Meditation in Daily Life by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche at LTWA on 16th December 2016

welcome everyone and I'm very happy to be here at the library here Tibet library and so how many of you learn meditation before raise your hand okay how many of you new to meditation new okay so and during the talk I may ask you to raise your hand so you should raise your hand okay don't be shy and I think more most of you already had some meditation receive some meditation teaching before right so I think first we will do kind of light short guide meditation together so normally what we call awareness of the body so normally our mind and body not together our mind is up here and the body down here mine is not only up here it jumps past and future right not too much in the present past future past and future so now bring mine into the body and feel your body okay so please keep your spine straight and you can keep your hand join together and put on your lap don't worry about perfect posture just loosely join together and put on your lap so now please close your eyes and please feel your body legs feel the exists existence of your body and if there's any sensations within the body tingling pleasant sensation pain whatever sensation just be aware of it let go of the past let go of the future be here now with your body and relax your body don't try to relax too much no need to relax too much just relax now please be aware of top of your head and relax be aware of your forehead and relaxed muscles in your forehead entire face and relax nag shoulder relax your shoulder and be aware of any sensation within the shoulder chest back and stomach don't tie to your stomach allows your stoma and be aware of any sensation with the newest amount arms legs and relax entire your body from head to feet jaw relaxed if you cannot relax your body is okay allow that you cannot realize be aware of tightness tensions stress whatever you have be yourself you don't need to change don't block thought and emotion don't block don't stop let it be we are happy okay if you are not happy also okay we are not happy just know that you are not happy that's it if you want to cry you can cry want to laugh you can laugh you don't have to pretend to be anyone you don't have to act to be anybody [Music] when you hear the sound you might have sensation in the body be aware of it and relax okay now please open your eyes and continue relax if you cannot relax okay allow that you cannot relax that means you are relaxing so whatever happens whatever they are is okay okay finish now so how was it can you relax how many of you can relax and how many of you cannot relax good so do you know that you cannot relax that's good if you cannot relax just notice that you're not relaxing that is the meditation so what is the essence of meditation awareness the relaxation is the experience of meditation not the essence of meditation peace is experience of meditation clarity is experience of meditation non conceptual state is experience of meditation but not the essence of meditation so the essence of meditation is awareness so what you need is awareness not the peace if you look for if you look for peace calm clarity and they said I'm busy now the p-set are very will come tomorrow today I'm busy but don't care about peace come relaxation the essence of meditation is what awareness so if you be with awareness and the pset if you need help I can come you know please clarity non conceptual experience they will come but come and go and come and go so don't look for them no need so many people think meditation meaning think of nothing right I'm going to meditate and if you hear some noise from here and then outside construction going on this construction noise drive me crazy you know I cannot meditate because of this construction so maybe I have to go to the mountain somewhere so nothing is there then I can meditate I cannot meditate in the CD I cannot do meditate in the town because so much noise busy so I can able to meditate only when I go to the mountain so then maybe you try to make special time to go to a mountain ask your boss to have special off you know and then and save a lot of money to go to the mountain one day you have opportunity to go to mountain and first you will be very happy now I get what I want so then you move and the pack a big smile after one hour later there's a bird or the insulin or the frog record they're written below the trees and the small creeks though I know reverse it's full of nice oh you thought I thought Mountain is good but now you know so much nice so then after two three hours later you cannot meditate in the mountain then you thought okay now I know what to do I should make sound poo reum you know in the pens account we have the sample special studio for the record I've been there today we're quiet maybe you make like that you know soundproof room and spend a lot of money so then one day you're so happy ok finally I made it and they loved the draw prepare prepare the best cushion and you meditate inside inside the sample group with a big smile and after one hour later get itchy easy what happened normal I don't have a lot of this but today what happen and then slice lot of Slava's yeah you know what having me to my cushion something wrong I thought this is the best cushion but something wrong today then this the view is not nice maybe I add something or remove something so everywhere there's enemy enemy for the meditation so that is not the real meditation so