an error in the passage at 26:37 Highlight the passage at 26:37

26:48 The area between your eyes or your eyebrows. Report an error in the passage at 26:48 Highlight the passage at 26:48

26:56 Again, see if you can just gently allow them to relax. Report an error in the passage at 26:56 Highlight the passage at 26:56

27:07 Your eyes are just very gently closing, but not giving you any tension. Report an error in the passage at 27:07 Highlight the passage at 27:07

27:20 Just let the tension go with each breath. Report an error in the passage at 27:20 Highlight the passage at 27:20

27:52 Similarly, for the muscles around the mouth, the Report an error in the passage at 27:52 Highlight the passage at 27:52

28:02 best way to relax The muscles in your whole face and the mouth is actually just to put a very gentle smile. You notice that the whole face relaxes and Report an error in the passage at 28:02 Highlight the passage at 28:02

28:26 it conditions the mind towards joy, towards the potential of joy, the possibility of joy. So we stand. Report an error in the passage at 28:26 Highlight the passage at 28:26

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29:24 Notice what it feels like to just sit here, whatever Report an error in the passage at 29:24 Highlight the passage at 29:24

29:42 that is. Not knowing what is not here, what is in the past, what is in the future, what happened during the day, what will happen a second later. If you're not here, then Report an error in the passage at 29:42 Highlight the passage at 29:42

30:17 you can just switch off the world. Turn your attention to just being here. It's Report an error in the passage at 30:17 Highlight the passage at 30:17

30:33 a space that we're sitting in, which Report an error in the passage at 30:33 Highlight the passage at 30:33

30:43 contains all the air. Report an error in the passage at 30:43 Highlight the passage at 30:43

30:48 that we're breathing whatever Report an error in the passage at 30:48 Highlight the passage at 30:48

31:03 is in your experience you don't have to push it away they are exactly in the white flames and for your awareness whatever here that's for your awareness you'll Report an error in the passage at 31:03 Highlight the passage at 31:03

31:50 find that you relax just a little bit deeper into this presence your Report an error in the passage at 31:50 Highlight the passage at 31:50

32:02 mind moves towards the center the center of our experience you Report an error in the passage at 32:02 Highlight the passage at 32:02

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33:09 notice Report an error in the passage at 33:09 Highlight the passage at 33:09

33:21 That you're more and more aware to your immediate environment. Report an error in the passage at 33:21 Highlight the passage at 33:21

33:31 So whatever outside this room, or a little bit further from where you sit, start to just fade away a little bit. Your Report an error in the passage at 33:31 Highlight the passage at 33:31

33:48 awareness coming closer and closer to your body. The Report an error in the passage at 33:48 Highlight the passage at 33:48

33:56 contact between your skin and your clothes. The Report an error in the passage at 33:56 Highlight the passage at 33:56

34:13 air touching your skin and your face. The Report an error in the passage at 34:13 Highlight the passage at 34:13

34:36 feeling of warmth. Report an error in the passage at 34:36 Highlight the passage at 34:36

34:54 But your mind is also... Report an error in the passage at 34:54 Highlight the passage at 34:54

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35:32 And there seems to be a rhythm. Report an error in the passage at 35:32 Highlight the passage at 35:32

35:44 Moving your chest slightly up. Report an error in the passage at 35:44 Highlight the passage at 35:44

35:58 and everything else. Report an error in the passage at 35:58 Highlight the passage at 35:58

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50:38 Before coming out of meditation, I Report an error in the passage at 50:38 Highlight the passage at 50:38

50:48 invite you to just notice. How do you feel right now? What Report an error in the passage at 50:48 Highlight the passage at 50:48

51:00 has changed in Report an error in the passage at 51:00 Highlight the passage at 51:00

51:05 the past half an hour or so? How Report an error in the passage at 51:05 Highlight the passage at 51:05

51:17 did I use my mind? Report an error in the passage at 51:17 Highlight the passage at 51:17

51:29 There's no judgment. Just notice. Report an error in the passage at 51:29 Highlight the passage at 51:29

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52:02 Is there a certain way I used my mind that made me relaxed, more than usual, a little bit younger? Report an error in the passage at 52:02 Highlight the passage at 52:02

52:21 Maybe I'll remember that. Report an error in the passage at 52:21 Highlight the passage at 52:21

52:29 Was there something I didn't? Report an error in the passage at 52:29 Highlight the passage at 52:29

52:34 The way I used my mind that made me more tense. You Report an error in the passage at 52:34 Highlight the passage at 52:34

52:43 also notice that. Report an error in the passage at 52:43 Highlight the passage at 52:43

52:48 Maybe I do less of it. You Report an error in the passage at 52:48 Highlight the passage at 52:48

53:16 notice the peace that you experience. Report an error in the passage at 53:16 Highlight the passage at 53:16

