Know, Learn And Attain Sama, First Treasure Of Mind

Clarity and conviction - I do not understand it; let me understand it. Practice - I do not experience it; let me practice it. Change in life- I do not change; let me share experience and find out how to correct if there is a problem.

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Today's topic is Dhamma,

The second treasure.

Dhamma literally means natural withdrawal of senses.

But if we do not understand it clearly,

That Dhamma becomes a kind of suppression,

Repression,

Reaction,

And that is not good in the life of a seeker.

So what we have done,

When we use the mind,

What happens?

It is always impulsive,

Instinctive,

Habitual.

It is seeking a comfort zone.

And then what happens?

The life moves to prayers.

What I like,

What is pleasant to me.

When we use the mind,

Or you say that when the mind is working on us,

It makes us over busy,

Over active,

Or lazy.

You know,

We will understand and link it with the rajo and tamo guna later.

You know,

Simply listening,

You know,

We have three gunas.

It doesn't work that way.

So when we use the intellect,

It comes forward,

Takes over the mind,

And then we start living in Shreyas.

Now I think you are familiar with these words,

Shreyas,

What is right and good.

And that is a knowledge.

We all have an intellect,

I feel,

I suppose.

So if we use that intellect,

That shines with the knowledge first,

And that knowledge is testified by viveka,

The discernment and dispersion.

Our topic,

Main topic is to how to become a seeker.

And the seeker always succeeds.

Now have you seen the fox and the birds make a lot of noise.

But when a lion roars,

Everyone becomes calm.

They run away.

A seeker is a lion who roars,

How he roars,

That is very important.

Always keep that knowledge in the mind.

So when people say they are number one,

The seeker says,

I am one whole reality.

We don't run in the race to become number one.

We are already one inside.

Are you getting it?

I am one whole reality,

I am the real self.

That knowledge instantly shines.

Now see the opposite.

You become number one,

Someone take over your place.

So you are always scared.

And when I am one reality,

One whole reality.

Those who know the computers,

You know,

The hard drive needs defragmentation periodically.

I learned it from my son that you have to defragment your hard drive periodically.

What it means?

Defragmentation so that you have an empty space.

When the hard drive becomes unorganized,

When it becomes unorganized,

When the mind is working on us.

So defragmentation is required.

That is what we are becoming a seeker.

We need a defragmentation of the mind to have an empty space within to realize that we are essentially one reality.

This knowledge should never be taken over by the impulsive nature of the mind.

And once that happens,

You wake up in the morning.

Why should I promise?

The Eastern wisdom,

Our master promises that you are settled in calmness.

Thus that seeker never feels that he is divided between the stress and the silence,

Between the suffering and the solace.

This is what is discernment and dispassion.

Self-enquiry.

Do you remember self-enquiry with discernment?

Simple inquiry?

Science is doing a simple inquiry.

They don't know anything about an object.

When they discover,

They don't have any confusion.

We have a lot of confusion that who am I?

Am I their body?

Am I their mind?

Am I their intellect?

Am I their ego or something else?

So that to remove that confusion,

We need self-enquiry with discernment.

Another point that needs to be thought of when you start thinking.

When we say the real self is unknown,

It does not mean that it will never be known.

What it means?

It is unknown means it is yet to be known because we do not know.

It can be known.

Now when you say unknown,

You know when we use the word unknown.

Okay,

When it cannot be known,

Then why should I make an effort?

Then you cannot become a seeker.

Another point that we have understood,

The knowledge in the intellect,

Behavior in the mind follows by six treasures.

So when you follow discernment,

Knowledge shines in the intellect.

It breaks the nots of likes and dislikes.

It breaks the not of pain and pleasure.

It breaks the not of the blame,

Complain and reaction.

So that leads to dispassion.

That is what we have understood.

So the knowledge and the behavior,

We start bridging the gap between the two.

When you bridge the gap,

There is still misalignment left and that misalignment is taken care by the six treasures.

So that is what we are learning.

Six treasures of the mind,

Now understand another point.

Six treasures of the mind and mind by default.

There are two ways to understand the mind by default in modern life.

What is that mind by default?