normally we have this habit we are doing like this and with what I called monkey mind crazy monkey mind so the monkey mind normally love job it's very active Restless so in America there's the need the research about what they did is a college student many college student here right and ask them to do tweeting one sit there do nothing for 15 minutes another there's electric shock so give shop to themself shock themselves to choice and the mores of them choose shop they don't want to sit 15 minutes do nothing it's terrible you know so shock is more interesting if you show yourself more interesting than just sit there and do nothing so our mind is restless always so normally our mind look for problem how do look problem smaller problem first and then make big one so if there's no problem then monkey mind thought soon I'm become jobless so if like this go on become homeless so I have to make problem so then how to make problem settings a version and craving so aberration meaning many people think meditation I'm giving an example with merit meditation think of nothing Oh consultation so then the thought become more and more and then everything becomes sensitive and then there's a problem you will find problem everywhere so that's become a version and another problem is craving attachment so you follow to thought you follow to monkey mind the monkey mind says terrible you believe yes sir it's terrible so these two things is the problem in our life so as well as for the meditation also so when you meditate don't blow toilet emotion okay so as I told you we did short meditation together right so the essence of this the more important for this meditation is just watch be aware of your body and whatever comes it's just so much you just be aware just witness that's all so you can relax wonderful you cannot relax wonderful but you have to know you have to be aware that you cannot relax for example if you there's a river here right yeah dams Allah so when you see the river that means you're out of River right if you fall into the river carry by river can you see river you cannot see river so when you see pain pleasure emotion thought whatever that means you're out of out of it that means you are not in if you watch the space space comes automatically and their sense of non judgment comes automatically because awareness is the most important the object doesn't matter good that if the river become muddy okay sometime muddy river looks nice right gray color like Tibetan tea yeah Oh Jay Karim order t0 also okay why not I can look don't you ever or the river become night waterfall even better right many people look for waterfall and you know come from far away to look for waterfall but if you fall into the river then waterfall is not good you know the river no good right what you need is come clean and crystal clean and come rivers better so you can flow and see is a vegetable no good so therefore normally we are not watching we are not aware of thought and emotion we are not aware of monkey mind so we need peas mind is good we need good thought is good we need clarity is important but if you watch doesn't matter so SN or meditation is awareness and the clarity is aa experience blissful non conceptual state of mind it's variance okay good so I will introduce you awareness okay the essence of meditation is awareness so it's very important you have to know what is the Venice anyway how many of you know awareness dress your hand have sort of also okay yeah okay and how many of you don't know awareness raise your hand what most of you not reason why okay how many of you not sure this yen okay okay okay mmm so actually my introduction is finished understand introduction about awareness is finished got it how many of you got it okay maybe you receive this ticket before okay maybe I will tell you more so some of you said yes I not awareness right of course you know awareness that is awareness right and some of you say I don't know what is awareness that is the awareness you are aware that you don't have you don't know Venice right and some of you said maybe I know maybe I don't know there's also a Venice so in the docq space you all are very smart you know understand right away so a Venice meaning the the mind which is knows what are you doing what you are feeling what you are experiencing what you are thinking that's awareness but actually we all have awareness everybody has awareness whether you learn meditation or not you have awareness before you're learning meditation before you know about the awareness you have awareness so and actually we have awareness 24-hour even while sleeping even your become like this yes yes awareness to this awareness so now you might think there's some contradiction here right did you see the contradiction yes No how many of you see yeah can you can you tell you you feel there's some candid ocean but you don't know you cannot explain oh yeah space out there still awareness but ok there's awareness I will tell you later but first I want you to make a little bit doubt so when you have more doubt and later you got answer the answer stays with you very deep ok so what I told you is you all have awareness 24-hour right and then another thing is what I told you is awareness is essen of meditation so you many of you never learn meditation before right isn't it so you are not meditating for 24 hour for sure but you have awareness 24 hour so how come understand so you have to do this discussion for five minutes two people three people four people doesn't