Day 101/365: Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahm

This track includes several tools to help strengthen your meditation practice. About 15 minutes; Dharma talk/meditation advice and inspiration; about 15 minutes of guided meditation; about 30 minutes of silent meditation practice; and a Q&A session/closing thoughts after the meditation practice.

Transcript

Okay,

It's now three o'clock.

Time to start.

So for those of you,

The usual announcement,

Those of you who have come for the Introduction to Meditation class,

Those first lessons,

Those lessons are being given in the room to my right.

This is the ongoing class for those who have done some meditation before.

So in this class we meditate a little bit longer.

Ah,

You're turning the coolers on.

Yeah,

Excellent.

Because I was born in UK and I love the cold.

Give me snow or ice any day.

But I know that it must be a bit warm in here because many of you down there aren't wearing any jackets or blankets,

Which you normally do,

When I'm just happy and cool.

But anyway,

We'll see how it goes.

Whatever happens that when you are meditating,

You never get it perfect,

But it's always good enough.

So you leave your body alone and the body adjusts.

If it is hot,

The body will find its way of cooling down.

If the body is cold,

The body will find its way of warming up.

It's just the body knows what to do.

It's very highly involved in a mechanism.

And so as long as it's not too hot or too cold.

And of course,

You know,

Just my life of meditating in so many different countries and sometimes it's really cold.

But those first years when I went to go and visit the monasteries in England,

UK,

I remember just one evening,

Mine is 26 degrees centigrade,

It was outside.

And they hadn't installed the heating yet,

Central heating they used to call it.

So that hadn't been installed yet.

So just use blankets and try to think warm thoughts,

Which is fine if you know you were living there a while.

I just arrived there from Thailand.

But anyway,

And going to Thailand is really hot.

You really thought of cold thoughts.

But whatever it was,

You find your body adjusts and it's not a really big deal.

I always feel that if you think too much and complain too much and just the way the mind reacts to even things like temperatures,

That will cause discomfort more than anything else.

So if you think,

Oh it's hot,

Oh it's hot,

Oh it's hot,

It shouldn't be hot,

We should do something about it,

That makes you feel hot.

And if it's really cold,

Oh it's so cold,

I can't stand this.

And that makes you really sort of feel incredibly cold,

Way too cold.

Which is one of the reasons why that that little one liner which I made up,

The Buddhist climate control,

If it's too cold,

Then keep warm thoughts.

For all mankind,

Humankind,

Every kind,

Keep a warm heart if it's too cold.

And if it's too hot,

Keep a cool head.

That means you don't worry about the temperature.

But anyway,

You can see that a lot of times it's the way that our mind interacts.

And sometimes it can interact with seeing something positive in life,

Or sometimes seeing something to complain about.

And I know that some people are just constant complainers,

Whatever they see.

And even if it's a really wonderful place,

They say,

No this place is too perfect.

It's never,

It's never,

Never good enough.

They always find something wrong with life.

So that sort of mind will never be able to develop peace and meditation.

Why?

Because they're always looking for something to do,

Always looking for some business,

Something to fix up,

Instead of realizing that meditation time is the time when we just make peace.

The whole idea of making peace with the moment,

Not making war,

Having a ceasefire,

All of those thoughts which are there to criticize,

To judge and to control,

To having a time of no judgment.

The idea of no judgment is a very beautiful way of meditating.

Because somebody asked me years ago about the idea of measuring.

Because we use measurement to control things.

They measure your speed to see who's going too fast.

They measure your income to make sure that people coming into their country,

If you are traveling,

Have enough income.

Fortunately,

They never asked me how much money I'm bringing into a country when I visit.

Because the answer is always nothing.

Zero.

That's what happened recently when I went to Thailand,

Just a week or two ago.

You had a form and you had to fill out that form.

How much money do you earn?

Zero.

But why,

When we measure things,

Why is it,

When we measure things,

We measure it to control things.

And if you can't measure,

You can't control.

It's one of the reasons why that people quite rightly object to giving too much personal information,

Preferences,

Your habits,

Where you go,

What you eat,

To giving too much information to big companies because they're afraid they may get controlled.

For measurement we get control.

Now that's like a scary stuff.

But I always make sure that it makes something useful out of even scary stuff.

So what happens if you don't measure?

If you don't measure,

You can't control.

And that's so important in meditation.

Not to measure.

Is this a good meditation or a bad meditation?

Good,

Bad?

Who knows?

But I don't measure whether it's a good or bad meditation.

Then when I don't measure anything,

There's no control at all.

I've got nothing to aim for.

I've got nothing to do.

I just can't do anything when I don't measure.

