Guided Meditation With Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (May 31, 2020/S8)

Good Day.

Hello,

Hello,

Good Day.

I am very happy to be able to meet you.

I am very happy to meet you.

I am very happy to be able to meet you on a Saturday.

I am very happy to meet you on a Saturday.

I am very happy to meet you on a Saturday.

I am very happy to meet you on a Saturday.

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I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

I think it's good to have a lot of respect for people.

It's a good thing that people are not afraid of the same thing.

It's a matter of shifting your perspective,

Expectations.

Although we experience disappointments in our everyday lives,

Compared to a loss of life or a threat to the life itself,

It's not as serious.

It's a matter of time.

I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

Thank you very much.

I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

I haven't read any research that says that the meditation or concentration on the breath actually suppresses the activity of the amygdala.

I think it's important to have a lot of respect for people.

So when we focus on the breath,

It doesn't have anything to do directly with your sense of smell.

It's not like we're not able to see the light through the eyes.

So when we sense something,

When we take in information from the outside,

We take in through six senses.

When we look at the picture,

We can see the light through the eyes.

So we look at it through the vision,

The light and the shape and the color of an object.

And there's hearing,

Which picks up sounds and noises.

Then olfactory,

Which is a sense of smell.

And also through the tongue,

The sense of taste.

And of course the sense of touch through the skin.

And also what we call the sense of the thought,

The cognitive sense to make sense of the other all.

So when we take in information and quote unquote know something,

We do that through these six senses,

Six capacities that we have.

So when we say we're focusing on the breath,

We are mostly utilizing the sense of touch.

So when we say you are recognizing your breath or you are aware of your breath,

What senses do we use to become aware?

Because we can't see breath.

And unless you're panting and your breath is rough,

You can't hear your breath either.

And to know that you're breathing is not a sense of smell you're using.

Of course,

The sense of taste doesn't come into play.

So when we say we are focusing on the breath,

We are using the sense of touch.

So basically being aware of the breath means that it is your tactile sense that senses the current of the air as it goes in and out of your nostrils.

If you are focusing on your abdomen,

You are focusing on the movement of the air.

Of course,

If you are focusing on your abdomen,

The movement of your body,

Of your chest rising and falling as you breathe is also a way to recognize it through a sense of touch.

If you are focusing on your face,

You are focusing on your nose,

And if you are focusing on your body,

You are focusing on your face.

If you are focusing on your nose,

You are focusing on your body,

And if you are focusing on your forehead,

You are focusing on your forehead.

But since a soft or smooth breath really creates little,

Really tiny eddies of currents going in and out,

You really have to focus to be aware of that breath.

In that state of heightened focus,

It's not just the breath you become aware of.

You become aware of little senses,

Little information coming in from other parts of the body.

So if you are somewhat annoyed,

You will recognize that your breath quickens a little,

And you become attuned to the little temperature changes in your body.

And you become even aware of subtle shifts in your mood.

If you get elevated,

Your emotions run high a little,

You recognize it immediately.

And if you are able to recognize immediately little changes in your sensations or your emotional state,

Then it gives you the wherewithal to be able to prevent your emotions running too high or too low.

If you don't have that ability,

If you allow your emotions to get too high or too low to bring it back into control,

It takes a lot of energy and creates a lot of stress.

And stress is a form of suffering.

If you are able to get control or extinguish that emotion at the point of emergence,

Then you don't need to feel that stress.

If you feel that stress,

Then you can feel it more and more.

If you feel that stress,

Then you can feel it more and more.

Then you can feel it more and more.

If you feel that stress,

Then you can feel it more and more.

If you feel that stress,

Then you can feel it more and more.

If you feel that stress,

Then you can feel it more and more.

So in a state of calm and peace and comfort,

Focus your mind wholly on the edge of your nose and be aware of the breath.

So a lot of things interfere with us,

Of course.

But we are practicing so that we can focus in spite of all these interferences.

But this is difficult to carry out in everyday life.

That's why we are practicing continually and consistently.

Don't despair or give up just because you can't do it.

Do not feel too good about yourself just because you managed to do it once or twice.

And if you managed to achieve that state,

Then continue doing so.

If you haven't,

Then try and try again.

If you feel that stress,

Then you can feel it more and more.

In a state of calm and peace,

Focus on the edge of your nose and recognize the breath.

If you feel that stress,

Then continue doing so.

If you lose it,

Regain that focus and do so again.

