Discovering Buddhism - Establishing A Daily Practice (31 January 2013)

0:03 So we're going to do the same prayers on pages 7 and 8. The reason that we have the gold prayer books is at the end of the class we're going to read a prayer out of that at the end. So I have to find the page on the break. So on page 7 we're going to do refuge in bodhicitta, the bottom of the first column, three times. Report an error in the passage at 0:03 Highlight the passage at 0:03

0:24 And then we'll turn the page and do the prayer on page 8. Report an error in the passage at 0:24 Highlight the passage at 0:24

0:32 I go for refuge until I am enlightened. To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly, by the merits I create through listening to the Dharma, may I become a Buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings. I go for refuge until I am enlightened. to the Buddha the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly by the merits I create through listening to the Dharma may I become a Buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings I go for refuge until I am enlightened To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly, by the merits I create through listening to the Dharma, may I become a Buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings. Report an error in the passage at 0:32 Highlight the passage at 0:32

1:16 With the wish to free all beings, I shall always go for refuge to Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha until I reach full enlightenment. Inspired by wisdom and compassion, today in the Buddha's presence, I generate the mind of full awakening. For the benefit of all sentient beings, as long as space remains, as long as sentient beings remain, until then may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world. Report an error in the passage at 1:16 Highlight the passage at 1:16

1:58 So I thought I'd actually just start with a review of the six practices that we talked about last week because it's kind of a lot and then open it up for questions because there's probably questions about that. And I also thought I would insert, and so in tonight's homework, which, you know, all the homeworks are sort of the same, with just more stuff inserted, sorry, it ends up being quite a bit of paper, but I inserted the little prayers, you know, so, because I realize that when I'm doing it, I'm sort of doing the little prayers, just because I've just done it so many times that it comes up, and it is kind of a nice key. Report an error in the passage at 1:58 Highlight the passage at 1:58

2:39 And they're very short, and so there's one prayer that we just did for refuge in bodhicitta. That's the same prayer. You can just insert that. And then there's a short version of the four measurable thoughts, so we can do that. And then there's also one for the seven limbs, so that then it becomes just like a memory booster. Report an error in the passage at 2:39 Highlight the passage at 2:39

3:01 Hey, Marcela, come on in. I'm sure you're completely motivated in the car coming, so that's okay. Hi, Daniel. He's very motivated. All right, so we start with cleaning the place and setting up the altar and trying to remember that it's not just cleaning but that it has something to do with our minds. Report an error in the passage at 3:01 Highlight the passage at 3:01

3:28 So even if you're just doing one step, you're sort of looking at some bit of clutter, which is my favorite problem, is clutter or piles. Report an error in the passage at 3:28 Highlight the passage at 3:28

3:40 But it also could be dust. It could be just something. Something about the area just feels like it needs a little love, needs a little attention. So you just start with that one step. And then setting up the altar is really talking about mostly once we've set up our altar, you're not having to set it up every time. Report an error in the passage at 3:40 Highlight the passage at 3:40

4:05 I guess it depends on where you live. But in most of our cases, once we set up the altar, we don't have to set it up newly every morning. That's the second step. That's arranging any offerings that we might have. So setting up the altar Report an error in the passage at 4:05 Highlight the passage at 4:05

4:22 but you know you you jazz it up every once in a while you might find a picture that you really love you might finally invest in a statue or a Tonka or something like that you might just decide you want a bigger altar or a smaller altar or you move or whatever you decide to jazz it up a little bit I highly recommend every few months doing something different with your altar just because I think it's a nice thing to do and it kind of wakes up the place so So. Report an error in the passage at 4:22 Highlight the passage at 4:22

4:50 But other than that, it's not like every morning you have to set it up again, unless you're living in a suitcase or something. So then the second step is obtaining the offerings honestly and arranging them beautifully. Report an error in the passage at 4:50 Highlight the passage at 4:50

5:03 And so again, it doesn't have to be a huge process. You could do the water bowl process. It's a practice, but you don't have to. It could also just be offering a flower or lighting a candle, which is a very easy thing to do. You could just get a bag of tea lights, you know, and just offer a candle. Or, you know, I've done the thing where you just buy a whole bunch of candies and you just put one candy on every day. It makes it very sweet. It's an obvious offering. Report an error in the passage at 5:03 Highlight the passage at 5:03

