{"id":11400,"date":"2015-09-29T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2015-09-29T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:17:21","slug":"meditation-advice-from-ringu-tulku-rinpoche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/teachings\/news\/meditation-advice-from-ringu-tulku-rinpoche","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Advice from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/09\/buddha-face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11401\" src=\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/09\/buddha-face-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"buddha face\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, practically, if we are doing sitting meditation, we relax our body. Try to let all tensions go because we don\u2019t want them.\u00a0\u00a0 Relax our body from our toes to our head, to the brain, to the eyes.\u00a0\u00a0 Relax. Wherever there is tension, we try to relax. Relax our eyes. Relax our face muscles, our mouth, neck, shoulders and internal organs. Relax our feet, our hands. We really relax our whole body. And bring our mind into the body so that I feel the body. I am here. I am now, in my body. I feel the relax-ness of my body, I see with my eyes, I hear what I hear with my ears, I feel with my body, I smell with my nose. So I am here now, in this very moment. I am not there in yesterday, I am not there in tomorrow, I am here in my body now, this moment.<\/p>\n<p>My mind is also relaxed. I am not dealing with all the problems from yesterday, I am not dealing with the problems of tomorrow, I am not even dealing with the problems of the last hour or minute or the next hour or minute. I am just here, <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Only seeing what I am seeing, <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>. Only hearing what I am hearing, <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>. Not holding on to anybody or anything, just being.<\/p>\n<p>I am not meditating. I am not doing anything, I am just being. Clear, open, not fighting against anything, not closing anything, not trying to wish away anything, not trying to get anything. Just here, natural.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a thought comes, it doesn\u2019t matter. You hear something, it doesn\u2019t matter. You see something, it doesn\u2019t matter. Whatever you see, it\u2019s okay. Don\u2019t make a story of it. \u00a0You hear something, that\u2019s okay. Sometimes a bird sings. Then you think, \u201cOh, the bird is singing. It\u2019s disturbing me. It has to sing as soon as I start to meditate!\u201d You don\u2019t have to think like that. You let the sound come and go and if it continuously comes, continuously let it come, and let it go.<\/p>\n<p>With thoughts it is the same. When a thought comes, it\u2019s ok. If a thought comes, don\u2019t concentrate on the thought, just be in the present moment. And then, if too many thoughts come, allow your mind to be aware of your breathing. You are feeling that you are breathing in. You are breathing in and then you are feeling that you are breathing out. You are not thinking about it, you are just doing it; you are feeling it. If too many thoughts and too many things are going on in your mind then just lightly focus on that breathing because that is what is happening <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You are not trying to push away thoughts. You are just letting them go, because you are more focused on what is happening <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember something that happened yesterday. You don\u2019t go through it too much, you just remember breathing <strong><em>now<\/em><\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are a little bit more advanced, then you can even look at that thought.<\/p>\n<p>The thought is not a story; it\u2019s just a thought coming up. There is nowhere that it comes from; there is nowhere it goes away to. As soon as it arises, it changes. It goes. Another thought comes. And actually that\u2019s your mind. There is nothing called one mind. It\u2019s the stringing of thoughts and emotions and arisings. It\u2019s not one thing.<\/p>\n<p>And all these thoughts and emotions and sensations that arise in your mind are yourself, your mind. It\u2019s not coming at you. It\u2019s not coming to affect you. That is me, that is my mind.\u00a0\u00a0 So, therefore, I don\u2019t have to be afraid of that. I don\u2019t have to be afraid of my fear as well, because that\u2019s also myself. Anger, upset, is myself, it\u2019s my own manifestation. So there is no need get rid of it, there\u2019s no need to follow it, there is no need to be afraid of it, there\u2019s no need to feel bad, or good. I just allow it to be and then, like the waves coming and going, it dissolves itself. There is nothing outside my mind.<\/p>\n<p>So whatever comes, nice experiences, not nice experiences, they come and they go. And I have to allow them to come and allow them to go. Not holding on to anything, whether good or bad. Even good and bad is just a concept.<\/p>\n<p>If I can enjoy myself in all these thoughts and emotions, if I can just relax in my thoughts and emotions, if nothing is happening, it\u2019s very nice. It\u2019s peaceful; it\u2019s joyful. If thoughts and emotions are coming, it\u2019s very nice. It comes and it goes and I just relax in it. I don\u2019t own it, I don\u2019t grab it, I don\u2019t build a story on it, I just be\u2026. and relax.<\/p>\n<p>If you are trying to meditate for a session, keep an alarm clock. Don\u2019t say, \u201cI want to meditate for five minutes\u201d and look at your watch 50 times. When the time is ended, the alarm clock will come and you might jump out of it! But don\u2019t jump out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy it. Make friends with your meditation. Think that this is time off. Sometimes you get time off from work, but you don\u2019t get time off from your mind. You don\u2019t get time off from your thoughts and emotions. This is the only time you can get time off from your thoughts and emotions. So it is <u>rea<\/u><u>l<\/u> time off. Look forward to that time off. It\u2019s not only that you don\u2019t have to work but you don\u2019t have to think also. It\u2019s the greatest pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an excerpt from a teaching on Ultimate Bodhichitta given by Rinpoche in Dzogchen Beara in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, practically, if we are doing sitting meditation, we relax our body. Try to let all tensions go because we don\u2019t want them.\u00a0\u00a0 Relax our body from our toes to our head, to the brain, to the eyes.\u00a0\u00a0 Relax. 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