matter you can you can talk to the strangers no problem and you can tote in Tibetan or in your own language doesn't matter do you understand that discussion topic or should I tell you again more okay the discussion topic is SN of meditation is awareness right and you have awareness 24-hour right but you are not meditating 24-hour right you have to come here to learn meditation to study meditation so what understand okay five minutes now you start the discussion okay who knows that your nose knows that you not know knows that you're confused knows that you don't know is awareness practice of awareness I any answer yeah poof snow in the discussion because contradiction for meditation you need awareness we're ready for us you look at these two sentences great for election mm-hmm but then you come here so what is your answer there's the more questions so that's what I'm talking about there's the contradiction so what's the answer yeah we feel and we are emotions like previously you give an example of the waterfall and what we sign sometimes most of the time actually we jump into the river we don't see that's why we have problem I think because we like I think sadness and I kind of grew it you don't think tank and rather than being a spectator and seeing the river I gotta tell and you know there's awareness but you don't you don't some things the missing yeah have happened yeah your answer is half quite good half yeah okay the essence automatically awareness which is the essence of meditation is that a specific kind of awareness which is directed towards inwards and and the other answer is to be a consciousness which is a the essence of meditations this awareness must be one awareness which is a single pointedly focus on its object yeah I would say [Music] we are not actually conscious about this awareness we have 24 hours so meditation can make us more conscious about it and then maybe the answer is to drink okay so last answer okay like this sensor awareness what we have in meditation right if we have awareness and we can see what's happened it was happy with us then we no need to meditation but mostly we feel some emotion and you don't have a very nice you don't realize that just like in river what you see okay so I will give you answer actually you have to find this answer by yourself and today we don't have much time and we choose a shortcut some of you already got the answer but the answer is yes we all have awareness 24-hour but we are not recognized our own awareness so there's no issue whether you have or not we all have but the main issue is we have to recognize awareness so awareness is part of our basic goodness so then is part of our quality in it quality but we need to recognize so when you begin to meditate use your own eyes awareness and maintain that recognition is become meditation so therefore doesn't matter what kind of object it doesn't matter you can maintain awareness with breathing you can awareness with your body to maintain the recognition of awareness you can maintain a recognition awareness with a thought with emotion with pain with pleasure whatever comes it doesn't matter so what we call the met the how to meditate there's three things important so one is what we call don't get lost what is the meaning of get lost you forget awareness you become like this let's try to meditate or have any no so you lost you forget so what you are dreaming you don't know where you are you don't know what you are doing so that got lost so don't get lost second is don't meditate don't meditate and what is the meaning of don't meditate concentration don't think of anything maybe we will do one one simple exercise do you know Momo how many of you like Momo rescue him okay ah vegetarian Momo cheese no more order okay so now can you think Momo in your mind right now can you remember clear okay so now we're going to meditate for one minute special meditation which is not allowed a thing Momo okay so if you don't know Momo any food is okay your your favorite food whatever your favorite food whatever rice or um kimchi cake chocolate football whatever so please keep your spine straight and now please close your eyes and you can think of anything except mama no mama okay everything Momo one second you loss is meditated okay finish how is it full of mom or someone say full of Momo so that's two so when you say chanting and our mind think more the monkey mind so when you meditate don't do that many people think meditation is think of nothing concentration No then think more so no Momo many mama Papa she's no more funny removal ready Momo palek Momo and the like round Momo and half upset mom alright so this is a mohawk so therefore don't meditate so meditation completely natural head to be natural so number three is uncontrived and contrived meaning natural completely so just be aware you don't have to do anything right if there's taught great what if there's not great be be not odd so just watch okay so that's the men SN of the meditation so first we have to know what is the meditation so now I will teach you some different technique of meditation so in order to maintain that awareness we need some support so special for beginner we use breath as support for meditation sound a support for meditation or many different things so now I will teach you two choices okay you have to choose breath or sump which one sound raise your hand breath yes you have and I don't know those people who underground no no sorry ground floor okay so here most people they said I breath