Blame,

Complain,

Reaction to become number one,

Creating just anger,

Hesitation,

Overactive,

Over busyness,

Etc.

That is one way to understand mind by default in the modern life.

When we understand mind by default in Eastern wisdom,

I'm just giving an example.

That natural state of the mind is 90% made up of sato guna,

7% made up of raju guna and 3% made up of tamo guna.

So now how to understand that?

So when we say that mind by default in Eastern wisdom is made up of sato guna,

It means 90% mind by default is seeking knowledge and happiness.

So when the knowledge seeking happiness,

Your mind withdraws with it.

It is natural according to the Eastern wisdom,

But it is unnatural according to our modern mind because we seem to be more intelligent than our masters.

Now see that when the raju and tamo guna,

Raju guna means likes,

Dislikes,

Activity,

Tamo guna means opposing the right knowledge.

Now that is what is now 90% in the mind.

And that is the cause of all our suffering in our life,

Anxiety,

Duality,

Conflict,

Etc.

It's our long list.

So there is a misalignment.

So,

Sama is the first treasure that we have covered last week.

Sama means peace in our calm,

Equanimity,

Mastery over the mind.

And what is this mastery over the mind?

Simply the mastery over the ways the mind is thinking,

Mind is expressing.

So sama filters out likes and dislikes.

Sama filters out blame,

Complain and reaction.

So you have that confusion is gone now.

What is that confusion?

You are responsible for my stress,

That confusion is gone.

So what happens to the mind?

That mind starts,

I'm responsible for my confusion.

Let me examine,

Take over,

Relax.

That is why the sama is the first treasure.

Sama is the first treasure.

So just think of it,

Inner calm,

Equanimity,

Mastery over the mind simply means the way I am thinking.

If I'm thinking in line with the knowledge,

What is right and good,

Where is the problem?

Where is the problem?

I studied one research paper long back,

I think 15 years ago.

It was published in Japanese journal.

They said that we are always in hurry,

We are always busy.

And then they studied those people who do the things with the relaxation and calmness.

That is what the sama is.

They are able to do complete their work much faster than those people who say,

I'm in a no,

No,

No,

I have to rush and I have to do all these things.

Long back,

I don't remember the nature of that paper where it was published in Japanese journal.

Now come the dhamma.

Dhamma is changing the perception by senses lovingly,

If I define that.

Dhamma is a practice where you change the perception of senses lovingly,

Not by force.

Many people translate dhamma as sensory control.

You cannot control the sense organs.

How?

Say for one example,

The mind says,

I hate you,

Anyone.

Example,

Now I close my eyes,

Can the hatred go away?

Hatred is still there.

Mind creates that image of hatred even if I don't see you through the eyes.

Very important to understand.

This is not a sensory control.

How can we control eyes when open and perceive what is in front of my eyes?

My eyes are open,

I see everyone.

Can you control your eyes seeing me when your eyes are open?

No,

By default I see.

So first thing to know,

So go a little deeper.

We always see,

Look into our mirror.

So that mirror is one-sided.

The opposite side is opaque,

That's why I'm able to see.

Same way,

These sense organs are one-sided windows.

They do not open inside,

They always open outside.

So the mind is working behind the senses when we perceive anything,

Recognized by the mind,

How it is recognized by the mind,

By a thought.

I see you and then what the mind says,

You are great,

You are lara.

But without the sense organ I do not recognize,

But everything is processed by the mind.

First thing,

Sense organs open only to the world to gain knowledge.

That is why sense is,

That is what we say perception.

Five sense organs,

Five objects of perception.

I'm not going there.

Now ask your eyes,

Do you like someone or dislike someone?

These sense organs are neutral.

Who makes it crazy?

Mind.

The mind gives the interpretation.

Do you see that?

I don't want to see his face.

Why?

Are you special?

It is the mind that is giving the interpretation.

So sense organs first thing are one-sided windows.

They are used for as an instrument of knowledge,

But it is the mind that gives the interpretation.

So the mind and the sense organ,

Their relationship needs to be understood and so that we can have a Dhamma.

