Energy Visualization Meditation

here we are live and in effect this thursday night welcome welcome welcome to everyone who is here and um michael is not broken so i'm not sure what you're talking about vagabond i am in effect and um what i'd like everyone to think about tonight is the fact that it's already december 17th 2020 we're almost done with 2020 and um you know there's this fad in the past few years of you know sort of like liking certain years and hating other years and saying how bad the year was and all that but you know uh in a way there's no such thing as a year it's just all one day that just keeps happening right days and weeks and months and years are just scales of human time and in fact it's all just one continuous thing [Music] and so notice how uh time is a construction that your mind is doing and in fact look into the black universe theory of time in which you know the universe is like a four-dimensional block in which everything past and future is all present at once right um and it's just our uh way of dealing with a four-dimensional block that turns it into us traveling along in three dimensions along the fourth dimensional timeline right so with that let us begin meditating now tonight um instead of talking about bodhichitta which is a buddhist concept and in fact a mahayana buddhist concept and you know we rouse bodhichitta and all that we're going to do kind of the same thing um but in a western psychological way so you know what i want you to do is just think of your most deep wisest most compassionate uh personality the sun personality the part of you that just feels like wise and compassionate uh the one that knows how to meditate and is responsible for like your best sets and i just want you to bring that sub personality forward like just think about it for a minute and then bring forward the confident wise compassionate meditator right so let go of the worrier and the doubter and the you know let's say distracted one or the one that wants to watch mandalorian or whatever they can come out later to play but for right now you're going to bring forward your most uh brilliant wise compassionate meditator personality very competent very clean very clear right we all have one of those and i want you to just bring it forward into like the executive so it's in charge right now and look and just sit with that for a moment feeling that uh sense of confidence and that sense of clarity and that sense of compassion so these are the three c's for tonight's meditation confidence clarity and compassion so bring those up and feel those very very very very clearly because that's the that's always how we start our meditation when you're not watching one of these videos if you're meditating on your own still begin every meditation first you get in your posture which you know i've described enough times that i'm not going to do it right now but you get in a very nice posture very upright very alert very relaxed so start out getting in the posture and then just bring up this sense of confidence this sense of clarity the sense of compassion right and bring it forward so it's in as we would say in the executive it's in the driver's seat of like who's doing the meditation and it might take a moment you might be in essentially a different mood and so you just move that mood aside and bring this other mood which again in in in a buddhist context we would call bodhichitta right but in this context we'll just say confidence clarity compassion that sense that you really really know how to meditate and you're excited to meditate and uh you have this sense that it's not only going to help you but it's going to help everyone you run into all day long which it is so now that you've got your posture correct and you've got yourself with the good the powerful wise deep meditator sub personality driving the the boat because you know in buddhism it's always a boat that we're using to cross the ocean of samsara um then we begin to meditate so let's go ahead and begin to do shamatha particularly shamatha with an object so remember if you haven't done this before with insurance with an object we are focusing on something and using that to become uh clearer using that to become more settled okay and you know traditionally in in a lot of these uh buddhist meditation worlds you would take something like a rock or a stick so we'll just take this pen and now i'm not going to take the pen apart and do the emptiness demonstration the rather unconvincing emptiness demonstration instead i will say that a really typical thing to do is take a simple object and you set it in front of you i try to do this so you can see it in the screen and then with your eyes open you just stare at it and you use that to get your attention stable just literally just looking at an external object okay and then if you want to once you've started it for a while you close your eyes and then see it in your mind's eye as clearly as you can this is the like the after image in your mind and then when that fades you get distracted you come back and just look at the object again and you just do that continuously okay that's a really really really easy way to get concentrated you can use a something simple a rock a stick you know um a little crystal or something if you like that kind of thing but something simple you're just you're not trying to think about it or get any symbolic value