Mindfulness Meditation Podcast - Mindfulness Meditation 6/1/16 with Khangser Rinpoche

Episode Date: June 13, 2016

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. We are proud to be partnering with Sharon Salzberg and the teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center. This week’s session is led by Khangser Rinpoche focusing on the theme of Stress Management. To view a related artwork from the Rubin Museum's permanent collection, please visit: rma.cm/14q

Thank you. join us in person, please visit our website at rubinmuseum.org. 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 next session, including an image of a related artwork chosen from the Rubin Museum's permanent collection. And now, please enjoy your practice. permanent collection. And now, please enjoy your practice. We have a very special guest teacher here today, Kangsar Rinpoche.

He is the eighth Kangsar Rinpoche. He was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, and at the age of five, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the seventh Kangsar Rinpoche. He has achieved mastery in both the Gelug and Nyingma Buddhist traditions, and he serves as a spiritual teacher at Sarah J. Monastic University, of which we have a chapter here in Queens, and to the public all over the world, and we're just delighted that he's here

with us at the Rubin today as one of his few stops in New York City, and I think his final one. So please give a warm welcome to Kangsar Rinpoche. Thank you. I've been to many places, many countries, to introduce the meditation regarding about how we can overcome the anxiety, how we can overcome the anxiety, how we can overcome the stress. So today, I have no idea what kind of meditation I have to teach you.

Tuesday, Rubin Museum informed me that I have only 10 or 15 minutes to talk regarding meditation. I have spent more than 30 years studying, practicing the Buddhist meditation and the Buddhist philosophy. Now in the 15 minutes, I have to give you all my 30 years experience in 15 minutes. That's really very tough, very tough job today I'm doing.

Yeah, anyway, I will try. So, okay. So generally, one thing that the most important thing is that you have to know the one thing when we start to do the

meditation. One thing always you have to keep in your mind that the mind is very complicated. Mind is very complicated. There is one very famous story in Tibetan. At one time, one student came to see the master and asked the master to teach him the meditation. And the master told him that meditation is very easy and very simple.

You can meditate whatever you want. You can think whatever you want to think. Only thing is that whenever you meditate, you should not think monkey. Master told him that now you go and meditate. While you are meditating, don't think monkey at all. Students feel that meditation is very simple, very easy. Now you will know, whenever that student tried to meditate, the monkey comes in his mind. This is the one thing that where mind is very complex. Now when you're doing the meditation, generally the meditation, it's one type of exercise. It's one type of the mental exercise that makes you mentally very healthy.

When I'm talking about meditation, normally, especially in this 21st century, when the people, when they start doing the meditation, many people, many people, when they start to do the meditation, they will try to get the information from Google. They will write down in the Google and they will find it out, write down how to meditate. In the Google,

I know that you will find so many answers from the Google, I know that you will find so many answers from the Google. Today, what I'm teaching the meditation is through my experience, 30 years of my experience of the meditating. Google have a lot of information, but Google don't have the experience. I might not have that much of the information like a Google, but I have experience that Google don't have. So, first thing is that when you start to do the meditation,

what you have to do is the one thing, to control the mind. You have to control the mind. When you cannot control the mind, meditation is impossible. While you try to meditate, I'm sure that your mind will get distracted. So to control the mind, to meditate, I'm sure that your mind will get distracted. So, to

control the mind, what you have to do is the first thing is that you have to search. Search for yourself. You have to try to find the true nature of the self. You have to find the

true nature of the self. That's why you have to try to find yourself. Since we are born, we are too attached for the ourself. We are too attached for the ourself. Whether you can call it selfish or whether you can call it as a self-cherishing attitude,

we are too attached to ourselves. I always give the one example. After this session, if we take a group photo, after this session, if we take a group photo after this session, if we take a group photo,

once you get that photo in your computer or in your mobile, to whom you will look first. After this session, when we take the group photo, once you get that group photo, to whom you will look first? I'm sure. Yourself. So we are too attached for the self. So that's why, that's the root cause of all the anxiety and the stress.

Today, in this 20 minutes, I will teach you how you can cut the root cause of the stress. Mindfulness meditation. Samatha meditation. Vipassana meditation. Samatha meditation. Vipassana meditation. Lots of the different meditation there. These are the just temporal solution

while you are meditating mindfulness. Maybe one or two days, you might feel that you have relief from the stress. But again, after three or four days later, again, you will get the stress, anxiety. If you cut the root of the stress, if you cut the root of the anxiety, then you will get the permanently relief from stress. then you will get the permanently relief from stress. I always used to give the one example. Monk. I've been the monk so many years.

So in the monastic system, we have to meditate quite very strongly. So these meditations, what we used to do in the monastery, it's really helped me a lot to get over, to overcome the anxiety and the stress and the fear. So that's why today what we'll meditate is that

to finding the self. We are too attached for the self. So now what we have to do is that we try to find ourself. Search for the yourself. So that's why I will give you the one question. You think on that question.