And when you don't measure and you can't do anything,

What happens?

You get very peaceful.

And when you don't measure and you get very peaceful,

What happens is your mind starts to waken up and you get what I keep on calling power mindfulness and super power mindfulness.

Those are the states of mind.

Just when you,

I always say when you go outside you look at a blade of grass on the lawn.

Wow!

That is a beautiful blade of grass.

You look in the sky and the cloud formations.

They are just blowing your mind.

Amazing.

Just the formations of the clouds.

Everything is seen in far greater detail.

Own beauty.

Your mindfulness is waking up.

Why?

Because you're not actually measuring anything.

It's just naturally beautiful.

And when you're not doing anything,

Isn't that what we're supposed to be experiencing in meditation?

To relax to the max.

To enjoy peace and stillness.

So there's all these little wonderful techniques and having just mentioned that,

It just reminds you of the verse of a very famous verse which was always quoted to me in the early years.

I was a Buddhist,

That was about 50 years ago now.

Was the verses of the third Zen patriarch.

The path is simple for those who have no preferences.

In other words,

When you don't judge,

Meditation is as easy as anything.

You're sitting here,

Going nowhere,

Doing nothing,

Just being peaceful.

And the meditation takes off.

Not according to how you think it should go,

But how it naturally does and it gets very powerful and very beautiful and very wonderful.

So that's what happens.

And then because you're not measuring,

It's supposed to be silent,

But it's not silent.

It's supposed to be comfortable,

But it's not comfortable.

It's supposed to have no flies in here.

Bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz.

There's always something going on.

When you don't measure it,

You can't complain.

When you can't complain,

There's no disturbance.

When there's no disturbance,

You're peaceful.

When you're peaceful,

You become very still.

When you're very still,

You've got nothing to do,

So everything becomes so wonderfully peaceful,

Kind and lovely and joyful and blissful when you're not fighting the reality of now.

You can't beat now.

Now's already here.

Maybe,

I suppose,

You could fight the future,

Whatever that's going to be.

But why forget about the future?

Just don't judge the present.

Just be here and see how it evolves.

So that's just a little introduction.

I never planned that,

Of course.

I don't plan anything.

Well,

I do actually plan some things.

So let's do a bit of meditation now.

I'll just repeat that little first part.

For anyone who's come for the introduction to meditation,

That is the room in my right.

This is the ongoing class.

It's a bit of judgment,

Isn't it?

Beginning and advanced or whatever.

Anyway,

Let's just,

I'm going to shut up now before I put my foot in my mouth.

Let's just start meditating now.

So if you'd like to get yourself in a good position,

I will begin the meditation just by giving some guidance for about 10,

15,

20 minutes.

Then I will be quiet and then I will continue speaking towards the end of the meditation.

That's usually how it works.

Is that okay?

Well,

If it's not okay,

We're going to do it that way anyway.

So let's get started.

So here we go.

Even without any measuring,

I usually start off by giving a bit of kindness to your body.

So just the usual method which I teach.

You close your eyes and get yourself as comfortable as possible.

So sort of comfort to maintain for 40 minutes.

And then,

Take it a little bit more meticulous,

Part by part of your body,

As we refine our meditation.

So you begin with your legs.

I ask my legs,

Legs,

How are you?

I take the question seriously and I listen for the results,

For the answer.

I get an answer from my legs.

The big toe of my left foot is not comfortable.

It's honest.

This is true.

I just move it slightly,

That's much better.

I never noticed that before I asked the question.

It's too busy talking to you.

So when you ask a question,

How are your legs?

That is a very simple but highly effective way of establishing mindfulness,

Using words which people use in meditation techniques,

Establish mindfulness of the legs.

Ask questions of the legs and I get answers.

Can I make you more comfortable legs of mine?

Now wait for the answer and if my legs say yes,

They still need to be adjusted some more,

I will adjust them.

They need to be scratched,

I will scratch them.

Because with that degree of kindness,

That degree of carefulness,

Then my legs will be very comfortable for the next 40 minutes or 45 minutes.

That's how it works.

Once I'm confident that my legs are at ease,

Then I go to my buttocks.

That is usually a very strong feeling,

The body pressing down through the buttocks onto the cushion or the chair.

Make sure that those buttocks and the cushion,

The knee cushion,

Are in a good position.

If I need to adjust,

Now is that time.

They call it fidgeting.

And I fidget now,

So I don't have to fidget later.

Once my buttock position is good,

Then I go up to my back.

Give it a good stretch,

If you can,

If it's good for you.

Or move it to the left,

To the right,

Forward,

Back.

And as you are moving your body,

Mindfulness can see,

Can experience the bodily position feeling more comfortable or less comfortable.