5:31 And then at the end of the day, you take it off of the altar or at the end of the week or the end of the month, depending on how old the candy is. Report an error in the passage at 5:31 Highlight the passage at 5:31

5:41 Then you sit down and you arrange your body and you arrange your mind, basically. So you arrange your body like we just did. And as I said last week, at first we're getting familiar with the posture, but it's not going to be a long process like that. You're just going to get into your position because you'll know what works for your body. I don't think it's a bad thing at the beginning to kind of review them. Report an error in the passage at 5:41 Highlight the passage at 5:41

6:06 And so you can have your little cheat sheet right in front of you. Everybody sort of switched sides. Except you. You're still in the same seat. Actually, you guys are both in the same seat. Report an error in the passage at 6:06 Highlight the passage at 6:06

6:17 I'm like, wait, Jay's just on that side. He's usually on that side. You guys got together, didn't you? I don't think it's a bad thing to kind of review the posture just to make sure you're not forgetting something, you know, like if your shoulders tend to be an area of problem for you or something like that. Report an error in the passage at 6:17 Highlight the passage at 6:17

6:34 When I was leading the drop-in meditations, I would do it every time, you know, and I it sort of just becomes almost like a in a way. It just kind of guides you. Your body begins to fall into place, but but it But feels if. it becomes more Lama Tsongkhapa Lama Tsongkhapa, Shantideva all the time you know so it's like and people driving everybody's got their clenched jaws yeah so relaxing that you know that that mouth and jaw is often something you might you might have to actually put a little effort into Report an error in the passage at 6:34 Highlight the passage at 6:34

7:35 Refuge, bodhicitta and the four immeasurable thoughts can be done Without any prayer, like I said in the notes that I sent home with you guys last week, like you can just try to cultivate a mind of refuge and whatever that means to you, you know, so it doesn't have to be a huge process, you don't have to get off all the books off your shelf and read what refuge means and all that stuff, which sounds kind of like me. Report an error in the passage at 7:35 Highlight the passage at 7:35

8:07 Or the same with bodhicitta, or you can just read the little prayer that we do at the beginning of class and try to think about what that means. What I try to guard against when I teach this stuff is not doing it by rote. I think probably because I do so much by rote. You have to be really careful in Tibetan Buddhism because we have, I guess like in any religion, and it is a religion, Report an error in the passage at 8:07 Highlight the passage at 8:07

8:34 There are prayers and we say those prayers and we can say them mindlessly, so we have to be careful to remind ourselves what we're doing, right? Report an error in the passage at 8:34 Highlight the passage at 8:34

8:44 That's actually considered a form of idle speech, you know, and that's one of those ones, that's one of the ten non-virtues that we can do all the time. It's not as bad as killing, but because we can do it all the time, just like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Any kind of idle speech, gossip and so on, it becomes more dangerous in a way because we can do it all the time. So we want to be careful about that. Report an error in the passage at 8:44 Highlight the passage at 8:44

9:12 That's why I usually don't teach it the first time that I introduce the idea. I teach it more about trying to generate the actual mind of refuge. But what do we know of that mind right now? We haven't even, you know, the refuge class actually was supposed to be taught but then it got changed. So it has to be taught this spring. So you guys haven't even really studied refuge in depth. So how do you cultivate a mind of refuge? That's why I try to simplify it into just picking some aspect of Buddhism that makes sense to you and taking refuge in that. Report an error in the passage at 9:12 Highlight the passage at 9:12

9:43 Whatever that means to you, you know. And we kind of know what the word refuge means, right? It kind of is like finding safe harbor, something I can rely on, you know. So for me, for a long time, I would just take refuge in the teachings on karma. Because that just made sense to me. It was like, okay, this part works for me. It might not work for all of you. I'll be the first to admit it. We'll talk a little bit about karma and emptiness tonight, actually. Report an error in the passage at 9:43 Highlight the passage at 9:43

10:08 But if there's some element of Buddhism that drew you in, maybe it's the development of compassion, which also is a big draw for me. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's something else. So whatever the teachings are that sort of grabbed you and make sense to you, Take refuge in that. And that's enough for right now. You don't have to go into the deep meanings of all the refuge objects and all that stuff. We'll get to that in a couple of months. Report an error in the passage at 10:08 Highlight the passage at 10:08