okay I will teach you simple breathing meditation so there are true steps about the breathing meditation first I will teach you how to breathe okay second breathing meditation so two steps so now first is how to breathe so how to breathe completely natural so some of you might have shallow breath let it be shallow breath some of you have deep breath deep breath is also came some of you breathe fast you know some of you very slow whatever your breath is okay and you need to count your breath this time this is not the meditation okay just you count and I will do one minute and within one minute ten times 15 times 20 times you just count how to count ready one two out three so some of you may be only 10 some of you may be 20 is yes so it depend on whatever your breathing style okay so now one minutes so please keep your spine straight close your eyes relax your body now please count your breath okay how many breath five raise your hand seven more than ten more than 15 more than twenty Wow more than 25 okay so that's great so now the second step is breathing meditation so you know how to breathe right so now if the breathing meditation so what is the breathing meditation already done understand what you understood that was breathing meditation yeah what you did just now is the breathing meditation I just told you this is not the meditation how to breathe so your mind is more or less if I told you this is a breathing meditation tactile the car comes you will not happy you know the sounds the car sounds construction sounds you may not be happy so normally we don't need to do that it just knows you're breathing that's all breathing in and while you are while your mind with your breath you may have some other thoughts or the sounds okay totally fine as long as if you not forget your breath so if you forget your breath and loss in the restaurant and eating vegetable Momo then you lost but if your mind still on the breath but Momo comes no problem comes SLA background image you know but still your minds are there or the construction noise or the pass your story or the future plan it's okay no problem don't block them so you try to stop them if you try to block them they become more but don't follow them back to the your breath again you cannot be aware of your breath very long time because if we don't have so much strength now to continue to be aware of breath few seconds we forget come back it forget camp it again so what we go short time any time okay so bread then maybe may look on metal card and then going around the shops and you forget you're here you forget that you're meditating Oh press okay so now we're going to practice this together again so now please keep your spine straight and please close your eyes and bring your mind into your body relax entire your body from head to feet and now please be aware of your breath now please open your eyes okay how is it can you do that it is easy right and did you see any thoughts let them come let them go as long as if you not forget your breath they can come they can go but if you forget loss in the hood right and you can practice this everywhere anytime so today talk title is meditation in everyday life in daily life everyday daily life so that means you have breath with you 24-hour right and you can be aware of your breath any times everywhere any times even while you are walking walking every meeting study join class but not very long shot and lost like a few seconds maybe hard breath even one breath while you're going to shop to do some shop at the Met look on or touch it or watching television so everywhere anytime one time I was in UK so I turn on the television there's advertisement about one cell phone company they said you can use this particular phone brand everywhere any times maybe in the mountain you know so I thought this is very good effort iseman for meditation so but I change a little bit you can meditate everywhere any times even in the city so they say in the mountain right since we're in the city so that's what we call in formal meditation informal meditation and at the same time you need one formal meditation everyday maybe if you are very new to meditation don't try to meditate one time too much the next day you cannot meditate so first maybe just five minutes try to meditate every day five minutes for you need to build up habit of meditation so in order to build one habit one habit into your life it will takes one month at least one month 20 to 30 days so you have to meditate every day five minutes for 30 days then after that is it become part of your habit more easy otherwise view all are lazy right the scientist said human brain is lazy the lazy chunk of tissue our brain is lazy and our heart is lazy also so sometimes we are so inspired meditation is great good for my health good for my life good for spiritual practice and meditation is really good right meditation accumulate virtue purify negativity and bad karma six parameter you know so generosity discipline patience all effort some of the meditations number five so the generosity discipline is more benefit than generosity so it's more more MORE last one is the parameter the wisdom about the emptiness so that number five is the meditation so is it great so you might inspire I wonder to meditate then maybe you've meditated one day one hour next day gosh I have the metadata one our home maybe not today tomorrow today I will go to eat Momo or today I want to you know serve my phone look you're falling tomorrow let's see I'm going to meditate