Because one of the purposes,

It's only one,

It's not actually the main purpose.

One of the purposes is to learn how to be comfortable.

But the main purpose is actually to strengthen and develop mindfulness and kindness,

The mindfulness.

These are preliminary exercises in strengthening the importance of mindfulness and kindness.

Seeing how it works to give you a peaceful body.

Later on it will be used to give you a very peaceful,

Very peaceful mind.

And then you move your attention up to your shoulders.

I've already made sure that I have no tight robe on my left shoulder.

Everything is nice and loose there.

And my muscles in my shoulders,

They're relaxed.

I can feel them relaxing.

When you become aware,

Just focusing on one part of your body,

It is to the exclusion of everything else,

You do find that you find abilities to relax or tighten up those muscles.

If I ask you now to tighten up your shoulder muscles,

You can't do that.

So now I ask you to listen,

To relax them.

And of course like with anything else,

With practice you can relax those muscles very deeply,

Just by being aware and being kind,

A kindfulness.

And then I bring my attention down,

My arms to my hands.

Where my hands are that defines where the rest of my arms are.

So I just make sure the hands are comfortable.

In a posture which feels good now.

And sometimes I move my arms,

My hands,

Just to make sure that this is the best posture.

The feedback generated from mindfulness allows me to get to these wonderful positions of comfort and peace.

And bring my attention back up to my shoulders and my neck,

Making sure the head is well positioned.

Not too far to the left,

Not too far to the right,

Not forward,

Not back,

Just balanced.

I can feel that.

When it gets into its position of balance,

Which is not the same every day,

Then,

Just check my throat.

My throat feels good today.

It must be because of the rain this morning.

And lastly from my head I go to my face.

All the muscles around my eyes and my mouth,

Especially the forehead as well if you wish,

To check them.

Are they relaxed?

And when I establish mindfulness of those muscles,

As I'm doing around my eyes now,

I can feel them.

They're a little bit tight so I'm going to loosen them.

And of course we've practiced trial and error,

It's an easy thing to do.

Just relax muscles just by being aware and just letting them be.

Being kind to them,

Opening them up.

Stop pulling and pushing and squashing them.

So I relax all the muscles on my face.

I can feel those muscles,

At ease,

At peace.

It shows you what mindfulness and kindness can do.

And then I look at my whole body just sitting here.

Just united,

Just one organism.

It's all calm and peaceful.

If I do notice any tightness like this in my low intestines,

I just stretch them and just get them into a very comfortable position.

Because where my body is at ease,

It feels so pleasant.

I call this stage the delight of relaxation.

That's what I'm aware of.

Yeah,

I'm aware of the body being relaxed.

The most prominent thing I'm aware of is the delightful feeling of a body which has been relaxed part by part and is now very much at ease.

We don't rush into the meditation.

I pause with this.

Pause in the natural delight which calms when we let things be and we start fighting.

Okay.

Just enjoying your relaxed body.

If you do notice the delight of relaxation,

It always takes that relaxation to a deeper level.

That's why I included in the practice,

Feel more relaxed,

Enjoying the delightful peace of the body which is at ease.

When it feels the right time,

I just go inside the body to my peace-ometer.

It's how peaceful am I right now,

The speedometer,

Thermometer,

The peace-ometer.

Give it a number from one to ten just to make it clearer.

One is really peaceful,

Ten is quite agitated.

It gives me a nice place to start and then my job is just to see why that peace-ometer goes up.

What agitates my own mind?

What is the cause in the opposite direction,

The cause of peace?

I do this because it motivates me to let go of time,

A terrible disturber,

What you have to do in the future,

What you've brought in from the past.

Let all that go and my peace-ometer reading goes down.

So I'm literally aware of how peaceful I am.

That's the object of my meditation right now.

Let it go down.

All the words,

And it's the words of the unit of judgement as we try and describe it.

See if I can let those words disappear as well.

Show this beautiful silent awareness of the present moment.

Quite honestly the present moment is just so difficult to put into words.

I don't even try.

And of course soon what happens is that my breath becomes the object.

The natural progression inwards is aware of my breath going in,

My breath going out.

Sometimes I just help to say breathing in peace,

Breathe out,

Let go.

But from here on I try to say as little as possible and don't judge.

No,

Don't judge the words that don't have much meaning,

Don't control.

Let things totally be in this moment and just watch as peace grows.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

I will now be quiet until close to the end of the meditation.

How do you feel inside?

How peaceful are you?

And how relaxed is your body?

I am now going to ring the gong three times.

The gong has faded away.

The gong has faded away.

The gong has faded away.