10:36 And we'll do a whole class on it. So for now, you can just read a little prayer. I go for refuge until I am enlightened through the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly or the Saṅgha, whatever version of that you like. By the merit of my practice, by the merit of my meditation, you could even say, may I become a Buddha to benefit all sentient beings. So every one of those words is like, we could spend a whole class just on that. Report an error in the passage at 10:36 Highlight the passage at 10:36

11:03 I go for refuge, what does enlightenment mean, what is the Buddha, what's the Dharma, what's the... I would just say if you read it, just read it. Read it with feeling. Report an error in the passage at 11:03 Highlight the passage at 11:03

11:37 Attempt to have some understanding of what you're reading instead of just, I go, okay, you know. So on the homework this week, I include the prayers in there so you have it. Report an error in the passage at 11:37 Highlight the passage at 11:37

11:53 And then I also, I think at least for the seven limb prayer, I say stop after each line and think about it, you know. The Four Immeasurable Thoughts we talked only briefly about there's long versions of it which is also quite beautiful and on the break I could probably tell you where that is in the Actually, it's in the white book so I can show you where that is too in case somebody wants to copy that out or if they want me to send it. But the short one, which is much easier, is May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. Report an error in the passage at 11:53 Highlight the passage at 11:53

12:42 May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. You'll get this in your homework. May all sentient beings never be separated from higher rebirths and the supreme bliss of liberation. Report an error in the passage at 12:42 Highlight the passage at 12:42

12:55 May all sentient beings abide in equanimity. free from attachment and hatred, not holding some close and others distant. So that's the wish that we're having for sentient beings before we meditate. You can condense it and just really wish that all sentient beings have everything they need all the way up to full enlightenment and then move on. Report an error in the passage at 12:55 Highlight the passage at 12:55

13:18 You know? So, I mean, honestly, if the bus is waiting, there are ways to condense these. If you're in, you know, a week... retreat, you can do the long version every day, which too. And then it becomes more meaningful to you. Invoking the merit field in this practice is just Shakyamuni Buddha, and that's described in the text. Report an error in the passage at 13:18 Highlight the passage at 13:18

13:43 So it's not an elaborate merit field, it's just the Buddha Shakyamuni. made of golden light. And we keep reminding ourselves that it's all made of light because we tend to And then we offer the seven limb prayer and a mandala. Report an error in the passage at 13:43 Highlight the passage at 13:43

14:22 So the seven-limb prayer sounds something like this. And I didn't get this. This is the one I was doing in my head, so there might be words slightly different in versions that we see. But reverently I prostrate with my body, speech and mind. I present clouds of offerings, actual and imagined. I confess all my negative actions since beginningless time and rejoice in the merit of all holy and ordinary beings. Report an error in the passage at 14:22 Highlight the passage at 14:22

14:53 Please stay and teach us until saṃsāra ends. So I see two of them are combined in one line there. I dedicate the merit of this prayer to my own enlightenment. Report an error in the passage at 14:53 Highlight the passage at 14:53

15:07 So that's on your homework too. So on your cheat sheet you can have your little prayers there too. Make it a short version. And then mandala offering, we haven't done the mandala offering. Actually we can read that right now. I didn't put it in there. Often in our classes we do it in Tibetan, which is completely meaningless if you don't speak Tibetan, although it's quite lovely. So we can read it together. Report an error in the passage at 15:07 Highlight the passage at 15:07

15:36 But you can also just imagine just offering the universe. You can also pick up something. Sometimes I don't have my mala. Often I'll have my mala. You can just actually hold it in your hands if you don't know the mudrā and just be like offering it, all the beautiful things. Report an error in the passage at 15:36 Highlight the passage at 15:36

16:14 most attached to I remember when I first got my cats I would I would have the cat know, often I'd have my mom, you know, floating above the mandala. Anyone that you love, you can put on the top of the mandala. Report an error in the passage at 16:14 Highlight the passage at 16:14

16:30 Your own virtues, anything you, which just means anything you've done well, anything you've done nicely, any good qualities that you have, you know, which especially for those of us who maybe have a hard time seeing our good qualities, that's useful to offer that, too, because it... It means we have to recognize them. Rejoicing is good for that too. And then the final step, the sixth of the preliminary, or sorry, the preparatory practices is making requests to eliminate obstacles and attain realizations. Report an error in the passage at 16:30 Highlight the passage at 16:30

17:03 I didn't give you the prayer for that too. It's a little bit longer. It's a quite lovely prayer. And maybe next week we'll read it together. But basically that same idea. If you're having obstacles, Report an error in the passage at 17:03 Highlight the passage at 17:03

