Discovering Buddhism - How To Meditate (26 March 2015)

0:01 Anyway, so then you sit. Sit comfortably. You examine your mind. You know, if you're distracted, just do a little something to calm your mind. Then you set a good motivation and take refuge and generate an altruistic intention, which is what we call bodhicitta, by reciting the appropriate prayers. Report an error in the passage at 0:01 Highlight the passage at 0:01

0:31 And then... The next one is visualizing the merit field. Now we hadn't talked about that before. And the merit field is this thangka right here, which is quite elaborate. So you don't have to get that elaborate. But you can visualize Shakyamuni Buddha or one Buddha, or you can visualize a teacher or somebody. Report an error in the passage at 0:31 Highlight the passage at 0:31

1:03 You don't also, when you're visualizing, you don't have to see everything really clearly. The main thing is to get an idea. So if you get a basic shape, there's like the main figure and then there's like this whole bunch of beings. There's the deities and then there's all of the lamas and all kinds of things. And then you have the lamas of the... Report an error in the passage at 1:03 Highlight the passage at 1:03

1:33 profound view which is the view of emptiness you have the lamas that were more connected with the bodhicitta side and then you have all the tantric ones and you know it gets really elaborate and so you know if you have a shape a basic shape and you just imagine that they're all there you don't have to see all their faces and all of the you know the different figures or the same thing with Shakyamuni you just You just imagine what Shakyamuni would look like and then just know that they're there. I don't see when I'm visualizing, I don't actually see something. Report an error in the passage at 1:33 Highlight the passage at 1:33

2:15 I'm just not that great at visualizing. But you hold this image and you hold this feeling in your heart knowing that they're there. And that would be enough. And then you offer... The seven limb prayer and mandala, and we're not going to do a mandala, but that's what's included actually in the preparatory practices. And you do the appropriate visualizations as you say the prayers. Report an error in the passage at 2:15 Highlight the passage at 2:15

2:48 And then you make requests to the lineage lamas or lineage gurus for inspiration. And so I've included one of those prayers in the homework. You can do it if you like in the long way. There's a short way or you can skip it, whatever is comfortable, but I really like it. Report an error in the passage at 2:48 Highlight the passage at 2:48

3:14 So just a basic, any questions so far? Request to the lineage Lamas or lineage Gurus for inspiration. And when we go over the homework, we'll talk more about that. Report an error in the passage at 3:14 Highlight the passage at 3:14

3:41 But so basically explanation of prayers. So like I said, it's more than just words. Report an error in the passage at 3:41 Highlight the passage at 3:41

3:51 And it's good to recall actually what we're saying when we say them. And the stronger, it's like the stronger feeling that you have that go with the words, the more power they have and the more that they'll sink in and they'll work for you. Report an error in the passage at 3:51 Highlight the passage at 3:51

4:13 They'll have much more meaning. So basically refuge or going for refuge. We take refuge in the three jewels or we can take refuge in our own future attainments. So that's like our Buddha nature and we can think about the potential to have a completely calm, clear mind and to actually... Cut through and see reality as it is, just like the Buddha did. And we can take refuge in that. Report an error in the passage at 4:13 Highlight the passage at 4:13

4:51 Or we can take refuge in both together. We can ask for the help of the Buddha while we're also counting on ourselves to be able to follow through with it. Report an error in the passage at 4:51 Highlight the passage at 4:51

5:07 So when we do that, that's taking refuge. And so if you're not familiar like with the three jewels or what it means or any of that, sometimes it's easier to take refuge in some of the true teachings of the Buddha. Like you can take refuge in understanding your own potential or take refuge in the law of karma, cause and effect, because that will help to put the brakes on when you're going in the wrong direction. Report an error in the passage at 5:07 Highlight the passage at 5:07

5:41 it will help to push you forward when you're going in the right direction and that's a good refuge than chocolate cake Report an error in the passage at 5:41 Highlight the passage at 5:41

5:57 Although sometimes I'm not sure. No, I'm only kidding. Only kidding. So then generating bodhicitta. So the definition of bodhicitta is Report an error in the passage at 5:57 Highlight the passage at 5:57

6:17 The aspiration or intention to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings. So that really stretches the mind. First of all, the all is like, I don't know. But at first it might be difficult to wrap your head around or even to conceive of yourself even caring about it that much. much to include all. Report an error in the passage at 6:17 Highlight the passage at 6:17

6:51 So start small. You can start by thinking that it would be really nice, wouldn't it be wonderful that everybody was happy, that you want everyone to be happy, that that isn't happy, and you would want everyone to be able to avoid suffering. Report an error in the passage at 6:51 Highlight the passage at 6:51

7:21 Do your meditation to bring about their happiness and end their suffering. You can work with whatever fits at the time and you can let your motivation expand. You can think of somebody that you know that might be having a difficult time, even yourself. You can motivate for yourself if you're having difficulties in something. Report an error in the passage at 7:21 Highlight the passage at 7:21

7:53 So through this practice, may I remove the obstacles that I have in relationship to finding the job, having a more peaceful mind, whatever. Report an error in the passage at 7:53 Highlight the passage at 7:53

8:14 And then if you can, do it for somebody that you know, too, that might have a similar type of... Or just think, may this meditation that I'm doing not only help me to remove the obstacles so that I could find a job, but it removes the obstacle for all other beings that are having difficulties now so that they can have peace of mind and happiness. Report an error in the passage at 8:14 Highlight the passage at 8:14

8:51 So then it becomes a virtuous motivation. If it's just for something of this world, sometimes not so virtuous. But you include yourself in it. You try and motivate to be a benefit, to help people end their suffering, to help people increase their happiness. And then you include yourself in that too. Report an error in the passage at 8:51 Highlight the passage at 8:51

9:20 The basic idea is that we want to really start to try to expand our motivations beyond ourselves and to let it expand as much as we can. So we start with like a small bodhicitta. I think Venerable Chogyi used to call it baby bodhicitta. We start with baby bodhicitta. And so you nurture that. You kind of nurture it. You just feel compassion. Report an error in the passage at 9:20 Highlight the passage at 9:20

9:51 Wanting people to be happy, not wanting them to suffer. And then gradually expand it. Your friends and your family, maybe they have happiness and maybe they'll be free from suffering. And then you include people you don't know, or just like all the people on the street and the streetcar, and maybe even the people at work that annoy you. Report an error in the passage at 9:51 Highlight the passage at 9:51

