Accepting It All

0:00 Welcome to another class, another casual night of meditation. And just being able to give ourselves some time for the meditation practice is always a nice thing. To be able to sit down with our eyes closed And to kind of experience and see what is happening in our own minds. So sometimes when we think about the mind and meditation, sometimes when we're meditating, we see things that we do not like. Report an error in the passage at 0:00 Highlight the passage at 0:00

0:51 And we tend to push them away. Yeah. So things like, so we, like as, um, things. Mind states or moods like anger or even depression or even just boredom or even just not being happy. Report an error in the passage at 0:51 Highlight the passage at 0:51

1:14 Sometimes when we're meditating, these things, they arise in our meditation and our normal reaction is to get rid of it. We don't like it. So we want to push these things away. And that's kind of like a normal reaction. And we've probably tried to do that many times. We've meditated before and these things arise in our minds and we have this attitude of pushing things away. Report an error in the passage at 1:14 Highlight the passage at 1:14

1:53 It's almost like when you look closely, When you look closely at this thing that you don't want in your mind, you want to push it away. Have you ever thought about what that pushing away actually means? It's actually, when you look closely, it's a form of ill will. It's a form of dislike. A form of unkind attitude towards the way you're meditating. Report an error in the passage at 1:53 Highlight the passage at 1:53

2:22 And that's why sometimes when we think we're doing the right thing, In our meditation practice, when we're trying to push these thoughts away, our meditation experience is not one which is kind of pleasant or peaceful or comfortable. So sometimes we have to look at this aspect of our minds when we're meditating. We have to ask ourselves, is this pushing away of whatever we don't want in our minds, whether it's unhappiness, whether it's A bit of stress or whatever. Is this pushing away attitude, is that helping? And after, I think after a while when you meditate many, many, many times, you can start to see that this attitude of pushing things away is not helpful. Report an error in the passage at 2:22 Highlight the passage at 2:22

3:14 Yeah. And the reason why it's not helpful is because there's like a, you're kind of using anger, you know, you're trying to use a force. To get rid of things. And because of that, it just causes more tension and more irritation in the mind. So what's the other approach? What's another way of dealing with the things that arise in your meditation practice? Report an error in the passage at 3:14 Highlight the passage at 3:14

3:50 And the other thing that we can do as meditators is To just have this acceptance, this acceptance, this true acceptance of whatever is happening in the moment. Yeah, so you maybe feel like a little bit unhappy. You accept that your mind's unhappy. you and you understand that you understand that Report an error in the passage at 3:50 Highlight the passage at 3:50

4:25 That being a human being, it is normal to experience these kinds of things. And any other thing that you may be experiencing in your meditation that you don't like. Whether it's sometimes when we're sitting we get a little bit sleepy or we may have had a tough conversation with somebody at work and we're still angry. Report an error in the passage at 4:25 Highlight the passage at 4:25

4:51 We still have anger in our minds. And, you know, these things are coming up in our meditation practice. So then we ask ourselves, what can we do? How can we relate to what we're seeing in our minds? And I think a beautiful way to deal with these things is to try to have full acceptance, full understanding that this is the nature of our minds. Report an error in the passage at 4:51 Highlight the passage at 4:51

5:18 And to be able to accept our minds or who we are for what it is. In that particular moment. And what I found out is, if you're able to accept, if you're able to be, if you're able to not complain, not change things, not wanting something different, then one can start to feel like a, one will have like contentment, contentment arising in one's mind. Report an error in the passage at 5:18 Highlight the passage at 5:18

5:50 A sense of ease arising in one's mind. Because one starts to feel comfortable with whatever's going on in their minds. And I think that's a very important point. The comfort that we can have with our minds when we're meditating. Can we be comfortable with the distress? Can we be uncomfortable with the worry? Report an error in the passage at 5:50 Highlight the passage at 5:50

6:25 worry? Can we be uncomfortable with things that are happening in our minds? So, Report an error in the passage at 6:25 Highlight the passage at 6:25