Try to find the answer. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Just close your eyes and just try to find the answer for this question. I know that this question might be strange. might be strange. One time in the monastery, there was one small

kid. I asked him that one question. That I asked him that two plus two equals two? I asked him that 2 plus 2 equals 2. I asked him a very simple question.

2 plus 2 equals 2. And he told me it's a 2 plus 2, it equals to 4. Then again I raised another question. And I asked him, why 2 plus 2 always comes equal to 4? Why 2 plus 2? Why if you plus the 2 and 2 plus, why it won't come 5? Why it comes only 4? He told me that he had no idea why the 2 plus 2 comes 4

he had no idea then I told him that you can go and ask your friends why the 2 plus 2 comes 4 not a 5 then after a few days later I met him then I asked the small kid Then after a few days later, I met him. Then I asked the small kid, did you get the answer for my question, why two plus two comes

four, not a five? Small kid told me that no, he didn't find an answer for that question. But he asked his friend. But all his friends told him one thing. Whoever asked like this stupid question is definitely a mad person. So who am I? You will feel that this is a strange question. When you close your eye, when you go the more deep and deep and deep, try to think that. You will reach the one other state. So that's why, after the Buddha meditating the six years, after the six years, then he started to say the six years. After the six years,

then he started to say the one thing. He started to say that no air, no sound, no form, no body, empty. After the spending the six years

in the meditation, six years of his meditation, when he get meditation, after the six years of meditation, now when he has to speak, when he has to talk about his experience of meditating, the six years, then he starts to talk about no ear, no sound, no eye nothingness emptiness so now so many people get shocked that moment, they got shocked and surprised they told what happened to him now he is saying there is nothing so same thing like that

now if you close your eye and meditate and try to find yourself I am sure that you will get the one answer that now if you close your eye and meditate, try to find yourself, I'm sure that you will get the one answer. That answer will be totally different. So you will get it. Now, what you have to do is in this 15 minutes, you try to find the answer for this question.

Who am I? Try to search yourself. Try to search yourself. Clear, no? Clear? You can, no? Good. Okay.

But very honest with you, I tried to search myself 30 years I didn't find anything in this now we are meditating 15 minutes maybe if you are lucky you can find something ok you can find something. Okay. Okay.

Okay. So, I'm sure. I'm sure that you all are very lucky. You might find something. Okay? So, while you are meditating, what you have to do is that,

I will show you how you have to sit. You have to sit very straight like this, okay? Straight and the shoulders should be straight and back should be straight, okay? What you have to do is that while you are meditating, first you ask this question, okay? You ask, who am I? When you cannot find any answers or when you cannot meditate properly, then what you have to do is you just visualize the one white light.

White light just center of the forehead. This point. What do you call this point? Hmm? What? Third eye. Third eye is a... I'm not so sure.

That is a right term to say? Anyway, this point, okay? This point. Whether they are saying that the third eye or the chakra or that, yeah, but you have to visualize the white light, okay? This point.

Then when you are visualizing, you try to radiate the white light, okay, this point. Then when you are visualizing, you try to radiate the white light, okay, radiate the white light. Also, sometimes you can visualize and observe the white light, okay, warm white light, okay. Sometimes you might feel some sensation here, okay.

Sometimes you might feel it. In case if you feel some sensation, you don't have to feel that you have achieved the Buddhahood, okay? Don't think that, okay? It's quite normal, okay? It can happen.

Or it may happen, it may not, okay? Then again, then again you try to search yourself. Search yourself. Again when you cannot find the search yourself then just meditate on the white ray. When you meditate on visualizing the white lights and the radiating

and absorbing the white light sometimes that you might feel a little bit relaxed and a very peace. Because what we call that is now you are activating the chakras. Chakras. Chakra. Have you heard the word chakra? It's a Sanskrit term.

Sanskrit term chakra. Chakra. Activating the chakra. It's not, I'm sure, in this minute, fully you cannot activate it. It might take a month to fully activate the chakra. It will take a month. In this 15 minutes, I'm sure that you cannot. But at least it can affect.

So now I guided you the two steps of meditation. First, finding the self. Then other, just radiating the light. Visualize the white light in the center of forehead. Then radiate the white light. Also visualize that you are observing the white light. Okay. Warm white light.

Okay. Clear, no? Okay. Now we will meditate. Okay. Like this sitting position. You can look at me. Okay.

Hand position should be like this sitting position, you can look at me, okay? Hand position should be like this, okay? Your two thumbs should touch each other, okay? You know that the palm, when the energy can, usually in our body, sometimes the energy flows from our palms. So that's why you have to touch your palm, one of the other palms. Okay?

Like this. Like this. Okay? When you have the back pain, then you can relax. Okay? Like this way. Okay? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Gå in på www.sdimedia.com......... ...

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