10:21 You know, because probably if they were happy, they wouldn't be annoying you. If they weren't suffering themselves, they wouldn't come across as maybe the way that whatever is happening is coming across. So you just start small and just gradually let it expand so you don't jump too quick and then get completely lost. Report an error in the passage at 10:21 Highlight the passage at 10:21

10:50 Basically the seven limb prayer and we'll go into the details of the seven limb prayer when we get to the explanation of the homework. But the seven limb prayer, the seven limbs are prostrating and these are all in the homeworks too so you don't have to worry about getting the complete list. But basically it's a prostrating, offering, confessing, rejoicing. Report an error in the passage at 10:50 Highlight the passage at 10:50

11:20 And then we're requesting the teacher to stay and teach, or requesting the teacher to stay, and then the next one is requesting the teacher to teach. Report an error in the passage at 11:20 Highlight the passage at 11:20

11:33 Because without a teacher and without the teachings, we'd all be lost. We'd be doing the same old things that we've been doing for eons, getting nowhere. Now we've had the good fortune to meet this teacher. We want to make sure they're going to stay and we want to make sure they're not just staying but they're going to teach us. Report an error in the passage at 11:33 Highlight the passage at 11:33

11:59 So those are those two. And then we dedicate. So it's almost like a whole complete practice all rolled up into seven little steps. Report an error in the passage at 11:59 Highlight the passage at 11:59

12:10 And when we did Guru Puja every morning, when we got to the rejoicing verse, then we'd always take extra time to rejoice. Report an error in the passage at 12:10 Highlight the passage at 12:10

12:21 And so if you want, you can spend a little extra time rejoicing, but you don't have to. And you first rejoice in your own virtue. And part of that is just that you're willing to try the meditations, to do the practice, to come to classes, to work on your mind. And then you rejoice for all the other people that are doing that, for all of the people that are helping others, the teachers, and you can just go on and on and on. Report an error in the passage at 12:21 Highlight the passage at 12:21

12:51 I used to end up kind of, my rejoicing would expand until all of a sudden it was like instead of the whole world being filled with all these horrible people that are hurting each other, it was filled with all these people that are really caring and helping each other. And if you think about it, there's more people that care about and help each other than all of the people that we hear about that are always harming others. Report an error in the passage at 12:51 Highlight the passage at 12:51

13:17 We just don't hear about. Always hear about the good things that are going on. Although, you know, being in saṃsāra we still have a lot of problems. Anyway, so then the last one is the request for the three great purposes. And this is where we're requesting and making prayers to our gurus. Report an error in the passage at 13:17 Highlight the passage at 13:17

13:45 And so basically we're asking our mind to be blessed. list for the help and the first one in general to eliminate all the wrong ideas that we have. And then the next one is that we attain all of the realizations, all of the correct realizations. Report an error in the passage at 13:45 Highlight the passage at 13:45

14:18 And then the last one would be that all of the... obstacles that we have to actualizing the path to Buddhahood eliminated. So that sounds like a lot of prayers. You don't need to worry about a lot of extra time for prayers. At first it may take just a little bit longer and you can focus maybe on refuge. Report an error in the passage at 14:18 Highlight the passage at 14:18

14:53 refuge one morning and really get a feeling for the refuge and then read the other ones and then you get the feeling for the refuge so you bring back the feeling for Report an error in the passage at 14:53 Highlight the passage at 14:53

15:19 When you become familiar with it, it probably takes about five minutes, which isn't too long. And so this is like what I've learned in all, you know, going to classes and meditation classes and the teachings that Geshe-la gives and all of the different teachers all say these things. And so that's why I'm saying these things is because this is the way that I was taught. Report an error in the passage at 15:19 Highlight the passage at 15:19

15:51 They know way more than I do, so I've got to put a little faith in that. And prayers is what makes the difference in the meditation. It makes it like a Buddhist practice as opposed to meditation that you go to maybe at the Y or something. There's a lot of meditation classes that are just... geared towards, you know, maybe sitting, you know, and just watching your mind, but that don't incorporate the transformation of your mind. Report an error in the passage at 15:51 Highlight the passage at 15:51

16:32 And so the difference is Buddhist practice works at transforming your mind. And the pros help to transform your mind. So any, we could take a little break, maybe five minutes break if you want. And are there any questions before we take a break? Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 16:32 Highlight the passage at 16:32

17:04 Well, when you sit down to do meditation practice, you know, it's nice to have a place and if you want to make offerings, you can, you know, one bowl or you can just put a little apple, you know, and imagine, because there's offerings and when we get to the seven limbs, there's offerings that are actual and imagined, you know. Report an error in the passage at 17:04 Highlight the passage at 17:04

17:28 So whatever is comfortable right now. some people do lots of water bowls. Report an error in the passage at 17:28 Highlight the passage at 17:28

17:37 you just have a nice candle in front of a beautiful picture of a Buddha or a Lama you light the candle or maybe some incense or something. Report an error in the passage at 17:37 Highlight the passage at 17:37

17:55 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Report an error in the passage at 17:55 Highlight the passage at 17:55

17:59 Yeah, I have, in fact, we have handouts that I'll give to everyone that has, it has the preliminary prayers on it and then the meditation. Report an error in the passage at 17:59 Highlight the passage at 17:59

18:11 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, Report an error in the passage at 18:11 Highlight the passage at 18:11

18:19 right. You know, try to, you know, sometimes you don't want to put too much, like you don't want to do a whole set of water bowls every single day. Maybe, you know, if you put out a candle and a little apple, you know, or... You know, something, you know, just to make an offering, or you don't even have to do that, you know. You can imagine, you know, whatever's comfortable. Report an error in the passage at 18:19 Highlight the passage at 18:19

18:46 I mean, you know, to start with, I mean, since we're all just like, we're really beginning, you know, just whatever's comfortable. And, you know, you can stretch yourself a little bit, but, you know, and also what you have time for. Sometimes it maybe takes getting up a little, you know, 20 minutes, half an hour earlier, you know, because I know everybody has probably pretty full lives too, you know. Report an error in the passage at 18:46 Highlight the passage at 18:46

19:17 Movies and things take a lot of time. Facebook. Facebook. Oh, man. Yeah, but anyway. So we'll go over all of the seven limpras, the three purposes, and then you can experiment. And if it feels good and you kind of like it, you can do them. Report an error in the passage at 19:17 Highlight the passage at 19:17