6:30 one of the things that kind of happened recently that kind of made me a little bit worried is because we're getting ready for this build and we've dug all these holes. There's about 60 holes and then 66 holes and the holes are basically The ground is clay and the one thing that you do not want when you're doing a building project like this is to have rain. Report an error in the passage at 6:30 Highlight the passage at 6:30

7:06 So what happened was a couple of weeks ago we had that cyclone come through and there was like 90 mils of rain and it actually created so much... Mud in the ground that the hole started to collapse. So then we had to dig it out. So we spent three days, myself, Ajahn Jaya and Daniel, and we dug out the dirt that filled up in the hole. Report an error in the passage at 7:06 Highlight the passage at 7:06

7:36 And then what happened was, okay, that problem was solved, the sun's coming out now, it's drying everything up. And then I was like, okay, I'm not worried anymore. It's good, it's good. We just got to wait it out, maybe one or two weeks. And then the builder will come in, he'll put down the concrete, and then everything will be okay. Report an error in the passage at 7:36 Highlight the passage at 7:36

7:58 So then what happened was, a couple of days ago, there was a forecast for like one mil of rain in Rollystone. I'm like, okay, yeah, that's not a problem. And you know how much rain we got? We got 15 mil. We got 15 mil. and and and And I was like stressing out over it. I was stressing, I was like, oh no, you know, 15 meals, all this water, and all this water, and all this kind of stuff. Report an error in the passage at 7:58 Highlight the passage at 7:58

8:26 What's going to do, you know, is it going to affect the stability of the building? I need to get in contact with the engineer and all that kind of stuff. So you can kind of imagine, even though we have simple lives as monks, we do stress out from time to time. Report an error in the passage at 8:26 Highlight the passage at 8:26

8:44 So that was like stressing out. So we had like a few days off, you know, have the mornings off and things like that. So what do you do with your time? You meditate. You meditate and then you can start to see like what is happening in your mind. Yeah. And you can start to see the stress or the worry. And then sometimes it's like, but then when those like situations that come up in the mind, they're kind of like opportunities for you to learn. Report an error in the passage at 8:44 Highlight the passage at 8:44

9:14 About how to deal with the difficulties in life. And the approach that I took was I kind of watched what was happening and then I started to accept it. If I'm going to suffer over it, if I'm going to stress over it, I'm going to be okay with it. I'm going to accept it. I'll just sit here and just be with whatever's happening. And that was the approach that I took. Report an error in the passage at 9:14 Highlight the passage at 9:14

9:44 And what you kind of notice is that, you know, the sun comes out, you talk to the engineers, the engineers tell you everything's okay, and you go have a look at the holes and they haven't been washed in, and after a while things seem to be okay. You're not worried about those things anymore. So you can kind of see that the nature of the mind is for it to change. Report an error in the passage at 9:44 Highlight the passage at 9:44

10:14 It's for it to stress out, it's for it to be calm, it's for it to be happy. And our job as meditators is to never really get rid of anything that comes up in our minds, but instead to learn how to accept it. Because the beautiful thing about accepting is that it leads to this feeling or this experience of contentment. Report an error in the passage at 10:14 Highlight the passage at 10:14

10:44 The contentment is like the joy of life, I think. If you can be content with things, there's joy there. And the one thing that I learned with this acceptance is that you can accept whatever is going on in your mind, and that would lead to A contentment arising which kind of gives you that sense of enjoyment in your meditation practice. A contentment that arises when you kind of understand how to meditate brings that enjoyment in what you're doing. Report an error in the passage at 10:44 Highlight the passage at 10:44

11:30 Because I kind of understand that as meditators we kind of have our own difficulties trying to find enjoyment. We're all trying to find enjoyment in meditation. And when you ask people, you know, do you find meditation enjoyable? Report an error in the passage at 11:30 Highlight the passage at 11:30