Sense organs do not know likes and dislikes,

Pain and pleasure,

Profit and loss,

Divorce and marriage.

They do not know.

It is when the mind gives its interpretation based on its own likes and dislikes,

Then we color our sense organ and this coloring is craziness.

Coloring is blame.

This coloring is reaction.

This coloring is over-bizziness.

This coloring causes the pain and the suffering in our life.

So this coloring,

One way to say this is misalignment between the knowledge and the behavior.

And that misalignment between the knowledge and the behavior is removed by Dhamma.

Did you get it?

Did you understand it?

Because we have always been working as a seeker,

We have been working on the mind by discernment and dispassion and Dhamma,

Now comes the Dhamma.

Even if the mind is relaxed now and the mind hates someone who appears in front of you,

So there is a relationship between the sense organ and the mind.

That is why the Dhamma is required.

How to do that?

What to do that?

Ask yourself,

Should I close my eyes if someone comes home I hate or love?

It is not possible because it is the content of the mind.

Do you see the misalignment?

Sense organ perceives the objects of the world by default.

Mind gives the interpretation.

So what is that misalignment between the knowledge and the behavior?

Removed by Dhamma.

Question comes,

How to apply this discernment and dispassion?

So once we have applied,

We realize that still I have those moments of reaction,

Blame and complain,

How to get out of it.

So Dhamma is here.

So what Dhamma?

We say Dhamma cultivate new habits and replace old habits.

That is the solution.

What it means?

We cultivate new habits in the mind and replace old habits.

What it means?

We channelize sensory perception.

That is Dhamma.

But senses are active during waking state.

There should be something in the mind to change its perception.

Did you get it?

Let me repeat it.

A solution is to cultivate new habits in the mind,

Old habits to be replaced.

We,

Means what?

We channelize sensory perception is Dhamma.

Do you see that how deeper the Eastern cycle is?

Compare it with any treatment given in modern cycles.

So we channelize sensory perception.

I'm changing my way of presenting because we have to,

We all are seeker.

But senses are active during the waking state.

There should be something in the mind to change its perception.

Practical example.

I see you.

What it means by channelizing.

I see you.

Mind says,

Mind hates,

Mind dislikes or mind is attached.

What it means by channelizing here.

Can you think of it?

It means I'm not seeing any object or person or thing or any event for my desire fulfillment.

Then what should I do?

Another step of channelizing.

I see everything in the world manifesting from the real self.

That is the highest state of Dhamma.

But what is the practical way?

How to change that perception?

I'll give you a lot of examples.

There are hundreds of examples.

Have you seen the images of goddess?

We have a goddess of wealth.

We have a goddess of knowledge.

We have a goddess of power.

We have many beautiful images of women,

Epitomized as goddess of wealth.

Image of a woman.

Image of a woman in a bar and in a temple.

Image is the same.

Women is the same.

Channelize the sensory perception.

That is why we have,

I would say,

33 million gods and goddesses and their images.

Instantly we say goddess of knowledge.

Does your mind trigger a sense of pleasure seeking?

No.

That is what the channelizing is.

Now apply this in your daily life.

The moment you wake up you see and meet every person,

Can my mind perceive?

Through a thought,

Through a feeling,

Not for desire fulfillment,

But as an epitome of that existence,

That real self.

And you will see in a week the mind changes.

Whether it is your honey outside,

Whether it is your son or a daughter or a teacher or anyone.

So the mind releases the idea and the impression of desire fulfillment and it is replaced by knowing that reality is pervading everywhere.

Put an argument that I am better,

What I am.

That is what you are better days after days,

Months after months,

Weeks after weeks.

We are doing the same stuff.

Honey,

You don't agree with me and I don't agree with you.

My perception remains the same for 30 years and sub-endures.

My mind perceives differently with a likes and dislikes reaction even though you are giving me benefit.

But because my mind has a wrong channel,

What happens,

The time comes,

I break up with you and later on I repent because I am not being benefited by you.

This is happening every day in our life.

Powerful Dhamma.

That is the beauty of this Dhamma.

Somehow we have learned relaxation,

Calmness,

Mastery over the mind means the ways of the thinking.