today what do you use Facebook nowadays we have we chatted and the scientist said average person spent watching television for hours for day and nowadays spending your form more than four hours I think 11 hours right either that's not scientist 11 hour per hour for TV television yeah but so don't do one time too much if you watch television every day for hours you cut five minutes from there so you can watch television three hour and 55 minutes and five minutes is formal meditation only time for meditation sit on the cushion meditate so don't touch your phone don't touch your remote control or television whatever you know meditate there's a formal meditation it's very important so then you have to do this for 30 days then it's become habit you you all want to take shower every day right morning evening and you spend it in the bathroom how many minutes at least half hour right wash hair and then after that shaving or put color on your face or whatever so 30 minutes is just combined morning and evening maybe maybe one hour sometime right 45 minutes about so 45 minutes taking shower very quick and I went to the mountain you know some mountain people they don't want to take a shower and some of them maybe take shower one year one time maybe maybe some of them even not so then some in the mountain is high altitude there's not much smell sometimes they come down to mountain Nepal Kathmandu you know but mondo is the lower part of leper and the summer is quite hot and the people for a mountain they come down to Carmen Rupe and now they smell ten meters around you know my hometown also you know people view from my hometown they come to Napa Katmandu smell and I asked them please take a shower they say yes yes I keep them so and provide hot water and and they will take shower next day I told them take shower every day they said okay but they don't take they don't want to take shower again sometimes even pay them they don't want to take shower why because there's no habit right for us 45 minutes in the bathroom very easy why we have habit they don't have Abbot so meditation has to be part of our daily routine become habit then it become easy it is not become your habit you will struggle all this some days can some days cannot and then you might excuse I'm busy I'm sick today I have to answer my phone today I have to eat more or today someday even you fool yourself you know you try to look for excuse why I cannot meditate today because of their reason so therefore to practice meditation in daily life two things important one is formal meditation and you need to build up habit to make a daily routine at the beginning you have to meditate very short something which is you can do only 5 minute or something then you can extend another one is whenever you think of a meditation practice we are where we are breath so this time the meditation technique is about the breathing breathing meditation so you can practice everywhere anytime short time anytime so desktop about the meditation till you die and then another important is when you meditate at the beginning motivation is a very important you have to put meaning about your practice so normally whatever you do you have some meaning right how many student here in the library who to study here raise your hand yeah so why you come here to study you have some meaning right maybe you want to learn Dharma maybe you want to learn meditation you want to learn and interested Tibetan culture and philosophy and then hopping that might be benefit for my country or my friends who knows in the future someone there's something right so make it that motivation bigger bigger bigger so why you want to meditate I want to meditate to benefit from my friends my family if you are peace you can bring fees to others so if you meditate yourself if you transform yourself you are transforming the world helping the world by helping yourself is most important in the past we have a lot of disasters war why they want to change the world they want to change the other they don't want to change themselves right but everybody wanted to transform ourself change ourself then the world become a better place so think about big vision and I want to meditate to benefit even two people three people whatever so we all are part of ripples there's a lot of influence if you do something authentic its benefits and eventually to all beings all sentient beings right so therefore I want to meditate today so there's a motivation at the beginning it's very important and after finishing meditation - dedication but today I finish the meditation so I'm going to dedicate the virtue now whatever virtue or good karma whatever you accumulate by meditating meditation is really really virtue so thinking they're going to share to this to the world to your friends family special someone who having problem some who need to you pray you dedicate your meditation virtual benefit for them and then all beings in the end so may all beings recognize awareness and from there there develop wisdom and to in the end may all be achieve full enlightenment therefore you want to dedicate so begin by motivation ending by dedication then young the meditation become really precious ok so now we have Q&A question and answer so any horse this was us when we are practicing for in the station everybody that we going to tell this or sleepiness finish I eat chili so that the question is while doing meditation feel sleepy and want to sleep so what to do so there are a few few techniques one is you know don't