17:15 Please help me. I just don't want to sit. Whatever your obstacle is. Please help me. My back hurts. Please help me to cultivate the concentration that I need for this path. I mean it could just be that simple. It doesn't have to be any kind of elaborate prayer. It's a nice little prayer that it's always like after each at the beginning of it it's please bless my mind. Report an error in the passage at 17:15 Highlight the passage at 17:15

17:39 And so you're basically asking for All of the realizations of the path and to eliminate all of the obstacles that are possible and so forth. But I'll find that and we can read it together next week just so you see what it is. Any questions? Anybody try it during the week and have anything come up or are ready to drop out or can't stand this tradition and waiting for the next bus? Report an error in the passage at 17:39 Highlight the passage at 17:39

18:11 In the back, yeah. Report an error in the passage at 18:11 Highlight the passage at 18:11

18:22 When you say mandala, what do you mean? Mandala is basically, there's a couple of different views of it. One is we could offer up our future Pure Land once we become Buddhas. that can be fun. You can actually imagine what your future Pure Land will be like and offer that up, not just to the Buddhas, but to all sentient beings to be able to come there. Report an error in the passage at 18:22 Highlight the passage at 18:22

18:46 talk about that a little bit in class tonight because that's sort of, that's beginning to... It's like that idea of imagining yourself getting the gold medal before you get it. Tantra is all about that. So imagine that we will become Buddhas and we will have a pure land and now we're offering it up before we even have it. Report an error in the passage at 18:46 Highlight the passage at 18:46

19:05 The other one is just offering the universe. And so the description of the mandala, especially in the long mandala, which is a prayer that we sing kind of when teachings happen and so forth. It's going through this whole cosmology which according to both Tibetan and Indian belief was how the universe existed. Report an error in the passage at 19:05 Highlight the passage at 19:05

19:29 And so there's all these different things that you memorize about where the different continents and subcontinents are and all the different bliss goddesses and all the different mighty horse and the great elephant and all that stuff. And on the very top there's like They throw in sort of like on Gilligan's Island when they're like in Marianne and all the rest. They throw in all the rest. It's like all the most precious things and wonderful things in the whole universe, you know. Report an error in the passage at 19:29 Highlight the passage at 19:29

19:55 So you just kind of, that's where you just sort of throw in everything. So that's what's meant by offering a mandala. We often will do that in the Saturday, on the 16th when we're doing the basic Buddhist rituals, which will happen. Report an error in the passage at 19:55 Highlight the passage at 19:55

20:10 We'll talk about just doing the mudrā, a simple mudrā and doing a short one. But often, I don't have one scheduled right now, but at some point we'll do one where we go through all of those and we'll do, you know, we can kind of even make a mandala out of rice and rings and so forth. You can see how that practice is done. That usually is like a morning workshop. Report an error in the passage at 20:10 Highlight the passage at 20:10

20:34 but it is quite a bit of memorization and it's quite beautiful it's a beautiful practice it's actually one of the preliminary practices which in Tibetan Buddhism are practices that we do to prepare our minds for the higher teachings especially tantra it's a lovely practice to do but for our purpose just imagine everything gorgeous Any other questions that came up? Report an error in the passage at 20:34 Highlight the passage at 20:34

21:03 especially this week, Jenna, and then I'll get you married. Report an error in the passage at 21:03 Highlight the passage at 21:03

21:10 It's related to the mandala question. Is a mandala, can it also be like a hand gesture as an offering? Yes, the mudrā. Yeah. Okay. So that would be a mudrā? Yeah. Or... Well, the main thing is what's happening in your mind, right? So then the words will reflect what's happening in your mind, hopefully. And then the hands, the mudrā, the body, whatever the body is doing, the physical thing, whether you're holding a mandala set, if you've seen people do that, you know, there's three or four levels of jewels and things like that, or rice, depending. Report an error in the passage at 21:10 Highlight the passage at 21:10

21:46 Or a mudrā, doing a mudrā, and then sometimes people will have, Report an error in the passage at 21:46 Highlight the passage at 21:46

22:19 If you know more, you can do more. You know, and so, you know, often the way we learn, I mean, I can teach people that in class and I definitely will on the Getting Started workshop on the 16th, but often just like turn to the person next to you and go, how do you do that mudrā? That's how I learned it. I was like, how do you do that mudrā? And then they kind of, you know, showed me how to do it and it was like. Report an error in the passage at 22:19 Highlight the passage at 22:19