So when we have changed the ways of the thinking,

Then we use that different pattern of the thinking that everything I perceive through the sense organ is a manifestation of that real self.

I channelize.

So what happens?

Now your sense organ perceives the beauty.

I will give you one expected.

So there is a literature that there may be around 50 or 60 books that.

.

.

So to channelize that,

These texts speaks of the word Upasana.

We will talk about it in detail but I just gave you a practical example.

I used to go to my workplace in India from my house in a bus in early days.

Long back I would say in 81,

82,

83,

84,

85.

I used to travel by bus.

I used the one mantra,

Shanto Ham.

And while sitting in the bus,

I used to sit,

Got a ticket and I used to do it Shanto Ham,

Shanto Ham,

Shanto Ham.

But looking the piece in Shanto Ham.

What I said,

Cultivate new habit,

Replace the old habit.

I did it for at least three years and after three years,

After I think five or six months,

My eyes are closed but my mind triggers me.

Now,

Next stop is your office.

I used to open my eyes.

The mind has become so much aware.

So much aware.

And I never knew how many people sit in the bus,

What is it.

I did it for at least three years,

Shanto Ham,

Shanto Ham.

One day we will do that Karmala practice.

It is known as Karmala.

So this is one example of Upasana.

We will go a little deeper into the Upasana but understand Upasana,

Upanishad.

The word means sitting nearby real self.

One is peace.

One is calmness.

Sitting nearby the teacher,

Sitting nearby the real self,

Sitting nearby the peace.

Sitting nearby,

Who is sitting nearby the mind?

Shanto Ham.

So internally,

Maybe you can try,

Then we will do.

You can try,

Mind says I hate this guy,

Dislike this guy.

So when that guy comes before you or girl comes before you,

Internally you try Shanto Ham.

Peace.

Cultivating new habit.

Why it is harming me.

So we'll understand this Upasana in detail in our next session.

Let us start our practice now.

Eyes are closed.

Eyes are closed.

Body is steady.

Body is steady.

Very good.

And mind is looking inside.

Do you have the 100% knowledge of these three words?

If you have it,

There is a discernment.

What is that discernment does?

It filters out the activities of the mind.

That mind says no,

I am too tired.

No,

No,

No,

It changes.

It changes that pattern.

That is why I have been saying my friends,

Body is steady,

You are aware.

Mind is looking inside,

You are aware.

Very good.

And then eyes are closed gently too.

Three points.

Without knowledge I should not do the practice,

Especially in meditation.

And when my goal is awakening,

I am a seeker.

Then mentally fold the hands in Namaste Mudra mentally.

As Sam explained beautifully,

External notch.

Both the tip of the tongue,

Thumb.

Five sense organs,

Five motor organs.

So the mind goes in the middle of the palm.

Middle of the palm,

The center of the palm is the space.

Ask the mind to be there.

Not to get carried away by likes and dislikes,

Reaction,

Etc.

Become aware of that space.

And every day,

Why not do the practice every day?

S Go to the knowledge,

May there be wellbeing for all.

You will be surprised that we are becoming selfish to realize that if the wellbeing is there for all,

It is one reality.

That wisdom should prevail in the mind at this time.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatthu.

May there be wellbeing for all.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatthu.

May there be peace for all.

Peace for all.

How can you say peace for all when the mind is dictated by the likes,

Dislikes,

Blame,

Complain and reactions?

We are cultivating new habit.

Did I tell you that I give the practice before we discuss these topics?

Now think in this way.

Oh,

This is the way.

I have to do nothing whether the person is good,

Bad,

High,

Low,

Whatever,

Number one or number two.

Mind,

You are one.

How?

Sarvesham shantir bhavatthu.

Look at it.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatthu.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatthu.

Completeness.

When I feel the sense of completeness.

When the mind is not crazy,

Seeking desire fulfillment outside.

Sense of completeness in me.

It is with reference to real self.

Be very clear,

Don't get dictated by the mind.

Okay,

You know,

If I'm completed myself then how can I,

If I'm hungry should I not eat food?

That is a crazy state of the mind.

We are not saying that.

