Beautiful! 🙏🏻 I just read the first chapters of Scott Snibbe’s HOW TO TRAIN A HAPPY MIND and googled “Analytic Meditation” and this video popped up. What a wonderful introduction to this powerful practice. 🥰 Looking forward to listening to more of your meditations as I explore this path of awakening. As an ethical “nontheist,” I so appreciate these universal teachings that do indeed help us develop a happy mind, which can only make the world a better place. Away we go!
Nice presentation. I agree that there is just a body/mind and the imposter that says my body. What is it that is aware of the body and the thoughts rising in the mind.Seems to be seperate, without form , but this awareness is there all the time in the waking state
What to do when the saying before the meditation doesn’t create motivation? It only confuses me to think of everyone and everything else. My honest motivation is to ease my suffering when I try to meditate. I don’t mean to troll it’s a real question
Hi Rigmar - sorry for the delay. You describe the motivation most of us have - realistically - so respect to you for honesty. This being true for most of us, then why consider anything else, is there any value to making an effort to expand the scope? Perhaps. It would be counterproductive to pretend one is doing meditation solely or the benefit of others - it would be a rare case if this where actually true. There are two reasons though for extending one's wish for easing suffering beyond oneself alone, and both of them do have element of self interest. One: since we are all interconnected and we depend on others for our well-being (food, shelter, cloths, employment, companionship, etc. etc.) then if everyone we depended upon was greatly suffering - our own well-being would be jeopardized, and if everyone we depended upon was well and thriving our well-being would be more stable. Two: the karmic power of an action is a function of the number of beings involved and the nature of the intention. So an action done with the intention to benefit one person is very limited in power compared to an action intended (in the very long term) to benefit all beings without exception (numberless and functionally infinite). Also, the intention for the outcome: relief from common human suffering compared to the intention to completely bring to an end even the most subtle suffering, forever (liberation) - this is a very profound difference. All pervasive conditioned suffering is something that we may not immediately recognize as a problem because we have never known anything different - but once understood and pondered it becomes catastrophically unacceptable (except we often forget again). So by extending our intention beyond our own complete cessation of suffering to include others, we create vastly powerful and profound karma - which makes the result of our meditation practice far more effective, and the result far more satisfying.
There are no sientient beings and no confused or bound minds to liberate, no samsara or nibana or enlightement. Just counsiousness who mistakes the reflection of the: mirror-like-awareness story for something real, but that is oke too. Nothing to do: no meditation, nothing will help, its all perfect: Dzogchen
Satsang: Examen who you realy are in contact with an object of cognition and then look back at it when you have arrived in the next moment beyond: this is how the self expressis it self in this contact moment according to your karma; like beads on a thread endlessly ongoing; mind you; not as 'selfless' or empty of treu existens.( this does not matter) Selflessness is not what you are because this ' empthy of self can not arrise in any way, shape or form because it is allready ' empthy by nature. Emptiness explaned can even lead one into contact with ones subcounsious inner: 'counterpart sign and this may lead to mental confusion when a true attempt is made to grasp it by meditating on it. Therefore; the cognition to: no-self as buddhist texts state makes the: 'I-self cognition' stronger by adapting ' forcefully' buddhist doctrine and is therefore not recomended by me. Note that: Presenting a: 'believed 'true' spiritual statement comes allways with its 'counterpart' sign , The stronger the subcounsious ' counterpart sign' is, due to karmic inclination the more vigorous the mind reflects its oppinion in word and speech. I hope that this widens anybodies view on the ' self'
Beautiful! 🙏🏻
I just read the first chapters of Scott Snibbe’s HOW TO TRAIN A HAPPY MIND and googled “Analytic Meditation” and this video popped up. What a wonderful introduction to this powerful practice. 🥰
Looking forward to listening to more of your meditations as I explore this path of awakening. As an ethical “nontheist,” I so appreciate these universal teachings that do indeed help us develop a happy mind, which can only make the world a better place.
Away we go!