19:45 So just a quick five-minute break. Report an error in the passage at 19:45 Highlight the passage at 19:45

19:53 We'll go through these things really quick and hopefully have enough time to kind of go over the more detail of the preliminaries and how to do the meditation. Report an error in the passage at 19:53 Highlight the passage at 19:53

20:08 So the main problems or obstacles, there's two for now, two main ones. That's mental excitement and sleepiness. So there are others, but those are the main two. So mental excitement is just too much energy. Report an error in the passage at 20:08 Highlight the passage at 20:08

20:33 And it can be a symptom of an excited, happy mind. It often arises due to attachment and when you get into deeper levels of meditation and calm abiding, the distractions or the excitement that a meditator experiences is always directed towards an object of attachment. So that's why I included it. Report an error in the passage at 20:33 Highlight the passage at 20:33

21:06 So following our thoughts is the exact opposite of... meditation and so it all it does is just causes us to lose our object of meditation and there's a number of ways that we can deal with it one of them is that we can really focus really even more firmly on our breath so if you're if you're doing a breathing meditation you can like just immediately Go back to the breath. So if you're in your abdomen or at the tip of your nose, whatever object or place that you pick, you just go back to that place. Report an error in the passage at 21:06 Highlight the passage at 21:06

21:55 And like I said with the homeworks this last week, experiment with the three, then pick one, like either feeling the air going in and out the nose or... know, the breath into the abdomen, or just following the breath in. So if you pick one, then you practice with that, you become more familiar and it gives you a little better focus. Report an error in the passage at 21:55 Highlight the passage at 21:55

22:22 If you're jumping from one object to the other and you're here and you're there, it kind of scatters your practice. So for this week, for sure, now that you've had a chance to try out things last week, I did that. I did one each week. I went from the abdomen to the nose to the breath and picked one and just did that all throughout the rest of the week. Report an error in the passage at 22:22 Highlight the passage at 22:22

22:47 So this week, if you pick one and just do it for the whole week, that would be great. Anyway, so... What you want to do is you just want to move back to the breath and you want to kind of tighten your concentration on whatever the object is. Report an error in the passage at 22:47 Highlight the passage at 22:47

23:14 If you're really distracted from your breath, you can count the breaths. And then when you feel like you're back with the breathing, then focus again at the place. It could be at the abdomen. in Report an error in the passage at 23:14 Highlight the passage at 23:14

23:31 Counting the breaths is simply inhaling and exhaling, and at the exhale you count one. And if you're really, really distracted, you can even think, I'm breathing in, I'm breathing out. I'm breathing in, I'm breathing out. Just to get your mind back, concentrated on the breath and not off them. Report an error in the passage at 23:31 Highlight the passage at 23:31

23:58 Your friends and movies and what happened on the bus and what it is and all that kind of thing. Who's going to take the dog out? What am I going to have for breakfast? Report an error in the passage at 23:58 Highlight the passage at 23:58

24:09 Oh man, I've got so much to do today. Why am I sitting here doing this meditation? I should be over doing this. Report an error in the passage at 24:09 Highlight the passage at 24:09

24:18 So you've got to bring it back. Reign it in. Report an error in the passage at 24:18 Highlight the passage at 24:18

24:46 That's part of our homework. is. Report an error in the passage at 24:46 Highlight the passage at 24:46

24:22 it in yeah Report an error in the passage at 24:22 Highlight the passage at 24:22

24:53 People are just way ahead of me. Report an error in the passage at 24:53 Highlight the passage at 24:53

24:58 Yep, that's going to be part of our homework, the nine round breathing. And it's the same as what we did in the class. In fact, it was really easy because I just copied that whole section of nine round breathing and pasted it into this meditation page that we have for this class. Report an error in the passage at 24:58 Highlight the passage at 24:58

25:16 But anyways, yeah, that's a good one. So then if your object is something other than the breath, like say you're doing an analytical meditation or concentrating on an object, an image of the Buddha in front of you or something, and your mind is just really off, you can regain your focus by watching the breath and then as soon as you feel like you have your focus back, go back to that. Report an error in the passage at 25:16 Highlight the passage at 25:16

25:45 Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji original object that you were on, whether it was analysis, it might be an analysis that you're doing about precious human rebirth or equanimity and, you know, so you might have to kind of breathe, calm yourself, and then go back to the analysis again, like that. Report an error in the passage at 25:45 Highlight the passage at 25:45

26:06 The other one is another way to kind of calm down your mind is to recall your motivation. especially if you've motivated For someone else, you know, and you think that, you know, you're doing this to help or to benefit someone, maybe to help to relieve sickness, to remove obstacles to health, then thinking of that may motivate you to focus more intently on whatever object that you want to be on. Report an error in the passage at 26:06 Highlight the passage at 26:06

26:47 If you have mental excitement, you might want to darken the room a little bit. Because the brighter it is, sometimes the more active your mind is. So you might experiment light. With 15-minute meditations, you can probably... Set a light level at the beginning and see how it works if you do it in the dark or see how it works if you turn on the ceiling light. Does that work better? Report an error in the passage at 26:47 Highlight the passage at 26:47

27:17 Rather than jumping up and down, because 15 minutes isn't too long. But you can darken the room. Darkness kind of sobers the mind a little bit and sometimes will keep it from wandering so much. Another one is definitely to check your posture. Report an error in the passage at 27:17 Highlight the passage at 27:17

27:39 What happens is like a lot of times when you start getting into a lot of discursive thinking, a lot of discursive thoughts, your head will kind of start coming up. Report an error in the passage at 27:39 Highlight the passage at 27:39

27:54 So you want to kind of check your head that it's not coming up. Mine does that. And my thumbs go. That's the sleeping and this is the... Or like... Anyway. But that, you want to check your abdomen, because I notice that if I start tensing up in my abdomen, that usually is the results of more, you know, mental thinking. Report an error in the passage at 27:54 Highlight the passage at 27:54

28:27 And when I relax my body, it helps to relax the thinking. Report an error in the passage at 28:27 Highlight the passage at 28:27

28:35 So you want to check that, your shoulders, your jaws. Make sure that your body is relaxed and make sure that you have a good posture. And then another one is you can imagine your mind now. Usually, like for meditation, you think your mind is kind of like in the center of your body, kind of back towards the back half, kind of like at the place where you say, well, this is me right here. Report an error in the passage at 28:35 Highlight the passage at 28:35