22:42 I remember it just seemed so hard at first and you're like, you know, it just seems like, and then now it just is so natural. It just seems odd that it ever seemed hard, but yoga's like that, right? That's exactly where I went. I was like, oh, I know a lot of poses like that. I think Mariel's my question too. Report an error in the passage at 22:42 Highlight the passage at 22:42

23:03 I've been meditating for some time and the place that I like to meditate doesn't have a place where I can set up an altar. So when I set up my altar this week, it's not where I'm used to meditating and I'm having a hard time switching. Report an error in the passage at 23:03 Highlight the passage at 23:03

23:17 How important is it that you meditate in front of the altar? the place that you'd like to meditate, you can't put an altar there. No, it's not that important. No, that's okay. That's all right. Do you just pay respect to the altar and then go meditate where you're supposed to meditate? Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah. So you can do your... No, I think you can do the refuge and all that stuff at your seat. So that's all right. So it doesn't... Report an error in the passage at 23:17 Highlight the passage at 23:17

23:41 I think that... You're just sort of making the offerings. Because remember we talked about when you make the offerings it's really about your heart, right? And making your mind more generous. It's not for the Buddhas. So we do that first as a kind of an opening, a heart opening exercise. Then you just go in the other room and sit. It doesn't, that's okay. So don't force yourself to sit wherever that altar is. Report an error in the passage at 23:41 Highlight the passage at 23:41

24:03 And you can also have more than one altar. And I just put that out there. I mean, there have been times in life that I've had like three or four altars in my room, you know, just like every possible place. You know, I am my guru's disciple. Thank you. So just any place that I could put an altar, I'll put an altar. And that's kind of nice, too. But then, of course, you have to keep them all clean. Report an error in the passage at 24:03 Highlight the passage at 24:03

24:27 No, best not. Yeah, like you don't want to have the pile of computer books next to it or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tops of shelves can work nicely, but you have to be able to reach up there. So it has to be low shelves and stuff like that. You can also have, we used to have at the residential center on Webster Street. Report an error in the passage at 24:27 Highlight the passage at 24:27

24:51 In the kitchen we had holy objects in the center of the island so that you had to circumambulate them when you went around, which people of course never did, but the people who lived there I think all tried to. We sort of trained ourselves to go around the various, oh hey Anna, come on in, to go around them. And that was just kind of a nice reminder that it wasn't just a kitchen. Report an error in the passage at 24:51 Highlight the passage at 24:51

25:14 Plus it was nice if you had a bug. If you have a bug or if Bodhi caught a mouse, which would happen, then you would take the mouse around all the holy objects and it would give them positive imprints before we put them outside, whether they were alive or not alive. Report an error in the passage at 25:14 Highlight the passage at 25:14

25:41 Which is always interesting, I think, if somebody was there who wasn't Buddhist. You're like, what is he doing? Trotting around that thing three times. Report an error in the passage at 25:41 Highlight the passage at 25:41

25:55 Anyway. Okay, so we've set up very nicely. We've set up our altar. We have our little place to sit. We've done our whole little preparation, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, we've gotten that down. Now what are we going to meditate on? Anyway. Report an error in the passage at 25:55 Highlight the passage at 25:55

26:11 So we've done all of this. And we've gotten used to it. Actually this week we're just going to continue on kind of getting used to it. And then next week, I really debated, but I decided it was just too much to keep throwing new stuff at you. So it's kind of very similar this time. It's just reviewing those preliminary steps in the meditation. And then the next two you'll be doing a lamrim meditation on precious human rebirth. Report an error in the passage at 26:11 Highlight the passage at 26:11

26:36 So that's kind of the way we're going to do it. But what we meditate on in this tradition is the lamrim. And especially in this context, it's the lamrim. So it's the stages of the path to enlightenment. Lamrim just meaning stages of the path in Tibetan. The first lamrim, I think I did mention a little bit of that story to you in the 10th century, I believe it was. Report an error in the passage at 26:36 Highlight the passage at 26:36

27:04 um the Some Tibetans invited a very esteemed Lama named Lama Atisha from India to reintroduce the Dharma because the Dharma had sort of degenerated. This is according to our tradition. Some traditions didn't think it degenerated at all. But according to our tradition, it had degenerated quite a bit. And so there's a wonderful story, actually, which I don't have time to tell you. Report an error in the passage at 27:04 Highlight the passage at 27:04