Thank you for this precious teaching and meditation 🙏🥰🙏🥰🙏
Great love and great gratitude to Venerable Yonten, beautiful teaching. 💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏🙏
I have never seen anyone so radiantly beautiful.. 🙏🏻
It's really simple and easy to understand.Less words but more meaning. Thanks
Tashi Delek and thank you so much 🙏❤💛
Appreciate your meditation teaching🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌺❤️
Thank you for your wisdom talk🙏🏻🙏🏻🌺😀❤️
That was a wonderful session. THANK YOU
Thank you, Venerable Yonten 😊🙏🧡 this meditation is so helpful!! 😊
Love this med itation thank you ❤
Thank you for your teaching.
Very helpful. Thank you. If I may ask, please share more of your wisdom.
Precious. Precious. Precious
Thank you
Amazing enlightenment
Thank you ❤️😊
Thank you very much❤
Thank u ani la🙏🙏🙏🌷🌺
Nice presentation. I agree that there is just a body/mind and the imposter that says my body. What is it that is aware of the body and the thoughts rising in the mind.Seems to be seperate, without form , but this awareness is there all the time in the waking state
What to do when the saying before the meditation doesn’t create motivation?
It only confuses me to think of everyone and everything else.
My honest motivation is to ease my suffering when I try to meditate.
I don’t mean to troll it’s a real question
Hi Rigmar - sorry for the delay. You describe the motivation most of us have - realistically - so respect to you for honesty. This being true for most of us, then why consider anything else, is there any value to making an effort to expand the scope? Perhaps.
It would be counterproductive to pretend one is doing meditation solely or the benefit of others - it would be a rare case if this where actually true. There are two reasons though for extending one's wish for easing suffering beyond oneself alone, and both of them do have element of self interest.
One: since we are all interconnected and we depend on others for our well-being (food, shelter, cloths, employment, companionship, etc. etc.) then if everyone we depended upon was greatly suffering - our own well-being would be jeopardized, and if everyone we depended upon was well and thriving our well-being would be more stable.
Two: the karmic power of an action is a function of the number of beings involved and the nature of the intention. So an action done with the intention to benefit one person is very limited in power compared to an action intended (in the very long term) to benefit all beings without exception (numberless and functionally infinite). Also, the intention for the outcome: relief from common human suffering compared to the intention to completely bring to an end even the most subtle suffering, forever (liberation) - this is a very profound difference. All pervasive conditioned suffering is something that we may not immediately recognize as a problem because we have never known anything different - but once understood and pondered it becomes catastrophically unacceptable (except we often forget again).
So by extending our intention beyond our own complete cessation of suffering to include others, we create vastly powerful and profound karma - which makes the result of our meditation practice far more effective, and the result far more satisfying.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
What is that book on the left that's propped up, with what appears to be Lama Tsongkhapa on the cover?
“A Commentary to Dependent Arising by Lama Tsong Khapa” by Geshe Samten from Vajrayana Institute, Australia
@@VenYonten thanks so much 🙏
Edit: I searched, and I can't find that book for sale anywhere. Bummer
@@VenYonten thank you Ven. Yonten.
@@jdubmckee if you write Vajrayana Institue they will probably give you the PDF
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There are no sientient beings and no confused or bound minds to liberate, no samsara or nibana or enlightement. Just counsiousness who mistakes the reflection of the: mirror-like-awareness story for something real, but that is oke too. Nothing to do: no meditation, nothing will help, its all perfect: Dzogchen
Satsang: Examen who you realy are in contact with an object of cognition and then look back at it when you have arrived in the next moment beyond: this is how the self expressis it self in this contact moment according to your karma; like beads on a thread endlessly ongoing; mind you; not as 'selfless' or empty of treu existens.( this does not matter) Selflessness is not what you are because this ' empthy of self can not arrise in any way, shape or form because it is allready ' empthy by nature. Emptiness explaned can even lead one into contact with ones subcounsious inner: 'counterpart sign and this may lead to mental confusion when a true attempt is made to grasp it by meditating on it. Therefore; the cognition to: no-self as buddhist texts state makes the: 'I-self cognition' stronger by adapting ' forcefully' buddhist doctrine and is therefore not recomended by me. Note that: Presenting a: 'believed 'true' spiritual statement comes allways with its 'counterpart' sign , The stronger the subcounsious ' counterpart sign' is, due to karmic inclination the more vigorous the mind reflects its oppinion in word and speech. I hope that this widens anybodies view on the ' self'