Good evening and good morning to all our international participants and thank you very much for inviting me over here.
So I will start with a few minutes of meditation, little bit of warm-up. It is not going to be something so extraordinary, so keep your expectation low and simple. We are going to do 2 different kinds of meditation. So the first is more to do with the calm-abiding meditation and then towards the end, slowly, we will do a different kind of meditation afterwards.
So in this one we will do, more to do with the breathing exercise. So physical and mental combined together and practicing it, with the sense of awareness, is very important. If you have a physical posture out of place and the only, the mental level and that cannot be maintained in the long term, even if it is a very short session. So therefore you need to have a physical posture as well as a mental, as well as an awareness and breathing in the right pace. So if you have that right understanding and then any sort of a linked of meditation becomes useful.
So now we come down to the meditation itself, this is what we call “calm-abiding meditation” which is:
You sit in a meditation posture, you do not need to worship anything or anyone. So don’t worry about it. If you have an other faith or other religious ideas you can keep it to yourself. Don’t worry about it because we, as a Buddhist practitioner, we don’t believe in conversion, we believe in an universal understanding and wisdom and clarity. So therefore with any faith, different background coming from the different faith, you can practice Buddhism. So that’s that. Because if you think the Buddha is against that then it contradicts his own teachings, isn’t it? So therefore now with the clear understanding, with the principle and then I will teach you the meditation here.
Finding calm in the Chaos (17′ 39”)
Virtual Mindfulness Retreat, hosted by Namgay Zam – November 28, 2024
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