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Calm Abiding Meditation

by Samye Institute

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Calm abiding meditation forms the backbone of Buddhist meditation practice. Without developing a solid foundation in this core practice, we will not be able to settle our minds. Traditionally, we spend months or years learning, practicing, and experiencing the results of calm abiding meditation before we move on to other practices. And we never abandon calm abiding: this simple technique recurs throughout all types of Buddhist meditation. We can always continue to practice calm abiding.

Calm AbidingMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessFocusPresent MomentBreathingBreathing AwarenessBreath ConnectionBreath SensationsPosturesDistraction

Transcript

Breathing,

Okay,

The object is breathing.

Especially you,

First of all you have to check are you breathing or not.

Okay,

And I will give you one how to say example or let's say if I ask you are you breathing.

You check maybe one few seconds,

You check yourself.

Are you breathing?

Are you breathing?

Are you breathing in and out?

Okay,

Now you,

That's very important.

And this breathing is present,

Okay?

That breathing is present or that breathing is past?

Present,

Right?

Not past,

Right?

That breathing,

That continuing breathing is present,

No future.

I will be but I will not be.

Okay,

That's good,

That's very important.

Most of us,

Honestly speaking,

Sometimes we forget or we don't know if you are breathing or not.

The breathing is,

What is the feeling,

Like warm or cold or something?

Any,

You have sense or feelings?

You have any sensation of your breath being hot or cold or warm?

You just see it?

I just have a sense that it is not warm.

Not temperature?

If you feel the breath?

From your nose.

From your nose.

Okay,

That's very good.

Now,

Just you check how you,

Now you tell me.

You just continue that.

Check,

Are you breathing or not?

And you check.

If you are breathing,

Just continually breathe.

Pay attention,

No breath.

Because breath goes down,

Mind goes down,

Like exercise.

And you just follow and breathe in,

Your mind together in.

It's like a horse.

The breath is like a horse and the mind you are riding on the breath,

It's like going in,

Out,

In,

Out.

Like this.

It's something that children's place,

Sits on something and then.

.

.

Rocking horse?

Yeah,

They're like this.

Together mind,

Together,

Up together,

Together.

When you do continually,

Mind rests on that breath,

Then rest,

Continue.

Okay,

Continue means few minutes or maybe then they may distract,

Your mind may loss.

Or you're dreaming or maybe wondering or maybe singing,

Like going like dull or totally like blank or totally dark or something.

You may,

How to almost like unconscious,

You know,

Going like that.

Then you have to.

.

.

Then you have to immediately remind yourself.

You cannot loss more than three,

Your mind.

Make sure to make sure number three is not too much.

19.

Natural language They could've helped hand the teacher any way he would have.

Maybe he was lacking them,

And gave up his mind,

So he could feel that the class was notmas.

He could've beenwowd more but not Turner hadn't had all that much time.

At that time he's Rabbi of nomad to his students.

" If you count to three Then in the first moment your mind is going out and then in the second moment it gets in the car In the third moment it closes the door.

In the fourth moment you're about to drive away.

So don't go that far before you drive away.

Bring back your mind to your breath and bring back the mindfulness in this way.

The breathing,

Again breathe,

Again breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe.

These three steps,

Rest or breathing,

Pay attention and breathing.

Second,

Continue to breathe,

Pay attention on the breathing.

And third,

When you're going,

Mind is wondering like hearts,

Just now,

Go almost there.

Try to,

As much as can,

Faster to remind,

To come back and re-repeat to the number one.

Again breathing,

Pay attention on the breathing.

You're breathing now.

Because again you can check,

After you're lost,

Am I breathing?

Yeah.

Like this.

Okay,

Keep doing this,

Few minutes,

Then we stop and again we can do few times.

If you can,

You can sit a little bit straight,

Body is very important,

But relax.

Very flexible body,

Not tight,

Not very loose.

Just,

And then slow gently,

Then you can focus,

Pay attention to the.

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Meet your Teacher

Samye InstituteKathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal

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Recent Reviews

Madhavi

August 7, 2021

Great. Excellleny brief instruction - with good tips ! Love the voice. ( that’s very important to me ).

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