Mindfulness Meditation Podcast - Mindfulness Meditation 1/11/2017 with Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche

Episode Date: January 20, 2017

Every Wednesday, the Rubin Museum of Art presents a meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area. This podcast is a recording of the weekly practice. If you would like to attend in person, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation to learn more. Presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, the New York Insight Meditation Center, and the Interdependence Project. Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche led this meditation session on January 11, 2017. To view a related artwork for this week's session, please visit: http://bit.ly/2mE05cP

Welcome to the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast. I'm your host, Dawn Eshelman. Every Wednesday at the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea, we present a meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area. This podcast is a recording of our weekly practice. If you would like to join us in person, please visit our website at rubinmuseum.org slash meditation. We are proud to be partnering with Sharon Salzberg and the teachers from the New York Insight Meditation Center. In the description for each episode, you will find information about the theme for that week's session, including an image of a related artwork chosen from the Rubin Museum's permanent

collection. And now, please enjoy your practice. Dholpo Thokkyu Rinpoche is from the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born into a Lama family in Do Tarap, Dholpo, and he became a monk at the ripe old age of nine. He was recognized to be the reincarnation of the third Dholpo, Ningcheng, Tulki Rinpoche, shortly thereafter. And at 15, he entered the Nyingma Nagyur Institute, which is where he studied and debated and researched all the sutra and tantra teachings of Buddha for 10 years. Under his holiness, Pininarvampashe. He continues to teach at that institute now, in addition to traveling all over the world, giving teachings and talks,

and also working on behalf of his charitable projects. And he is very dedicated to health, projects and he is very dedicated to health, to education, and in particular to helping a village in Nepal rebuild after the earthquake of just a couple of years ago. So it's really an honor, as I said, to have him here to speak with us today. Please welcome him. Dopal Chukwu Rinpoche. Tuku Rinpoche. Thank you for introducing me. Then I'm very happy to be here in Robben Museum. I heard about Robben Museum one of my cousin brother.

He is artist from. And I think he's also going to have something very soon here. So and then this tip, I'm first time in United State, I'm visiting first time. At that time I'm very very happy to be and I'm very happy to get invitation from your community. Anyway due to the finish on in your lunch break so and and today the program name is beginning again so we have to be beginning again with the new year and so therefore, what we need to be to start something new, of course, we need long life and peace mind. So these two things which we needed. So therefore, when I get invitation, and then also the program name, and I have some thangas, some options.

I chose this long life Amitayus thangas which is very nice. I used to draw when I was young and my father is also an artist. So you can see, maybe if you are more familiar with Tibetan art, this is, you can see, very old because the Tibetan art, the form becomes, of course, based on India and then included Nepal. So you can see some pattern, you know, the, his throne. So that part you can see there is a lot of kind of mix with the Navarri art. And then when you see the sky and then clouds and the pattern on the clothes, and this

is a bit from Chinese part of art. So including together, the Tibetan Tibetan their own form came. So this is the color and the way of drawing. So you can see very old special thangas. And this long life Amitayu deities, it's taught the practice or sadhana taught by Buddha Shakyamuni himself. And Shah Nyenyue, I don't know, Nyenyue how to call in English. Nyenyue the place, 釋迦我估, I think, so that place, and Buddha himself, he taught about Amitāyus' sadhana and practice. So this is according that sutra they do it. So this is how we begin for the new or long life. And now, the long life is not enough. Sometimes we have a lot of mental problems, physical problems. Long life and mindful, that's work. And that gives us very

happy and then pleasure of our life. So therefore today I'm going to share with you some of mindfulness meditation which I learned from holiness. So therefore normally I share with my students or my friends, I share with general first information of meditation, the second physical posture, and the third how to meditate, and fourth how to deal with the thoughts. So we don't have to talk all about that, but in the time I would like to share some of this. I think they introduced me that you are very familiar with this meditation or this Tibetan or Himalayan culture. So I'm quite sure you read a lot of meditation books. But meditation is with you. Sometimes we read so many books, we lose. When we think like we know how to meditate, but when you look at it, then we are out of our experience of meditation. So therefore, it's good to read, but mainly

to get good instructions, fitting instruction from your teacher, and then to do it. So that is very, very important. As like your general work, if you had good guide, good experience who are guiding you, and whatever you are doing, it makes you very easy. Jika anda mempunyai pengajar yang baik, yang mempunyai pengalaman yang baik, yang membantu anda, apa sahaja yang anda lakukan, ia akan membuat anda lebih mudah. Jadi, ini adalah perkara yang sama. Jadi, di dalam topik ini, yang pertama, yang sangat penting adalah bagaimana untuk duduk.

