Hi everyone,
Welcome to our Honyuan meditation session.
My name is Yaron Seidman and this session is for beginning meditation practice.
In this session I want to explain a way of meditation.
In Honyuan we call it observing movement and preserving stillness.
We will do two short meditation sessions of two minutes each.
Just prior to each meditation session I will give some explanation.
When we do meditation according to Honyuan,
The first part of meditation is called observing movement and movement here refers to the heart movement which means not only our emotions but also our desires and inclinations and attachments.
The way the heart works,
At least according to Honyuan,
We see things outside of the body and the heart develops affinity to them or attachment and then my mind undergoes an analysis helping the heart determine if this external thing is good for me or bad for me and accordingly then I take an action.
But what happens is over the years as we do it more and more we develop greater,
Ever greater inclinations to the material world and then desires become many,
Thoughts are too rapid and sometimes also take us in the wrong way.
So the first part of our meditation practice that we call observing movement is to quiet down,
Try to quiet down the thoughts and the attachments of the heart as much as possible without making it too stressful but we observe them.
That means that every thought that rises and every liking that I have,
Everything that I feel attached to,
I just breathe quietly and I look at them as if I am outside of my body looking at it from the outside.
This is the first part of the practice,
The observing movement.
So let's do that,
Just calm ourselves,
We have two minutes of meditation.
Breathe calmly and slowly and as the thought calms and normally they would calm unless you are very experienced meditator but at the beginning the thought always rise and feeling after a few seconds of being calm they start to surface and I use this opportunity to observe them,
To look at them,
To study them.
So let's do that for two minutes,
Again we breathe naturally,
Breathing through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.
If it's more comfortable we can just breathe in and out from the nose or the mouth.
Just try to slow down the thoughts and the desires for things at least a little bit and then when they start coming back again we just look at them and this is observing movement.
So let's do this for two minutes.
Okay.
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