And you may question yourself,

What good is this for?

What's the ultimate objective?

But if you manage to achieve this state,

Then a lot of other objectives will take care of themselves.

That's the second question.

I have a question for you,

Mr.

Lee.

Is it possible for meditation to help me overcome and forgive others?

Yes,

It is possible.

This is a little different question or problem.

I have a question for you,

Mr.

Lee.

Because the way our mind works,

It works in multiple ways.

I have a lot of emotions.

So we have emotions.

I have a lot of cognitive functions.

I have a lot of cognitive functions.

Then we also produce will,

Intent to do something.

And we have a function in which we perceive something.

So meditation really goes to the heart of how we perceive.

And to become awake,

Aware,

Mindful of what we perceive.

So if we tell ourselves,

I should not hate somebody,

It's a function of will.

Because you are promising yourself something.

But what we know from experience is that producing a will to do something,

A decision to do something doesn't last that long.

Usually your underlying emotions wins out over your intent.

So in order to overcome this hatred,

There are two ways that you can go about.

There are many ways to do this.

So there are ways to do this by using your cognitive functions as well as other functions.

If you hate something,

It means that something did not go the way you wanted it to.

So you don't like how it turned out.

And root of that perception,

Understanding is that I am right and you are wrong.

If you say you forgive that,

That means I am still right,

But I will let you be.

But there is no right or wrong intrinsic to people's behavior.

It's their differences,

But no right or wrong.

If you recognize that it is the difference,

No right or wrong,

Then there is nothing to forgive.

If you don't forgive,

You don't have to forgive,

You don't have to accept,

You don't have to accept,

You don't have to accept.

And if you manage to reach a state of understanding based on recognition of the differences between you,

You realize that there is nothing to forgive based on that understanding.

Because if you don't forgive,

You don't have to accept,

You don't have to accept,

You don't have to accept,

You don't have to accept.

So this is a way of taking care of or extinguishing your hatred by recognizing how your mind works,

The principles which underline your mind's functions.

So meditation is not about trying to understand from a cognitive sense.

Because meditation is all about letting go of your thoughts.

You're just feeling it.

If you hold on to that hatred,

Say you hate somebody,

Then that generates certain tension and certain heat within your body.

Then you can become aware that your mood has shifted.

And by recognizing that state directly and becoming aware of it,

It extinguishes itself.

So in a way meditation can be said to be a state or capacity developed to extinguish hatred before it even actually emerges.

You're solving the issue proactively before it actually becomes a problem.

But say you lost that opportunity,

That window of opportunity,

And now there's hatred.

Then you can try to extinguish that hatred by understanding that this is based on differences,

Not right or wrong.

But if you don't manage to understand each other and can't extinguish that hatred through that function,

Then you have to endure the hatred because it will be there.

And that's when we talk about forgiveness as a kind of an ethical precept or ethical methodology for hatred that endures within you.

But forgiveness,

If you look at it,

Is a form of enduring.

So it creates stress within you.

So basically then it comes to sustaining,

Which you tell others,

You know what,

I've been patient with you long enough.

I've endured your behavior long enough and I can't do it anymore.

Basically a genuine forgiveness should be returning yourself to a state before you needed to forgive.

To a state of understanding,

Deep understanding that,

You know what,

There was nothing to forgive in the first place because you and I were just different.

But meditation goes even farther to the left of that state.

Basically developing the capacity to recognize these emotions at the point of emergence and extinguish it.

So,

For example,

If you are a person who is not able to forgive,

You are not able to get the same results.

So speaking about forgiveness means that you have lost that window of opportunity.

A person who meditates in a state of meditation.

Forgiveness is not a terminology that actually comes into being because you have extinguished the need to forgive way before it emerged.

A genuine forgiveness means there's nothing to forgive.

Now let us begin.

As I said before,

Relax your mind and body.

Focus your mind on the edge of your nose.

And sense the breath in and out.

Sense the breath as it comes in and sense it as it leaves.

And there's no intent,

There's no effort.

And there's no regrets or there's no despair just because you lost it.

Just be consistent and constant.

And if you manage that sense of sensation,

Keep it.

And do not even try to maintain that focus.

Because if you continue those moments of awareness,

Then you will be consistently aware.

And if you lost that focus,

Know that you lost it and regain that focus.

And there's no judgment of whether you're doing something well or not.

Just be constant and consistent.

Now let us begin.

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