11:55 And the answer is probably no. And why is it, and then it just comes to mind, why isn't it enjoyable? Why isn't it enjoyable? It's maybe because they think, oh, because I can't keep the mind silent. Or because I can't watch the breath. and Report an error in the passage at 11:55 Highlight the passage at 11:55

12:13 And because they're judging their meditation in that way, that's why it's not enjoyable. But we can start to understand that using this ability to accept things, just accept whatever is going on, you can start to see almost like a transformation happening. Like the transformation being in that an unpleasant... Report an error in the passage at 12:13 Highlight the passage at 12:13

13:13 I think that's an important part of this meditation practice is to be able to find reasons to go back to the meditation practice and not give up. Report an error in the passage at 13:13 Highlight the passage at 13:13

13:38 And not give up. Yeah And one of the things, you know, that kind of brings people back to their meditation practice is the enjoyment they get from it. A sense of contentment. A sense of like what they're doing when they're sitting down with their eyes closed. They kind of know that this is beneficial for them. They know, you know, after a while you know how to meditate in a certain way. Report an error in the passage at 13:38 Highlight the passage at 13:38

14:37 our meditation by the amount of silence that we have to achieve or the amount of quietness that we have to achieve in our practice then we are going to fall short and be disappointed because those things Report an error in the passage at 14:37 Highlight the passage at 14:37

14:56 So instead we have to find other ways to enjoy the meditation and other ways like Like how I was saying before, the other way that you can find a way to enjoy the meditation practice is to learn how to fully accept your mind state in whichever way it is. I think it is actually a powerful kind of attitude that you can have towards whatever is happening in your mind. And Ajahn Brahm would always kind of say that Report an error in the passage at 14:56 Highlight the passage at 14:56

15:35 He would always say this phrase, you know, the door of my heart is open to you, no matter who you are, no matter what you do. And that's the message that he got from his father that kind of taught him this is what the meaning of unconditional love is and that his father would have for him. and he and Report an error in the passage at 15:35 Highlight the passage at 15:35

16:02 And I think the story goes, I don't know what happened, but they were both having a conversation and his father, you know, sometimes they weren't really open about, you know, how they felt and what they wanted to express to their kids. So instead of telling him that, you know, the door of my heart is open to you, he said, instead of saying that, he said, the door of my house is open to you. Report an error in the passage at 16:02 Highlight the passage at 16:02

16:33 But what that really meant was his heart was open to him. Whatever he did, whether it was good, bad, he always had this unconditional love for his son. And it's easy to kind of say that, and it's easy to kind of give you that instruction, but it's hard to kind of give you the results of the instructions, if you know what I mean. Report an error in the passage at 16:33 Highlight the passage at 16:33

17:02 The results are the kind of thing that you have to experience for yourself. So when you're meditating, you've just got to try these things. You've got to try these things. And in a sense, you don't give up. You keep going back. You fail. Sometimes we just don't understand when we're meditating. We've heard all these concepts time and time again. What is this acceptance? What is this letting go? Report an error in the passage at 17:02 Highlight the passage at 17:02

17:30 What is the door of the heart? What does that mean? Sometimes we understand it intellectually, but putting it into practice, that's the thing that takes time. It takes time. It takes repetition, we go back to the meditation, we try again, and eventually, you know, something kind of clicks in the mind, and things work. Report an error in the passage at 17:30 Highlight the passage at 17:30

17:57 And that is the, that is, that is like, That is like the kind of experience that I've had over the years is that you just play around with these concepts of like accepting or letting go or being in the present moment. But they always have a different way of expressing themselves or you kind of find a different way of using them. Report an error in the passage at 17:57 Highlight the passage at 17:57

18:35 kind of find a way of using them. So in a sense, the meditation practice is kind of always different. It's growing, it's changing, and sometimes you just learn how to see things in a different way. Report an error in the passage at 18:35 Highlight the passage at 18:35

