Transform Your Mind & Change Your Life Retreat - 7-Point Mind Training from Atisha (part 10)

0:13 Any floor space. Would somebody like to make themselves a, you know, a little sacrificial offering? It's empty space as far as I'm concerned. Report an error in the passage at 0:13 Highlight the passage at 0:13

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0:54 We first arouse the motivation, the aspiration that cast in shadow all of other desires and wants, overwhelms them, outshines them all, the desire of all desires, to achieve perfect awakening of a Buddha for the sake of all sentient beings. Report an error in the passage at 0:54 Highlight the passage at 0:54

1:13 Let this majestic motivation be that which motivates you, moves you, arouse you, To devote yourself for the rest of this session to setting out on the path by way of this method of shamatha. Report an error in the passage at 1:13 Highlight the passage at 1:13

1:30 And now with very few words, settle your body, rest your body, permeate your body with your awareness and settle it in a state that is relaxed, still and vigilant. Report an error in the passage at 1:30 Highlight the passage at 1:30

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2:55 Breathe egolessly, passively witnessing, Report an error in the passage at 2:55 Highlight the passage at 2:55

3:03 relaxing in every way, simply allowing the rest of Report an error in the passage at 3:03 Highlight the passage at 3:03

3:14 us gently, breath by breath, gently calming in the internal voice. voice of the mind, it can finally rest in effortless Report an error in the passage at 3:14 Highlight the passage at 3:14

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5:54 Let Report an error in the passage at 5:54 Highlight the passage at 5:54

6:02 this Report an error in the passage at 6:02 Highlight the passage at 6:02

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8:27 be Report an error in the passage at 8:27 Highlight the passage at 8:27

8:42 the center to which you return again, relaxed, still. There's Report an error in the passage at 8:42 Highlight the passage at 8:42

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9:42 no positive, negative charge to your awareness. So when negative thoughts or emotions or memories come up, you're not repelled by them. Report an error in the passage at 9:42 Highlight the passage at 9:42

9:52 When positive, attractive memories, desires come up. Back to do them, you're not. Whatever positive energies, Report an error in the passage at 9:52 Highlight the passage at 9:52

10:09 whatever, they come up. Report an error in the passage at 10:09 Highlight the passage at 10:09

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11:15 of mindful presence, without distraction, without being carried away by any thoughts or appearances, not grasping, not identifying with any of the activities. Report an error in the passage at 11:15 Highlight the passage at 11:15

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12:35 Because we are so habitual, Report an error in the passage at 12:35 Highlight the passage at 12:35

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13:33 based without an object, Report an error in the passage at 13:33 Highlight the passage at 13:33

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15:47 as soon as you retrospectively know that you've lost that flow of mindfulness, you've been carried away, that your first response be to at Report an error in the passage at 15:47 Highlight the passage at 15:47

16:01 least whatever captivation Report an error in the passage at 16:01 Highlight the passage at 16:01

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18:01 is sitting there, spaced out. It's imperative in this practice that you maintain an ongoing, discerning, mindful awareness, a flow of knowing. And if that fades out, Report an error in the passage at 18:01 Highlight the passage at 18:01

18:18 by the time you note it introspectively, it will be retrospective. If you were spaced out, the clarity was lost. Refresh your interest. Report an error in the passage at 18:18 Highlight the passage at 18:18

18:33 Restore the flow of mindful breath. Report an error in the passage at 18:33 Highlight the passage at 18:33