out of it you're just essentially borrowing its stability and you're borrowing its stability to give your mind stability okay now of course we all know there's impermanence we know there's emptiness so things aren't really stable on a deep level you don't want to miss you don't want a mistake make the mistake of thinking that the object is truly stable but conventionally speaking it's stable enough so that your mind is in essence we to talk about it kind of metaphorically borrowing its stability so you're just gazing upon this object and you keep bringing your mind back to it and that's gonna help you get nice and focused right because the object is just sitting there and so if we're conventionally seeing its stability that stability is bringing our mind stability so we're gazing upon it and we're allowing our mind to come back to it over and over we're not thinking anything about it we're not you know trying to figure it out or see anything cool about it that's not the idea we're just using it as like a almost like a post that we're tying the the very skittish horse of our mind to and over time the skittish horse of the mind tied to the post will just relax okay so just gaze upon an object if you want to and borrow its stability or you can as usual feel your breath moving in and out breath going all the way in breath going all the way out whatever object you want to use that's why you know i'm always calling these shamatha with an object because we're using an object but you could also call it shamatha with support why because this is your support it's supporting the stability of the mind right again remembering that of course things aren't really stable on a deep level they're impermanent and empty but in a conventional way probably this pen isn't going anywhere anytime soon although i lose pounds really really all the time so maybe it's less stable than i think but hopefully at least for the next few minutes it will stay here and i can just gaze upon it and use that as something to bring my mind back to over and over now i'm not drilling a hole in it with a laser beam of my eyes i'm just gazing about it just enough that it gives me something to bring my awareness back to over and over and stabilize okay so let's just do that for a minute i'm going to use the breath but you can use an object if you wish you don't want it to be too close probably like arm's length away doesn't really matter but not across the room or something okay let's just do this for a few minutes okay now continuing to use your focus object to borrow a little stability and allow your mind to settle [Music] in the background i'll guide you through some relaxation like i always do so you're just gonna let all the tension drain out of your body all the tension everywhere in the body draining away draining out of the body into the earth leaving the body refreshed and alert and awake and as you're focusing now allow your forehead and your eyebrows to relax and all the little muscles around your eyes to release and relax and let go [Music] even your eyes themselves just relax and your cheeks and your lips and your mouth let go and your jaw opens enough that your upper and lower teeth are not touching the tongue is just floating in the mouth like a happy blue whale off the coast of catalina island my whole face and head is just feeling buoyant and light and relaxed and you notice that your level of wakefulness goes up just a little bit the level of clarity and wakefulness increases and then your throat relaxes and lets go your neck muscles release all tension all tension draining away and relaxing and letting go and your shoulders release and open [Music] and rotate down and back so that your chest is just slightly slightly slightly more open but you can tell it's just feeling even better even more open even more released even more at rest and that stream of relaxation allows your arms to just turn to jelly and your hands turn to jelly so that they're completely relaxed there's no tension of any kind in the arms and hands all remaining tension drains away drains away and as your arms and hands and shoulders and neck and face feel so nice so really so relaxed just that kind of almost like a baby level of relaxation that you've always wanted with no tension no tightness but rather a sense of total release total opening you just kind of drop into a deeper deeper sense of opening of the mind calming way down while the awareness grows even brighter and clearer the clarity becomes clearer and you feel a sense of stillness and a sense of peace pervading the body that is very very nice and then any tension in the chest and upper back drains away any tension in the diaphragm region and the belly and the kidney region and back all drains away and even tension in the pelvic region drains away any discomfort any sense of not feeling well and anywhere in the torso just drains away drains away letting go of that completely letting go [Music] and now you notice that there's this sense of opening and of releasing and of relaxing pervading the torso and the belly and the pelvic region [Music] with each breath growing deeper and deeper with each breath becoming clearer and brighter so that it's not only deeply relaxed it's also clear and bright and crisp and very awake and now just notice that with each breath you're relaxing more relaxing more relaxing more and then you can feel it coming