close your eyes open your eyes while you're meditating and look your eyes upward like this little bit not too much radius mirror that and don't wear thick cloth and open your window let BRE those things even that cannot help some people you know want to sleep I mean I cannot control fall sleep without control right then you stand up so you can stand up if you keep your body straight you can meditate also even formal meditation you can do that while standing up I think you may not fall sleep while you're standing up you know you know even that does not walk and walk keep your spine straight relax your body you can walk and you can even do formal meditation these are the behave and another in your mind is you can watch that sleepiness so when you meditate you feel drowsy unclear feeling auxilary change your focus don't focus on your breath focus about that sleepiness the sensation continued so if you continue to be aware of sleepiness and fall into slip and slip become meditation so like this the awareness continue kind of sleep will come later away continue continue continue so slip will catch the awareness mind meditation mind so if you slip one hour the slip become you are meditating for one hour so what are the sign for that true sign one when you wake up your mind is already in the meditation second not be true together then slip transform into meditation and bad at the beginning your inner concentrate when you really fall asleep your mind go to the Momo so then still cannot become meditation next when two people have to take a decision there's also a conflict which happens and because of certain triggers you need time to think a lot if they are right we are right anger also arises then how to put medication right so the for the meditation true kind of meditation analytical and meditation and now what I teach is the what we call resting meditation so this meditation training is resting meditation you when you feel anger you feel the emotion comes with that true person cannot agree about the decision so you watch the sensation in the body so emotion has sensation so how many of you like Momo ok today I will give all of you very special moment ok you lie how you feel sensation in the body how or the sensation in your body joy come from heart I'm going to get special moment right actually I'm just kidding I will not give you Momo sorry so how you feel now disappointed right and the sensation the heart is closed tight so these are the sensation so whenever we have the emotion there's always sensation so bring mine into the sensation and there's some image there's some voice a Muslim sensation and then this emotion become support for meditation just as your breath so when you focus on your breath breath become support for your meditation now you can focus on the emotion not so easy I mean you lost again can be lost again okay which it looks like meditation is a thing where Westerners are more interested than us Tibetans how can you help us to make it more popular within our community it seems like a wonderful resource to help improve our lives yeah so meditation in Tibetan that's true design I think in the monastic community is quite famous and some they do meditation very deep but in the local culture sometimes not so famous so maybe we need to ask to the teacher teach more meditation to the local community I think is very important because sometimes there's no culture like that so local people just pray pray so not not asked to teach about the meditation so the question is about anxiety how to meditate with the anxiety so said now maybe for things we need so what I call watch try something different step back take a break so this is with anxiety not just anxiety with the depression panic a loss of Steel any emotion you can do something so first is watch watch is just like you're watching your breath you can watch emotion so when you watch emotion you need to watch the sensation so panic when I was young I have panicked pending attack when I was eight nine until 30 so what I do was sensation and what's the panic and sometime when you watch you cannot watch so strong especially if you have this panic depression develop with you for a long time you can now watch too long over one system then you need to try something different meaning don't focus on panic focus on your breath or other any other meditation training listen to sound whatever so you need to change this focus so they try something different or I think this not too much now okay number three step back meaning actually for the meditation as I told you before don't block thought and emotion and don't follow it right this is truly important but normally we try to block we try to fight with the panic so even you try to accept the panic you say hello penny welcome so if I say welcome you will leave right hello Vani I am watching you hey get out are you still there you know so that's the motivation sometimes what I call panic off panic so this panic or panic step behind the panic so don't watch panic mr. Beck look at that aversion or resisting whatever feeling watch that one so there's step back and sometime even you do that you cannot because you feel exhausted tire you cannot watch you cannot meditate then just take a break sleep read boo do some physical exercise eat Momo's maybe next I thought I was quite aware of myself my way to the Tibetan doctor the other day and the first thing he said is why so much anxiety oh I don't know that I'm so anxious so do you feel anxious then it's okay it's okay no