You are doing everything as whatever you are doing but your perception has changed.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatthu.

Let there be a speciousness for all.

Peace,

Well-being,

Completeness,

When they are felt in the mind with reference to the real self,

You are cultivating new habits.

It will replace the old ones.

And we have been doing with the living with the old ones,

Days and days,

Weeks and weeks,

Months and months without any change.

Now the time has come to break that.

In that state,

In that state,

The second step becomes being comfortable.

So we are not going into detail as you used to go.

Move the mind on all the joints of the body from the neck joint.

We will keep this step for a few more sessions.

And after that the mind will replace its habit of being comfortable.

We will remove that step.

So moving the mind on all the joints of the body,

Sensation,

Comfort,

Steadiness,

Space.

I need not to say what is after sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

Is there space?

And what will happen?

One day mind will recall,

Oh,

I am already in namaste mudra.

And here the meaning of namaste is not me.

What is not me?

My false nature.

We'll understand that.

So am I separating?

Yes.

Am I in discernment and dispassion?

Yes.

That leaves you in a perfect comfortable state in meditation and later on you are always comfortable.

Always in thought,

In speech,

In action.

Think of that way of living your life.

And then,

So now see that the second step becomes now being comfortable and carefree in a deeper level.

Being carefree.

Free from all the cares of the mind.

Have you realized by discernment and dispassion that these thoughts,

They come and go like the traffic on the highways,

Like the birds flying in the sky,

Like the salesman who knocks the door again and again.

I gave many examples.

So when that knowledge is settled by discernment,

Dispassion is there.

What is dispassion?

Thoughts are coming and going.

Let it come and go.

Who cares?

Who cares you?

The mind in dispassion says,

Who cares you?

Mind in passion says,

I will take care of every thought.

Every thought?

Yes.

Then I become crazy.

I become lazy.

I become reactive.

I have a blame.

I have a complaint.

See how the first step becomes the second step in a deeper level.

Very good.

So now we will go for removing what we said,

Impurity of the mind.

You have already realized what is impurity of the mind today also with reference to the perception by the senses.

Okay.

I have realized.

So let us do quick,

Short,

Gentle,

Playful breath from the ribcage only.

Either you look inside the ribcage or the heart,

At the center of the heart or inside the forehead.

It doesn't matter and start breathing quick,

Short,

Gentle,

Breathable,

The nostrils.

Just continuity is there.

Rhythm is there.

The mind is not interfering.

It does not change the rate and the rhythm of the breath once you have that rhythm.

And then what will happen?

You have an equal flow.

You have a deeper experiences of tingling,

Numbness,

Freezing colors in the vision.

Let them come and go.

You continue.

It does continue as if you have started the journey.

Focus inside the head or the heart.

Body is steady.

You are carefree.

How you are carefree?

You are not listening to the mind.

You gained clarity.

That's why you are not listening to the mind.

No worries.

You continue.

Just continue.

Quick,

Short,

Gentle breath.

The expansion and the contraction of the ribcage is rhythmic now.

Why it is rhythmic?

The mind is not interfering.

That you know it and when you know it,

The mind says,

Okay,

Now I'm defeated,

I can continue as long as you wish you are the winner.

That is an active way to know the mind is I'm working on the mind.

There has to be some active way.

The passive ways will work at a later stage.

Continue.

And stop this first thing to check.

The flow of the nostril,

Flow of the air in both the nostrils,

If they are equal,

The mind is already living.

These are fewer indications.

Yes,

You keep looking at the flow of the breath from both the nostrils.

Another experience,

You have a deeper sensation,

Relaxation,

And stillness in the body.

You may have an experience of calmness and quietness,

Calmness and quietness in the body.

Do you still remember body is the servant of the mind?

Now body is totally steady,

Doesn't want to buzz.

What happens to the mind?

Mind lives with it.

Look at it.

We'll be holding the breath for 15 seconds,

Inhaling for 10 seconds,

You already know it.

So let us start inhale deep silence slow,

Totally silent breath.

Retain the breath inside,

Look inside the heart.

Let there be a well-being for all.

Move the mind inside.

Perceive the state of the well-being.

Release the breath.