And today we have three questions,

One from America,

One from India,

And one from Ghana in Africa.

This is streamed to so many places.

Next from America,

How does the Kundalini of the mind work differently to that of the body?

And does one affect the other?

This was the question which follows on that sometimes people have energy in the body when the mind gets very peaceful.

And that energy,

It can get very strong and for some people that is called,

Qualifies as like what they call the Kundalini energy.

But really that it's the same energy,

It's the energy born of stillness.

Just when the mind is not doing anything,

It's not wasting energy.

It's like a source of energy,

That's the best way you can describe it.

Source of energy always coming into your body and mind.

When you're not wasting it tends to build up and get very strong.

And so that's one of the reasons why that in deep meditation you're incredibly happy and also the happiness lasts after you meditate and you're clear,

You see clearly,

You can hear profoundly.

And that energy,

It really should,

As I often say,

Should be in the mind.

That's where it belongs.

And if it just leaks out into the body,

It can make it sort of interesting experiences in the body.

But I always,

My experience,

The way I was taught and the way I know and teach,

Is that it's best to keep that energy in the mind so that your body disappears reasonably quickly in the meditation.

You just go to the Peasomati,

You go to the breath,

You go to the delightful breath,

You go into just the even Nimita Sivan,

You get some really high energy there.

Sort of energy that,

You know,

If you get into very deep meditations,

You can't sleep at night.

You can't sleep at night in the mind.

And you've got all these wonderful benefits of like healings and stuff.

So that's the answer which I can give.

I'm not sure if it's sufficient,

But that's what I have so far.

From India,

What is the difference between the meditation and thinking during meditation?

Can I guide my mind for self-healing?

You can guide the mind for self-healing in the sense that you have a wound or a tumor or sort of a headache or something and you direct energy there.

But it's much more effective and powerful,

I've found,

Is when you don't do any directing at all.

And you allow the body just to heal itself without you directing any energy or any healing or anything whatsoever.

In other words,

When you do get very peaceful,

The mind just is very still.

Then just the body just,

It's almost like you're out of the way,

You're not knowing what's going on.

And the body just heals itself.

So some great sort of healings happen that way.

But you have to learn how to let go of the body.

Let go of the body and just don't even worry about it and think about it.

All those are just trying to think of one of those stories.

Okay,

That gentleman in Sydney retreat who had sinus cancer.

So every time that he started meditating,

That his,

He would always breathe loudly.

Because he'd had to breathe through his mouth,

There's nothing possible to go through his nose.

And that gentleman,

I got a lot of complaints about him the first day at this retreat.

He was,

Can you please ask people to breathe quietly?

He had no choice.

He had to speak tumour in his sinuses.

He checked in with me first of all,

Perhaps I should have let people know at first.

But anyway,

He meditated.

Once people realised why he was making that noise,

There's no complaints anymore.

A huge amount of compassion.

This was the gentleman's last chance at survival.

Doctors had given up.

And so anyway,

He carried on for nine days.

And I'll always remember at the end of the nine days of the retreat,

That I was basically had to leave just on the end of the retreat to get into a car and just get to Sydney airport to get the flight back here to Perth.

But he came running towards me and he said,

Ajahn Brahm,

Ajahn Brahm,

Stop,

Stop.

Something had happened.

And he said his last meditation,

It's amazing how often it is the last meditation.

Another little talk should be given there.

Why is it the last meditation?

This always happens.

He said he heard the popping sound,

Pop,

And he could breathe through his nose.

Had to breathe through his nose in weeks,

Maybe months,

I don't know.

But anyway,

It only lasted a minute.

And then the tumour closed up again.

He couldn't breathe through his nose anymore.

But it was so exciting.

It was something which was real.

Not so imaginary or you could actually breathe through his nose,

Which had this big tumour in it.

And so he was so excited,

He had to stop me and say,

What should I do next?

He said,

Carry on.

Well,

I must admit that when I got into the car to get to the airport,

I thought he left it too late.

I think I gave a few to a few people I sort of was talking to just like,

You know,

When your your son or your daughter,

They don't do the studies until the night before the exam.

But I was wrong because six months later,

Another place in Sydney,

This fellow came up to me and I remember this one as well.

And he said,

Do you remember me?

And that's a terrible question to ask a monk who sees so many people.

I said,

No.

He laughed because he was in such a good mood.

And he said,

You know,

I was that gentleman.

And he did look very different.

You know,

A person's got cancer.

It's not just a big tumour in their nose,

It's just so many other parts of them just start to fail.

You get very thin and loose,

A lot of your muscles.

But anyway,

He just looks so healthy.

He said,

I was that guy.

I said,

Nah.