there's a wave of relaxation that just allows you to now just kind of sink into a much much much deeper sense of stillness and peace and bright clear radiant wakefulness that feels so good and you notice that the last bits of tension are draining out of your legs and feet last bits of discomfort draining away draining away and then your legs and feet just turn to jelly just completely letting go of any tension and they too come into an incredibly deep open relaxed place so that the whole body is suffused with letting go the whole body is suffused with openness and lightness the whole body feels clear and bright crisp clean open sharp very relaxed each in-breath you feel yourself getting more awake brighter clearer with each out breath you feel yourself letting go and becoming more and more relaxed until eventually you just notice yourself coming to a place where you just drop drop very very deep into complete stillness and the stillness is not constrained or tight it is completely loose completely relaxed completely open utterly at peace utterly calm and clear and bright and from here we let go of the support we let go of feeling the breath we let go of looking at an object and instead we now bring this level of relaxation this almost baby newborn baby who's asleep level of relaxation to the mind even though the mind is very clear very bright very awake it's grabbing on to nothing it's just aware and awake but if you notice the mind holding on to something with attention just relax let go of that tension let the mind release and relax and open so that the mind is not actually focusing on anything you're not paying attention to anything you remain completely uninvolved you allow the awareness to simply be aware and notice that awareness is aware with no effort of any kind it's already aware without any effort don't have to make any effort to breathe don't have to make any effort to pay attention just be aware just be ah each time the mind habitually grabs on to something trying to pay attention just relax don't get involved with that thing we're not paying attention to anything if the mind keeps grabbing onto something don't fight it don't get even more tense by trying to pull it off just relax just open if this is too hard if your mind keeps getting involved with content go back to doing show me with an object go back to looking at your pen or observing the breath or whatever don't spend a whole bunch of time distracted but if you are able to just keep the mind relaxed and open utterly uninvolved with anything but simply resting in its own awareness that's what we want here this is shamatha without an object this is relaxed awareness with no object of attention at all uh and if you start getting sleepy make sure you sit up straight maybe open your eyes but don't let yourself just sit there sleeping that's not good or getting dull remember that we stay very awake very alert during this meditation it's both tremendously relaxing but also very very awakening so we want both of those features present we're not just kind of drifting into a mushy haze of dullness if you are awake wake up just letting the mind relax to this tremendously deep level so that the body relaxation and the mind relaxation become [Music] just one very profound letting go tremendously deep letting go the body is not tight the mind is not tight the system is open and relaxed awake and alert clear and bright good now being a little more active again [Music] i want you to just allow the sense of awareness to move to expand outside the body and notice you don't really have to do anything just engage slightly and just allow the sense of awareness to expand outside of the body and feel what we might call the energy of the body or the energy body within awareness so awareness is outside the body and feel the energy body within awareness and notice that you're not inside the body somehow noticing this awareness outside the body and then feeling the energy you you know you're the awareness right so the awareness is larger than the body outside the body and everywhere inside awareness you can feel [Music] wakefulness brightness clarity but also you can feel the sense of the energy of the body inside awareness inside you the body is just some sensations arising within awareness and the sense of the energy of the body or the energy body speedier sensations inside awareness or faster or more vibratory sensations inside awareness now i want you to imagine that on the in-breath the energy from all around is being drawn into the body in a pleasant and helpful way and then in the out breath it is going into the central channel [Music] and up inside the spine the central channels inside the spine like a straw so on the in-breath energy comes into the body from all around and then in the out breath it's goes up the central channel so from bottom to top rushes in from all around on the in-breath and then kind of goes up this tube in the spine all the way to the top of the head on the out breath just visualizing this you'll notice it feels really good and on that in-breath again this is just a visualization the energy can go in everywhere in the body like every pore in the body it doesn't have to go in your nose this is energy this is a visualization so we can make it do whatever we want so it's just come permeating through every part of the body in and in and in and then it gathers and