problem maybe you don't might not have there's some different things may not be anxiety but different energy you know so the the question is she don't know she's having anxiety but dividend tells us that you have some what totosai anxiety right yeah so sometime energy is some wind go up so similarly anxiety it may not be if you don't feel it then don't worry no problem someone there behind ya I have it so when your routine gets disrupted I have a small child who sometimes does it wake up at the same time or for all of us who might be traveling this routine with all these changes a bit every day so the question is about the timing so how to keep up consistent meditations like there's child and some time traveling or can can disrupt your continuing meditation so normally you can if you're busy if you have child if you do something then don't try to meditate too long so something which is you can manage may be morning may be evening may not be at the same time so but the traveling if you fly for um 24 hours something like that then sometime may get exception it's okay otherwise if you promise too long then you cannot continue so therefore one of the problem is too long at the beginning not good so you have to make it something doable something you can do so therefore don't promise too much certificate okay the way it comes the numbers for five minutes continuously or we just count them Guinea and then just betting happen so when we do reading meditation should we count the number of breaths or just let it be so it depends on you which one you feel the best so if you feel continued coun like breathing in one in two you can come but without counting better chance for one on your breath you feel good you can do that one is watching what was coming thoughts coming yeah sounds coming when you follow the trolley so in that moment I just think which one is watching who's watching who's going with your clothes where the totes are coming and going so it seems like one person but at the same time ten person is in somewhere and where I am okay when meditate the question is when meditate and a thought comes and no what's the thought and who's watching thought and was any confused so well that was coming how they're going where they dissolve where they're now so that's the question so the answer is don't worry and that is the another level of meditation in the viv a sauna so analytical meditation then you have to us where thoughts come from rest of my mind what about the phenomena sub chain object so you have to analyze so but now this one is some of the meditation so don't worry where you don't know where talk come from and who is that as long as if you know the thought coming that's enough now so in the future then you can do that another practice we have for example feeling of heart and analytical mind in the pot party and sometimes we feel like dissonance disharmonic between mind and heart feeling and some books they explain like it's like different but it's better on tradition wide and inside point they have feeling and they don't do difference between them and how its harmonic this two way like by heart and by your mind so normally heart is the quite important in general but if there's conflicts between heart and mind how to work together so the best way to work together as follows the truth try to see the nature of reality so whatever comes fit and hard will accept your brain will accept but then sometime youth a true cannot go together so then let it go last question yeah in the rest many kinds of meditations are spread all around some of them they are like will relaxation meditation some are more creative meditation visualization office they are experiencing the West what what is exactly meditation they spread what is not problem so in the West many meditation light visualization or Venice so mindfulness different part different things of meditation so what is the Exile a meditation there's many meditation practices is fried hot night we they are not meditations just fantasy yeah so there's a lot of meditation taught but some of them are little bit of fantasy or new-age maybe you know so what is the meditation so meditation or the meditation categorized to Shimada and by vasana the Shahada is begin with awareness concentration so in the West sometime there's many misunderstood our meditation some is blocking thought in emotion concentrate or some is like New Age listening out P Oh Banares joy so so these meditations are is not related with these three things don't get lost don't meditate and contri so this meeting is very important as an old meditation but if you look for peace peace will not come easily right if you stop thought emotion they become more so these are them some misunderstands misunderstand about meditation and then there's some special one is some people magic and power connectivity a higher being you know these are you know not the real not the real organic meditation so some others awareness be vasana meaning to know the nature of reality so wisdom impermanence emptiness to see natural reality special okay so finish now thank you very much and thank you very much for all of you are coming here and very happy that many of you here to study here library and there are many great teachers here and special nearby his holiness you are the footstep of the his holiness so it's really great opportunity to be here and study here so really really appreciate all of you thank you 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Published: Mon Dec 19 2016