Guided Meditation: Objects of Mind

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This talk was given by Ines Freedman on 2024.11.05 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/jttixaybhOE. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.8	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:12.0	Good morning, everyone.
0:17.1	It's great to see you all and be back with you.
0:20.9	Be together again this way.
0:24.2	Morning, everyone.
0:30.1	Um, so yesterday I read you a piece of the teaching that the Buddha gave his son, Rahula, about
0:43.0	meditating like the earth.
0:45.4	This is another section of that same Suta.
0:50.5	Rahula meditate like space. For when you meditate like space, pleasant and unpleasant contacts will not occupy your mind and remain.
1:03.8	Just a space is not established anywhere in the same way meditate like space for when you meditate
1:15.8	like space pleasant and unpleasant contacts will not occupy your mind and remain so
1:27.4	one way of thinking about mindfulness, but awareness is like a big open sky.
1:33.8	And the objects that arise in the mind are like birds or clouds floating by.
1:40.9	Like rain falling or thunder appearing or lightning.
1:48.2	Sometimes the sky is illuminated by the sun.
1:53.4	Sometimes by the moon or stars.
1:58.1	All the objects of mind just come and go in that space.
2:03.6	We can think of awareness like the vast space in which every one of these objects of mind occur.
2:11.6	Like our body sensations that come from the five external senses.
2:20.2	What we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch,
2:28.5	what we might feel from the internal senses.
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