29:06 This is kind of where your mind is. Imagine your mind to be. So you enclose your mind in a little white and red seed. And what you do is, we're going to talk about this with the breathing, with the nine round breathing. There's a channel called the central channel that runs kind of a little bit in front of the spine through your body. Report an error in the passage at 29:06 Highlight the passage at 29:06

29:34 And so you imagine your mind. inside that and then you wrap it up in a little red and white seed and when you're too much excitement you just move the little seed down the central channel to your navel and so that brings your that actually kind of when you visualize it it brings your mind down and it helps to calm the chatter and the excitement and Report an error in the passage at 29:34 Highlight the passage at 29:34

30:08 then you concentrate At this, you know, you've kind of visualized and concentrate on this little red and white seed down here that's surrounding your mind until it calms down, until you get stronger concentration. And then you go back to your object. So sometimes that'll work. Some of these things will work for somebody and not work at all for somebody else. Report an error in the passage at 30:08 Highlight the passage at 30:08

30:40 This is only a few. There's lots more things, but this gives you something to work with. Another one is that if you really have a really excited mind and you're familiar with analytical meditations, they say you can meditate on impermanence and death, and that will help to bring the mind down. Report an error in the passage at 30:40 Highlight the passage at 30:40

31:04 I don't know. That one hasn't worked for me quite yet. Although, if you do stop and think, I have to take back some of what I said, because when I actually do it, if you do stop and think that, you know, you don't know just how long that, you know, that we have to live. In fact, just that plane going down this couple days ago is a perfect example. You know, nobody on that plane expected not to get off the plane, you know. Report an error in the passage at 31:04 Highlight the passage at 31:04

31:43 There they are, you know, maybe going home on a nice vacation. They finally leveled off, they can go to the bathroom, maybe they'll come by with some tea and coffee, how great, and that's it. So we don't, we really, we think, we always think we have lots of time. Sometimes we may not. So, you know, you think about that, that kind of brings down the excitement level a bit. Report an error in the passage at 31:43 Highlight the passage at 31:43

32:12 Kind of motivating. But it doesn't have to be depressing. Let's not make it depressing. Because what it does is it just inspires us to make the most of the time we have and to put it into something that's going to be transformative. Report an error in the passage at 32:12 Highlight the passage at 32:12

32:35 Engaging in these meditations with the idea of benefiting ourselves and everybody else that exists in the universe, how much more beneficial can it be to sit there on a pillow and work on your concentration when it produces those results? results. Report an error in the passage at 32:35 Highlight the passage at 32:35

32:55 So, I mean, if that was the last thing you were doing and that's what you were thinking, you're guaranteed for a good rebirth. I mean, you may end up right on a pure land, you know, getting teachings directly from the Buddhas. Who knows? So, no problem. Anyway, we have another. See, that's another module is the whole, you know, impermanence aspects, which aren't, you know. Report an error in the passage at 32:55 Highlight the passage at 32:55

33:24 There's a Report an error in the passage at 33:24 Highlight the passage at 33:24

33:31 lot of... to be engaging and actually enhance. Report an error in the passage at 33:31 Highlight the passage at 33:31

33:52 A lot of things that we can do to help. And one of the things that isn't on the regular list that you hear, but people have said it, and what works for me is that you just identify what's happening in your mind. Because see, we don't want to go, oh shoot, you know. We don't want to get down on ourselves and be hard on ourselves. Oh man, my mind's wandering again. Jeez, I can't do this stuff. That's the wrong approach. Report an error in the passage at 33:52 Highlight the passage at 33:52

34:26 We don't want to let our minds wander off on it. But when you notice it, just kind of identify it. Put a one word. Like a lot of times when I'm doing it, I'll think about what I'm going to tell you. I'm focusing on my breath and pretty soon it's like... Oh, I can tell them this and I can tell them that, you know, I can talk about this. Then I say either talking or teaching, so I say teaching. Report an error in the passage at 34:26 Highlight the passage at 34:26

34:55 And if you identify with one word, like maybe it's planning, like you're thinking about the future, what are you going to have for breakfast or some, you know, meeting a friend, or maybe it's in the past, some thought that comes up from the past, you can just say past, future. Report an error in the passage at 34:55 Highlight the passage at 34:55

35:18 Sometimes you have a conversation, you're doing your meditation, you're having a conversation with somebody, you know, talking. And you find if you just identify it with a word, sometimes it will just, it'll cut it. Report an error in the passage at 35:18 Highlight the passage at 35:18

35:37 And then you go back to your object. Now, sometimes it doesn't cut it for a long time. Sometimes it'll come up again quickly, but it'll cut it. Report an error in the passage at 35:37 Highlight the passage at 35:37

35:47 And I find that's really useful. Report an error in the passage at 35:47 Highlight the passage at 35:47

35:53 So basically with any of these things that you use, you don't want to get too distracted by them and just focus on the antidotes, but you want to use them and the minute you feel that your mind is calmed down, you go back to your object again. So you go back to your object as quickly as you can. So then the other thing is sleepiness. Report an error in the passage at 35:53 Highlight the passage at 35:53

36:23 That's the other one. We have excitement and we have the sleepiness. Sometimes they call it sinking. I'm prone to what I call heavy sinking, which is like I've trained myself or I trained myself when I was younger to be able to relax quickly and when I'd relax, you know, so that I could fall asleep because I thought it was a really... Report an error in the passage at 36:23 Highlight the passage at 36:23

36:48 neat the way animals like dogs and things can run around and use all up this energy and then they just completely collapse and they go to sleep for a few for a little bit and then they get up and run around again I thought wow you know that's really neat to be able to do that you know so I practiced but now that practice is not good for meditation I had no idea and not And not only only that, but they say that You're prone to sinking and dullness, that's the cause for an animal rebirth. So here I am, I was training to be a dog. Report an error in the passage at 36:48 Highlight the passage at 36:48

37:29 I thought, oh, jeez, that's the worst possible thing I could have been doing and now I have to try to use the meditations to break that habit and to change that habit so that my mind and body can be relaxed but sharp. Report an error in the passage at 37:29 Highlight the passage at 37:29

37:48 And not just fall asleep. So sleepiness is, you know, some of it is a habit. In fact, in our last class where we talked about the mind, sleep is actually a mental factor. Now it's definitely connected with how our body functions and all that, but it's a mental factor. And so it can be controlled by the mind eventually. Report an error in the passage at 37:48 Highlight the passage at 37:48