53:22 However much, even just a tiny bit, during Report an error in the passage at 53:22 Highlight the passage at 53:22

53:31 the course of your meditation, Report an error in the passage at 53:31 Highlight the passage at 53:31

53:37 even if you transform your mind just a little bit towards peace, towards joy, that's the direction we're training our mind. Report an error in the passage at 53:37 Highlight the passage at 53:37

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54:29 And I invite you to rejoice. Just Report an error in the passage at 54:29 Highlight the passage at 54:29

54:35 rejoice with any good emotions that you experience in this past hour. However Report an error in the passage at 54:35 Highlight the passage at 54:35

54:49 much, just rejoice. The more you rejoice, the more it grows. And Report an error in the passage at 54:49 Highlight the passage at 54:49

55:17 finally, I invite you to share anything wholesome, anything good, anything peaceful with people you love and people you care. Report an error in the passage at 55:17 Highlight the passage at 55:17

55:38 I think Report an error in the passage at 55:38 Highlight the passage at 55:38

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56:22 I'm Report an error in the passage at 56:22 Highlight the passage at 56:22

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57:13 supposed to invite questions, comments, complaints, feedback. Notably to share. to share the goodness with all beings. Report an error in the passage at 57:13 Highlight the passage at 57:13

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57:22 whatever people are inclined to say say anything um say anything from people i Report an error in the passage at 57:22 Highlight the passage at 57:22

57:43 want to ask can you thank you for the guided meditation i sleep very well and i just want to ask can you elaborate more like you said before like the the well the building the noticing the note I'm not sure if I get this right but like the noticing or noticing the internal light and cultivating the awareness of that light like leads to trusting like the development of the sense of trust and I just can you elaborate more on it? Report an error in the passage at 57:43 Highlight the passage at 57:43

58:32 Um sure which which Can you, which one in particular you're especially confused about or just all of it? Is it a particular? Yeah, it's just like because I have problem like trusting other people, like I have trust issues in general and building up trust is one of the most difficult thing in my life, like towards. Report an error in the passage at 58:32 Highlight the passage at 58:32

59:08 So maybe one other thing I wasn't clear enough about is the goal we're moving towards. But it may be a little bit too much to expect it from the beginning. It's a process that needs to build. And I mean, there's many aspects of trust. And when it's relational with other people, then there's so many more aspects. Sometimes it's not just doing your own meditation can fix all the trust. Report an error in the passage at 59:08 Highlight the passage at 59:08

1:00:08 That you feel like you want or you need with other people, especially not straight away. So it's a gradual process that when you trust more and more, I think what I talked about before is when you trust more and more your own experience, and the experience as you coming in is an experience that is good, that is joyful. Report an error in the passage at 1:00:08 Highlight the passage at 1:00:08

1:00:34 Then you're able to stay with yourself just a little bit more. And even just the ability of it, the ability to be still, the ability that there's something good inside me. You actually, as that is a proportion, start to shift. Like it may be before 90 % of your life is... So affected by other people or things outside, when you have more and more ability to be happy and still within yourself, it's not suddenly you can, you know, I do meditation and I can trust everyone else. Report an error in the passage at 1:00:34 Highlight the passage at 1:00:34

1:01:16 I'm not suggesting that. It's a gradual process. But then you're slowly shifting that proportion that the benefit of coming back in is I... I will still be okay even if the outside is chaotic, is uncontrollable, is darker. So it's that gradual shifting of the proportion and the experience of it. That's all you need to do. You just do the more consistent kind of practice and the experience of it will transform. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:16 Highlight the passage at 1:01:16

1:01:59 will transform, it's transformative, but it's not going to happen straight away. you know it doesn't mean suddenly you can trust other people and you solve all the all the problems with people but it does mean that that process of coming back inside because your mind effectively is more still So it has more clarity. So your ability to resolve problems outside also increase. And then the more that increase, then you also start to trust your ability to deal with people outside, to deal with things outside as well. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:59 Highlight the passage at 1:01:59

1:02:46 But it takes time. It takes time. And, you know, but towards that direction, that's mainly what I was trying to convey. to convey. It's like, so long as our practice is making effort towards the direction, then eventually, over time, with consistent effort, then towards that direction, a little bit, we'll grow a little bit. Report an error in the passage at 1:02:46 Highlight the passage at 1:02:46

1:03:15 We'll just keep growing a little bit. Does it make it clearer, or I confuse you even more? Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's good, I understand. Thank you. And trust, I mean, there's many aspects of trust. But the most basic trust is trusting our experience. So when you're building that kind of trust, it also supports other facets, other aspects of trust as well. Report an error in the passage at 1:03:15 Highlight the passage at 1:03:15

