Four Applications Of Mindfulness Retreat 2013 with B. Alan Wallace (part 36)

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0:36 Let's begin as usual and move towards the shamatha platform of settling the mind in its natural state. By Report an error in the passage at 0:36 Highlight the passage at 0:36

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4:55 directing your attention, your mindfulness to the space of the mind, attend firstly, in terms of the contents, to those which are most easily discernible, easy to recognize. And these are the objective appearances that arise to you, such as mental images and rumination. You Report an error in the passage at 4:55 Highlight the passage at 4:55

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7:11 have that first mode of mindfulness, manifest mindfulness. A single-pointed mindfulness, where you're simultaneously aware of the stillness of your awareness and the movement of thoughts. Report an error in the passage at 7:11 Highlight the passage at 7:11

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10:17 And now within the space of the mind there are not only these appearances to your awareness, but there are also subjective impulses that emerge from your mind, such as desires and emotions, intentions. Report an error in the passage at 10:17 Highlight the passage at 10:17

10:34 And these two are grist for the mill, as you settle your mind in its natural state, to be aware of them as swiftly as possible, even though in all likelihood it will be retrospective, It may be retrospective in a matter of even a fraction of a second. Monitor the space of the mind now especially for those subjective impulses, the emergence of a desire, of an emotion. Report an error in the passage at 10:34 Highlight the passage at 10:34

11:05 Harder to discern, but ever so beneficial. And again, if you're new to the practice, you may find it helpful, as we've done before, to deliberately generate an emotion or a desire. Report an error in the passage at 11:05 Highlight the passage at 11:05

11:21 For example, some of you are already trained in the meditative cultivation of loving kindness. Arouse aspirations, desires. Or you may think of something very pleasant, a person, a place, an experience, and thereby arouse the feeling, the emotion of pleasure. Report an error in the passage at 11:21 Highlight the passage at 11:21

11:44 So whether they arise spontaneously or deliberately, closely apply your mindfulness, Report an error in the passage at 11:44 Highlight the passage at 11:44

11:54 the emergence of these subjective impulses of emotions and desires. Examine closely how they are present and how they disappear. Report an error in the passage at 11:54 Highlight the passage at 11:54

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16:14 Observe the factors of origination. How thoughts may catalyze emotions and desires. How you may deliberately generate an emotion or desire by way of thought. But also how desires and emotions may also trigger thoughts. Observe closely the causal nexus in which emotions and thoughts and other subjective impulses arise. Report an error in the passage at 16:14 Highlight the passage at 16:14