19:03 When you first heard it you practice it in a certain way and nowadays after four or five years you practice acceptance but it's in a different way and it has a different understanding. The understanding of it becomes deeper and you can kind of sense that meditating in this way is truly helpful to us. Report an error in the passage at 19:03 Highlight the passage at 19:03

19:24 Even though we're not getting rid of our problems so to speak but we're learning how to live with them. We're learning how to accept them. And in a sense, if we can do that, that will still bring a sense of contentment and a sense of joy to our lives. Sometimes we think joy and happiness is something that's only there if we don't have problems in our lives. Report an error in the passage at 19:24 Highlight the passage at 19:24

19:56 I don't think that's true. You have both. You have both. You have problems and you have happiness. And I think that's the way it is for us. And the problem comes is that the reason we have these problems is we don't accept. We just want the happiness but we don't accept the tension, the stress, the unhappiness in life. Report an error in the passage at 19:56 Highlight the passage at 19:56

20:24 But when we kind of learn how to open our... Opening the door of our hearts to everything, every experience, then that kind of enriches our lives. We can live with the good, the bad and the ugly. and just learning how to accept it and not really needing to change. We don't really need to change things. Report an error in the passage at 20:24 Highlight the passage at 20:24

21:07 We have this understanding that we want change when we come to a place like this. Ajahn Santutthi is a master of non-verbal hypnosis. He is a master of non-verbal hypnosis. You become more sensitive to life. Your mind is more aware. It's more bright. You kind of know how to live well as a person. And because you're putting these things, you're adding these things into your life, then the change is something that kind of happens naturally. Report an error in the passage at 21:07 Highlight the passage at 21:07

21:54 So it happens naturally. So the way that... You know, the way that I like to teach meditation is a way where you're not forceful. You're not forceful, but it's more of like an introspective way. You kind of look at your mind and you ask questions and you look at your mind and you're patient with it. But at the same time, when you're meditating, you know inside you want to make... Report an error in the passage at 21:54 Highlight the passage at 21:54

22:57 acceptance, just being with it. Report an error in the passage at 22:57 Highlight the passage at 22:57

23:26 They will eventually come. The longer you sit, the good meditations come. It's sort of like a good friend that sees you every once in a while. You don't see them all the time, but eventually they'll knock on your door. They'll knock on your door and they'll come into your mind and you have a good old time when you're meditating. Report an error in the passage at 23:26 Highlight the passage at 23:26

23:56 Sometimes it happens like that. And that's the beauty of the meditation practice, is because you understand the mind in a sense where if you're just sitting, eventually the good meditations will come. And that's why we meditate, for the good meditations. And what is the good meditation? Just some peace, being in the present moment, the mind is brighter, you're feeling good, there's no problems. Report an error in the passage at 23:56 Highlight the passage at 23:56

24:29 And that is considered the good meditation. But we can't have that all the time. But we understand when we sit down, when we wait, those good meditations, they will come. And that is one of the reasons why we meditate. It's because we know the good meditations will be there. And I think that's one of the reasons why people keep coming back to the meditation practice. Report an error in the passage at 24:29 Highlight the passage at 24:29

24:59 It's because of the positivity or the goodness that they have experienced when they practice. So, yeah. Report an error in the passage at 24:59 Highlight the passage at 24:59

25:14 Yeah, you know. It's just a casual meditation. Very casual. Very casual. It's very casual. I've got this chair, right? I've got this chair in my room. It's an office chair. And it kind of reclines backwards. And I just sit there and close my eyes. And I just be with whatever's happening. It's almost a very casual thing to do. It's just like closing your eyes and taking time out. That's a lot of what meditation is. Report an error in the passage at 25:14 Highlight the passage at 25:14

25:50 It's sort of like when you're in your office, at home, in the garden. Sometimes just close your eyes. Close your eyes and take time out. And that's almost like a meditation. And then sometimes we do it more formally. We sit down for half an hour. We sit down 45 minutes, sit down a little bit longer. And the approach is always the same. It's kind of like an easygoing, non-militant, relaxed approach when you're sitting down. Report an error in the passage at 25:50 Highlight the passage at 25:50