38:22 So, if you're getting really heavy, tired, sleepy, you can again imagine your mind enclosed in the little red and white seed in the central channel, but this time instead of going down, the little seed shoots up the central channel, out the crown of your head, into space. And then the seed opens up and merges with this vast, huge, empty space. Report an error in the passage at 38:22 Highlight the passage at 38:22

38:53 And then you concentrate on the vastness and freedom, you know, and then, you know, that, I mean, just explaining it kind of perked me up a little bit, but it'll help to kind of lift you out of that drowsiness and that dullness, heaviness. And then you come back and you continue on your object. You can also imagine your mind and your body just filled with bright light. Report an error in the passage at 38:53 Highlight the passage at 38:53

39:33 You're just flooded with light. Sometimes that'll work. It's just almost the opposites of excitement. So for sleepiness, maybe you want to brighten the room. you can, you can like, you know, Report an error in the passage at 39:33 Highlight the passage at 39:33

39:50 Open the shades, turn on a bright light. Report an error in the passage at 39:50 Highlight the passage at 39:50

39:55 Maybe if you meditate with your eyes closed, maybe open your eyes like little slits and let a little bit of light in and just put your gaze down at the floor. And try not to just stare at the floor, but just keep your gaze down, but let the light come in. And then you also want to check and make sure maybe your room or yourself, Report an error in the passage at 39:55 Highlight the passage at 39:55

40:24 That you're not too warm, you know, so it might be good you could open a window or just take off a sweater, find a temperature that's conducive so that it's not so cold that you're distracted by it, but it's not so warm that it puts you to sleep. Report an error in the passage at 40:24 Highlight the passage at 40:24

40:47 And sometimes they say that sleepiness can come from depression or boredom. You know, either of the two. And what you can do if you feel like that's the case is like you can meditate on how or you can think about how amazing, what a wonderful opportunity it is to meditate and that you've met the Dharma and that you've had this, you know, amazing rebirth. Report an error in the passage at 40:47 Highlight the passage at 40:47

41:23 But they call it precious human rebirth and we'll do a meditation on that. We did one in the last class, we'll do it again later in this class. Report an error in the passage at 41:23 Highlight the passage at 41:23

41:33 You know, something that's going to kind of bring you back up and kind of give you a little extra energy. And then if you're really, really sleepy, sometimes they say that the only thing to do is to get up and splash cold water on your face or go and get some air. class. Report an error in the passage at 41:33 Highlight the passage at 41:33

41:53 Because sometimes, you know, it's like if you're just going to sit there and just get, you know, nod off and take a nap, you might as well just get up because you don't want to create the habit of sitting down for meditation and sleeping because then for sure you're, you know, creating the causes for, you know, not good results. Report an error in the passage at 41:53 Highlight the passage at 41:53

42:17 And then they said when all else fails, take a break and rest. Report an error in the passage at 42:17 Highlight the passage at 42:17

42:26 It's important to make sure that you're getting enough sleep. So, you know, part of your journal, you can kind of keep track. You know, if you went to bed really late and, you know, yet you got up at the same time, different times of the day, like, you know, got six hours sleep, seven hours sleep, eight hours sleep, five hours sleep. Report an error in the passage at 42:26 Highlight the passage at 42:26

42:47 How does it affect your meditation? And sometimes if you don't have enough sleep, you'll sit there and you'll just start dozing off. And sometimes the only thing to do is just get up and actually just stop and take a nap or rest. And then make sure that you allow enough time for sleeping so that you can do the meditations without that interfering with your concentration. Report an error in the passage at 42:47 Highlight the passage at 42:47

43:23 those are... You know, some of the things for sleepiness, a lot of them are just the opposites of what you would do for excitement. You know, check, you know, if you're getting tired, your position or your body. You know, sometimes your thumbs will kind of go forward. They'll kind of start to get wimpy. You know, you want to bring them back or your head will start going too far down. Report an error in the passage at 43:23 Highlight the passage at 43:23

43:55 I bring it up. So you have to find a place, you know, and everybody's different depending on, you know, how much excitement or tiredness that they're prone to. You know, where, you know, where's a good position for the head? You know, it shouldn't be up and it basically should be with the eyes looking down, but the head could be like up here with the eyes looking down or it could be here with the eyes looking down. Report an error in the passage at 43:55 Highlight the passage at 43:55

44:21 If you're prone to a lot of discursive thoughts, Maybe a little bit lower with your eyes looking down is better. So this is something that, you know, as you do practice and, you know, you'll find a way that works well for you. The other things are other distractions and basically they might be pain, physical discomforts or even unusual experiences while you're meditating. Report an error in the passage at 44:21 Highlight the passage at 44:21

44:52 Like floating outside of your body or some kind of like a dreamlike images or conversations that you have or sensations, different sensations in your body. And so those, you just want to try not to get distracted by them. And so those are just things that kind of happen through the process of meditating. Report an error in the passage at 44:52 Highlight the passage at 44:52

45:23 You know, especially like those things like floating or conversations or these kinds of things, you know, our minds are way more powerful than that. We don't want to be, you know, attached to like if we start to, you know, feel like we're just floating outside of our body and we go, oh, this is great. Report an error in the passage at 45:23 Highlight the passage at 45:23

45:43 Oh, I love this. You know, you just want to do that over and over and over and you get really attached to getting that feeling, you know. Our minds are much more powerful than that. And so we don't want to be distracted by these little things that come up while we're going through meditations. And then for physical pains, there's different ways to handle those too. And we can kind of talk about them, visualizations, breathing into it. Report an error in the passage at 45:43 Highlight the passage at 45:43

46:16 looking for the pain, allowing your soul or your mind to go straight into the pain and sitting with it for a while. sometimes when we start to actually look for it and really get into it, it kind of moves away. Report an error in the passage at 46:16 Highlight the passage at 46:16

46:35 So we can talk more about those kinds of things another time. Report an error in the passage at 46:35 Highlight the passage at 46:35

46:46 Another version that works for both excitement and sleepiness is that as you exhale, you just imagine you're exhaling black smoke and it represents either the dullness or the distraction or preoccupations or even the mental or physical discomforts. So the black smoke, as you exhale, the black smoke goes out. Report an error in the passage at 46:46 Highlight the passage at 46:46