goes up the central channel as it goes up the central channel it brings not only complete stillness to the mind but also tremendous clarity tremendous wakefulness to the mind and entire being remember we're not doing this forcefully or in any intense way we're just letting it be peaceful letting it be gentle but feeling that very pleasant energy going up the central channel notice as you're doing this that the sense of energy all around the body is getting brighter and brighter and clearer more vibratory more subtle the mind becoming fantastically still fantastically clear [Music] absolutely pleasant nothing intense just continuing to notice breathing in energy from all around and then the energy moves up the central channel that's it now as it comes out the top of the central channel notice or visualize that it's like kind of a fan [Music] a rainbow colored fan a cow to pavonus peacock's tail this like rainbow [Music] could be small it doesn't have to be large but just a little rainbow fan there in the mind incredibly beautiful each color like it's jewels or candy bright very very lucid and [Music] liquid light rainbow color there continuing to breathe in energy from all around and then on the out breath sanding it up the central channel very very gently very sweetly softly and then noticing how it becomes this beautiful rainbow [Music] in the mind shimmering glistening radiating rainbow light in the mind now the bottom of the central channel moves upward into the heart and the rainbow light top of the central channel moves down into the heart so that all the energy now is gathering at the heart so when you breathe in energy comes from all directions directly into the heart increasing its clarity and its brightness and on the out breath the energy radiates back out of the heart clearer and brighter and more peaceful and loving and relaxed so it's as if it's just a giant sphere or jewel heart breathing in energy and breathing out energy in all directions simultaneously and now the rainbow light is making the sphere in the heart so it's like a circle or a sphere of rainbow light in the heart beautiful lucid clear gem-like luminous colors and now adjust all the rainbow colors mix and it becomes a very very pleasant very lovely white light radiating in the heart radiating in all directions self-luminous utterly clear and bright now the size of the light is growing smaller and smaller but the light is getting brighter and brighter so it's becoming a little dot of tremendously super bright light in the heart and then it's simply dissolves and is utterly gone and the mind dissolves and the body dissolves and the world dissolves and then we come back to just awareness of awareness doing nothing simply allowing consciousness to rest as consciousness without getting involved in anything at [Music] all no activity of any kind just awake just relaxed and aware utterly at ease utterly still tremendously awake utterly relaxed not involved with anything utterly awake like a buddha what does the word buddha mean the word buddha means awake utterly relaxed and open clear clean bright wakefulness tremendously still you [Applause] hey good let's let go of that now as we end the meditation allow yourself to slowly slowly slowly move and stretch breathe deep wiggle your fingers and toes maybe yawn do a big up stretch shake our shoulders maybe have a drink of water as we end the meditation and uh shift gears into the dharma talk slash q a section so i'm going to be uh talking here for a little while and during this time of course if you have questions or comments feel free to put those in the chat window and i will eventually get to those at some point here um let's quickly go over the thing i was saying about you know concentrate on concentrating on a visual object when we're doing challenges with an object so again you know you've got something here and you you put it about one arm's length away it's got to be big enough to see you can use something really simple like a quarter or you know a pen or um like i said a barack or a stick whatever's handy shouldn't really have visible words shouldn't be something super you know suggestive of something it's just there because it's physical and tends to stay pretty still and the idea is like i said that we are in essence borrowing its stability we are using it as a support for our mind and um it's really easy you just sit and gaze at it but if you want to do the harder version you gaze at it for a while and then close your eyes and continue to see it continue to see it continue to see it you can even see the after image continue to see it continue to see it and then eventually it keeps going but eventually it will fade and then you come back and stare at it again so you can either do the all the time external version where you're just gazing upon it or you can do the harder version where you gaze upon it and then close your eyes and see it in your mind until it vanishes and then you do it again now some of you might be going wait a minute michael that sounds a lot like the fire casino practice i've heard about before and guess what it is it's just not using fire we can use any object to do casino practice so it's not casino practice when we're just looking at it but when i mean i guess it is actually that's the casino but then eventually you can take it into your mind or look at the after image and just um see that