Mindfulness Meditation Podcast - Mindfulness Meditation with Khangser Rinpoche repost from 06/01/16
Episode Date: April 24, 2020Theme: Stress Management Artwork: Vajrasattva [http://therubin.org/2zf] Teacher: Khangser Rinpoche While the Rubin Museum of Art is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we want... to stay connected with you. We are sharing a previously recorded meditation session with you and hope that it will provide support during this uncertain time. The Rubin Museum presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience in Chelsea, New York City, and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session.The guided meditation begins at 16:15. Presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg[http://www.sharonsalzberg.com/], teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project [http://www.theidproject.org/], and Parabola Magazine. To attend a Mindfulness Meditation sessions in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation. If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and attend in person for free. Have a mindful day!
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Welcome and hello. My name is Dawn Eshelman and I'm head of programs at the Rubin Museum of Art
in Chelsea, New York City. While our museum is temporarily closed and during these uncertain
times, we want to stay connected with you. So we will be sharing previously recorded
meditation sessions. For more resources and inspiring content, head to rubenmuseum.org slash care package.
We hope you enjoy and we look forward to returning to our regular mindfulness meditation program
as soon as we can.
Take care.
Welcome to the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast, presented by the Rubin Museum of Art.
We are a museum in Chelsea, New York, that connects visitors to the art and ideas of the Himalayas
and serves as a space for reflection and transformation.
I'm your host, Dawn Eshelman.
Every Monday, we present a meditation session inspired by a different artwork from the Rubin's collection
and led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area.
This podcast is a recording of our weekly practice.
In the description for each episode, you will find information about the theme for that week's session, including an image of the related artwork.
Our mindfulness meditation podcast is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg and teachers from the New York Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.
If you'd like to join us in person, please visit our website at rubinmuseum.org
slash meditation. And now, please enjoy your practice. We have a very special guest teacher
here today, Kangsar Rinpoche. He's 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.
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 Kongsar Rinpoche.
welcome to Kongsar Rinpoche.
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 stress.
So today,
I have no idea what kind of meditation I have to
teach you.
The Rubin Museum has informed
me that I have
only 10 or 15 minutes
to talk regarding about 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 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.
Student feel that meditation is a very simple, very easy.
Now you will know, whenever that student try 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 a meditation,
normally,
especially in this 21st century,
when the people, when they have to,
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.
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.
Two, control the mind. You have 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,
what you have to do is, the first thing is that you have to search.
Search for the 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,
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? 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 to attach 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.
Shamatha 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.
I always used to give the one example.
Monk. I've been the 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 our search for the yourself so that's why i
will i will give you the one question you think on that question try to find the answer who am i
who am i just your close your eyes and just try to find the answer for this question.
I know that this question might be strange.
One time in the monastery, there was one small kid.
I asked him one question.
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 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 up
equals 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 two plus two comes four, not a five.
Then after a few days later, I met him.
Then I asked the small kid,
did you get the answer for my question, why 2 plus 2 comes 4, not a 5?
Small kid told me that no, he didn't find an answer for that question.
But he asked his friend.
But all his friend told him one thing.
Whoever asks 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 at 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 one thing.
He started to say that no air, no sound,
no form, no body, empty.
After spending the six years in the meditation,
six years of his meditation,
when he get the, after the six years of meditation,
now when he have to speak, when he
have to talk about his
experience of the meditating, the six
years, then he start to talk
about no ear, no
sound, no eye, nothingness,
emptiness.
So
now, so many people
get a shocked that moment. they got a shocked and surprised
they told what happened to him now he's saying there's nothing so same thing like that now if
you close your eye and meditate and 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. Try to search yourself.
Clear, no?
Clear?
You get it, 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 in 15 minutes.
Maybe if you are lucky, you can find something. Okay, so 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, okay?
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 while 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?
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?
Radiate the white light.
Also, sometimes you can visualize and observe the white light, okay? Warm 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, okay?
Search yourself, okay?
Again, when you cannot find the search yourself,
then just meditate
on the white ray okay when you meditate on the visualizing the white lights and the radiating
and absorbing the white light sometimes that you might feel a little bit relaxed and the very peace
okay because what we call is that is now you are activating the chakras. Chakras.
Chakra.
Have you heard the word chakra?
It's a Sanskrit term.
Sanskrit term chakra, okay?
Chakra, okay, 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.
Yeah, 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 also which also visualize that you're
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 like 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 palm, okay?
Like this. Like palm, okay? Like this.
Like this, okay?
When you have the back pain, then you can relax, okay?
Like this way, okay? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you....
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May the old sentient beings
liberate from suffering.
Okay, that I will say in the Tibetan.Bara Jorji Simjian Thamjee Dungay Dhan Dungay Ghe Jodhan Trevara Jorji Simjian Thamjee
Dungay Meevay Deva Dhan Minreva Jorji Simjian Thamjee Nyeri Chadhan Nidhan Trevay Tanyom La Nebara JorjiNee-taan tre-vee taan-yoon-laan ne-var-chur-chee
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De-vee ju-taan dem-par-chur-chee
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Du-ngay-ke ju-taan tre-var-chur-chee
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De-waa-taan men-UNG-YEN MED-BEN DEWA DANG MEN-DRA-WA JUR-JI
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SAMJEN TAMJEN DUNG-YEN DANG DUNG-YEN GEN JU-DANG DRA-BEN JUR-JI That concludes this week's practice if you would like to support the Rubin Museum in this meditation
series we invite you to become a member and attend in person for free thank you for listening
have a mindful day you