When you release the breath,

Recheck equal flow,

Sensation,

Relaxation,

Stillness,

Calmness and quietness.

Yes,

You know you are progressing.

Why should I say that you are dependent on me?

Teacher makes you,

Teacher in the Eastern wisdom always makes you independent.

Inhale deep silence and slow again.

10 seconds.

Retain the breath.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatuh.

Let there be peace for all.

Peace,

Good space.

The mind continues to move within.

And then release the breath.

So release the breath.

Just wait,

Do nothing,

Check,

Flow off.

The breath is equal.

You are in a state of sensation,

Relaxation and stillness.

And the mind is living within.

Maybe in the pose of namaste mudra mentally.

Yes,

Inhale deep,

Silent and slow.

Very deep,

Casually.

10 seconds means longer breath.

Retain the breath.

Look inside the heart.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh.

Let there be completeness.

You know,

Everything is complete in itself.

We should have that perception in our life.

And release the breath.

Check,

Breath flow is equal.

You are still in the state of deepening sensation,

Relaxation and stillness.

Calmness and quietness.

You recognize that yes,

My mind is living within.

In spite I may have a lot of thoughts.

Then what?

We already understood that part.

In the second step of dispersion.

Inhale deep,

Silent and slow again.

Inhale deep,

Silent and slow again.

Retain the breath.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh.

Let there be a speciousness in all.

And maintain your awareness when you release the breath.

The mind says I'm okay.

Whether you retain the breath or release the breath,

It doesn't make any difference.

What means?

Mind is working on you or you are working on the mind.

You now become very subtler.

You have a very subtler perception in your life.

So that will help you to have a very subtler perception.

And that subtler perception will introduce Dhamma in your life.

We just discussed.

And now inhale deep,

Silent and slow.

Retain the breath.

Look inside the heart.

Aum,

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

Can you live with that knowledge that there is only,

Peace only exists?

Release the breath.

If the peace only exists,

What happens to your mind?

Are you getting it?

An example of Dhamma cultivating new habit,

Replacing old ones.

One more time.

Inhale deep,

Silent and slow.

Ten seconds.

Retain the breath for 15 seconds.

Aum,

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

Release the breath.

Check equal flow,

Sensation,

Relaxation,

Stillness,

Calmness,

Quietness,

Infinite space.

Maybe other vision and colors appear.

Let them come and go.

We'll pick up later.

Does the real self has any color or not?

Does the consciousness has any color or not?

One more time.

Inhale deep,

Silent and slow for 10 seconds.

Continue,

Continue,

Continue,

Continue.

And retain the breath.

Aum,

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

Release the breath.

Check.

You already know what needs to be checked.

And same thing.

Now with a normal breath,

Leave the active step.

Look inside the heart,

Space,

Point in the space,

Drop.

Aum,

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

And then wait.

So every time you wait,

You see as if the mind is going deeper and deeper and deeper in search of that real self.

Pick up a point again in the space inside the heart.

Be aware of a point.

Aum,

Shanti,

Shanti.

Mentally,

Aum is real self,

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

And then wait.

Flow is equal.

Body is steady.

Mind is living within.

Very good.

You know,

You'll be amazed to know that what the Buddha says,

Mindfulness,

Objectless state of the mind.

Are we not moving to the objectless state of the mind?

It will only happen when the mind stops moving,

Merges,

Melts into the real self.

So we are doing it consciously.

We know what is happening.

That is the beauty of the meditation practices we do together.

We don't leave any point of unconscious or habitual pattern to enter.

We will see how a person goes through life and what does that start to feel like?

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Did you realize I did not say do nothing now that I always used to say why I said so?

To introduce dead Dhamma can you still continue with that Om Shanti Shanti looking inside cultivating,

Replacing So it will work for that purpose also Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Bring your awareness on the right hand Your awareness on the left hand Raise both your palms place it on your eyes Open the eyes inside the palms know your experiences Bring the hands down How are you Kate?

Awesome Good Real very peaceful very quiet very quiet very peaceful beautiful Wonderful.

How are you Christina?

Good morning,

Thank you for that session.

That was beautiful.