and go back and forth and back and forth and that's gonna you can do that for a long time it will make your concentration tremendously intense tremendously bright okay you can use any old object stare at this you know it doesn't have to be um a fire or water or something it doesn't have to be elemental like that it can just be any old thing and if you've never practiced like that before for some people it is tremendously easier than trying to meditate on your breath not for everybody but for some people so find out if you're one of those people because if you ever have trouble concentrating or you ever feel like your mind is bouncing around try this you know gaze at an object and if that's working then gaze at it and then close your eyes and gaze at the after image and just keep doing that just keep doing that if you get good at that and you want to try something even harder something we've done on these meditate in these meditations before then you leave out the physical object altogether and you just visualize something now we eventually did that you know when we were for example having a a light in the heart or a rainbow in the mind or whatever that's just pure visualization right and so to keep a visualization like that in mind treme takes tremendous stability and notice at that point you're not borrowing the stability the pseudo stability from an external object right you're using the own stability the uh already existing stability of your mind to kind of like keep that in place now if notice we did that after the show meter with an object because that still does very very much and then you bring it back together to do this like energy visualization and it should be really really powerful you want to be careful with those don't try to build up the energy uh unless you're working directly with a teacher instead just feel the energy let it be calm and and beautiful not like super intense um because that can get kind of uh crazy so yeah you let it but seeing those visualizations is going to make the mind even more stable even more clear if you do it over months and weeks and weeks and months of practice weeks and months of practice just visualizing an object in your mind visualizing an object in your mind it will start to purify consciousness more and more deeply and you can even do things like go back and forth between shaman to without an object just open empty awareness of awareness and then come into doing a visualization gets really really really clear and then always make sure you just allow the visualization to break up into empty nothingness and then if you want you can be done or you could come back to show it without an object just open awareness the idea is as we're a lot working with the mind like this allowing the mind to get concentrated to be totally unconcentrated in this other way we're kind of purifying awareness or purifying the draws out of awareness making things you'll see you know theoretically we can't make awareness any more aware it's already the awareness of a fully awake buddha it doesn't get more aware but we can make it clearer because just like the sun can be obscured by clouds and we could gradually kind of like use wind or something to blow the clouds away the sun would get clearer as we're doing these kind of exercises work removing the impurities from the mind and the natural clarity will come forward the clarity will come forward and be ultra clear and that's why visualizing that stuff is helpful it's not only allowing you to clarify but it's showing you the clarity right it becomes more and more powerful and beautiful we just go back and forth and back and forth in various ways so we've got a number of questions coming in so i'm going to switch to a q a for which i need my reading glasses so let's see what's going on here [Music] uh yeah your leg fell asleep lots of stuff might fall asleep in your body that's okay don't move it just let it be uh still until the meditation is done then you move it and give yourself two minutes three minutes five minutes for the blood to not the blood the um for the pressure on the nerve to relieve and eventually you'll be able to feel your leg again and then you can move um what's the best way for dealing with physical pain that comes up during meditation the usual thing we do is with physical pain as we do vipassana with it right we connect with the physical pain directly not denying it not trying to control it not trying to make it go away not trying to change it but simply being with it and we notice its impermanence and its emptiness uh seeing it moving and changing seeing it dissolving seeing it coming back together and just the fact that it is completely insubstantial so that this thing that seemed to be this sharp or solid or tight or very clear object is demonstrated to be a dissolving empty open non-object right and at that point it becomes very interesting because even though the pain is still there usually it might fade and just disappear but if it doesn't and it's still there it will be there but it will also be empty it will also be in a way nebulous or ephemeral that's really interesting so give that a shot pain makes a very easy object to focus upon because it is it kind of grabs your attention but we don't want to be reifying it we don't want to focus in such a way that it makes me over here making a sharp object of pain over there but instead almost