26:32 and Just allowing things to flow and allowing things to be. And just experience whatever is happening. And that's how we meditate. And yeah, that's where I'll end it now. And we can do some meditation together. So Report an error in the passage at 26:32 Highlight the passage at 26:32

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27:41 we're just relaxing and just accepting. Report an error in the passage at 27:41 Highlight the passage at 27:41

27:51 Accepting is having this ability. and not wanting things to change and that's where the difficulty is when we're meditating is because we're not happy with what we're seeing and that's when the troubles happen because you want to change things you're complaining you're Report an error in the passage at 27:51 Highlight the passage at 27:51

28:19 becoming a little bit irritable as Report an error in the passage at 28:19 Highlight the passage at 28:19

28:26 you can start to see that's a problem so Report an error in the passage at 28:26 Highlight the passage at 28:26

28:33 instead we just accept like whatever like what you're Experiencing now, you can accept that. And Report an error in the passage at 28:33 Highlight the passage at 28:33

28:48 when you accept it, everything's fine. And Report an error in the passage at 28:48 Highlight the passage at 28:48

28:56 when things are fine, it's enjoyable. You can sit here, content, without complaining. You're Report an error in the passage at 28:56 Highlight the passage at 28:56

29:23 not wanting anything. You're not wanting peace. You're not wanting quietness of the mind. Just Report an error in the passage at 29:23 Highlight the passage at 29:23

29:51 being here is enough. Report an error in the passage at 29:51 Highlight the passage at 29:51

30:01 It almost feels nourishing to be able to have enough in this moment. Report an error in the passage at 30:01 Highlight the passage at 30:01

30:16 Whether it's good or bad it doesn't matter. Being Report an error in the passage at 30:16 Highlight the passage at 30:16

30:35 able to accept things, it's quite a wise thing to do. You Report an error in the passage at 30:35 Highlight the passage at 30:35

30:56 can start to feel that things are okay. Report an error in the passage at 30:56 Highlight the passage at 30:56

31:13 Meditation becomes easy. Report an error in the passage at 31:13 Highlight the passage at 31:13

31:32 And you're happy to be here. Report an error in the passage at 31:32 Highlight the passage at 31:32

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32:42 When you accept things, it makes you more resilient because you're able to sit through the tough times. Report an error in the passage at 32:42 Highlight the passage at 32:42

32:59 You're able to sit through the mental discomfort. Report an error in the passage at 32:59 Highlight the passage at 32:59

33:10 Sometimes we have this urge to just get up and leave the meditation. It's good. And sometimes we follow it, especially when we're meditating at home. Report an error in the passage at 33:10 Highlight the passage at 33:10

33:31 sit five minutes and then we get this urge to get up and and just stop meditating and a lot of the times we follow that urge because we can't accept it Report an error in the passage at 33:31 Highlight the passage at 33:31

33:50 sometimes sometimes just sitting down and accepting the things that arises within one's own mind it's a way to there's a way to kind of dismantle them or disarm So they become less and less and less. And they're not a problem anymore. Report an error in the passage at 33:50 Highlight the passage at 33:50

34:32 Accepting is a positive emotion. It's a good thing to do. Report an error in the passage at 34:32 Highlight the passage at 34:32

34:49 And these things are like the goodness. The goodness is encouraged when we're meditating. As meditators, we've got this old habit of just pushing things away or not wanting the sleepiness there or not wanting a busy mind. And when we look closely, as I was saying before, that not wanting is almost like an anger, a mild anger towards what's happening in your mind. Report an error in the passage at 34:49 Highlight the passage at 34:49

35:36 And with these types of meditation practices, we don't encourage those negative emotions because they just lead to negativity. Report an error in the passage at 35:36 Highlight the passage at 35:36