He said,

Yeah.

And he said he carried on meditating just exactly as I taught him and his tumour had totally gone.

It had vanished.

And so he was fine.

I love those little stories.

They're absolutely true.

And he told me that however many more days,

Months,

Years he has on this earth,

He will use it to teach meditation as I taught him.

Wonderful little story.

But anyway,

He never did this trying to heal himself by thinking.

The method was just make your mind calm and peaceful.

So your body just had a very peaceful meditation at the very end.

So he gave up.

That's one of the reasons why the last meditations are sometimes the best because you just,

Nothing's worked for nine days.

So it's just like,

Okay,

What the heck.

And then you can actually meditate.

But anyway,

That is,

Can I guide my mind for self-healing?

You can,

But it's much more powerful if you let your mind do the healing.

If you butt out,

Trust your mind,

It knows what to do.

You just make sure you don't interfere.

Don't be the backseat driver.

And lastly from Ghana,

Meditating after a stressful day of work,

I feel the thinking thoughts intensify when trying to let it be and become overwhelming.

How to handle this situation?

First of all,

You have a stressful day at work.

Maybe you can have maybe a quarter of an hour,

Half an hour lunch,

Meditate at lunch if you can.

And I often mention to this,

If you are in,

Sort of,

If you want to go to the,

What they call the restrooms,

The toilets,

Sit in one of the toilets and just close the door and just stay there until you've had a bit of a rest.

Because what that does is that it gives you a boost of stillness and rest in the middle of the day,

Which means that you don't get so stressed out in the evening.

It's just like,

That's why we're supposed to have,

Like,

Breaks in the middle of the day.

That's why,

You know,

At schools they give kids breaks in the morning,

Breaks in the afternoon and breaks at lunch time.

Well,

They don't study,

They just go playing around,

Playing soccer or football or anything just to get them away from the lessons and physical so they can just relax their brain,

Give the brain a break.

So if you can give your brain a break during the middle of the day,

That's the first,

The best.

And then you find you don't get so many overwhelming thoughts and also you do become far more productive.

As your brain wears out during the daytime,

It starts to wear out,

It loses a lot of its energy and it just can't think clearly.

You have to push in and force it.

And by pushing and forcing your brain,

Of course,

You use more energy and less time.

So you really get tired out when you're under stress.

And the best thing to do as soon as you realize you're under stress is take a break.

Many modern companies,

Google,

Facebook I know because I went there and saw this,

They do have meditation rooms where you can just take a break any time of the day or night if you're working at night.

That enhances your productivity,

You're clearer,

Get more work done.

What's in,

I've mentioned this here before many times,

Harvard Business School calls it an investment of time.

Give half an hour to meditation in the middle of the day,

You make it up in the afternoon with three hours work done in two.

Otherwise,

You know,

Just the work overwhelms you.

But nevertheless,

If it does overwhelm you,

And after a stressful day of work,

You know,

You just find a quiet place and you meditate,

Just make sure that you don't try and control your mind when you're meditating.

Controlling it and judging it,

That just is more work for you.

And it's not,

You're not really actually meditating properly,

You're trying to watch your breath or calm your mind or do something that's doing something.

It'd be far better if you're really tired and stressed to do what I mentioned last week about the Empress free questions.

Now's the most important time.

If you're aware of right now,

This thought going through your mind right now is the most important thing in the whole world.

And care for it.

But don't try and control it.

Don't judge it.

If it's judging,

That's what you try and control.

I shouldn't be thinking,

This is a stupid thought.

Yeah,

But it's here.

So it's teaching you something.

So not quite sure what it's teaching you,

But just stay with it.

Care for it.

If you care for it,

Your mind is reacting in a peaceful way.

If you're trying to get rid of it because you don't want to be thinking,

You're actually forcing it,

Being aggressive to it and of course it gets worse.

Just leave it alone,

Let it be.

It's a thought,

Fine.

It's here,

It's arrived.

It's right in front of you,

Give it importance.

Now this wonderful care.

You can't go wrong with that beautiful reaction.

The tiredness,

The thoughts,

Result of old karma.

You're not making more bad karma with the karma you're experiencing now.

So that would be how I would deal with that.

A lot of thoughts,

Just sit there and just let them be.

Don't fight.

Anyway,

Any questions,

Comments from anyone here?

Wow,

Such a peaceful day today.

No one's.

.

.

Okay,

Great.

Okay,

I'm sure there'll be some comments and questions afterwards,

But you're most welcome to come up personally afterwards.

But now we'll pay respects to the Buddha,

Dabha,

Sangha.

And then you can,

Those of you who've got other things to do this evening,

Most welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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