allow awareness to become fused with the pain and inside the pain and begin to notice how the pain is more like a moving energy that keeps arising and vanishing and turning into waves and so on that's how you want to work with that it will become very powerful and also bring a lot of relief ramen arouse is perhaps off topic but a curiosity when you're guiding through the meditation are you experiencing it the same as you're intending us to well no because i am guiding the meditation and that takes me doing a lot more than i'm expecting you to do right i have to be kind of um leading a process and so i'm also tuning into what's going on so i'm partially doing the meditation and partially guiding the meditation so it's a little different um unmanifest says thank you fun and effective meditations thank you i always like feedback shaman to without objects becomes every moment of life yeah i mean we're all we but what we will notice is that awareness awareness is happening behind or within or around or as part of every moment of life for sure right that's just the awareness that's always there so it can't actually go anywhere it can't actually change and as you get into it very very very deeply you will start to notice that sometimes you're even aware while you're dreaming and then much more rarely you'll start to notice that sometimes there's even some part of you that's aware while you're all the way asleep without dreams and when i used to hear teachers say that i thought that they were either talking about something tremendously esoteric and like super weird that required some kind of super special training or that was enigmatic to the point of they're just trying to sound like mystery men or something great movie by the way mystery man um but then when it started happening to me i realized that it's not mysterious in the way i mean it's not like intentionally mysterious and it's also not like super special technique or something in a way it's the opposite it's just demonstrating that awareness is always aware awareness is wear while you're dreaming awareness is aware while you're dead asleep with no dreams it's always aware and it's just how much of that draws how much of the cloudy muck is in the way usually when we're asleep there's more of it right it's a lot a lot more um covered up but as you do these meditations you'll notice that you accidentally lose a dream more and then for me it was it started happening first in naps where i would take a nap and then while i was still dead asleep because in a nap i would go dead asleep i would notice that sometimes there was something some wakefulness there not an observer or anything not a sense of me but just awakeness and and then that would start happening in dreams as well so the awareness is always there not in it like you and like you said the unmanifest not just in every moment of daily life but in every moment of life literally 24 hours a day so uh versace 1 or asajji one is saying i enjoy this practice i'm feeling a bit of peer pressure to follow more of a structured path like the mind illuminated what are the pros and cons of watching these uh youtube meditations daily versus a tmi like practice well they're not any different i mean if you think this is different than tmi then let me say that notice what chuladasa is really teaching you in tmi tmi the mind illuminated is a book about the practice of what shamatha with an object right each of those stages that you walk through in the mind illuminated are stages of shamatha with an object now in there he's saying as an example of meditating on the note breath at the nose that's your shamath object but if you look closely at the beginning of the book he says you can actually do the whole book on any object it does not have to be the breadth of the nose you can use any object so in other words that part of the book is not different than the thing i'm teaching here every week he's just showing you how in a really fine detail how it progresses how the concentration doing show with an object gets better he's showing you [Music] uh the stages of that so in other words these are exactly the same thing until we get to shaman to without an object and that's what's yeah he actually does show you how to do that in tmi um if i'm remembering it's page three um geez 365 something like that 355 in the book he describes shaman without an object is to say it's the same thing okay um and then after that in these meditations i lead you into all kinds of other stuff like the pashana and non-dual stuff right but this is not any less structured than tmi in fact reading the tmi helps you understand what we're doing here you just have to remember that i'm allowing you to use any object as your focus object and in tmi they're just using as an example over and over the mind focusing on the breath of the nose right so it's the same thing so enjoy that mica when you brought us to have the awareness outside the body but then encourages us to feel inside that my awareness was confused in an interesting way yeah no that's why i did that because we've always got this sense that you know this imaginary sense that the awareness is in our head and it's not awareness is aware it's not stuck in your head so i just did that little trick to mess with that and watch out i might do that kind of thing all the time david where all that arises and passes is meant to disappear no