Friday Night Guided Meditation

0:00 So let's get into the real thing, which is the meditation practice. So please get ready, sit back, relax, enjoy, and we'll get into the meditation. Report an error in the passage at 0:00 Highlight the passage at 0:00

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0:46 Okay everyone, so wonderful to be here at Dhammaloka again, after three months away. Nice to see many of the old familiar faces. And coming back to this... Wonderful thing which is the spiritual path, which is the meditation practice in particular. And what a wonderful thing it is to have a community like this, like-minded people coming together, doing something really beautiful and worthwhile with their lives. Report an error in the passage at 0:46 Highlight the passage at 0:46

1:16 It's a marvelous thing. So start off your meditation by relaxing but also bringing this kind of Positive attitude with you. It's a positive attitude that kind of creates the foundation for peace, creates the foundation for joy, for the entire process of meditation happens with the right kind of attitude. Report an error in the passage at 1:16 Highlight the passage at 1:16

1:39 So just feel your way into this remarkable place with like-minded people doing something positive. What an amazing thing it is that we have all found our way to this community. Found our way to be part of something so rare in the world, rare but also very human and remarkable in so many ways. So sit back, enjoy, relax, allow the world to fade away and kind of move gradually into the realm of spirituality instead. Report an error in the passage at 1:39 Highlight the passage at 1:39

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3:53 And just gradually feel yourself into the meditation. A sense of relaxing, a sense of ease, a sense of just being. One of the nice phrases to think of meditation is not necessarily letting go, but letting be instead. Allowing things to be, not interfering, not doing the process, but allowing the process to unfold. We are the observers, we're not the doers of the meditation. Report an error in the passage at 3:53 Highlight the passage at 3:53

4:28 And if you can just let be, Just sit back, observe the business of the mind, observe all the things coming. As you stay put as an observer, things just calm down beautifully by themselves. Report an error in the passage at 4:28 Highlight the passage at 4:28

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10:16 Gradually you allow the momentum of things from the past to work its way out and to kind of gradually cease. At the same time, inclining the mind towards the positive feelings of Calm, of tranquility, of peace. And these two things kind of working together in a beautiful way. One thing declining, the other one increasing. Report an error in the passage at 10:16 Highlight the passage at 10:16

10:44 Slowly, slowly, gradually inclining in the right way. Enjoying the peace. At the same time, not forgetting the idea of this positive attitude. That you are in a good company. That you're doing something that is truly worthwhile with your life. What a marvelous thing that is. And Report an error in the passage at 10:44 Highlight the passage at 10:44

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17:10 if you can enjoy that beautiful sensation of the breath. When the breath calms down it becomes a very delightful object to watch, very soft, very gentle. It has a nice rhythm that calms you down. So your ability to just be with the breath, not focusing on the breath or concentrating on the breath. Just being with the breath, no sense of force, no sense of trying, just enjoying something delightful. Try to stay with that breath and enjoy the soft, gentle touch and allow this to calm you down further. Report an error in the passage at 17:10 Highlight the passage at 17:10

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27:33 So how are you feeling now? This is about half an hour of meditation. Always try to... Reflect back as we come to the end of the meditation. Take a minute or two just to contemplate what happened. And if you do feel more at ease and more peaceful, ask yourself why that is the case. How does this process actually work? Report an error in the passage at 27:33 Highlight the passage at 27:33

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28:42 Okay, so that is the meditation for today. Report an error in the passage at 28:42 Highlight the passage at 28:42