27:31 but Report an error in the passage at 27:31 Highlight the passage at 27:31

27:35 I don't think he was a king, actually, but he was a very, sort of like a province man, a province leader of some sort, and his son. And it was due to them, really, that the money was raised for Lama Tisha to come and to teach in Tibet. And it was due to their faith in the Dharma. Yeshe-U and Junction-U, the sun. Report an error in the passage at 27:35 Highlight the passage at 27:35

28:06 So I always think just in gratitude for them that they went so out of their way with complete faith that it was what was needed and they were willing to give their lives if necessary to bring Lama Tisha. So Lama Tisha came and his Tibetan students requested to make all of this much more clear and so he pulled a lot of the key teachings out of the sutras and made a... Report an error in the passage at 28:06 Highlight the passage at 28:06

28:31 What's called a lamrim, the first lamrim, which is called, still in print, Lamp on the Path to Enlightenment, the first lamrim. After him, and I think he actually even did other versions of lamrims, many Tibetan masters did other lamrims. The one thing that all lamrims have in common is that they... They cover the whole path to enlightenment, even if they're one verse. Even if they're so tiny, it's all there. And so, for example, if Geshe-la teaches on a single verse one or a very, very short lamrim, he'll show how it contains the entire lamrim in that really short, short version. Report an error in the passage at 28:31 Highlight the passage at 28:31

29:18 There is, of course, very long lamrims, the longest being the lamrim Chenmo, the great lamrim, which is by Lama Tsongkhapa, who's the founder of this tradition. And there are ones in the middle. The middle length lamrim is the one that Geshe-la is teaching, which is also by Lama Tsongkhapa. It's actually very close to the great lamrim, but there's more stories in the great lamrim. Report an error in the passage at 29:18 Highlight the passage at 29:18

29:40 It's more anecdotes. Songs of Experience is another middle length lamrim. And then some short ones, the one that we'll read tonight in class and that will be sorted into your homework. Not this week, but next week in the Precious Human Rebirth Meditation is one that's called Foundation of All Good Qualities. There's another one, there's a number of them that are in the Gold Prayer Book. Report an error in the passage at 29:40 Highlight the passage at 29:40

30:05 Three Principal Paths, or Three Principal Aspects of the Path. Because of course there's only one path. And there's a number of them. We used to read a whole bunch of them like for the morning. We used to do a Gurpuja every morning. That's fantastic. Report an error in the passage at 30:05 Highlight the passage at 30:05

30:27 a different lamrim each morning so there's a lot of them out there and in different shapes and forms and they're some of them really you know they just grab you at different times so they're good it's not like one is good and you know I could say one is great and the rest of them aren't or something like that they're all great and your mind will Report an error in the passage at 30:27 Highlight the passage at 30:27

30:49 We'll get something out of them each time you read them. So it's not like you have to choose and only have one lamrim. They're all amazing and they all will mean something to you each time you go through them. Or nothing and then sometime you read it again later and it means something to you like we were talking about that book. Maybe the first time you read a Dharma book you don't get anything out of it and then ten years later it might totally blow your mind. Report an error in the passage at 30:49 Highlight the passage at 30:49

31:20 As we're talking about what to meditate on, there are various topics arranged in the lamrim and there are different meditation manuals. I think what happens with the Discovering Buddhism classes is basically you can create manuals because all of the analytical meditations that you get as homeworks are actually lamrim meditations. Report an error in the passage at 31:20 Highlight the passage at 31:20

31:44 So the meditations that we do in here will be... Report an error in the passage at 31:44 Highlight the passage at 31:44

32:08 Hums, Ani Karen from from Copun. She created a meditation manual. Did we get any of those? We can order them if people want to. Report an error in the passage at 32:08 Highlight the passage at 32:08

32:20 Okay. Okay. Okay. This is basically, she's got like all the different topics of the lamrim and then she's got some kind of ways to think about it, ways that you might, but very outlined, very short. And then the thing that I like about this, first of all, it's like this, right? Report an error in the passage at 32:20 Highlight the passage at 32:20

32:52 later ones. This one I have it written all over the place, like add in things that meant something to me or some quote or something. Yeah, she puts little notes at the end of each one that you can add stuff to. Report an error in the passage at 32:52 Highlight the passage at 32:52