35:54 That's one of the reasons why the more you push things away in your meditation, the more you have that mild anger to what you don't like. It comes back to you. it bites you Report an error in the passage at 35:54 Highlight the passage at 35:54

36:18 It gets you back. It makes the meditation that much more uncomfortable or terrible to be with. Report an error in the passage at 36:18 Highlight the passage at 36:18

36:37 One of the main methods that we can use, which is a very casual, very relaxed, easy, This repeatable method is this acceptance which comes from a positive place and it allows us to be with whatever is happening in the mind. Report an error in the passage at 36:37 Highlight the passage at 36:37

37:27 It's easier to be with the good meditations. It's harder to be with the bad ones. And sometimes it's how our minds see things. Report an error in the passage at 37:27 Highlight the passage at 37:27

37:46 So when we're having a rough time, whether we're sleepy, whether we're worried about something, just be with it, accept it, and know that you're meditating correctly. Like Report an error in the passage at 37:46 Highlight the passage at 37:46

38:16 I said before, when you know that you're meditating correctly, there's a sense of enjoyment, a sense of joy in what you're doing. For Report an error in the passage at 38:16 Highlight the passage at 38:16

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39:47 some of us, we may feel or experience The quietness, the peacefulness, that's a part of the meditation as well. We Report an error in the passage at 39:47 Highlight the passage at 39:47

40:19 accept. Sometimes we stay in this headspace of quietness and peace for short times. Sometimes we stay there for a long time. And that doesn't really matter. We're just accepting things. And Report an error in the passage at 40:19 Highlight the passage at 40:19

40:47 one of the things is the more you're able to accept, What is going on? If you look closely, you can see that the mind is also practicing the present moment awareness. If Report an error in the passage at 40:47 Highlight the passage at 40:47

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42:21 you can Report an error in the passage at 42:21 Highlight the passage at 42:21

42:25 be with the peace in this moment, we'll Report an error in the passage at 42:25 Highlight the passage at 42:25

42:38 just experience it, the Report an error in the passage at 42:38 Highlight the passage at 42:38

42:45 silence, the Report an error in the passage at 42:45 Highlight the passage at 42:45

42:52 awareness of now. Report an error in the passage at 42:52 Highlight the passage at 42:52

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45:29 Experience the beauty of the meditation. Report an error in the passage at 45:29 Highlight the passage at 45:29

45:39 It's hard to put into words, but you kind of know that Report an error in the passage at 45:39 Highlight the passage at 45:39

45:51 the meditation is nice. Report an error in the passage at 45:51 Highlight the passage at 45:51

46:02 I don't know why people meditate. I don't know, to fix problems or I don't really know. But Report an error in the passage at 46:02 Highlight the passage at 46:02

46:15 sometimes a good way of looking at it is we're not meditating to fix any problems. We're Report an error in the passage at 46:15 Highlight the passage at 46:15

46:28 just meditating because Report an error in the passage at 46:28 Highlight the passage at 46:28

46:34 we think it could be good for us. Report an error in the passage at 46:34 Highlight the passage at 46:34

46:50 The problems, they just fix themselves. I Report an error in the passage at 46:50 Highlight the passage at 46:50

46:58 think if you become a more peaceful person, that peace naturally, Report an error in the passage at 46:58 Highlight the passage at 46:58

47:13 without you needing to try, fixes the problems for you. It's Report an error in the passage at 47:13 Highlight the passage at 47:13

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49:27 such a simple experience that we have when we're meditating. Report an error in the passage at 49:27 Highlight the passage at 49:27

49:38 It's a nothingness. Report an error in the passage at 49:38 Highlight the passage at 49:38

49:45 It's a calmness. It's Report an error in the passage at 49:45 Highlight the passage at 49:45

49:52 an experience. It's a continued experience. Report an error in the passage at 49:52 Highlight the passage at 49:52