Postur fizikal sangat penting. to sit. The physical posture is very important. And therefore, as she mentioned, I was in South India. So I used to wear very light clothes. And then now it's very cold. I put a lot of layers. So I'm not so very comfortable to sit. But maybe for you it must be easier. So the two points is very important for the physical posture.

So one, sit straight. Straight. Sit straight. Straight and slightly you can pull back your shoulder, you know, like slightly and then and then not tight up, stiff. Stiff, so be relaxed. Stiff. Stiff.

So be relaxed. So I use very often the example like tent. You know tent? When you put tent, you need one pillar, the middle. But all the, how to say this Fabric are very flexible. So that's an example how you sit during the meditation. Be still. Don't hold up.

And relax your body. So these two points, just in the short I'm sharing with you, these two points are very important. And the time. The time. If you are a beginner, if you have 15 minutes and do two minute you do meditate, and then one minute relax. And again, two minute.

If you're getting more experience, then do three minute and one minute rest. Then after 20 or a month, you can do for 15 minutes. So what we say in the text, for beginner, short and do more. So when you are getting more experience, do longer but not very often. So that's the time of meditation. So this is the time and how to meditate. So therefore, first mindful on or of body, so the second mindful on speech, and the third mindful on the mind. So that we will go in the rest of time. I have to check the time.

OK. So be relaxed. And close eyes and then please take breathe inhale and out exhale but deeply three times. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale.

Inhale. Exhale. Now, the first step, mindful on body. Just relax. Aware of all this wind energy flowing up and down through arms and feet and head. Relax. Focus on your head, crown, forehead, your eyes, right eye, left eye. Just relax. Don't hide up your eyes. Relax your eyebrows. Right ear, left ear. Right nostril, left nostril, right jaw, left jaw. And just relax your jaw.

Don't tight your teeth. Just relax. And upper lips, lower lips. And make it relax. And the neck, always your neck becomes very stiff. And now relax. Relax your shoulder, right and left. Both of arms relax. And your hands. Just relax your both hands. Palm Thumbs Right Thumbs Finger Middle Finger Ring Finger Small Finger

Left Hand Thumbs small finger, left hand, thumb, finger, middle finger, ring finger and small finger palms palms arm again shoulder and the legs. Both thighs, both knees, Both feet. Just relax. And you may holding your finger, toes. Don't tie it up. Just relax your feet. Right big toe, second toe, third, fourth and fifth. Left big toe, second, third, fourth and fifth toes. And the sole of both feet. Just relax, relax and slowly focus up up feet knees thigh and stomach and the heart heart heart Thank you. And now slowly we go second stage, the focus on sound, the out, out sound, the fan sound, the car, whatever sound is sounding you, just don't judge, Let it be there. Don't think they are disturbing your meditation. Just pick one sound and let it go. And focus on another sound. The train sound, very deep, silent. And now focus inside sound while you breathe, just be aware there is a sound. Relax.

Don't be nervous. Just focus there and the sound comes to you. You can realize how long you are breathing. Okay, now we go third stage, mindful on mind just be there relax don't judge Don't be nervous. Thank you for watching. So now it's about how to deal with thoughts. So you can, whenever you realize bring at some time, just watch on your thought. You can be a watcher and look at your mind, what mind is thinking, what plan he is making. Just watch it. So see now, when you be a watcher of your mind, the mind becomes naturally in meditation. You can sing a while, but it will stop. So that's how you control your thoughts. Without pushing, just let it be there and watch the mind come back on your object. There is two kinds of methods of how to deal with thoughts. One directly stops your thinking Just be a watcher and through that you feel, you get experience of mind, what is about

mind. and relax, mind relax, relax and relax.. That concludes this week's practice. If you'd like to attend in person, please check out our website, rubinmuseum.org slash meditation to learn more. Sessions are free to Rubin Museum members, just one of the many benefits of membership. Thank you for listening. Have a mindful day. Thank you. you