Transform Your Mind & Change Your Life Retreat - 7-Point Mind Training from Atisha (part 45)
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- 6:05
I invite you to dissolve your sense of the body as something real, tangible, physical. Dissolve it, release it, deconstruct it. Dissolve it into space in your mind's eye. Imagine the body evaporating into, dissolving into, superimposed upon.
- 9:00
shimmering, energetic body, and in the very center of your heart chakra. Imagine once again, orb of symbolizing your Buddha
- 10:53
And as we did before, if you wish to select, to focus on a particular person, a loved one and a stranger, or a very difficult person, if you wish to select one and focus on Medusa, or you may simply see who comes knocking on your door, the field of your consciousness, you as an illusory being, observing illusory beings.
- 14:44
saturating, supersaturating your whole body, mind. Then breathe out the light of loving kindness and compassion, wishing every sentient being well. Be free of suffering and the causes of suffering. May you find happiness in it. Breathing in, letting your awareness be safe
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· · · silence, 1 minute
0:31 As we've done in the past, step by step, Report an error in the passage at 0:31
· · · silence, 3 minutes
3:12 to direct the light of your awareness once again to the space of the body. Report an error in the passage at 3:12
3:22 Observe what actually presents itself to your awareness in contrast to the imagery, the labels that Report an error in the passage at 3:22
3:39 we superimpose. Report an error in the passage at 3:39
3:45 And simply see tactile sensations and nothing more. The Report an error in the passage at 3:45
4:12 reflection of your body. You're seeing a reflection of the body. You're seeing appearances. You look at your own body with your eyes. You're seeing visual appearances. And they are not a body. They're visual appearances. Report an error in the passage at 4:12
4:30 They touch your body, the Report an error in the passage at 4:30
4:48 cells, the molecules, but these mental images are not a body, Report an error in the passage at 4:48
5:08 too, and independent of all of your physical and mental observations of it, Report an error in the passage at 5:08
5:38 but exist only relative to observations, relative to the conceptual frameworks in which we identify and are Report an error in the passage at 5:38
5:51 not absolutely, inherently there, never was, never been seen. So Report an error in the passage at 5:51
6:05 I invite you to dissolve your sense of the body as something real, tangible, physical. Dissolve it, release it, deconstruct it. Report an error in the passage at 6:05
6:15 Dissolve it into space in your mind's eye. Imagine the body evaporating into, dissolving into, Report an error in the passage at 6:15
6:43 superimposed upon. Report an error in the passage at 6:43
6:50 So dissolve your mind into space, dissolving, disappearing. Imagine you dissolve. Report an error in the passage at 6:50
7:27 Let your awareness, the luminosity of your awareness, Report an error in the passage at 7:27
7:44 very similar to your body, Report an error in the passage at 7:44
· · · silence, 1 minute
8:23 and it's upon causes and conditions and influencing other phenomena. An Report an error in the passage at 8:23
8:30 empty appearance, Report an error in the passage at 8:30
9:00 shimmering, energetic body, and in the very center of your heart chakra. Imagine once again, Report an error in the passage at 9:00
9:13 orb of symbolizing your Buddha Report an error in the passage at 9:13
· · · silence, 2 minutes
10:49 your awareness illuminate, clear to the mind's And as we did before, if you wish to select, to focus on a particular person, a loved one and a stranger, or a very difficult person, if you wish to select one and focus on Medusa, or Report an error in the passage at 10:49
11:17 you may simply see who comes knocking on your door, the field of your consciousness, Report an error in the passage at 11:17
11:35 you as an illusory being, observing illusory beings. Report an error in the passage at 11:35
11:45 As real as anything possibly can be. Report an error in the passage at 11:45
11:52 Diversity, felicity, everything. From Report an error in the passage at 11:52
12:02 the perspective of Rigpa, Report an error in the passage at 12:02
12:25 or people, or sentient beings who come to mind, attend closely. From Report an error in the passage at 12:25
· · · silence, 1 minute
13:13 the blessings of all, Report an error in the passage at 13:13
· · · silence, 1 minute
14:03 flowing up, Report an error in the passage at 14:03
· · · silence, 1 minute
14:44 saturating, supersaturating your whole body, mind. Then breathe out the light of loving kindness and compassion, wishing every sentient being well. Report an error in the passage at 14:44
14:57 Be free of suffering and the causes of suffering. May you find happiness in it. Breathing in, Report an error in the passage at 14:57
15:33 letting your awareness be safe Report an error in the passage at 15:33
15:39 and see who comes to mind spontaneously. And practice in the same way, breathing in the blessings of all the awakened ones, Report an error in the passage at 15:39
· · · silence, 5 minutes
20:37 luminosity of Report an error in the passage at 20:37
21:03 the real space, know where to be. Report an error in the passage at 21:03
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Talk by B. Alan Wallace. Original at Vajrayana Institute via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/retreatmindtraining. Licensed CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Transcript generated automatically and may contain errors; the audio is the authoritative version.
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