1:03:52 But it takes time. Yeah, Report an error in the passage at 1:03:52 Highlight the passage at 1:03:52

1:04:00 the internet was a little bit lag. Just now you said that you build up the trust of your internal experience, right? Oh, you didn't hear the last bit? What I just said, there are different aspects of trust. But the most fundamental experience of trust is trusting our own experience. And so the more that we can build the inner trust for our own experience, Then it actually supports the other aspects, the other facets of trust as well. But it takes time for that process. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:00 Highlight the passage at 1:04:00

1:04:46 You still didn't hear, right? Because of the internet. What does that mean? What does that mean? What do you mean by trusting your experience? Report an error in the passage at 1:04:46 Highlight the passage at 1:04:46

1:05:02 What do I mean by trusting the experience? Well, I think the talk that I was giving is if you experience when you let go of the outside, you're coming back in, if you consistently experience in your experience, it's actually good. It's actually something good. It's actually something that makes whatever discomfort that you have relaxes a little bit. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:02 Highlight the passage at 1:05:02

1:05:35 That's the experience. If that consistently happened in your experience, you begin to trust that coming back in, knowing myself is okay. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:35 Highlight the passage at 1:05:35

1:05:47 That's the kind of trust that I was referring to in your own experience. Does it not make sense at all? Yeah, so it's like you feel... I'm sorry, because usually I feel terrible a lot of the time. um so i have difficulty like being with myself and i doubt myself a lot like i just i just do not feel it's a it's a new concept for me because i think i doubt myself a lot and like for experience especially for experience when i feel a certain way or in the body or when i think like when i feel certain ways to or something i will usually doubt that is that i will usually like doubt is that really happening or stuff yeah anyway it's just like it's a new thing for i was just asking yeah but i i think i get what you mean you mean like you just when you when you feel when you stay with yourself then you you feel you experience it Report an error in the passage at 1:05:47 Highlight the passage at 1:05:47

1:07:08 the increase of joy or peacefulness and then you trust that you trust that experience itself and and then you just develop from there is that right uh yeah basically i mean like what like we have a lot of habits yeah so we may have a habits that we engage with uh we engage with kind of the more difficult sides of things So then that will still be part of our experience when we try to come inside. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:08 Highlight the passage at 1:07:08

1:07:48 That is not going to go away straight away because you already built some kind of momentum for some time. So what I try to suggest is if you start to build a different kind of momentum, If you try to build a kind of momentum that you're consistently experiencing coming back to myself is actually not those negative things. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:48 Highlight the passage at 1:07:48

1:08:17 And you remind yourself that that possibility exists. And the more you do that, it's like, oh, there's actually, you know, there's actually, there's a fog here. That's the possibility I come back in. I go habitually to one way. That makes me feel very uncomfortable or like I have doubt. But then the possibility of just come back to my experience, this possibility of joy, that I can build, I can feed the other momentum, the other path a little bit more. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:17 Highlight the passage at 1:08:17

1:08:52 And it's not going to suddenly override your previous or existing habits. Because that took a long time to build. But so long as you know that possibility there, that's already beginning the process of just a different way, just a different way. When you're coming back in, you have a different way of relating to this inner world. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:52 Highlight the passage at 1:08:52

1:09:21 So it's probably not going to go away straight away, but then simply, one of the points maybe I didn't make clear enough earlier, in the part of the talk but all you have to do is even when you're coming back in and your experience is not positive it's negative the way to transform it is very simple you just have to stay within and with the knowing that the possibility of it that simply the energy of coming back in is going to help it and relax it is going to transform it that direction That direction is going to lead you to more trust. And it's not going to happen straight away. But just staying with that and just knowing that there's another option. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:21 Highlight the passage at 1:09:21

1:10:16 Is that clear? That's very clear. Thank you so much. It's very helpful. Thank you. Is there anything else from anybody else? Report an error in the passage at 1:10:16 Highlight the passage at 1:10:16

1:10:41 So maybe everyone's happy. Yeah, I think so. Are there any more questions, comments, or anything else? Report an error in the passage at 1:10:41 Highlight the passage at 1:10:41

1:11:01 I think everybody is really peaceful and happy tonight. Yeah, I think we can end it here. We can end it earlier if nobody has anything to ask. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:01 Highlight the passage at 1:11:01

1:11:18 Anything to comment on? Yeah, okay. I think people are saying thank you. Thank you. So I think we can end early tonight. And I just want to say thank you so much for coming. And please come again if you would like to, of course. And yeah, it's a wonderful talk. talk and it's especially for me i mean i don't know everybody else but like for me i like it so yeah Report an error in the passage at 1:11:18 Highlight the passage at 1:11:18

1:11:53 Thank you so much. Thank you very much Ajahn. Please come back again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Gloria. Thank you, everyone. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:53 Highlight the passage at 1:11:53