47:12 you inhale Bright white light comes in and that represents mental awareness, concentration and a peaceful focus. So you're exhaling all of the distractions and physical and mental distractions and you're inhaling all of the awareness and concentration and peacefulness. And so that kind of works for both. And then when you feel your concentration sharpen again, don't forget to go back to your object because breathing in and out dark smoke and getting rid of one thing and taking another thing isn't our meditation. Report an error in the passage at 47:12 Highlight the passage at 47:12

48:03 Our meditation is on the breath, either at the nose, in the abdomen or watching it going up and down through the body. all right so Report an error in the passage at 48:03 Highlight the passage at 48:03

48:13 So we do have a little bit of time for the meditation. And so I have copies for everybody, but I'll pass it out later. And then we have also the preliminary prayers. Report an error in the passage at 48:13 Highlight the passage at 48:13

48:35 So maybe the prayers we can look at together. You want to pass out them? And Report an error in the passage at 48:35 Highlight the passage at 48:35

48:47 this is just kind of like all the, I just call the preliminaries because it's pretty much all the preliminaries. And the refuge in bodhicitta, we already, we talked about that in the class before. So we'll just kind of go through the seven limb. And what I did was I put the actual prayers in bold print, like for the seven limb prayer, but then like kind of the visualization or the idea of each of the, Report an error in the passage at 48:47 Highlight the passage at 48:47

49:29 Let's see, wait, I wonder if I took, I don't know if I took one out. Report an error in the passage at 49:29 Highlight the passage at 49:29

49:37 just, let's see, I'll make sure I have a list of, I don't have a pen. I need to make sure that people that didn't get one, get one. Report an error in the passage at 49:37 Highlight the passage at 49:37

49:56 We talked about refuge in bodhicitta and the prayer is similar to the one we do in class, a little bit different. Because we're practicing giving. What do we do in class? Do we do practicing giving and other perfections or do we do listening to the Dharma? I can't even remember. What do we have in the book? I don't even remember. Report an error in the passage at 49:56 Highlight the passage at 49:56

50:27 That's the practice of giving and other perfections. There's three different ones. That's how much I pay attention. I shouldn't even say that. 34, the daily prayers. Report an error in the passage at 50:27 Highlight the passage at 50:27

50:40 But anyway, so this is a practicing giving and other perfections. So the seven limb prayer, so we want to just keep a little bit of time on each one. So the first one, prostrations, you can visualize the throne, you can have the Buddha there or the Lama or some teacher that you admire like His Holiness the Dalai Lama or Lama Zopa Rinpoche or Geshe Dapa, whoever you admire. Report an error in the passage at 50:40 Highlight the passage at 50:40

51:12 See, and then you think of one quality of the teacher that you admire and that you would be willing to bow down to that quality. Report an error in the passage at 51:12 Highlight the passage at 51:12

51:24 And so you can visualize, you know, the merit field, one person or a Buddha or whatever it is, but, you know, mainly it's... Report an error in the passage at 51:24 Highlight the passage at 51:24

51:37 Like that. And you don't have to see it really clearly, but kind of get a feeling. See, reverently I prostrate with my body, speech and mind. So you can see yourself actually prostrating to this person, whoever it is that you visualize. Report an error in the passage at 51:37 Highlight the passage at 51:37

51:55 Okay, the next one is offering. So you imagine offering something, you know, and like on the tanka there's like, you know, all these... The kinis are supposed to be these beautiful women offering all these water and food and flowers and big bowls and stacks of incense. They say that, you know, high as Mount Meru, which is like this supposed to be this huge mountain. But anyway, so it could be a big, it could be whatever. Report an error in the passage at 51:55 Highlight the passage at 51:55

52:26 So you imagine these offerings. And then you say, I present clouds of every type of offering. Actual and imagined, so you can imagine offering all of the things that you love, maybe the beautiful lights that you see going over Twin Peaks at night or all the beautiful clothes in all of the stores downtown when you go out or whatever, you know, whatever it is that, you know, maybe beautiful food, all those amazing meals, you know, that you think, oh, they're so amazing. Report an error in the passage at 52:26 Highlight the passage at 52:26

52:59 You know, you can offer all that. Shantideva, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Report an error in the passage at 52:59 Highlight the passage at 52:59

53:14 Rinpoche and everything yeah Report an error in the passage at 53:14 Highlight the passage at 53:14

53:12 water bowl represents... Report an error in the passage at 53:12 Highlight the passage at 53:12

53:40 Or you can actually have, like, in the place for flowers, you can have a flower. And in the place for food, you can have food, you know, or music. I have a little bell that I put for music on mine. Report an error in the passage at 53:40 Highlight the passage at 53:40

54:00 So the bowls are just something to put it in so that you can offer it. Report an error in the passage at 54:00 Highlight the passage at 54:00

54:11 Anyway, so I present clouds of every type of offering, actual and imagined. Report an error in the passage at 54:11 Highlight the passage at 54:11

54:22 And then confessing. And so you can think actually, you know, if you did something, maybe you got impatient with somebody or yelled at somebody and you regretted it or something that you've done, you can actually think of that and then say, okay, well, I'm not going to do that again for at least four hours. Report an error in the passage at 54:22 Highlight the passage at 54:22

54:42 Make it realistic. Well, I used to do that with my friend, you know, about getting impatient, you know. Okay, I do my... Practice at night, purification, and I'd say, okay, until noon tomorrow. Because you want to be able to be successful, you know, and the more success that you have, the easier it is to expand on it. Report an error in the passage at 54:42 Highlight the passage at 54:42

55:04 But if you keep failing, all you do is you practice failing. So we want to practice being successful. So you want to make it realistic, like I will never, ever again. Report an error in the passage at 55:04 Highlight the passage at 55:04

55:17 Ever get impatient with so-and-so and like, you know, it's not going to happen. You know, probably not anyway. Unless if you really think you can do it, I'd say go for it. But, you know, make it realistic, make it doable. So then the line is, I declare all my negative actions accumulated since beginningless time. Report an error in the passage at 55:17 Highlight the passage at 55:17

55:42 And, you know, you can figure, you've done everything. It doesn't matter what you want to think about. You just want to confess. You just want to say, okay, I've done all the bad and horrible things that are possible. Report an error in the passage at 55:42 Highlight the passage at 55:42

56:00 And then you think. You don't want to do it again. And then those ones that you're working on specifically, you could say, well, at least for three hours, one day, something like that. Report an error in the passage at 56:00 Highlight the passage at 56:00