50:01 Prolonged experience that changes us. Report an error in the passage at 50:01 Highlight the passage at 50:01

50:14 If you do it often enough this Report an error in the passage at 50:14 Highlight the passage at 50:14

50:21 experience sitting Report an error in the passage at 50:21 Highlight the passage at 50:21

50:28 20 minutes time Report an error in the passage at 50:28 Highlight the passage at 50:28

50:37 and time again something Report an error in the passage at 50:37 Highlight the passage at 50:37

50:44 as simple as this changes Report an error in the passage at 50:44 Highlight the passage at 50:44

50:51 us. Adds peace into our lives. Report an error in the passage at 50:51 Highlight the passage at 50:51

51:03 makes us calmer people Report an error in the passage at 51:03 Highlight the passage at 51:03

51:14 calmer you tend to make better decisions there's Report an error in the passage at 51:14 Highlight the passage at 51:14

51:26 something about it that Report an error in the passage at 51:26 Highlight the passage at 51:26

51:33 um translates translates Report an error in the passage at 51:33 Highlight the passage at 51:33

51:40 or moves forward into your everyday life this Report an error in the passage at 51:40 Highlight the passage at 51:40

51:52 is very repeatable experience prolonged a place that we hang out on Report an error in the passage at 51:52 Highlight the passage at 51:52

52:06 a regular basis Report an error in the passage at 52:06 Highlight the passage at 52:06

52:10 Somehow the transmission from what we're learning in our meditation, especially the experience of quietness, calm and peace, that Report an error in the passage at 52:10 Highlight the passage at 52:10

52:31 kind of bleeds, bleeds into our body, bleeds into our lives, affecting it in a well-mannered way. Report an error in the passage at 52:31 Highlight the passage at 52:31

53:06 The present moment is almost like such a pure experience. Report an error in the passage at 53:06 Highlight the passage at 53:06

53:15 Almost like innocent. There's no greed there. There's no... You're not cheating anybody. You're not disliking anything. And everybody experiences the same thing. And Report an error in the passage at 53:15 Highlight the passage at 53:15

53:43 everybody can experience the same thing. When Report an error in the passage at 53:43 Highlight the passage at 53:43

53:49 you look at it, there's something clean. Something freeing. Report an error in the passage at 53:49 Highlight the passage at 53:49

54:00 something stress-free about this moment just Report an error in the passage at 54:00 Highlight the passage at 54:00

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57:49 remember how easy the meditation can be when we start to accept the things that arise in the mind Report an error in the passage at 57:49 Highlight the passage at 57:49

58:24 acceptance makes the meditation so much easier acceptance makes your Daily life, so much easier as well. And Report an error in the passage at 58:24 Highlight the passage at 58:24

58:50 that's the beauty about acceptance. Once Report an error in the passage at 58:50 Highlight the passage at 58:50

58:56 you can start accepting things for what they are, accepting yourself, your partner, the state of the world, the environment, whatever Report an error in the passage at 58:56 Highlight the passage at 58:56

59:17 things people like to have an unacceptable attitude towards, you can kind of see that's where the trouble is. Just let her accept it. Report an error in the passage at 59:17 Highlight the passage at 59:17

59:35 Because it's the nature of the world that we live in. And Report an error in the passage at 59:35 Highlight the passage at 59:35

59:47 maybe the only way to get out of it is to go to Mars. So Report an error in the passage at 59:47 Highlight the passage at 59:47

1:00:14 what I'll do now is I'll hit the gong three times. We can come out of meditation. And if you've got any questions, you can ask. Any Report an error in the passage at 1:00:14 Highlight the passage at 1:00:14

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1:01:32 questions? Report an error in the passage at 1:01:32 Highlight the passage at 1:01:32

1:01:35 Comments? Anybody? Report an error in the passage at 1:01:35 Highlight the passage at 1:01:35

1:01:41 Going once? Okay, we can finish. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:41 Highlight the passage at 1:01:41