I really enjoyed or I really liked how you reminded us to of cultivating from those old habits as During the practice after the breath work and retention I had a flush of the old feelings of anxiety And I felt like I was almost gonna like I got very sweaty And I felt like I may have thrown up but I knew that those were the old feelings and then just accepting this new piece and knowing that I'm Good,

So I'm really enjoying every day.

I like it Good,

Christina every time you evolve the way you explain this is wonderful How are you David and Jerry?

You know I just Found it very simple.

I guess is the best word very easy very deep the short breaths has become remarkably Simple it's just it just all of a sudden clicks as soon as we started and I have zero struggles with it and then just peaceful the rest of it my meditation it was wonderful See that see that I have been telling simpler the practice higher it is But even if it is difficult practice it becomes very simple to you That tells the nature of evolution of the mind Beautiful how are you Jerry?

So it was good.

It was good space.

It's really good space and Like Christina,

I I like the takeaway of cultivating and replacing and channeling habits You know,

I think it's we have to right you have to yes,

Yes,

Jerry,

That's a beautiful We have to if we don't do it.

We remain the same beautiful How are you?

Laura The meditation was good,

But then I also had all of the old crap come up really really big So it wasn't so peaceful for me I mean I was able to stay in the meditation But I'm gonna tell you like all the shadow stuff came really really big today And so it was challenging and I questioned myself a lot of my even able to do this Yes,

That was true But what is most beautiful part the way you narrated that you?

Continued the meditation So there was one state of meditation on one hand and you are able to discern all the crap on the other hand So gradually what will happen this crap will not dominate you So you are the winner That is how the process continue So you are you have to be the winner There is no chance why because we all are seekers.

How are you a Stephen?

I'm fantastic.

I I felt that I was pulled into my meditation the second you started to talk So I closed my eyes and saw myself between the palms of my hands in the namaste mudra and then when you actually started the practice,

I was immediately drawn into my heart and The practice was simple quiet Extremely relaxing thoughtless and as David said the breathing part was extremely easy Easy I thoroughly enjoyed it all Beautiful you you I think it's worth noting the way Stephen is explaining Do you see Do you see the cultivate Do you see the cultivate?

Do you see the cultivating the habit?

That point did you note in the Stephen's narration That the moment you started speaking I was in namaste mudra Can you see that namaste mudra to whom your mind has been reacting even to your crap and And Then see what happens Beautiful,

How are you wave have then we'll go to So I'm relaxed calm and Like mine was so calm that now it started falling into sleep and I realized that it is falling into a sleep So I don't have to sleep also Yes,

I was all like my awareness was there and that And that position passed on and I was totally into meditation after that beautiful Sleep is one of the greatest obstacles in meditation So we'll understand we I think we have understood so we will also take up but what you did is perfectly right How are you Terry?

Where are you my friend?

There it is there it is yes Mine was so challenging and I I At one point I just kept hammering with the oh,

Yeah I just kept hammering with the OM.

Yeah.

Or we used to do OM OM OM OM OM OM.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah.

Because the other thing was not working out,

So I just said I need to attack this thing.

Yeah,

Yeah,

That too is good.

Not to get carried away by any impulsive habitual nature of the mind and because we have been learning many steps so any step can work.

Yes,

It should.

Good.

But know that you are not your body,

You are real self.

How are you,

Shobha?

Good.

I see moving lips but no sound.

As I put it back this was very good and going to more ease.

Good.

Better than before,

Thank you.

Very good.

So your mind was receptive today that is why the practice is good.

So any question?

But understand think it over,

Dhamma,

And majority,

I think everyone has got it.

Cultivating,

New habit,

Replacing old.

They both go together.

So according to Lara,

If crap comes mentally you do namaste to the crap also.

Thank you very much.

You have come to raise my awareness,

Now I know you.

Please.

That is one way to say Dhamma.

So we will also understand,

Remind me,

So we'll understand there is a karmala practice,

We will be doing it in the next session.

That is all for today.

Thank you very much.

Be in peace and brave smiling.

Thank you.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Thi Kaji aur Prabhu ji,

Thi kapkar.