56:16 And then rejoicing. So you can feel good about things that you've done. It's like what I said before, things that you've done, things that someone else, good works that other people have done, the teachers, the Buddhas, all of the work. You can even rejoice about all of the work that Lama Tsongkhapa put in to just put together all of the teachings in a logical order so we have what they call the stages of the path to enlightenment, step-by-step instructions how to get out of here. Report an error in the passage at 56:16 Highlight the passage at 56:16

56:50 And not only that, but how to bring everybody else with us. It's great. So when you rejoice, you create merit. You create the same merit. Report an error in the passage at 56:50 Highlight the passage at 56:50

57:05 Like of a peer as they create. So if you know somebody that's doing a meditation retreat and you're doing your 15 minutes, you just rejoice about the person doing their meditation retreat and you gain as much merit as they do. Report an error in the passage at 57:05 Highlight the passage at 57:05

57:23 It's like the really lazy person way to get merit. Rejoicing. No, it works. It's true. So the more you can remember to rejoice, the better. Report an error in the passage at 57:23 Highlight the passage at 57:23

57:35 And it's an antidote to lots and lots and lots of different afflictions, but we don't have time to go into that. Rejoicing. Report an error in the passage at 57:35 Highlight the passage at 57:35

57:48 So then, the line is, I rejoice in the merits of all holy and ordinary beings. So the rejoicing can be for ordinary things too. You know, just the good work, the virtuous work that people do. Report an error in the passage at 57:48 Highlight the passage at 57:48

58:07 Requesting the teacher to remain. So this is, you just see your teacher, whoever it is, the Buddha or the Dalai Lama or, you know, and you just make a request. Like, you know, we do long life pujas for teachers. It's the same thing. We're requesting that they stay and teach. Actually, this one is for staying, but we want to go a step further because it's nice to have the body around, but it's nice to hear the words coming out of the mouth too. Report an error in the passage at 58:07 Highlight the passage at 58:07

58:40 So we want them to remain, and so we make that request. And we want them to make sure that they come back. So please remain until the end of cyclic existence. Report an error in the passage at 58:40 Highlight the passage at 58:40

58:58 And then we want to request them to teach. And you can just look at this one. And the teaching doesn't... We don't necessarily have to come from them sitting right in front of us. It could be that we may not even be near them, but just by the blessings, by our connection with them, like I said with the prayers, we make this energy connection with different beings. Report an error in the passage at 58:58 Highlight the passage at 58:58

59:35 It could be a deity like Manjushri or a teacher like His Holiness. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. in our life. And, you know, Report an error in the passage at 59:35 Highlight the passage at 59:35

1:00:03 all of a sudden we get this, like, oh, yeah, this is like, like when I was, like when I was drunk. Driving, it was like, you know, I was going to be ordained. I was getting, waiting to get ordained. Nobody knew. And then pretty soon it wasn't going to happen. I was miserable. Then it was like within a half a block, I found out it was going to happen. Report an error in the passage at 1:00:03 Highlight the passage at 1:00:03

1:00:22 And then everything changed. And it was like, I just thought about it for a minute in like a space of a half a block driving my car. It was like, I got a really, it's almost like it created this feeling inside of me. of how real impermanence is and how easily the conditions for anything can change. Because one minute it was happening, next minute it wasn't happening, then the next morning it was happening. Report an error in the passage at 1:00:22 Highlight the passage at 1:00:22

1:00:56 And it was like, when those things happen like that, that's just a demonstration of how quickly conditions can change. you know, so it's like... Report an error in the passage at 1:00:56 Highlight the passage at 1:00:56

1:01:12 Things like that become the teachings too. And we have to be open to receive these kinds of teachings in all different kinds of ways. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:12 Highlight the passage at 1:01:12

1:01:23 So turn the wheel of Dharma for living beings. It just means teach us. And then the dedication, you collect all of the good things that you've done, you dedicate it. That's like putting it in the bank. Because they say a moment of anger, Can totally annihilate, you know, an eon of virtuous actions if you haven't dedicated them. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:23 Highlight the passage at 1:01:23

1:01:56 But if you dedicate them, then it's like putting it in the bank. It kind of seals it up and protects it. So you want to just, whenever, anytime you do anything virtuous, anytime you think a good thought, just dedicate. Dedicate it. Dedicate it. You say dedicate to the great enlightenment. I dedicate it to the Enlightenment and to myself and others. And that kind of seals it and it causes that virtue and that merit to work until that end is met. Report an error in the passage at 1:01:56 Highlight the passage at 1:01:56

1:02:30 So it kind of protects it. Report an error in the passage at 1:02:30 Highlight the passage at 1:02:30

1:02:36 But anyway, so that's it. I dedicate my own merit and those of all others to the great enlightenment. It's like putting it in the bank. So that's the preliminaries. Let's see, who, who, and then Lisa, you just need one, right? Yeah. Okay. A little bit, not much. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to do, we're going to do this nine round breathing. I'll read you the request for the three great purposes. Report an error in the passage at 1:02:36 Highlight the passage at 1:02:36

1:03:15 And there's the verses and then there's a little short version where you just hit the main points if you want. Or you can skip it altogether. It's whatever you decide to do. So basically it's, I prostrate and go for refuge to the guru and the three precious gems. Please bless my, oh, my mind, okay. I'm requesting you to immediately pacify all wrong conceptions from incorrect devotion to the guru up to the subtle dual view. Report an error in the passage at 1:03:15 Highlight the passage at 1:03:15

1:03:46 Oh, I think I spelled that wrong, is it? Okay. That exists in my mind and the minds of all sentient beings. I'm requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind. Report an error in the passage at 1:03:46 Highlight the passage at 1:03:46

1:04:05 Oh, this is not right. I should have read over this better. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:05 Highlight the passage at 1:04:05

1:04:15 That exists within my mind and the mind of all sentient beings. I'm requesting you to pacify all outer and inner obstacles to actualizing the entire graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and the mind of all sentient beings. So basically the first one is to eliminate all the wrong ideas. The second one is to get the correct realizations. And the third one is to pacify all any obstacles that we'll encounter on the way to awakening, to becoming a Buddha. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:15 Highlight the passage at 1:04:15

1:04:49 And in the meditation we're going to do nine round breathing and there's a detailed explanation but I'll kind of go through it quickly. Report an error in the passage at 1:04:49 Highlight the passage at 1:04:49

