Transform Your Mind & Change Your Life Retreat - 7-Point Mind Training from Atisha (part 26)

0:16 In this session, more so than any other session we've had thus far, the sense of ease of letting go of relaxation is utterly indispensable. And the deeper you can go, the clearer will be the experience. So profoundly set your body at ease, loose and relaxed, Report an error in the passage at 0:16 Highlight the passage at 0:16

0:41 still and vigilant. They release all control, any influence on the breathing, allow the body to breathe without any kind of... Report an error in the passage at 0:41 Highlight the passage at 0:41

1:15 It's now indispensable that you set your mind at ease, deeply, existentially at ease. Releasing all thoughts, concerns, desires about the future, the past or the present. Release it all. Report an error in the passage at 1:15 Highlight the passage at 1:15

1:32 Utterly set your mind at ease. Releasing all grasping. Report an error in the passage at 1:32 Highlight the passage at 1:32

1:47 Awareness lightly come to rest in stillness, natural clarity or luminosity. Report an error in the passage at 1:47 Highlight the passage at 1:47

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2:26 It's not to say that the mind becomes still. It won't. Thoughts, images, sounds, tactile sensations would continue to arise, of course. But let them come, let them go. Unperturbed, unmoved, Report an error in the passage at 2:26 Highlight the passage at 2:26

2:49 but resting above all. without focusing there, here or there. Report an error in the passage at 2:49 Highlight the passage at 2:49

3:21 sometimes moves and is carried away, and sometimes still. Report an error in the passage at 3:21 Highlight the passage at 3:21

3:28 Rest in that flow Report an error in the passage at 3:28 Highlight the passage at 3:28

3:40 that you see it shifts, it changes, it rises, it passes. Rest there for a little while. Just in the flow of your awareness. Report an error in the passage at 3:40 Highlight the passage at 3:40

3:50 The awareness of being aware. The Report an error in the passage at 3:50 Highlight the passage at 3:50

4:19 best of your ability, rest in stillness like a king sitting upon his throne. Unmoved by the various people. Report an error in the passage at 4:19 Highlight the passage at 4:19

4:31 But then note sometimes how the awareness drifts off and it is carried away. You leave your throne. Then you relax, release, and you return. It Report an error in the passage at 4:31 Highlight the passage at 4:31

4:46 becomes vague or dull. You refresh, restore and return. Examine the character and condition it as arising for a moment. See how it changes, fluctuates. Report an error in the passage at 4:46 Highlight the passage at 4:46

5:30 But within this continuum, note also what is constant. The flow of cognizance, the flow of knowing, sometimes brighter, sometimes dimmer, but still there. The flow of luminosity. Brighter and dimmer, but still there. The salient, defining characteristics of God, Report an error in the passage at 5:30 Highlight the passage at 5:30

5:51 the sheer luminosity, the sheer cognizance of your own, Report an error in the passage at 5:51 Highlight the passage at 5:51

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6:52 unconditioned. Report an error in the passage at 6:52 Highlight the passage at 6:52

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7:31 And as you observe your own awareness in its nakedness, unadorned by desires, thoughts, images, memories, you observe it in its simplicity. Report an error in the passage at 7:31 Highlight the passage at 7:31

7:45 You may sense this effervescent, shimmering, Report an error in the passage at 7:45 Highlight the passage at 7:45

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8:44 experiencing, knowing itself, the Report an error in the passage at 8:44 Highlight the passage at 8:44

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9:21 nature of that which is aware of the awareness. Report an error in the passage at 9:21 Highlight the passage at 9:21

9:31 A dimension of awareness Report an error in the passage at 9:31 Highlight the passage at 9:31

9:54 that is timeless, Report an error in the passage at 9:54 Highlight the passage at 9:54

10:15 unceasing of Report an error in the passage at 10:15 Highlight the passage at 10:15

10:42 existence and non-existence, Report an error in the passage at 10:42 Highlight the passage at 10:42

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11:18 transcending the categories even of one and many, transcending every conceptual construct, every label, every thought. Report an error in the passage at 11:18 Highlight the passage at 11:18