well that's what passes means you know arises means it comes from nowhere passes means it goes to nowhere it disappears okay maybe that's not what you're asking but that's that's what your question actually asks so that's what i'm saying i'm not sure which database we're talking about here um in any case this is something that um i hear about a lot is oh are we going to do non-duo practices or are we going to do vipassana practices and if we're going to do vipassana practices people talk about tmi and it's funny because tmi comes from like a split lineage where the way it was you know chulados teacher did it there's like a part of it is tarabad of vapasana and part of it is this other thing that's like mahayana and the mahayana vajrayana part is that nine or ten part path the elephant and the monkey and the monk right those cool drawings describing the path of meditation in shot with the practice of shamatha with an object and so expand your minds here notice that i'm always starting this geometry without an object and if you want to read tmi and notice how you're doing that so i guess what i'm trying to say is tmi is not different than these things that lead to non-dual practices so um you can make that mix really well if you want another book that will help you understand what we're doing here you would get b alan wallace's book called the attention revolution and in the attention revolution he goes through this sequence of shaman with an addiction without an object and he he kind of makes it sound impossible it makes it sound really really hard like you probably have to meditate for a thousand years you know unbroken glass at the top of a mountain in a cave or something and i would say that my experience with many people is it's quite a bit easier than that so if you read that book it will give you a good understanding of this sequence but you want to take with a grain of salt how hard he's making it sound and um there's so much more to say about all this but i'll leave it there for tonight okay then we're going to switch gears as usual and i'll just say we'll keep it short tonight and say hey what hey that's all i'm gonna say hey um well actually i have more to say if you feel like watching these videos and learning from them do so do it for free and feel free to ask questions in the comments section or give me feedback about how's it going uh hey katie and if you feel like donating to san francisco dharma collective and donating to me through san francisco dharma collective to help uh make these available to people then do that and katie just put a nice um where she's going to put a nice there it is link in the chat window where you can donate um and remember that this is the end of the year maybe you need a charitable donation for your tax write-offs san francisco dharma collective is a non-profit organization so donate to them uh as much as you feel like otherwise don't you know come and hang out and learn and meditate and enjoy and like i've been saying for the past couple weeks you don't just have to do this once a week you there's so many back meditations here use them every day of the week to guide your practice and um remember that uh we are using a system here you know i'm being very loose about it in a way but i'm actually coming from this path of shamatha with an object and shamatha without an object and then usually some kind of non-dual vapor right so we're going through a practice that's it for tonight folks uh i see people saying thank you in the chat window thank you i'm so happy you show up i'm so happy you meditate so happy you get some getting something out of these presentations and um i invite you to come back i don't think we'll be here now that i just invited you back i don't think we'll be here for a while because of christmas so yeah you know we're gonna miss a couple weeks here i think because the next one is christmas eve and the one after that is new year's eve so we here we are we've been practicing for a year together i mean years and years but now for the year of 2020 together and so um whoops no glasses for the next two weeks right so um if you're celebrating christmas if you're celebrating new year's if you're celebrating any other holidays for the next couple weeks have a super happy holiday stay home and be safe and be healthy don't take any chances with your precious health so that we can spend many many many years meditating together i would really like to do that with you all so stay stay stay so happy and healthy this holiday season and have a great time [Music] and i'm just wishing you all tremendously tremendously happy holidays and a beautiful new year and i'll miss you for the next two weeks so much and then guess what uh what will be the next time what will be the next time there's it looks like maybe thursday the 7th january 7th 2021 that's when we'll get back together yeah the seventh so i'll see you then everybody have a great one okay and feel free to email or write something in the comments please uh keep meditating okay i'll see you on the seventh bye

Channel: Michael Taft

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Keywords: meditation, mindfulness, vipassana, relaxation, buddhism, dharma, nondual, mahayana, vajrayana, zen, dzogchen

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Length: 88min 22sec (5302 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 18 2020