1:05:01 There's energy channels in the body and so there's basically three main channels. So the central channel starts from between your brows and it's kind of shaped like a hook. And it comes down, and it's maybe away from your spine a little bit, but it comes down, and it's about the size of a, let's see, like maybe your little finger. Report an error in the passage at 1:05:01 Highlight the passage at 1:05:01

1:05:31 So it comes down, and it ends four finger widths below your navel. And then the two side channels start one at each nostril, and it kind of follows that shape coming down, but it's slightly... Report an error in the passage at 1:05:31 Highlight the passage at 1:05:31

1:06:09 thumbs by your ring finger you close your fist and then what we're going to do is we're going to breathe in through first our left nostril so you're going to just kind of put it Report an error in the passage at 1:06:09 Highlight the passage at 1:06:09

1:06:22 Oh, wrong one, sorry. You do the opposite. You block your right now so you breathe in through the left and then you breathe out through the right. And what happens is you imagine the air going through the left channel and then the two channels kind of bend and connect down here and it comes around and it comes out the right channel. Report an error in the passage at 1:06:22 Highlight the passage at 1:06:22

1:06:54 So you do that three times. Report an error in the passage at 1:06:54 Highlight the passage at 1:06:54

1:07:00 That purifies like anger, hatred, that kind. Okay, and then you do the opposite. So you give your Vajra Fizz and then you're going to block the left nostril. You're going to breathe in through the right. So you just kind of visualize it's purifying, taking out all of that. Then exit through the left. And so that's going to purify all desire and attachment. So you do that three times. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:00 Highlight the passage at 1:07:00

1:07:41 And then you're going to breathe in through both nostrils and this time the two side channels when they get down to the bottom they kind of bend and they connect into the central channel and so when you exhale the air comes up the central channel and comes out this space by your forehead and that purifies ignorance. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:41 Highlight the passage at 1:07:41

1:08:10 So you do that three times. And then after you do that, then you can just breathe normally. And I put down you can do ten minutes of the meditation. It could probably take maybe at the most five minutes or less to do the nine round breathing. And you can do it once or twice if you want. And I have pretty detailed instruction if there's any question. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:10 Highlight the passage at 1:08:10

1:08:39 And I'm going to check. This prayer, the request for the three great purposes, I don't remember it like this because we used to do it every morning for puja. Oh, I know what it is that exists in my mind. That exists. Oh, maybe it's my language problem. Okay. Anyway, I'm going to check and make sure I got it right. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:39 Highlight the passage at 1:08:39

1:09:07 So if you're using a timer, if you have like a little... you know insight timer or you have a little dial timer that you're using for your 15 minutes just set it on 15 minutes Report an error in the passage at 1:09:07 Highlight the passage at 1:09:07

1:09:24 do the nine round breathing and then finish the 15 minutes with your same object that you were using last week. Just pick one here, abdomen, breathing in and out. So we'll get more practice, but we'll incorporate the nine round breathing as a way to Kind of bring the mind more in and kind of open up those channels, those energy channels in our body. And that may help with the meditation. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:24 Highlight the passage at 1:09:24

1:09:52 And then at the end of the meditation, we want to dedicate all of the merits and then continue to keep the journal, keep notes. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:52 Highlight the passage at 1:09:52

1:10:03 It's kind of interesting to watch, like some days, and I'd have to look back, one day my mind was more scattered. This and I realized it was like I had less sleep that night before, you know, and then, you know, so there's like all different things that you kind of keep track. You can see maybe patterns and figure out what works the best for you too. But so we can pass out the homeworks. Report an error in the passage at 1:10:03 Highlight the passage at 1:10:03

1:10:35 Let's see. Do you have? Yeah. Report an error in the passage at 1:10:35 Highlight the passage at 1:10:35

1:10:40 I think, oh, and then for people that wanted, this is the mantra, and then just for people that wanted printed copies, I only made five, so I'll give it for the people that want printed copies and then I'll email you, the rest of you, this if you want it. Report an error in the passage at 1:10:40 Highlight the passage at 1:10:40

1:10:58 You can, yeah, let's see. We had two copies for you, you can have, and then Eric, yeah, thanks. Okay, and then let's see, who else had a print? Oh, Steve, Steve. Here, maybe carry that one back to Steve. Stephen? It was a Steve or Stephen? Okay, and then this one is for Theo. Okay, so Report an error in the passage at 1:10:58 Highlight the passage at 1:10:58

1:11:35 did everybody, I need to send you both, right? Okay, so Report an error in the passage at 1:11:35 Highlight the passage at 1:11:35

1:11:48 this might be a little... more than what you need right now. But if you do offer food, could always just say the mantra, doesn't hurt. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:48 Highlight the passage at 1:11:48

1:12:08 you need it. I do. Yeah, no, I have I'm going to email this to everybody along with the reading materials. But everybody that wanted a printed copy, so I made five. I scanned it a long time ago and one of my computers wouldn't open the thing so the scanned copy isn't the best but you can see it. You can always file it for later too if you like, it's up to you. So we'll just dedicate all the efforts that we all put in in the class in doing the... Report an error in the passage at 1:12:08 Highlight the passage at 1:12:08

1:12:57 Meditation, homeworks and learning about how to gain control over our crazy minds in order to not only benefit ourselves but even further to benefit all other beings. And so dedicate all this merit so that all beings can gain all the realizations and end all of their suffering and achieve perfect, pure, lasting happiness and that we ourselves gain all these realizations and achieve full awakening so that we can help all the other beings who are still in saṃsāra, who are still suffering and Report an error in the passage at 1:12:57 Highlight the passage at 1:12:57

1:13:54 so by engaging in this class. We plant the seeds for our own awakening and for the awakening of all other beings. So we'll just read two prayers. We can read on Report an error in the passage at 1:13:54 Highlight the passage at 1:13:54

1:14:13 the page six in the white book. We'll just read the first two verses. Report an error in the passage at 1:14:13 Highlight the passage at 1:14:13

1:14:25 Through the merits of these virtuous actions, may I quickly attain the state of a Guru Buddha and lead all living beings without exception into that enlightened state. May the supreme jewel bodhicitta that has not arisen arise and grow and may that which has arisen not diminish but increase more and more. Report an error in the passage at 1:14:25 Highlight the passage at 1:14:25

1:14:46 Okay, well thank you. Report an error in the passage at 1:14:46 Highlight the passage at 1:14:46